Patrick Gleason delivers some beautiful imagery throughout this issue. Not only do the characters look great, but the small details throughout the panels are evocative and visually engaging. Read Full Review

A fantastic issue that pulls the rug out from under you and will have you standing outside the comic store next Wednesday, waiting for it to open! Read Full Review

A thoroughly engaging issue with jaw-dropping art, gorgeous coloring, and highly effective lettering. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #55 delivers a startling conclusion to this current arc. Spencer and Gleason are truly doing some of their best work of late and do not disappoint. Taken as a whole, this issue leaves little to complain about other than a rather abrupt ending. Despite this, issue #55 primes readers for the next arc and will leave you on the edge of your seat grasping for more. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #55 takes an unexpected turn as the "Last Remains" storyline reaches its conclusion. Spencer built up this storyline for two years and in my humble opinion, it was more than worth the wait. I only hope that the next two years of Spidey stories live up to this example. Read Full Review

While a bit of circular logic throws off the baddie's speech, fans will be enamored by Mary Jane and Gwen in this emotional issue. Read Full Review

This issue continues the trend of being a solid issue to this heavy arc we've been waiting to get to for the longest. Funnily, now that we're finally here, there's no end in sight. There's so much left still to unpack and we've cleared a total of eleven issues, and this late in the game we're about to get two big A-list enemies to crash the Spider-Man/Kindred party. This issue delivers enough to keep me entertained, still I'm anxious and hoping the endgame of the arc as a whole will be worth it. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #55 is a frustrating continuation of the 'Last Remains' story arc. From one end, it was fascinating to see how things played out between Peter Parker, Harry Osborn, and Mary Jane Watson. Nick Spencer is clearly not only using 'Last Remains' as a payoff to the last two years of his Amazing Spider-Man run but also to bring greater importance to all of Spider-Man's history. Unfortunately, the big problem that Spencer runs into with Amazing Spider-Man #55 is how many key plot developments come across as deus ex machinas to lead into the conclusion of 'Last Remains.' Hopefully Spencer is able to overcome these major problems with the conclusion of his big Spider-Man event. Read Full Review

I'm not in love with the art, but the story hooked me pretty well. until the big swerve at the end. I think I'll be back next issue to find out what it all means, though. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #55,as well as the entirety ofLast Remains,is a disappointment. It's too dark to the point of being devoid of humor and fun. I find it comparable to the Star Wars sequels, in that there's so much that is interesting, but it's so devoid of context that I barely know what I'm seeing and why I should care. Kindred has long been the least compelling part of Spencer's run, and this new focus on him is unwelcome. It seems this story plans to continue even past this arc, and in my opinion that's a mistake. The Boomerang shenanigans were fun, let's get back to that. Read Full Review

We still have no idea as to why any of this is happening as this series continues to walk in place. At least the art is good. Read Full Review

Once again, I’ve had a lot of faith in Nick Spencer’s story telling for a long time, but this is ridiculous. Don’t expect much out of this one – certainly not any sense of finality. The art is great, but that’s really all I can say for it. Read Full Review

One of the best issues in all of Nick Spencer's run.

That was really intense, I loved it.

" If you're--NFF--gonna kill us, Kill US. But spare us the speech about how it's all about him. None of us asked him for a permission slip. You, on the other hand...You seem pretty obsessed."
- GWEN STACY (GHOST SPIDER)

Pretty disappointed it still hasn’t culminated into something big, but it is still seems to be going to bring up OMD thing.
Please, Nick, if you do this, this might get remembered as one of the definitive SM runs ;)

Great.

With the cast assembled, Harry finally lays out his full grievances against Spider-Man. But he gets blindsided by MJ and Norman launching a play against him that might or might not be a put-on. I admire how neatly the plot threads come together here, reinforcing strong storytelling with interesting content. It's right next door to greatness and I can't wait to see how it wraps up.

On its own I find this to be a great issue but as an issue labeled as the last issue of a highly anticipated arc it is going to leave you indifferent depending on your thoughts.

'Conclusion to Last Remains' my ass.

Good issue, but didn't go nowhere and answered no questions about Kindred and how Harry got these powers.

I wanted to give it a 10 because it was a great issue BUT nothing concludes here! What the hell are they thinking by saying this is a conclusion issue. It's still on a cliff hanger, nothing is resolved, it's still in the middle of the damn story! It's a good story, I'm enjoying it, but a little pissed off at feeling like I was lied to. If you haven't read it yet, know that it's a great middle chapter, maybe penultimate issue, but in no way is the conclusion. my rage is not about it being bad at all, just that the publisher created an anticipation for a conclusion and didn't offer one at all.

It was good, but Conclusion is a bit of a misnomer here.

I see a lot of complaints that this story's conclusion ended with another "to be continued." But should we really be surprised? I don't remember more than a mere handful of comics I've read in the last 10+ years that say "The end" on the final page anymore. Like everything else in pop culture, Comics are serialized nowadays, so nothing is ever over, because when it is, something else takes immediate priority. There's also the fact this story has an aftermath installment ahead. Usually when there's an aftermath ahead it does end with a "To be continued."
Nonetheless, I enjoyed these last 2 connecting stories. Spencer shows he has plenty of ideas ahead, so we should expect more exciting things ahead for the web swinger. 2020 may be remembered as a bad year, but I'll remember the Spider-Man books were pretty good. I think I can say in the years to come we'll look back at this as one of the best eras for Spidey in the 21st century. more

Well it didn't deliver the end it hyped so much for 10+ issues. As a chapter to an ongoing story it was great from Spencer! It had the drama build up, the beautiful Gleason art but it ended on a bit of a whimper where Kindred just disappears in a tiny panel with some suspected magic from Norman/Kingpin that somehow took care of the Ultra powerful Kindred that couldn't be killed?? We'll see where it goes next but it's a bit of disappointment. I have called it many issues ago. The ASM board/editors just won't let the OMD story get fixed naturally over a 10 issue story arc, they wanna milk it for the next 50+ issues for another 2 years if they ever resolve it. Mephisto is all over the Marvel landscape right now and is going to be a prominent element in the next big event sometime in the next year or two so that holds up ASM in a drag until we get there. At least that's my guess for now. more

The Amazing Spider-Man
Volume: 5, Issue: 55, LGY: 856
“Last Remains” Part VI

Publisher: @marvel
Writer: Nick Spencer
Artist: Patrick Gleason
Colorist: @delgaduck
Cover: @patrickgleasonstudio
Letterer: @joecaramagna

This latest issue of the Amazing Spider-Man brings the “Last Remains” story arc to its epic conclusion. This issue immediately picks up from last issue, 54.LR, where we see Spider-Man and the Order of the Web captured by Kindred as well as Mary Jane seemingly walking into a trap after her encounter with Norman.

The “conclusion” of the Last Remains story arc contained a lot more dialogue than I expected. Most climax issues are where the epic final battles happen. However, in this issue that wasn’t the case and for once I didn’t seem to mind it. With almost two years of build up, it would have been a shame for Kindred to go out so quickly, so I definitely appreciate that he will still be around tormenting Peter. The history between Peter, Mary Jane and Harry really make this issue great. Spencer continues to reference the “One More Day” story arc within Mary Jane’s dialogue which adds the intrigue to his run. Mary Jane exclaiming to Harry that Peter not remembering could quite possibly be the most important moment in recent Spider-Man history and certainly eludes to not only MJ, but Harry as well, remembering her former life married to Peter. Especially considering in the flashback, Harry refers to Peter as her husband. This issue wasn’t “concluded” in my opinion but definitely sets up a promising direction for the series moving forward. Gleason’s artwork was definitely put on display in this issue especially this amazing cover that is CGC worthy.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5)
Reviewed by: @mcruz2189 of The Comic Book Club of Instagram
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The problem here is that I really like SOME parts (Kindred as a character, the atmosphere...) but sometimes this all feels pointless. Spencer is the best Spider-Man writer in decades, but it looks like he kinda lost control of this. To be clear, this is not a story arc ending.

Well, Last Remains did not conclude since this didn't conclude anything so don't go expect that.

Spencer reminded me of "City of Bane", worst Batman run I've ever read with this issue so that is "nice".

I'm currently so confused. I don't know how the editorial messed this up but it seems that the "fallout" of Last Remains will actually be the finale.

It is hard to review this with this mindset so let's give it a 7/10.

I had just got through reading "One More Day" a few days prior, so seeing that iconic "Brand New Day" lead-in for a flashback (no matter how horrible that reboot was) - gave me chills. Albeit, more than MJ getting hit with a pumpkin bomb, because Spidey can always have Spider - Gwen right?
I mean I will never forget the way Pete talks about her in Loeb's "Blue", so the stakes just never seemed as high as they should whenever MJ is in the picture as threatened.
Yet, I did not expect Spidey to get so riled up over MJ, that he punched and webbed a hole through Kindred's face.Well while reading this and picturing Zendaya, I began to understand.
I find it funny that all it took was a love interest to get Spidey to release some ultra-violence, not his friends in peril or being given the Tom Cruise treatment in "Edge of Tomorrow" , plainly pussy.
Sigh, this is why Spider-Man comics never really do it for me. The stakes are never really that high, and the characters are well-off on their own and carry these toxic relationships while creating their own problems, when all they need to do is sit down and be grateful. And that goes for Web-Head too.
At the most, this issue's best scene was Spider-Man punching Kindred's face in and MJ getting blown sky high. Harry's monologue would have killed the issue without these scenes, which is why even MJ tried to sacrifice herself just to not hear his ASM-style bitching.
I started off reading USM as a kid. I just hold my comics to a higher standard, and though ASM is the flagship Spider title, it always feels emasculated. No matter the era. Because yes, I owned Maximum Carnage , and this series in that respect is no different concerning the impact of this title. more

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