Heading somewhere that might get me to be 100% in but not there yet. I didn't need the action scenes but it still welcomed addition and I like the way Gary Frank puts his 110% into it. I really want Junkyard Joe to be tied in well here and make me care but we'll see.

Heading in the right direction but still lacks the punch to bring my full investment. Geoff Johns is good on the small moments but he needs better stringed bigger moments. Still I'll read anything Gary Frank illustrates.

It's not bad but nothing gripping from Geoff Johns but man the art from Gary Frank is perfect!

Decent start with great art but nothing special.

One the most fun and enjoyable series I read in years. Fraction just delivers on the nonsense of Jimmy Olsen's DC shenanigans and he also gave me the best Batman in forever. Steve Lieber is the perfect art partner for this craziness and he does some nice work in this last issue. Props to Nathan Fairbairn on colors keeping it tight with the sun downs and those faces and shades were nice too.

Fraction had a nice plan for Jimmy Olsen that got sidetracked in hilarious shenanigans but this here put it together nicely and Lieber ups his game on art.

Fraction has to start to bring it all together and it's good to see but the shenanigans have lost some of their charm wrapped in nonsense. Still enjoyable and Lieber is great as always.

It's still good but the way this starts to run out of fuel is a knock on it because of how well crafted the previous issues were but we come down to try to finally get somewhere and it suffers a bit.

Pure fun shenanigans from Matt Fraction with Lieber flexing with so many styles switching that work so well.

The best issue yet. It just delivers laughs and insane scenarios. Batman has never been this hilarious. Fraction's nonsense scenarios are put on paper beautifully by Lieber and nice colors from Fairbairn.
Shoutout to the best Joker: Phillie Phanatic in the background although Gritty should've been there.

This is pure fun craziness from Fraction. Timmy is my favorite youtuber now. Steve Liber delivers nonstop perfect art. This is on par with Nick Spencer's The Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Let's hope it endures and ends just as well.

The hits keep coming from all directions. Just pure stupid fun with serious nonsense right underneath.

Fun and serious at the same time. Fraction is good at this stuff. Lieber fantastic fit with this nonsense.

Super fun first issue. Plenty of laughs and Lieber’s art perfectly matches the tone of the issue. Cant wait for more

I actually had a lot of fun reading this one.

Top notch comicbooking from Fraction and Lieber! Not all land right but the majority work well and had me laughing from its outrageously poignant stupidity. Steve Lieber's art is great and is even better from what I saw a decade ago. Kuddos to him!

This was a letdown of an ending. Cafu is amazing and delivers some amazing art that's colored beautifully by D'Armata but the story falls flat with predictable beats and weird choices but maybe not reading venom war makes it hard to understand the choices? Oh well the ship of reading extra books has sailed a long time ago.

This lacked a bit and no way would Chthon talk like that. If he did at least have a background or scenario where it would make sense. Just a weird direction.

Right on with the past/present/future sequences. Just enough to keep you sitting for the ride and especially with Cafu delivering fantastic art. I just wish he was here for the whole arc.

Torunn Gronbekk did OK. A lot of the back and forth speech did not land right and I had to reread a few times to follow. Some writers I can follow easy and others not so much. This is a great art presentation from Cafu who is almost flawless and knocked it out of here. D'armatta's colors were just as good. I just wish I was more interested with where we're going even with Spidey showing up. Still I'm riding. more

It's an interesting start to Old Man Dylan's adventure.

But the real highlight here is Cafu's art. It's simply amazing.

Ewing has a way with words that even with the crazy ride it's clear who and what's happening even if you don't like the ride. Cafu is great as always.

It is what it is. Good moments for the characters lost in sea of a directionless mess where Peter Parker and Spider-Man go nowhere and Chasm is back to the same BS he was in earlier. One dumb decision after another. Nick Lowe failed to guide or direct Zeb Wells here and to shove that Ms. Marvel stupid death while explaining that dumb Paul debacle through a painful arc to read was just idiotic. Nobody is allowed to advance. We're in a circular game board where sometimes we end up in jail losing everything we own including MJ with a tease just around the corner that things will be fixed only to be broken again and again. Amazing Spider-Man is broken under the weight of its own 60 years of continuity and success that no writer can honestly write him in 616 within the limitations the Marvel editors have imposed on him.
John Romita Jr. did well as his usual self. Kudos to Scott Hanna inking him well and Marcio Menyz coloring it nicely. more

Certainly the best thing about Wells's finale is the same thing as what was best about his run: the small character moments, like Tombstone's chat with Peter outside the courthouse that emphasizes the weaknesses of being a good man in a bad world. But the worst thing is what was worst about his run: the general lack of direction. The scenes with May are touching and well-wrought and could be a great capstone to a run that focused heavily on Aunt May — except that this isn't that run, it's been over a year since she's shown up in the pages of this book at all and she was hardly a regular before that.

Ultimately, Wells & JRJR simply tried to do more than they could handle with this series, and Nick Lowe failed to exercise the editorial wisdom to force them to kill a few darlings and focus their attention on the best stuff — with the result being a tangle of characters, plots and subplots that appear and disappear at random, rarely getting any meaningful resolution. As everyone else has already mentioned, most of the plots end in no identifiable change to the characters or their place in the world, with the only real movement forward in this issue is for Aunt May, a character who's barely been in the book. [EDIT: Also I misunderstood the ending and it doesn't even really move May forward, so I'm not sure why we're doing this story for a finale at all now.]

I won't damn this run outright. I think hate-reading comics is a waste of your one wild and precious life, and that reading a favorite character out of addiction alone is no better, so if I thought this run was irredeemable I'd have walked away long ago. I read it to the end because it kept drawing me back in every time I gave up on it, it was full of promise in its best moments: the Judgment Day and Blood Hunt issues or the best parts of the Tombstone plot, for instance. I absolutely believe there was a great run in there somewhere, if only they could have focused on it.

(As regards the prelude to 8 Deaths, obviously I can't judge a run on a three-page teaser but my first impression is that I'm going to have the opposite problem with the art that I had with this run: while JRJR's unreliable pencils were beautifully propped up by Menyz's gorgeous color work, it looks like next Mark Buckingham's wonderful draftsmanship will be muddied by murky-yet-overlit coloring that looks like it rose from the grave of the early oughts.) more

Issue was enjoyable enough. I like the ending to the main story, that convo with May. Figured Tombstone was either going to get off or confess. Mays presence was i think definitely missed this run. He handled Sandman pretty handily which is good.

The Jackpot story was just kinda there. But the moment between him and MJ was nice.

Im not a Ben Reilly die hard so I'm not very bothered by Chasm existing. I enjoyed the short dialogue between them but felt like they trased some growth for Ben but then didn't really commit. Itd be interesting to see him actually move on from what he's lost. Maybe they see Ben is supposed to be a lot of stand ins for many spodey readers and thats the angle they are going with? Time will tell.

The rek rap story was just there. Great art as usual and the editors note gag was fun.

I really liked the art in the last sorry and Peter beating Overdrive in the doom bit, working out a high level machine. I'll give the story a shot.

After everything I still love how Zeb writes Peter as a character. The Wolverine story was a great insight into it. I can root for Zeb wells Peter very easily. Hes a good, decent guy. Ill miss that overall, but I think a new writer is welcome too.
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