Amazing Spider-Man #22 picks up where we left off with more explanation and clarity on where this is all going. What exactly is happening in the closing scene is confusing, though, and it remains to be seen why we should care about any of this. That said, the art works in this issue and the big mystery is starting to make sense if you connect the dots. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #22 unveils a major section of the series's mystery surrounding York, PA, and it's a sure bet nobody will guess how it happened. The art, action, pacing, dialog, and plot movement are very good, and major pieces of the mystery (MJ's kids?) have yet to be explained, but at least it's an answer. Whether the answer was worth the wait is TBD. Read Full Review

Jumping onto this, I'm pleased with the art by legendary 'Ironman' (due to his longevity in the industry) John Romita Jr is serviceable yet exceptional when delivering scenes in the apologetic era. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #22 isn't perfect, but it's still pretty enjoyable. Hopefully the next issue sticks the landing. Read Full Review

As Marvel Comics' teases the big reveal of what really happened to Mary Jane and Peter Parker, the story itself continues to defy expectations at the very least. Read Full Review

It's nice that Amazing Spider-Man #22 starts to unravel the mystery of what happened to Peter and MJ, but it is done in a dull and tedious way. That's a problem since most fans just want to get answers anyway. Read Full Review

The writings fine. The art is fine. If this was any other book itd be great even. The fact that this is the storyline that tells us why we once again MUST enjoy the status quo is what docks it. Marvel MUST figure out what they want to do. DO OR DO NOT. There is no middle ground. Not anymore. Read Full Review

This was a solid issue that genuinely surprised me. This is good stuff.

This issue caught my interest a bit more than the previous issue, even as it lurches away from the epic scale of part 1 into exposition. I'm particularly intrigued by the revelation that Paul is more than just a generic NPC there to provide angst-fodder for Peter. As you can tell from the cover, Bachalo's design for the villain plays very well with JRJR's style (even as there's a couple of the weird, unsuccessful panels we've come to expect from his recent work). I'm still not convinced that this pays off 20 issues of buildup or that it was a good idea to have all that buildup be a followup to a minor and rather mid story from 15 years ago, but on its own this issue is fine and I'm at least interested to see where they're going with this.

I'm sure there may be twists and turns from here, but we finally have a pretty solid idea of what happened between the end of the Beyond run and the start of the current run. It's nothing too unexpected if you've been following along. Now, I just hope people will stop complaining that we aren't getting answers. Now, they'll just complain about what the answers are. As for the issue itself, we get a lot of exposition about this new (old) threat and it's fine. I don't really care about it yet. I do think the way the story plays out from here is, again, pretty obvious if you have been following along. I just hope there's enough besides the beat-by-beat to keep this arc intriguing for me, personally. It's not a bad issue, I've just been on the side of "Who really cares what happened?" and... this arc hasn't made me care yet. more

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Amazing Psycamorean - Mar 22, 2023

The only thing you're stretching is yourself with this reach of a comment.

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I feel like I'm interested in the story. I feel like the potential is still there. I'm just concerned that it still did not do much to make me care about the change in status quo. Hopefully they stick the landing.

First thing first: Romita JR. is so inconsistent it hurts my eyes. I love the guy, but Jesus Christ those faces sometimes... Anyway, this is fine. Just like the last issue. It makes me chuckle to think that this whole big mystery revolves around a villain from 15 years ago that almost nobody remembered.

It's... fine I guess. Nothing really peaks your interest if you don't care about the story beforehand, nor does it have any unique twists or story beats you can't see coming.

It really doesn't justify wait or the messy storytelling this run has suffered so far.

But, it's readable.

Better than last issue in both story, pacing and art. But only barely. I am having a hard time caring because I have no reason to. Since this is all a flashback we're getting story progress but its been a year. That's way too long to deal with this and it just involves two Z-level villains that hardly anyone remembers because the writer wants to give his creations more time in the sun. One of them dies. And it's not the regular guy. It's a god. Very unceremoniously. Why do I care? Why should any of these characters have such a huge impact on Peter's life? I really don't know.

things could've gone a little faster... an intire issued devoted to this, boring

A very science-heavy issue here. This advanced the story a bit from the previous issue just enough to keep my interest. I’m not quite sure how I feel about the villain and the overall plot so far. After waiting nearly a year for this, it doesn’t feel quite as “epic” as I had expected. Hopefully it will pick up with the next few issues, but this has yet to live up to the long wait thus far. This isn’t to say that this issue wasn’t good, because it was still a fairly solid issue. The whole “god/deity” storyline isn’t what I was expecting, but it’s still enjoyable and I did enjoy seeing Mary Jane’s husband show up in this new world and seeing the spider device Peter’s holding in the first pages of Issue 1 finally show up. All in all, this was a solid issue, but I really hope the story starts to pick up very soon. more

HAHA. I still cannot believe that Wells made this great WHAT DID PETER DO? plot point out of a mediocre Brand New Day story. Also if there is nothing else to the Mayan god exploded because MJ ripped him in half then Peter did literaly nothing. It will be such a nothing twist. Oh well, we will see but I really want the run to move on from this stuff. It would have been relevant maybe half a year ago but right now I am bored to tears.

to be honest, this issue is okay. It's a bit confusing, thats my problem. But its not bad, its just fine. Pretty happy I stopped being a Spidey fan, or else I will be more pissed off about this.

All of the revelations here just feel like Wells working backwards from an editorial directive.

I thought some of Zeb Wells stories were great …but what are we even doing with this? What is happening and who cares? This title is about to lose me.

Okay I now we know how they met Paul, but he is sooooooooooo boring he has a the personality of a glass of milk. But the ceremony and totem angel sound interesting. Is Peter being tested by the gods, that is why his life had turned to crap?

Story was ok. Art was awful.

I have no problem with American authors using Maya culture for their fiction when it shows effort, but this issue makes up names, gods and even symbols for it's plot. It's not that hard to look up Maya glyphs on the internet and just copy them. You want to have the god of the underworld? Use one of the many names it has, don't just make up a foreign sounding word for him.

I consider the art to be clumsy. I'm one of those fans who don't like Romita Jr's "style". It just looks bad to me. Other than the repeated "blockiness" criticism, his character's facial proportions look the same and his layout is more basic than a mock up found on google images.

The story doesn't really move that much forward towards the promised reveal and the art doesn't justify the action that takes up most of the issue. more

So boring

Marvel, you must end this torture now. We haven't read anything good for years about Peter Parker (Amazing Spider-Man)! This must stop now!

So bad, it’s unbelievable. I’ve been reading comics for about 30 years. Hands down, this is by far the worst era I’ve ever lived through. When the Big 2’s characters are in the state they’re in… just, Jesus Christ, I don’t have words.

To build this up as much as they did and ultimately involve characters nobody gives two fucks about… I can’t. Fuck Marvel and fuck Zeb Wells. Seriously. I enjoyed him, back in the day. He wrote a story where Shocker and Hydro-Man met up at Denny’s.

But this is shit. The fact that I’m buying more DC than Marvel at this point, as bad as DC also is… I wish my LCS would just retire. That would be my real-life jumping off point.

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Amazing Psycamorean - Mar 22, 2023

You should just stop reading

Hydro-Man - Mar 23, 2023

You are right. It’s hard to do. I had several unbroken runs for a long time and it was New 52 and All-New Marvel Now that finally made me realize I shouldn’t devote this much time (or money) to something I disliked that much. Spider-Man was an asterisk. I said I would stick with this character no matter how bad things got. But goddamn, this is really testing my resolve.

Sollywoods - Mar 24, 2023

I completely agree, this is the worst run of Spidey ever. I stopped buying it after issue 900 but curiousity keeps me looking at from the shelf and I'm glad I didn't give money for this garbage. I've been reading spiderman since 1996, I stuck through Past sin, I made it through OMD, but Wells run is the worst portrayal of Peter Parker that's ever been.

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This isn't the thing that Peter did. That hasn't happened yet. A bunch of stuff like stealing from the FF and going to Norman Osborn for help hasn't been shown yet.