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• After what just happened with Tombstone, Spider-Man still has to fight a whole well-armed gang to save dozens of innocent New Yorkers.
• With his spider-powers, he can probably take ten or fifteen of them, right? What if there's thirty of them?
• ASM #900 is almost here!
RATED T+
Amazing Spider-Man has been a revelation since it's soft reboot / renumbering. Wells and Romita JR. along with Menyz and Caramagna are pulling out all the stops. With six months missing from our knowledge, I am sure that the level of quality will not diminish in the slightest. Read Full Review
This book keeps getting better! As Wells and Romita Jr. settle into their groove, it's us that gets to enjoy their constantly improving work. Read Full Review
Romita Jr. delivers some visually stunning art throughout this issue. The visuals perfectly match the tension, terror and danger of the story as it moves both stories along to their surprising conclusions. Read Full Review
Amazing Spider-Man #4 is a captivating issue that makes you appreciate the pure badassery of Tombstone as a main villain. The art is excellent, the pacing is energetic, the action is powerful, and the twist reveal is a pleasant surprise. Read Full Review
The Amazing Spider-Man is delivering a version of Peter Parker that reads as essential while elevating his supporting cast and some of the most clearly underrated villains in a large roster Spidey comics don't get much better than this. Read Full Review
Amazing Spider-Man #4 is a satisfying issue thanks to the story paying off the slow build of the last two issues. We still may be in the dark when it comes to the big mystery, but it's satisfying to see Spider-Man overcome impossible odds and yet continue to be down on his luck. We wouldn't have it any other way. Read Full Review
An all action issue plays to the strengths of the creative team. The writing is centered on the characters, and the art shows that Spider-Man truly is a force to be reckoned with. Well worth picking up. Read Full Review
This comic finally lives up to its potential with a fun, exciting and tense issue that really comes together nicely by the end. Read Full Review
Much like last issue, this one relies heavily on its art to make an engaging read, however this time the narrative is strongly wrapped up in the spectacle.
When this run started, you had a lot of naysayers talking about Peter's recklessness and his newfound attitude, which I posited then and now, is an integral part of the character dating back to his roots. But with that attitude comes consequences, and in this issue, we get that. Spider-Man is played so well by Tombstone, and you can't help but get excited. Everything is so tense here and the pages fly by, but in a good, fulfilling way. As a climax to this first arc, this is golden. To the people still upset about MJ, you are missing out. Plain and simple.
Since this volume started I haven't been really blown away by any of the issues. That's not to say they were bad but they were just kind of decent. That being said I love a story with depth and one that takes time to properly develop so I knew this could be really good I just needed to let it develop. I also love the gritty feel of this book. The last issue seemed to be a bit better but this one was phenomenal! What happened with tombstone was just brilliant! This book makes me think of NBA jams lol. Last issue was "he's heating up" and this one is "he's on fire!." I can't wait for the next issue.
Zeb Wells you beatiful bastard, this was awesome! Everything i hoped he was going to deliver in Beyond is happening here, and to think this is just the beginning...wow. Also, JrJr action sequences were awesome, which is nothing new, it's JrJr after all. I think my only "problem" so far is that the MJ subplot although shocking at first, is becoming really uninteresting very fast, specially compared to what is happening with Tombstone, but that's just a minor nitpick and it's still too early to have a concrete opinion on this, this is a perfect issue in my book, loved it!
Now this, this is what Spider-Man is supposed to be: pushing past extraordinary odds to wrestle with two crises in two parts of the city because maybe he can't win, but he definitely can't give up — only to find that even when he wins he loses. And the twist with Tombstone is classic Zeb Wells, no one does villains like he does. JRJR has his good moments and his bad moments, but he holds it together as well as he ever does these days. On balance, this run is everything I hoped it would be
The Tombstone story continues to be engaging here, as Peter is straight-up deceived into thinking he's in Harlem and into doing Tombstone's work for him. Great stuff here, and I'm glad Tombstone had no intentions of hurting Robbie. Although it can be argued that it's taking some time to get to the MJ stuff, I'm still entertained by what we're getting here.
Nice work by Wells. I loved the switcheroo at the end. Obviously this run like many comics these days read better in collected forms but this one still worked well as a single. I say it again but it needs repeating: Scott Hanna's inks and Marcio Menyz's colors are making Romita Jr.'s pencils look almost as good as it was a decade ago and I hope they stick around. That being said Romita Jr' still has good and bad and you gotta take both like it or not.
Phenomenal action packed issue. This is gonna be one of those ones looked back fondly upon 20 years from now.
"something something, this comic sucks because MJ and Peter not married and OMD not undone, something something"
In all honesty, this was great. Like really great. Wells' run has been growing on me and this proves that he could have what it takes to makes this truly memorable, in a good way.
I just love the job that Wells is doing, is amazing. Besides the controversies taht this run is having, I'm happy with it. The plot is good, I like Tombstone, Wells writes him very well and he's a good villain, and what a plot twist! I didn't see that coming, which is difficult in a world where everything has been told. The other characters are good too, specially Peter and the couple. The tension in all the issue, I loved it, so good writing, and the art too. Jr Jr is in an awesome moment, better than his last works in DC. Hyped for the end of the arc, it's going to be great for sure.
In general, it's a good-not-great issue. There's a little room for improvement in the prose -- and more of it in the art.
But oh, the trick that's played on Spidey and us readers! The whole issue is built for it and in my opinion, it works almost perfectly.
I have big questions about where the story goes next (and I see that the twist can be nit-picked to death under close scrutiny), but for now, I'm eminently satisfied with the goosebumps and shock this issue smacked me with at the end.
Fantastic issue. Tombstone played everything pretty much perfectly and Peter looked like a fool. Not to demean Peter as he was clearly out of his element and didn't know how far Tombstone had planned ahead. I had a feeling there was going to be more to this interaction than a lot of people were willing to give a chance. Aside from more than a few artistic hiccups from JRJR, this is a really solid chapter in Wells' tenure.
Some great action is packed in this issues and Spidey did not see coming the twist at the end of the issue!
I actually really do enjoy this issue. Art is a lot better, action is dynamic and I like the plot twist of Spider-Man doing Tombstone's work for him. It was really good.
Oh, well Peter, how stupid of you.
After all the tension created in the previous edition, two things were expected. 1: everything would go wrong for Peter (less unlikely), 2: Someone would show up at the last minute to save him. Based on the appearance of Black Cat at the beginning of the issue, I would be sure that she would appear at the last minute to save him. Little did I know that Peter was actually being deceived, a very well constructed plot. We don't know exactly what Peter did in those 6 months, and it's cool that this was the first edition that didn't explore that, but we know that during that time Peter changed, became more mature and more attentive, but fortunately he still continues with his mentality of protecting more
This was a good issue. Nice little twist at the end. Entertaining for sure.
Well... Hahahaha ok ok! I have to say I kinda dig this. Tombstone literally made The Rose look like a giant wimp. And Peter did his dirty work without even knowing it. Romita got back to his best after a bad issue and this took me back to the best JMS stories (with Spidey hanging from the ceiling and kicking The Rose's goons right in the face). I'm kinda lost as to how Tombstone was able to get Spider-Man literally under a Rose hideout without him noticing a single thing, but I guess this is what it is. And thank God Tombstone is actually changed and he wasn't really trying to kill Robbie or Randy, because that would have been a slap to Nick Spencer's run! The MJ-Felicia angle was ok, we still don't know enough to judge.
Pretty cool
Nerfed Spidey
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