The Spectacular Spider-Men #1 honors webslinger history as Peter Parker and Miles Morales explore the age gap, find common ground, discover acquaintances old and new, and uncover the Jackals legacy at Empire State University. Read Full Review

With what I've read so far in the premiere issue, Wiesmann and Ramos might have the premiere Spider-Man comic when it comes to the main Marvel universe on their hands. Read Full Review

Ramos art is beautifully immersive and captures both the character moments and the visually thrilling action perfectly. Read Full Review

Not too much to say, just a fun, easy read for all comic fans, especially those who love Peter and Miles together. Read Full Review

Weisman plays with the difficult task of battle-to-banter equilibrium, and gets it mostly right, while Ramos keeps up with the fast pace of the script and dialogue. Well worth your five bucks. Read Full Review

Spectacular Spider-Men #1 understands its crucial components. This is the first issue that is fuelled by fun. Read Full Review

The Spectacular Spider-Men #1 is a fluffy and warm blanket that fills a vacancy in the current landscape of Spider-Man by simply trying to do nothing more than tell a grounded Spider-Man set in the 616 without any need for forced melodrama or shock-tactic writing. In many ways, it feels like Marvel has an answer to DC's World's Finest, the future of this title shining bright as one that can offer both comforting and challenging Spider-Man stories for years to come. Read Full Review

The Spectacular Spider-Men #1 (mostly) accomplishes what it sets out to do by pairing Peter Parker and Miles Morales together as civilian friends and costumed superheroes. The character work is outstanding, and Ramos's artwork is spot-on, but the pacing takes a severe hit with unrelated scenes and ping-pong shifts between “Then” and “Now.” Read Full Review

The Spectacular Spider-Men #1 is a solid start to the Peter Parker and Miles Morales-led series. Greg Weisman and Humberto Ramos capture the chemistry of the Spider-Men well. The one-shot style storytelling helped establish the foundation of this series. It was certainly a fun Spider-Man comic book, which is all we can ask for. Read Full Review

If you dig art that highlights the speed and agility of Spider-Men, you'll love Spectacular Spider-Men. Weisman is laying some interesting groundwork with supporting characters on top of the fabulous art, but don't be surprised if you're unsure where this is all going. Read Full Review

It's a great Spider-Man story, but the Peter Parker and Miles Morales bits feel confusing, disjointed, and in need of a rewrite. Read Full Review

Basically, read this series over Zeb Wells Amazing Spider-Man. Peter Parker is actually likable, and its nice having the creator of Spectacular spider-man write this series. If you're a spidey fan, I highly reccomend this series as well as Dan Slott's Superior Spider-Man and Hickman's Ultimate Spider-man.

Albeit a little confusing with the constant switching between the "Then" and the "Now" and the unrelated characters who randomly have short scenes (i.e. the opera singer and the couple in Venice), I had fun with this.

This was a fun issue as a whole, but I do think the execution could have been a lot better. The banter between Peter and Miles is entertaining, but I also think it can become a little much at times. Though, I do like it overall. The biggest factor that drags down my score a bit is the constant shift between "then" and "now." The stories in both times were good, but I felt like the story kept unnecessarily jumping around. Hopefully Weisman can improve upon that within the next few issues. As for Ramos, I think he did a really solid job here. All things considered, I believe there's a lot of potential for this series to get better and I hope it does.

While the banter between the Peter & Miles is undeniably fun, this debut suffers from a lackluster plot and a very questionable narrative justification for why this series even exists.

Greg Wesiman wrote some really fun dialogue between these two heroes. Their witty exchanges and friendly jabs provide a lighthearted tone and had me giggling most of the way, save for the slightly cringe talk of picking up girls in a college coffee shop. However, the story itself felt uninspired. The two decide to just “hang-out” once a week to chat? Ummm, ok. Can that reasoning really sustain an ongoing series?

The issue’s conflict unfolds predictably, offering little in the way of surprises or tension. @ramosland’s art is undeniably energetic, with dynamic layouts and action sequences that leap of the page. His signature style perfectly captures the movement of the web-slinging heroes. However, the non-action sequences felt a bit boring.

Overall, this was a fun but ultimately shallow team-up issue that feels like it could have happened in either of their own series. While the interactions between Peter and Miles are a delight, the lack of a compelling story and questionable thesis held this back for me, especially considering the awesome work Cody Ziglar is doing for Miles’ in his solo ongoing. more

I'm not usually the biggest Ramos fan, but the art was pretty energetic. I did think it was fun overall, but the banter was a little much in parts.

There's a good idea here and this premise can be great, but it sinks or swims on the quality of the banter, and this issue was more misses than hits. Peter's supposed to be a dweeb, but I don't think we're supposed to cringe every time he opens his mouth. The narrative jumps mainly felt choppy instead of enhancing the story or contributing to comedic timing. I want to like this book, so I hope it finds its feet.

One of the big problems with a Spider-man book is getting the humor correct and here it feels very dilettantish IMO. The meanwhile scenes are random and I suppose we'll get an explanation of their relevance later but perhaps we wont and I attribute that to the locution of Weisman's storytelling and it's worrying to me. The friendship and banter between Peter and Miles looks fine on paper but for some unknown reason just seemed surface level to me and I never really bought into it enough to get into the comic. A title like Spider-men makes me want to see their bond be, I don't know....MORE I guess? I really can't tell you why this didn't hit for me but it didn't and it makes me sad cause I really wanted to add a great spidey team up book to my pull list. The art is fantastic but I just couldn't enjoy the story. It had that vague YA feel to it maybe??? Who knows. more