Building upon now-classic stories ranging from Green Goblin's earliest victories through Superior Spider-Man, it's clear this vision of Amazing Spider-Man is creating a very bright future for the series and character, alike. Read Full Review

McGuiness delivers big, beautifully detailed action and thrilling imagery throughout the issue. The art has great style and does a great job of matching the tension and tone of the story. I love the over emphasized emotions of the character expressions and how they play into the big action moments. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #30 is a good issue wrapping up Doc Ock's appearance and overall runs its course as a visual stunner. The story never probes the characters too deeply and instead ops to show Norman the hero for what feels like the 10th time and lean into Doc Ock's doofus nature. Read Full Review

The Amazing Spider-Man #30is just another Spider-Man story, scrambling strong story setup and the potential for a small scale and psychology personal story for Peter Parker in exchange for goofs, gaffs, and unearned emotional resonance that held little to no other prior importance. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #30 is filled with great art and big action, but Zeb Wells can't figure out when to be jokey or when to be serious, leading to a tonal mess of a comic. Further, Norman's tearful speech about Kamala Khan comes off as a heavy-handed retcon that feels more insulting than emotional. Read Full Review

While I enjoyed Peter acting Otto-like it's not as compelling as Otto acting Peter-like. Also bothered me that Peter started calling the arms boy when he previously called them girl before painting them. More of a continuity/consistency thing.
The conversation Norman and Peter had on the roof with Norman reminiscing about an exchange and inside joke they both had was nice but it feels like too little too late. Show us that BEFORE she died, then remind us as a fond memory. Don't retroactively try to scrounge up a meaningful interaction we never got to see. I don't get why the tone shift has to be so drastic. If you want to do a story about Kamala and the fallout IN Spider-Man then give it an issue or two. Do it justice. Don't throw off the pace of the story you are telling that is full of jokes to then pivot and try to add weight where it doesn't belong. I don't hate it by any means. I think both stories are fine and being told decently well but they don't mesh well and throw off the book. more

Ock will always be my favorite Spidey villain because of stuff he pulls like this. Hes like an anti-spider-man. Really wish he'd get longer arcs.

Fun!

This was a solid issue. The tonal shift between this storyline and the previous continues to be felt, but Wells is able to make it make some sense on the final two pages. Yes, the previous three issues, as well as this one, have been a lot more fun and lighthearted compared to Issues 21-26, but it allowed Peter and Norman to be distracted from Kamala's death for a little bit. I do still think it's a little weird, especially considering the first issue of this current arc started out with Peter being clouded by her death, but at least we got some sort of explanation. As for the story itself, it wasn't bad at all and it just felt like a solid comic book story. Nothing more and nothing less. With the return of Superior Spider-Man coming up, I'm pretty sure Otto will be showing up in Dan Slott's current Spider-Man run if he hasn't already (At the time of this writing, I have yet to read it). I'm just hoping this series can rise back up to the quality it was during its first 18 issues. I think Wells is a very talented writer and this run gets a over-hated a bunch. more

Four "dolts" in five panels is three dolts too many.

The resolution of this round of Spidey-Ock conflict is, subjectively, unsatisfying. See my comment on the previous issue--they obviously need to do some sort of brain balance, but this no-score draw just prolongs the problem. We'll have to slog through more Saturday Morning Cartoon Octavius the next time we see him.

At least the art's cool. And Norman's eulogy for Kamala is decent, if late.

I guess it was fun. Had some decent Norman work. It was campy. It had action. Not the worst this run has produced.

This is incredibly conflicting issue for me. On one hand, it's perfectly fine, having okay dialogue, good moments and amazing art. On other, it's annoying read, having bad placement, little progression, questionable status as Otto story overall and odd ending.

I really don't know what to think of it. I can't hate it, it's too good for that and I enjoyed it. But I can't really like it, because it comes with so many issues that I can't ignore so I can't fully enjoy it as standalone story.

Let's give it a perfectly fine and annoying read: 5/10.