Spider-Ham's sizzling in this annual! Read Full Review

I'm horrified to report that I enjoyed a Spider-Ham comic. I resent the full creative team for crafting a story involving ham with supernatural powers that appealed to me. Read Full Review

From start to finish it's a lovely sort of laugh riot, one where there are plenty of jokes and most of them deliver a good-natured ribbing. Top that off with two of the best cartoonists imaginable for this material (Lafuente and Latour) and you've got a perfect recipe for an annual issue. Read Full Review

All in all, this issue ends up being an experiment with diminished, but fascinating and worthwhile returns. The first story is flighty and frustrating, but also stylish and silly in a great, definitely intentional way while the latter is sobering in an unexpected but deserved and enriching way. I wouldn't recommend this to fans hot off Into the Spider-Verse, but those who like Spider-Ham because of the massive backstory and history of the character will find a lot to dig into here. Read Full Review

Overall, Spider-Man Annual was a bit of a miss, that failed to truly capture the essence of the character Spider-Ham in an attention grabbing matter, or even continue traction the character may have picked up from the Into the Spider-Verse movie. The art was nice enough to provide the book with an animated touch, but there are some transition issues in the beginning of the book that really throw the reader for a loop, before settling back into a groove. If you absolutely need Spider-Ham right now, grab one of the True Believer centered around the character for a better value. Read Full Review

Would make a better Instagram feed than a comic.

Lots of cute/clever moments, but the off-putting narrative makes it tiresome to read all the way through.

Jason Latour writes as though he's afraid it would literally kill him to produce a comic that didn't get called "clever."

This isn't a great comic and you can skip it without regret.