Shaw delivers some fun and bright visuals throughout the issue. The art and its style are perfect for these characters and the tone of the story. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man Annual 2023 hits all the right notes as the leading players intersect. Hallows' Eve is getting the perfect voice to tell Spider-Man she is tired of him dragging her down and preventing her happiness. The Fall of X hits Spidey's world harshly, and MJ is dealing with her run of bad events. Spider-Man's world just can't escape that Parker Luck. Read Full Review

Not every annual is a must-read. By injecting the larger universe into Spidey's world, two engaging stories pushed from "one-shot side story into an engaging part of the entire tapestry. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (2023) repeats last year's annual by turning in a jokey, silly story about nothing when Hallows' Eve tries to break Ben Reilly out of NYC's demon embassy prison. The slapstick tone and cartoonish art are fine in isolation but strangely out of place for the main title. The backup serves as a potentially interesting epilogue to this year's Hellfire Gala, but it gets the details of the Gala wrong. Read Full Review

The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1features solid enough characterization, but fails to have any sort of impact both in its narrative, art, or any form of character work. It serves its purpose as filler entertainment, but it has nothing going for it outside of that aside from the development of more weird and uninteresting plot lines for Mary Jane. Read Full Review

The 2023 Amazing Spider-Man Annual can be easily skipped by most Spider-Man fans. Those seeking a continuation of the stories of Hallows' Eve and Fall of X will enjoy it, but there is very little Spider-Man to be seen. A larger problem is the overall uneven level of quality between the two stories. Read Full Review

This annual touches on interesting elements running through Marvel Comics today, but doesn't contribute anything substantial to them in terms of style or story. Read Full Review

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These are both pretty fun strips, although they're certainly lightweight and inconsequential (unless maybe Madelyne's magic spells come back to bite Janine and Pete?). The art might be the best feature. David López's work is always a treat, but I happen to like Julian Shaw's dynamic, cartoony style too.

It's fine. Just fine. Not chicanery.

The main story was decent but the tone was odd, and just moved to plot along for the one-shot story in which I assume Eve breaks Ben out. Pryor was a bit on her high horse for someone who was assisting Ben until she heel-turned on him. This wasnt the authors fault though, that was just some bad writing previously from Wells which messed it all up. All in all though, I do enjoy how Eve is actually fighting for her partner and basically being to Peter what he should be for MJ. So Kudos on Eve being more Spider-man than Spider-man. Just goes to show how poorly Wells writes.

Second story seemed utterly pointless. Art was poor and Peter is an awkward 3rd wheel to MJ and Paul. Just a really gross dynamic overall.

tldr, first story has some plot stuff, and Eve being a decently written character. Second story is pointless. more

Not necessary

This was pretty stupid and totally unnecessary.