I think this is the weakest issue of this run. Not to say it's bad, it's still enjoyable read, but not on level of previous issues. Since it is mostly fighting.

I do like how well Kelly wrote Peter here. He seems to have a good grasp on his voice.

But JRJR was a disappointment. The blueprint is still there, I love how his makes the story move from panel to panel. It lacks focus. But if his inker currently is undergoing cancer treatment, I can't be too hard on the art. more

Interesting ending. Not a fan of the art, but implications are intriguing.

This is just fun. Art is amazing and I like how Otto is written. All around good stuff!

This book keeps being frustrating

I liked most of the stuff, art especially was amazing.

MJ is still two-dimensional perfect wife who doesn't seem to have any problem that Peter is going away to fight the same people who kidnapped him for months last time he was in NYC

Jonah found out Peter is Spider-Man off-screen, and that's great. I would hate to see any kind of interesting writing for characters that could lead to something.

And the cliffhanger is once again exciting, but since the next issue wont happen immediately after this one, we gotta wait for month to see how month has passed and we are in entirely different setting while characters talk about how crazy last month was.

Presumably MJ will comment "no worries Peter, I am sure Richard is fine!" more

I really liked this issue. Wells run didn't have these interlude issues that focused on all different parts of Peter's life and they were sorely needed. I like most of the developments, the relationship part I am confused by. Not by the status of the relationship, more that spidey office is actually going there. Interesting choice to say the least.

JRJR was okay. I think I will always love his style, he was the artist on second ever spidey issue I bought, so nostalgia will always keep me on his side. more

It's fun and fine. Nothing special, but entertaining enough.

Finally a comic about Jason being Robin without Bruce being written as an asshole.

This book continues to surprise me. It's just good. I am enjoying this ride so much. And the new artist also works very well here.

I think it finally hit me.

I have liked this series the whole time. I think it's great, but I have felt like i don't see the hype.

But now I do.

This is amazing.

This was really odd. It is more like an Amazing Spider-Man team-up than Giant-Size ASM. I thought the cover was supposed to be related to cover itself, but it is more related to whole package.

Art in all three stories was great. But that is almost all good I have to say about it.

Smith's story is so average and boring that it's hard to give it any credit.

Ewing was just more focused on G.O.D.S. and 616 than Spidey.

And Rapid prelude was just that, not a Spidey story.

So overall, meh package. more

This still is an enjoyable comic. Keep cooking Ewing. And thank you for having Otto without him saying superior every five minutes.

Larraz is amazing and the MVP here. Otherwise, this was really fine. Nothing groundbreaking, but enjoyable read.

I am very confused by this whole story.

It's not bad. I think it's perfectly fine.

But this isn't 2003. Releasing this story 22 years later, while acting everything is the same as it was in 2003 is such an odd choice.

Why isn't this a black label book? Loeb clearly doesn't want to play with current continuity and wants to go to what it was back in early 2000s, why have him write this now?

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matt fraction save us!!!

Damascus steel isn't rare or only forged in a single region of the world. In fact, it's fairly simple and really only adds a special pattern to the metal and can maintain a sharper edge longer. Come on Loeb... A simple Google search would tell you that.
He writes Jason like every awful Red Hood fan, (which is most of them) leaning into the normal equivocating, vaguely authoritarian justifying rhetoric of, "I do what Batman WON'T and that means it's justified," when we've been through this a million times. I don't care if you're now establishing that Jason's brain is more fried than the Lazarus Pit could heal. If Bruce ever thought that for a second in the years since Jason became the Red Hood and reintegrated with the Batfamily, he would have helped him fix it. He HAS helped him fix it. Maybe read a comic that you didn't write Jeph!
Lee's work here still isn't his best but so far is the best in this arc so that's a positive. That being said, I'm not a fan of this new Riddler design. Why does he look like a SWAT officer? It does nothing to really distinguish him as the Riddler. Just a new appearance to sell a toy that no one will buy because everything is overpriced and cheaply made these days. Thank McFarlane for the low DC quality figures.
Tangent aside, this book feels a lot like those aforementioned figures. Poorly sculpted, cheaply made but thrown to the masses in hopes of a quick nostalgic snatch at your wallet. Nothing of lasting substance. If a Robin dies, it's going to be a symbolic death. Jason will cast off the Red Hood mantle, Damian will transition from his position back to Talia, nothing will happen to Dick. I want to be excited. I want to not dog on a book that means a lot to me as a fan but I want and expect better. Everything is derivative of what came before and original ideas in Big Two superhero comics are few and far between when these characters are pushing 100 years old but don't do this. Don't write a sequel 23 years later.
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Got to be honest, felt being whelmed. It's nice seeing Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy get some love and shine, but at least make dont make the solicitors completely false. I get sometimes comic books has to lie to keep a plot twist or certain story beats secret so it won't get spoiled, but there's a limit to how much I can tolerate.

Oh gee, Spider-Man's not facing this one alone.... but he's only in the last two pages of this issue. Oh wow, Richard Parker is in the black suit..... well no not really. Again, this series isn't bad, but I expected more. It seems to me that Hickman is interested in building the world around Ultimate Peter Parker, but Earth 6160 Peter Parker is his own side-character. Again, maybe once Hickman completes this run like his Avengers run will I appreciate it more, but I was just.... fine with it. Didn't offend me, but didn't blow me away to the point where I thought Hickman was cooking some serious heat. Again, Hickman's a great writer, but this was a weak issue compared to others as of writing this.

Maybe next issue will prove me wrong more

Let Hickman cook. This a fantastic story. Spider-Man is gonna be in the next issue so the babies can enjoy it again.