Amazing Spider-Man #26 is a hilarious issue that's full of heart. While it doesn't do much to push the "main plot" forward, it does deliver a worthy Superior Foes successor. Kev Walker makes a wonderful addition to the team whose style doesn't feel far removed from those who came before. While the book does spend a bit too much time on recaps, it doesn't significantly hinder its quality. This book has always been a blast, and that hasn't changed. Read Full Review

The villain-focused Amazing Spider-Man #26 is a fun throwback to the days of Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Read Full Review

I'm looking forward to following more of Boomerang. I've noticed that in Spider-Man comics there are is an occasional theme of reforming villains. Prowler comes to mind, as does that amazing work with Rhino some years back. When confronted by his sordid past, I'm curious whether Spencer will have him virtuously pull through, sink back into his old habits, or die. Pretty sure those are the only options. Read Full Review

In the end, Amazing Spider-Man continues to be a reliable title that almost anyone can pick up and have a good time with. Read Full Review

A decent issue if you've been reading Spencer's run, but you might get frustrated with all the recap of what we already know. That said, the villains steal the show. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #26 takes a step back from the last half-year's or so worth of grim, melodramatic storytelling, and just has some fun. A lot of cool, breezy concepts are brought to the fore as well, making this an issue that while not earth-shattering, at the very least isn't mentally draining to try to get through. Spencer needs to do more like this. Read Full Review

Fred Myers is the best part of the current Amazing Spider-Man run. His charm is every bit as magnetic as it was in Superior Foes of Spider-Man providing some much-needed fun for this cardboard presentation of Peter Parker. Read Full Review

A really fun issue that reads a lot like a Superior Foes issue.

I’m enchanted.

"That's where your friendly neighborhood Boomerang come in."

It certainly is entertaining and clever stuff from Spencer. Walker and Martin are pretty good too!

A thoroughly enjoyable issue.

Not horrible but can we actually get on the road with kindred already. This seems like an issue that is more filler than anything. Plus if youre not that crazy about the new syndicate. This wont help.

I don't know how to feel about this one. I loved the humour, but when I wasn't being humoured I was left feeling like something is missing. The art was both incredible (the first 2 pages) and bad. It was very inconsistent.

I hope Tom Taylor gets royalties when Nick Spencer gloms his Friendly Neighborhood character work and uses it as background color to fill out another issue of "the Amazing Supporting Cast Of Spider-Man."

I'm elated that Electro's reaction to the Syndicate is a hard pass once she meets the loser-ladies involved. That roster takes a promising idea and turns it into the Dunder-Mifflin of Evil. I hope they get clobbered not by Spidey or other heroes, but by Monica Rappaccini, Viper, Alexa Lukin, Madame Masque, Sin, the fairly gender-balanced Serpent Society, or, oh, maybe THE INVENTED-IN-THIS-VOLUME leader of the Thieves' Guild, Odessa Drake -- really any of the dozen boss b*tch Marvel supervillainesses the Beetle forgot about while making her whiny glass ceiling pitch. (I do understand -- and appreciate -- that the source of the stupid here is the characters rather than the author.) more

Nick Spencer has gone back to the Superior Foes well one too many times.