Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1: Get Back Up

The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) (Collected Editions)

by Joe Kelly, Pepe Larraz (Artist), Marte Gracia (Colorist)

Peter Parker is, shockingly, without a job and looking for gainful employment — but his search is interrupted by a rampaging Rhino, who is but the tip of a Sinister iceberg!

What major Spider-Villain is working behind the scenes weaponizing other Spider-Villains, including one we haven’t seen in almost seven years?! Also, what is that Goblin-free Norman Osborn up to, anyway?

COLLECTING: Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #1-5, Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #70 (B story), Free Comic Book Day 2025: Amazing Spider-Man/Ultimate Universe #1 (Amazing Spider-Man story)

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Spider Man, Graphic Novels, Superheroes

144 pages, Paperback

Published December 9, 2025

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Reviews

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

"hrrrRAGH!" - Aleksei Sytsevich, a.k.a. supervillain Rhino, rampaging though the streets of NYC

"'hrrrRAGH!' yourself, Aleksei! Fighting you was NOT on my bingo card today!" - Peter Parker, a.k.a. the Amazing Spider-Man

After growing increasingly dissatisfied with the Zeb Wells-penned run (which, to be fair, had both its highs along with the lows) involving Marvel Comics' flagship character in late 2023 / early 2024, it's nice to return to an accessible Spider-Man storyline that is contemporary, yet fits in to the classic and established narrative. Amidst unemployment woes - a Peter Parker specialty as of late - Spider-Man investigates (and is briefly affected by, dredging up those traumatic memories of his past) a locally-brewed/bottled soda that is laced with a powerful hallucinogenic tonic. Turns out old foe Hobgoblin is at it again, and what follows is a lively and entertaining volume that is subtitled - and which could be Spidey's unofficial motto - Get Back Up. A unique aspect were the many interspersed flashbacks to Parker's early and rocky adolescent years pre-radioactive spider bite, which realistically presented that he and parental figures Aunt May and Uncle Ben often locked horns over burgeoning juvenile delinquency-matters to the frustration of all involved . . . but familial love saved the day.

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

ihaven't seen this trade yet..so reviewing first 5 issues:

#1. DEATH to THE TYRANT
wow! Sparkly new looking Peter Parker / Spider -Man..he's unemployed and dealing with a non talkative Rhino.
#2.
Spider-Man has been poisoned..hence the disturbing visions...and he follows the recuperating Rhino to Ravenscroft.
#3
Enter : Itsy Bitsy.
I have to admit I missed Itsy Bitsy's appearance in Spider-Man/Deadpool team up..but she does seem more than a little 'troubled'..but a more recognisable big gun..enters on the last page!.
#4.
Spider-Man faces the Villain behind the Queen's Cola company (sounds worse than it is) while having induced visions from his past.
#5.
First arc concludes.
I know people like a status quo and I'm not sure if this revamp (recharge?) went too far.
Peter has lost two loves of his life...can Shay stick around for a while?
I'm not sure MJ is totally a lost cause ..#1000 is coming up.
At some point May should realise /be told what Petey has been up to all these years.
#6. Black Cat!!!

[Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Joe Kelly is a dynamite writer, he's done Spider-Man before and it's good to see him again as the mainline guider of all things Peter Parker.

The new status quo of Peter's job in science with a semi-mysterious childhood friend, it's a bit too much like Norman Osborn (who still works with Pete) but it's still a good cast-of-characters and everything. And there's a new girlfriend.

The art by Pepe Larraz is wonderful. Modern comic art of the 2020s, gloriously cinematic, really stands out and fits in as Spidey jumps around punching iconic enemies like the Rhino and the new Hobgoblin. I think the next volume JR JR comes back to illustrate Spider-Man for the millionth time, but for the first volume for the new run this showed a lot of promise.

It's a good standalone story as a graphic novel, regardless of how you may feel about the current restarting Amazing Spider-Man. Don't want to be negative, although fans these days don't ever seem to like new Spider-Man runs anymore, I'm just saying this is a good book.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.3 stars

Just what I needed: a really great volume of ASM to celebrate my 50th birthday with! Beautiful story and great art; good job, folks. Keep ‘em coming…

[James DeSantis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing Spider-Man has had a rough few years. I didn't completely hate Wells' run, but let's just say it's not well-regarded. Then, add on the fact that Spencer's last few arcs in his own run were not good. Spider-Man has not hit the heights it should as an A-Lister comic.

Luckily, Joe's run starts off solid, though nothing remarkable. But I'll take that over boring or bad. Basically, Spider-Man is drugged by a villain, then has to face off against two villains, including Hobgoblin, while also trying to deal with past trauma since he's drugged.

It's really touching at points with Aunt May, the art is excellent, and there are some great fights. The overall plotting, the drugs being from a soda company is lame, and the "Girl Boss" joke goes on WAY too long, but overall, this is not a bad comic to read for an entertaining Spidey fix. It's not near Ultimate Spider-Man, but it's a nice comeback. A 3.5 out of 5.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This feels like the start to another thoroughly mediocre Spider-Man volume.

Look, Peter is again jobless. Parker luck!

And he can't even manage that job because he runs off every 2 minutes to be Spider-Man. Parker luck!

And he's been drugged and is hallucinating. That hasn't been done more than twenty or fifty times. Parker luck!

The last issue picks up a little bit as we actually get a better connection to our new characters (just like the old characters! The Rand Enterprises staff could be the supporting characters abandoned at Horizon or Parker Enterprises or ...). And have a nice moment with Aunt May.

But, oh, it's four really mediocre issues to get there.

[j_ay · Rating 1 out of 5]

As usual: completely unnecessary relaunching a title. Oh, wow, issue number one...
I thought Joe Kelly was supposed to be a fill-in writer...but here is he fucking up another whole arc, one can only assume to make Spencer's and Wells' long, long winded total nonsense seem less dreadful?
Absolutely ghastly colouring...and unimpressive 'look, every panel is Epic Pose art and let me rely WAY too much on digital backgrounds'.
Why the extra fuck is Nick Lowe still employed?
Oh goody even more "god" an "holy mary mother" (really) references...
annnnnnd, of course, a bunch of pointless, boring pin-up covers that have little to nothing to do with the story.
Oh Hobgoblin does not fly, stick to the model sheets. Or “create” a new character….oh wait, Itsy-Bitsy is a pathetic, should have never made it to the page…so don’t “create”.

The march to issue 1000 (which means nothing with all the relaunches and bi-weekly bullshit) is going to be painful...and Nick Lowe should be replaced.

[Kev · Rating 1 out of 5]

This has got to be the worst Spider-Man arc I’ve read in years. Absolutely terrible.

[Idan Buddy Luisa Sanchez · Rating 4 out of 5]

So…I have a sore spot for spider-man. He’s great and all…but his stories seem somewhat stagnant. He’s always broke (like me)…always doing things for free for no reason other than he’s “a good guy.” Always pining after a woman whom he loves that doesn’t love him…these are the established tropes.

And you definitely see them here, so if that seems wrong, better switch to DC Comics!

But stay with me here if you want to know what makes this character seems to mean to me, what makes him engaging and enjoyable, and why this “new start” is a worthy addition to the canon.

But first, some more griping!!

It seems like any progress Peter Parker makes in the world keeps getting deleted (like me…but not because of me, not to Peter)…by nefarious forces that refuse to be accountable for holding him in stasis…for making his stories feel a bit like running on a treadmill at the gym…you get a workout, you enjoy going out of the house and seeing people doing their own thing, even like nodding heads at familiar faces or chatting with good buddies…but the scenery doesn’t really change, does it? At least you keep going and build up those muscles, right?

Well reading Peter’s adventures is kinda like slacking on that workout, either running too slow or too short or too irregularly to really get stronger.

Take each session reading his stories by themselves instead of trying to connect them. You’ll enjoy them more that way than trying to weave them together into a web. When you mix them all together, like mixing metaphors, you get something weaker than the sum of their parts.

I was ready to love Zeb Wells’ ASM vol. 1: World Without Love…and I did?! Well, perhaps “love” is definitely a strong word for it…but the character work was decent and the action was good, even having some twists there…

But this isn’t about that one! Nor is this about the much reviled fallout of the train wreck of a run that turned out to be!

This is The Amazing Spider-Man, Volume 1: Get Back Up, by writer Joe Kelly and illustrator Pepe Larraz.

And it is just…so much fun. It offers something you don’t get to see much in a standard Peter Parker yarn: an off-brand young Peter dealing with delinquent characters, not as the voice of reason or the stick in the mud…but as a co-conspirator?!

Yes, it’s a retcon, yes, it’s a drug induced hallucination, but it’s confirmed! not an imaginary story! not a dream or alternate reality! Aunt May knows him! The gateway drug that is this guy who’s now like a tech bro? Trying to get Peter a job? A real job at a real tech company? Yes! Get that money, Peter!

Of course, despite the fan base’s desire that everyone forget all the boneheaded nonsense moves Peter has made…not spoiling them here, there’s sixtyish years of monthlyish publications out there, go read it all, every single magazine, right now, and then come back and throw rotten tomatoes at me for wasting the good years of your life on meandering content…people remember Peter, and not in a good way!

It reads as an honest-if-farcical portrayal of trying to get a job “in this town” after you lose a dozen jobs in this town with each one telling you “you’ll never work in this town again!”

😝

Think less Hollywood, more New York tech.

But that’s what’s going on in Peter’s life…dealing with problems he inadvertently created that he cannot solve by punching his way out of it.

“But that’s not superheroes!”

If you don’t derive some humor from this, see not some reflection in your own struggles to survive…why don’t you read about a billionaire playboy who punch outs inmates at the insane asylum??

Seriously though…this is indeed a superhero comic, and for all Peter Parker’s foibles, there’s Spider-Man, and boy does he get shit done!

The action in this comic is beautiful, plentiful, slick, glowy, colorful, and emotional. It flows so well in the panels, my eyes were pulled along as the whole of thing progressed with just the smoothest pacing. The action in the Zeb Wells run was good too…but it was ghoulish! It felt like a mockery of all that Spider-Man should be…

But here Spider-Man is smart, fast, agile, quippy…and Amazing!

The action has buildup. There’s a mystery, there’s old faces acting strangely, and there’s a mastermind being vicious!

The action really is a great set piece, but it’s sandwiched between good character moments, moving and carefully balanced dialogue, managing the dynamics of familial love and rebellion and forgiveness…and humor at the worst possible time, which makes it all the more enjoyable! It’s not Spider-Man if he isn’t always cracking jokes!

This is a Spider-Man story that doesn’t immediately trash the awful legacy of the character, nor does it really reinvent the character from the ground up, but it stands on its own. It has a sense of vitality and vulnerability, a sense that this a story looking to build upon itself and become one to remember fondly. There aren’t too many lingering questions here, not a clear indication of what is to come, but this story was admittedly fun, thrilling, and I would love…love? really? Yes, I think so…I would love to read more! And I would also like to reread this one…!

It doesn’t seem to matter too much that people don’t like what preceded this…not to me! I like this story, and that’s all I need for now.

Make Mine Marvel!…(and also DC)

4.5 Stars!

[Rory Wilding · Rating 4 out of 5]

I may love Spider-Man, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t loved every aspect of the character, and that has definitely been the case with his mainline comic. In recent years, The Amazing Spider-Man has been stumbling in recent years and even when their runs being quite well, writers like Nick Spencer and Zeb Wells just mess it up, the latter in particular whose crimes on the book made me stopped reading. The only recent time I have enjoyed Spider-Man in comic book form has been reading Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man, which will be coming to an end soon.

Having written the character on-and-off over the years, whether on Amazing or a number of limited series, Joe Kelly takes full reign on the main Spider-Man title. In classic Spidey territory, we are introduced to Peter Parker who, shockingly, is without a job and looking for gainful employment. When he is reunited with Brian Nehring, his long-lost childhood best friend, Peter gets a job at Rand Enterprises, only for that opportunity to be crushed, quite literally, by a rampaging Rhino.

From the first issue, Kelly establishes the tone right from the start with Peter, defined by his trademark “Parker Luck”, tries to juggle his everyday life that includes getting a job with the life of a superhero that features a Russian rhinoceros that is somewhat off the meds. The main arc, only five issues long, doesn’t have much of a mystery as by the end of that initial issue, it’s pretty obvious who the main antagonist is, though Kelly is not without some surprises along the way.

No doubt Kelly is picking up where previous creators left off, such as the former Green Goblin Norman Osborn being an ally to Peter with the hope of repenting his past sins, whilst recent creations like the eight-limbed assassin Itsy Bitsy from Kelly’s Spider-Man/Deadpool pops up as a fun foil. Whilst I would recommend long-time readers who felt burnt from Spidey’s recent comic outings to give this a read, newbies might need some pre-existing knowledge of what Peter has been through in the last few years.

While it is hard to know how old Peter is nowadays – as he looks rather young here in how he is drawn here – this arc not only shows the highs and lows Peter has been throughout his life, but also new wrinkles to his past we didn't know about. During his investigation over the Rhino’s drug-infused carnage, Peter himself gets drugged, which not only makes playing hero tough, but also his current occupation where he starts hallucinating. During these hallucinations, we see flashbacks to his childhood friendship with Brian was a bad influence on him and thus isolating him from his loving Aunt May and Uncle Ben.

This whole aspect of the story is where Kelly’s writing shines best as it reminded me of Kelly’s work on I Kill Giants, which was also about a youngster struggling with life. Considering the dramatic moments here, as well as the tragedy that he has gone through over the years, Peter has to remind himself to get back up and remember the people that shaped him to not go down a dark path. Even by the end of this arc, there is still a friendship between Peter and Brian (which will be interesting to see developed in subsequent issues), though the most touching moment is a heartfelt conversation between Peter and his motherly aunt.

For as much heart, humour and wit that Kelly nails here, you also want the Spidey spectacle, and this is where Pepe Larraz comes in. Having previously impressed us as one of the architects of the X-Men's Krakoa Era, Larraz brings a new visual approach to Spider-Man who does retain his classic red-and-blue costume, but through his character work and dynamic panel layouts, there is a kineticism whether he is drawing drama or action. The action, in particular, is spectacular with Larraz makes great use of the double-page spreads that can balance Spidey’s balletic web-slinging to costumed figures feeling those impactful hits. A special shout-out to colourist Marte Garcia who does a great job of visualising the present and the past, with the latter presented in black-and-white.

Ending with a series of backups that will set up what Kelly will be doing during his run – most of which are drawn by John Romita Jr, who will be the main artist on numerous issues – this volume is a really good five-issue arc that can stand its own and makes me excited to see what the writer has in store with everyone’s favourite wall-crawler.

[Roman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Історія розпочинається з уже доволі заїждженого тропу з тим як Пітер намагається знайти собі роботи, але його нікуди не беруть. Однак на щастя для нього його друг дитинства, який вперше з'являється в цьому сюжеті, допомагає з цим, проте Пітера доводиться покинути співбесіду і йти зупиняти здичавілого Носорога, у якого під час битви з Павуком зупиняється серце і той ледь не гине. Це і стає відправною точкою в історії де Павук вирішує розібратися, що і до чого.

Сам сюжет загалом вийшов окейним, Павуча сторона попри сам кумедний концепт з тим, що компанія Гобгобліна продає отруєну колу, для того щоб пізніше втюхати людям антидот читався непогано. Сам Павук більшу частину історії сам проходив під отрутою під дію якої підв'язали місцеві флешбеки. Які показують як дружбу Пітера з місцевим новим персонажем, так і те, що наш гг не завжди був слухняним малим. До них теж не маю якихось нарікань. Також порадувало те, що автор не забув про доброго Нормана, він тут все ще є і допомагає Пітеру в скрутних моментах, плюс з ним тут я навіть невеликий замут на майбутнє оскільки по його душу посилають загадкового кіборга, який хоче помститися Гобліну за вбивство дружини.

Щодо мінусів то в деяких моментах автор намагається використовувати сучасний лексикон, ну бо треба ж щоб молодь читала Павука, але виходить крінж. Ну і просто коли деякі персонажі відкривають рот хочеш, щоб вони пошвидше його закрили. Особливо це проявляється в Ітсі Бітсі, персонажці, яку Келлі створив у своєму рані на "Людина Павук/Дедпул", яка має у собі ДНК обох персонажів, а тому є типу їхньою донькою. Ще одним таким собі елементом є особисте життя Пітера, але це вже стабільна проблема більшого масштабу.

Також дещо суперечливим для мене став малюнок Пепе Лараза, у якого вийшов досить пристойний екшен, але деякі персонажі виглядають, як би це сказати, ніби у них на шкірі жирний блиск? Ну і сам Паркер тут виглядає років на 20 десь, через що не зразу звикаєш до його вигляду.

Перша арка нового тому Павука загалом вийшла нормальною, вона не стане якимось одкровенням, але видно що Келлі старається (у всякому випадку це покращення у порівнянні з "8 смертями Павука) та має певні цікаві ідеї на майбутнє, сам том завершується тизером нового демонічного супротивника для Павука. Якщо хочете звідкись почати читати сучасного Павука, то це цілком непогане місце.

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed Spiderman when I first discovered the character due to the American Kids that lived in my Block because of their parents who worked for NATO. They brought all these new characters with them. While Batman was scary Spiderman was funny.
Here is a new tale of Amazing Spiderman where Peter Parker is unemployed getting a job from somebody he knew as a kid. However when Rhino shows up and fights Spiderman somehow the friendly neighbourhood hero gets drugged. This means we get a drugged experience in which Peter Parker has some serious flashbacks.

Not sure what to think of this New version of Spiderman who is no fun at all. The story is so-so and the art is quite good.

Another day another Spiderman version I must be getting too old for this shit.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4
Strong start to this run. It's good to actually like and care about Peter again, especially in context of tough competition (Ultimate Spider-Man), which has been doing it much much better.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great job from Kelly in rescuing this title which has been suffering for a number of years.
Larraz art is incredible throughout.

[Alex Sarll]

I only made it through one volume of the last big Spider-Man run, by Zeb Wells, even though I came into it loving his stuff, because the relentless self-sabotaging shitness of Peter Parker's life was too dispiriting. And when that was followed by 8 Deaths Of Spider-Man, which Joe Kelly co-piloted, that wasn't great either...but it was at least new? Plus, Kelly wrote Spider-Man/Deadpool, probably the last Spidey run I really enjoyed. A character from which returns here! But what was fun there feels lacking and denatured here, possibly because at some point Amazing Spider-Man as a title became terrified of fun, determined always to hammer the angst. So, OK, there are occasional chuckles, as when Aunt May says she's going to watch Real Househusbands Of Nova Scotia and it's left deliberately unclear whether that's a real in-world show, or Norman Osborn's exasperated, accurate "Your life sounds utterly idiotic when you describe it out loud." Hell, even Peter excusing his sudden absences with bowel trouble might be mildly amusing if I weren't already tired of that gag from Spy X Family. But what we mostly get is Peter drugged with huge doses of hallucinogens so he can have massive anxiety attacks, visions of all his old enemies and failures, flashbacks to a hitherto unseen phase of his childhood when he was trying to fit in with the bad kids and being a dick to May and Ben. Because, you know, if there's one character who isn't already loaded down with enough guilt to wallow in, it's Spider-Man, right? And even when a villain I normally quite like is revealed, the fucker's classic look has been replaced with a crappy angel vibe. As for the art...well, it is one guy for the whole story, which is a pleasant surprise these days, but doesn't make the alternation between weirdly neotenous civilian scenes and clunky wannabe epic superhero stuff any more palatable. I'm out after one volume, again.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Given the last few Joe Kelly Spider-Man stories I've read, I wasn't looking forward to him taking over as the full-time Spidey artist. Spider-Man/Deadpool was fine, his fill-ins during the Zeb Wells run were alright, and the less said about Non-Stop/Savage Spider-Man the better. I enjoyed 8 Deaths of Spider-Man, but he mostly just wrote the beginning and end of that, so that doesn't really count.

This, however? A very promising start.

The changes to Peter's life feel natural given the last run, and I like that Kelly's keeping some of the stuff that really worked well from the Wells run, like "good guy" Norman Osborn, and Tombstone lurking in the shadows. I was less than thrilled to see another returning villain, but she's handled well enough, so I can't complain too much.

And getting Pepe Larraz as one of the rotating artists? C'mon, man, that's just not fair. After his impressive X-Men appearances, Larraz is riding a high all the way onto Marvel's flagship title. Well done, and well deserved.

[Ángel Javier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bueno, pues aquí estamos de nuevo. Con nuestro amigo y vecino Spiderman, intentando disfrutar de historias decentes del mejor súper (después de Superman) de todos los tiempos.

Y... bueeeenoooo... está entretenido y buen dibujado. No es basura. Ya es algo, ¿no?

Pero la verdadera razón de perjurar de mi (muy serio) juramento de no seguir ninguna cole regular de Spiderman después del truño colosal que fue «One more day» es mi hija de 12 años, que es mega fan del arácnido. Y qué se le va a hacer, se ha leído ya todas las etapas clásicas, incluida Spectacular y hasta Web (que hay que reconocer que era más mala que el tarquín casi todo el rato) y pide más, y uno no tiene el corazón de piedra. Eso sí, cuando me pregunte por qué MJ tiene unos hijos postizos y un novio de chichinabo en lugar de estar casada con Peter, como dios manda, le va a responder su tía, que no se ha leído ni un cómic Marvel en su vida; que uno no puede recordar ciertas cosas sin tener un ataque de ansiedad.

Hasta ahí podíamos llegar.

[Ross · Rating 2 out of 5]

Everything about this feels old...
(except for all the characters. they're all drawn like they're still in their 20s)

Been there. Done that. Saw this all before.
I don't know why. I can't put my finger on it, but it's definitely hitting the same buttons they always use with the Parker/Spidey situation.

- Peter has the 'Parker luck'. Bad things happen
- He can't hold a job.
- Dating life is abysmal
- Aunt May worries

Crap. Do something new? Do a little of something old and THEN some new? Just don't give me the same crap on a new plate and tell me it's 'fancier now'

I'm sure there's a long term goal for the narrative, but right now it's like a really bad Sinister Six tryout.
----
Bonus: Itsy Bitsy is back? Oh, great. Another twisted spider themed character
Bonus x2: Norman is quitting, then not. No more Oscorp because he is still atoning

[Anthony Rizzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I started this with trepidation. I enjoyed Nick Spencer's run that started in 2018, and even Beyond was a fun Intermission story. But the Zeb Wells run was...yikes. I found myself not enjoying it much but reading it out of what felt like necessity, which is terribly hard to come to terms with given how big of a Spdey fan I am. I didn't finish the last few arcs (I will, but I needed some time off) and jumped right into the 8 Deaths of Spider-Man story. It was stupid but fun and entertaining, so no real complaints. This first arc felt, at first, very familiar (ASM 1 reads very similarly to ASM 546 that kicked off Brand New Day), but it was a solid arc involving the Hobgoblin, even if some characterization felt forced and a little off.

[Mr. Stick · Rating 3 out of 5]

"IT'S THE HAIR, ISN'T IT? NORMAN LOOKS LIKE A BRILLO PAD AND PEELED NAVAL ORANGE HAD A BABY... LIKE Q-BERT WALKED OUT OF A FOREST OF CURLING IRONS... LIKE EVERY REDHEAD WHO WENT TO BERMUDA ON SPRING BREAK WAS ROLLED THROUGH A BARREL OF DORITO DUST...."
- Spider-Man describing Norman Osborn.

Peter gets a tech job from an old middle school classmate, during his rebellious(?) phase (retcon bs). Let's be honest. A young Peter Parker as anything other than George McFly is inconceivable.
While this was my first satisfying taste of Pepe Larraz's art, the writing was somewhat less-than Joe Kelly's usual quality of spidey content. After subpar storytelling for the last eight years, I was hoping for something different. Like, maybe some good jokes.
Could've been SO much worse. Three stars.

[Matthew Murphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I might be an old head now. Right after college, I didn’t understand why older Spider-Man fans stopped reading ASM and now in my 30s, I get it. Joe Kelly is one of my favorite Spider-Man writers but the sliding time scale kept me from grounding myself in this story and enjoying myself. References to recent technology and wars, this isn’t the same Spider-Man I started collecting during the Brand New Day era. And that’s fine, not every comic is going to be for me. I just don’t have fun with reading Spider-Man anymore, there’s nothing relatable for me to this character. It’s disappointing but I’m okay if this is the last “new” run of Amazing I start.

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't think I can go higher than 3 stars on this (3 1/2, rounded down?), but it was a promising start to this new arc/new writer. It honestly took a couple of issues to really matter, but, ultimately, this was a pretty good first act. Itsy Bitsy has to be one of the grossest Spider-Man villains ever, and the fact that she seems to be in love with him? Eeeeeew.... This story really worked out pretty well, though I wasn't too keen on the fragmentary stuff that followed. The art is okay, though I'm not a huge fan of Pepe Larraz. A promising start.

[Joshua Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 star, fine story elevated to 4 stars because of Pepe Larraz's art. It's been said, Spider-Man will never be a great book again. At least the main run. Spider-Man makes too much money for Disney so there'll always be too many chiefs in the kitchen for it to be truly great. So while the story is fine, the art is truly Amazing. I'll read the trades as long as Larraz is on the book. Then, when he leaves, so will I.

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. I love the Hobgoblin's current look with the wings and no glider. Can we get away from the Parker luck stuff? It's so tedious and boring. Just let the guy work remotely so he can be Spider-Man. It's the 21st century. Every time they hit the Spider-Man tropes, the writing feels hackneyed. Come up with an actual story other than Pete's unreliable. Pepe Larraz's art is hit and miss for me. Sometimes it looks finished by the color artist.

[Kade Sorenson · Rating 4 out of 5]

- starts off fighting rhino
- Peter’s friend from middle school gets him a job
- Peter looking for jobs and also can’t hold one bc of Spider-Man duties
- Hobgoblin is distributing drugs that cause anxiety
- Peter thinks Norman is on his side and good, but he secretly isn’t
- Spider-Man hallucinations that cause flashbacks to childhood with May and Ben, but events aren’t reality
- Peter is somewhat dating Shay

[Norman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of whoullfffs. Entertaining. Decently written. Lots of real life references (Rhino’s apartment is Seinfeld apartment lol. Also yuck your yum...). This version of Peter Parker isn’t so bad. Hobgoblin, Itsy Bitsy, Rhino, Norman Osborn...

[Cris González · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me gustó que Peter por fin entendió que no tiene que alejar a las personas que ama 🩷

[Andres Pasten · Rating 2 out of 5]

Un arranque algo enrredado, pero da lugar a seguir intentando...

[Ryk Stanton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable enough.

[Juan Pablo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Que bonita es el arte de Pepe Larraz, ojalá la calidad de la historia estuviera a la altura