Spencer continues to juggle so much in this series while playing to longtime fans' interests with callbacks and resets of characters. In superhero comics, nobody ever dies and nothing is certain, and this series has been a testament to that. Amazing Spider-Man is good ensemble storytelling -- it's just unfortunate Spider-Man never seems to be our main focus. Read Full Review

Both artists bring some impressive and beautifully detailed visuals to every page of this issue. Read Full Review

In Amazing Spider-Man #67, it appears Nick Spencer is going to be wrapping up some of his prior storylines with the Chameleon Conspiracy. Most of this comic has solid setup for the upcoming story, showing who the major players are, what's possibly at stake, and how it all ties back to Spider-Man. However, it doesn't really sell the Chameleon being the main villain all that well. But we'll see how things develop in the next issue. Read Full Review

The stories are clearly building up and building together, but at this point they just feel more like plot points being laid out like a laundry list than an interesting, cohesive comic. There is a distinctive lack of humor, energy and personality to this issue which is very unlike writer Nick Spencer. This is balanced against some incredibly superb art by Marcelo Ferreira and Carlos Gomez with inks by them and Wayne Faucher. Read Full Review

It is -- mostly -- business as usual as ASM kicks off the "Chameleon Conspiracy" arc. Beautifully illustrated villains vamp and gloat, smugly foreshadowing the awfulness they're about to bring down on the heroes. Those heroes (also beautifully illustrated) react with appropriate shock and surprise, but they seem (Peter Parker in particular) a little too passive. We can only hope Teresa bucks the family trend of playing the spectator; she's off to a promising start at the beginning of the issue. Read Full Review

It will take some clever maneuvering to tie in all these story leads down the line, but their introduction draws out smoothly enough for fans of the hometown hero. Read Full Review

All kinds of great storylines in this one. This was a joy to read I'm really looking forward to the next issue and the sinister war is really sounding awesome to me

This is issue is mostly setup. But it's done well. Callbacks to previous issues (like #16) feel like Spencer has a plan and isn't just making this up as he goes along.

I really liked this. It's good. Sure, Peter isn't the main focus in his book, but for an event like this, I understand why.

It's a good story, it's just opening up too many things, which I think might be a mistake. I think it would be a good time to retreat a bit to look from afar and redirect this to what The Amazing Spiderman has been for decades and is a good series, because I think we could be losing a bit of consistency here.

"I am not my brother. "
- TERESA PARKER

At this point just when I get excited about something, another arc comes in and drags plot points I gave up on from 50 issues ago. Feels like a person I met 3 years ago that's a friend of a friend and then try to remember what we talked about then. Oh well, I will be here to hope for the best that Spencer ties his plot points better this time around. If only the art was good but man where is Bagley or Gleason or Vicentini?? This almost weekly shipping is destroying the art on ASM.

I think it was a pretty solid book and had some good parts but, its downfall is its trying to start tying things together that were introduced early into spencers run that seemed to be abandoned at the time, so it makes this feel way past its prime for the beats to hit. Some of the references I forgot about because they were so briefly touched upon. I do want to see this arc turn out well but, im going to need more.

A plethora of baddies advance ominous plans. Chameleon puts hooks into Teresa Parker, Chance puts hooks in the Clairvoyant kid, and meanwhile Pete's busy being gobsmacked by impossible developments in the story of Betty Brant and Ned Leeds. It's par for the course for this volume: An intricate, technically accomplished script that fails to impress me supported by art that does the same. (These visuals are polished but generic, with some regrettably goofy faces.) I'm so sick of the way the protagonists, Peter especially, are always reacting instead of acting.

I like the way the references to previous issues uses the rightful legacy numbering in this issue instead of Volume....Whatever it is. 19?
Anyway, The way long dead characters are always popping back up it makes no real surprise to see another Ned Leeds clone (or something more, courtesy of Kindred?). The only thing that could make this latest resurrection really worth it is if he finally confirms my longtime theory that he and Rodrick Kingsley were both the original Hobgoblin.
The Chameleon plot was a little drab in interest so far, but I expect it to develop over the next couple of issues (and the next $4.99 special). I have to say though I am looking forward to Sinister war. It looks like the real Electro will finally be coming back (Good. I've always hated when classic villains are killed off and replaced with a cheap female wannabe since Lady Octopus, another Clone saga creation that never should have been). From what I've seen it looks like Mysterio is the only living veteran member of the Sinister six who won't be in on this. Probably because he knows Kindred is involved and wants no part of it.
But I do have one important question: When are we going to find out happened between Dr. Strange and Mephisto all those issues ago? more

Good issue. Unfortunately I just can't get too excited about this series anymore, because of the latest story-arcs that felt like a time waste (Boomerang being a jerk and Kingpin unleashing chaos in the streets... Yeah, ok). I'm curious about this Clairvoyant thing, but the umpteenth return of Ned Leeds from the dead is meh. Also, as I said, pregnancy in Spider-Man stories has always led to horrible results (Yeah, you know exactly what I'm referring to).

You know, my favorite superhero of all time is Spider-Man, but something is wrong when I'm more excited for Batman and Superman than Spider-Man.

The artstyle is god awful, the pacing is sluggish, Jesus Christ.

But hey, at least I have Immortal Hulk, Black Widow and Chip Zdarsky's Daredevil run.