Overall, this is pretty great and I really enjoyed where this book went overall. Read Full Review

Between the action, the world-building, and the pure heart, this is a fantastic issue that caps off a truly great Spidey story. Read Full Review

Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow #5 was a good read that had a few surprising twists. Chip Zdarsky is one of the most underrated writers in comics. Everything he touches is met with a level of quality and care that you don't see in other writers. The pencils and colors are both done well and compliment the story. This series has been a nice surprise and a well added addition to the What If? mythos. Read Full Review

Overall, this has been an interesting “What If” mini-series, as I've said above I would have preferred an all-out evil dark Spider-Man but the usual power and responsibility elements of character bring it down back to reality. The epilogue sets up an interesting sequel. Read Full Review

Generally, this series had a difficult time matching the chaotic energy of the first few issues, but the conclusion here was satisfying enough to make it an overall success. I appreciate the attempt to break from the classic mold to try something new, and even though it could have use a bolder exploration into its own concept it does bold well for the future of the 'What If?' comic. Read Full Review

Great ending, and I'm really excited for what is coming next

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Fracadactyl - Aug 11, 2021

As in more what if branded comics? Or a sequel to this?

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Great issue


Only complaints

-The Kingpin tease is unnesacary and could instead just be the beginning of the sequel.

-Peter's FF suit looks like ass, it should have just been the one from the game.

A really good ending to what will hopefully be the first in a long line of What If? miniseries.

It's a shame that the Amazing Spider-Man will never be half as good as Zdarsky's Spider-Man. Spencer fans be mad

Everything we love about Spider-Man and removing some of the things holding him back too. Because here, Peter really does live up to the Great Responsibility factor along with a clever tactic to get one over Venom. Plus there's a tribute to another What If? story to go along with the new status quo. Gotta admit the ending also filled me with a sense of anticipation on what Venom related stuff can happen here.

Peter defeats the symbiote with clever thinking and help from the Fantastic Four. That points to a fitting new status quo at the end. The plot is a little bit safe (almost but not quite predictable), but the storytelling is high quality all the way and there's even some nice character growth for Pete. This is an encouraging, thoroughly enjoyable start to the new "What If …?" line. (I coulda done without that epilogue, though; it was terribly clichéd.)

This series started out so strong and felt like the last few issues gradually lost some steam but was happy to see he stuck the landing in this final issue. The trope of the heroes getting taken over by symbiotes feels so played out with recent Marvel stories, but was a good way to relieve Peter from being guilty by law for his crimes. The play of Johnny disguising as Peter to take out the symbiote was clever and liked Sue's presence here too.

They really ended it in a way that made your want more. Overall, it was a good series that I found to be something I could read again.

The means by which Peter defeated the symbiote was very clever.

Only problem I have with this issue is Kingpin survival.
It's plain stupidity.
And faces were lacking emotions.
Otherwise it is great.
I think in the entire 5 issue series this was the weakest issue.

A solid mini-series. Definitely recommend people to read this.

Overall a pretty solid story by Zdarsky. The Kingpin tease at the end got me excited for more to come.

The conclusion to Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow, was good. Just good. It was short and to the point, I was expecting more action and stakes. It was surprising at times, and the writing wasn't bad. But it seemed very easy for Peter to win. If they took out the epilogue and just gave a few more pages to the story, I feel like that would of helped. But that is just my opinion.

Pretty meh ending, at this point Zdarksy just juggles between combinations of characters, it gets quite tedious after a while. This is the issue I liked less, I guess I expected something better than this. I'm not even sure the symbiote can be fooled like that but whatever.