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The Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide
The Amazing Spider-Man: Amazing Grace
When a dead man walks in Harlem, Spider-Man must do something about it - but he'll have to venture far out of his comfort zone. And in seeking out the answers to this Lazarus story, Spidey bites off a little more than he can chew...when the trail leads straight to the Santerians! From television's Agent Carter writer Jose Molina and superstar artist Simone Bianchi, the team of heroes hidden since Daredevil: Father head back into the spotlight! The webslinger rediscovers why graveyards are so frightening as his investigation into these uncanny resurrections leads him into terrifying territory. The Santerians are his guide, but together they will journey far from Harlem before this mystery is solved! Peter Parker will be forced into questions of life, death and what lies beyond!
COLLECTING: Amazing Spider-Man (2015) 1.1-1.6
COLLECTING: Amazing Spider-Man (2015) 1.1-1.6
136 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2016
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July 13, 2020
There's a corpses walking around Harlem! In the search for answer, Spider-man finds a hidden team of heroes, the Santerians. A story with a paranormal feel sees Spider-Man, steered by the Senterians investigate the walking dead! 5 out of 12
April 30, 2018
Blech... Not a very good book at all. I didn't care for the art at all; very muddled and inconsistent. And it was definitely odd that certain sections were drawn by someone different.
The story and characters were also very bland and shallow. Most importantly though, none of the dialogue felt like it was something Pete would actually say.
Oh well, on to the next...
The story and characters were also very bland and shallow. Most importantly though, none of the dialogue felt like it was something Pete would actually say.
Oh well, on to the next...
October 11, 2016
What. In. The. World. Was. This? A disjointed storyline that was nearly impossible to follow, filled with hamfisted religion and overwhelmed with grammar and editing errors. Come on guys.
February 12, 2021
Spiderman + religion.... not a good mix.
July 20, 2017
A guy gets murdered and autopsied before coming back to life and starting to make "miracles".
For some reason Spidey investigates and gets involved with cuban santeria cult and a group of Harlem young supes-the Santerians, eh!- dealing with this kind of magic. Of course Spidey's beliefs will be shaken during this whole boring piece of nothing.
For starters these kind of voodoo/pseudo theological stories tend to bore the shit out of me and this one hit the spot right on.
It's badly plotted, full of lousy dialogues on faith, beliefs and such-I don't mind it as a matter of principle but I do when it's served to me as if I was in 6th grade!-with uninteresting characters. I already forgot everything about the Santerians because there was just nothing to remember!
There probably was a moral out there but I guess I slept through it.
Artwise Simone Bianchi is on the board most of the time, with whole pages drawn by somebody else for no apparent reason. These being way inferior to his, it kinda irritates me, all the more since the plot sucks.
No grace here, nothing amazing. Forget you've ever heard of this book and buy another one.
For some reason Spidey investigates and gets involved with cuban santeria cult and a group of Harlem young supes-the Santerians, eh!- dealing with this kind of magic. Of course Spidey's beliefs will be shaken during this whole boring piece of nothing.
For starters these kind of voodoo/pseudo theological stories tend to bore the shit out of me and this one hit the spot right on.
It's badly plotted, full of lousy dialogues on faith, beliefs and such-I don't mind it as a matter of principle but I do when it's served to me as if I was in 6th grade!-with uninteresting characters. I already forgot everything about the Santerians because there was just nothing to remember!
There probably was a moral out there but I guess I slept through it.
Artwise Simone Bianchi is on the board most of the time, with whole pages drawn by somebody else for no apparent reason. These being way inferior to his, it kinda irritates me, all the more since the plot sucks.
No grace here, nothing amazing. Forget you've ever heard of this book and buy another one.
April 23, 2024
Thank you Jade
March 27, 2021
Could be so much more, but the script is average, at best...
April 8, 2017
Every now and then we get a bonus Amazing Spider-Man story which is additional to the ongoing series. Here Agent Carter writer Jose Molina tells a story where Spider-Man investigates an apparently resurrected corpse and meets the Santerians.
I couldn't help feel that this is a confused story. Molina gives us a deep Spider-Man, which in itself is unusual. Peter Parker deals with death, religion and politics here which is somewhat outside the norm for the series. It wasn't what I was expecting but I quite liked it. The big problem for me is that the villain is a super-natural one and that fantasy stuff was a huge juxtaposition to the excellent real world stuff here.
There's always a debate to had about how much fantasy stuff superheroes comics can get away with. When the main character has super powers you can almost get away with anything, especially when you have an established universe which goes from Guardians of the Galaxy to Doctor Strange. Most individual books have a style though and the majority of the time Amazing Spider-Man doesn't delve into the supernatural. For me, it felt out of place here.
Despite being the main selling point of this series, the Santerians don't have much to do. The plot doesn't really need them and the book didn't particularly make me want to see more of them. I wasn't too keen on the way Molina dodged the current continuity (where Peter Parker runs a multinational company). This felt like a classic Spider-Man story in that it was largely New York based and the Parker Industries side of things was mostly ignored. It seems odd to place a story within current continuity only to ignore it.
I'm not a great fan of Simone Bianchi's artwork either. It works well for the fantasy stuff but overall I'd prefer a different Spider-Man artist.
An interesting and different take on Spider-Man and whist there are some successful elements it didn't entirely work. Perhaps Molina is better at writing for TV than comic books.
I couldn't help feel that this is a confused story. Molina gives us a deep Spider-Man, which in itself is unusual. Peter Parker deals with death, religion and politics here which is somewhat outside the norm for the series. It wasn't what I was expecting but I quite liked it. The big problem for me is that the villain is a super-natural one and that fantasy stuff was a huge juxtaposition to the excellent real world stuff here.
There's always a debate to had about how much fantasy stuff superheroes comics can get away with. When the main character has super powers you can almost get away with anything, especially when you have an established universe which goes from Guardians of the Galaxy to Doctor Strange. Most individual books have a style though and the majority of the time Amazing Spider-Man doesn't delve into the supernatural. For me, it felt out of place here.
Despite being the main selling point of this series, the Santerians don't have much to do. The plot doesn't really need them and the book didn't particularly make me want to see more of them. I wasn't too keen on the way Molina dodged the current continuity (where Peter Parker runs a multinational company). This felt like a classic Spider-Man story in that it was largely New York based and the Parker Industries side of things was mostly ignored. It seems odd to place a story within current continuity only to ignore it.
I'm not a great fan of Simone Bianchi's artwork either. It works well for the fantasy stuff but overall I'd prefer a different Spider-Man artist.
An interesting and different take on Spider-Man and whist there are some successful elements it didn't entirely work. Perhaps Molina is better at writing for TV than comic books.
March 21, 2017
Have you ever wanted to teach someone something through a story, but suddenly realized that you had no story? You try to fix it by adding recognizable characters, but it's clear that you don't know how to portray the characters? It's bad fan fiction that tries to have a moral message, but fails because it's so very boring.
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June 8, 2019This was extremely not for me. Christmas, religion, and Spidey don't mix well. The art is a mess. The first 3 chapters are at least consistent, even if it isn't the best. The last 3 have clearly rotating artists, varying from page to page. The only bright spot was Ryan Ottley's variant cover in the back gallery.
May 7, 2017
I understand what the writer was trying to do, but I can't sit here, as a Christian, and pretend like I wasn't offended by how one of my favorite superheroes of all time mocked my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Or God, in general. This kind of bitterness came out of nowhere, and I think it was an unwarranted kind of set of comments from one of the Earth's most well-known heroes ever. It'd be one thing if Marvel had Thor or someone saying this type of crap, but still.
July 20, 2021
I haven't heard of the Santerians before. This failed to sell me on them.
A rando guy dies and then comes back from the dead. For some reason Spider-Man decides to get involved.
Spider-Man and the Santerians try to investigate what happened without actually bothering the guy, cuz he's just going back to his life, not making any trouble. But, apparently, he is actually evil.
The art by Simone Bianchi is, as always, impenetrable, and completely fails to tell the story.
A rando guy dies and then comes back from the dead. For some reason Spider-Man decides to get involved.
Spider-Man and the Santerians try to investigate what happened without actually bothering the guy, cuz he's just going back to his life, not making any trouble. But, apparently, he is actually evil.
The art by Simone Bianchi is, as always, impenetrable, and completely fails to tell the story.
January 26, 2024
Man, Slott-era Peter has terrible dialogue, and he's not even being written by Slott here! The story itself is fine enough, but very messy. The parts discussing religion seemed to be the most thought out, but the overall direction of the plot is jumbled. Someone, let say an editor, probably should've guided the writer in making it more coherent. Who was the editor in this again?
>Nick Lowe
Oh. Nevermind then.
>Nick Lowe
Oh. Nevermind then.
May 24, 2019
When there are so many hallucinations/so much magic, it can be hard to anchor the story. Spider-Man almost does. The Santerians are so numerous and so poorly established, it's hard to really care about them.
Ultimately, I remember being confused about what actually happened other than that the guy who is evil is evil.
Ultimately, I remember being confused about what actually happened other than that the guy who is evil is evil.
November 2, 2022
DNF! So, this was super terrible. Let's start with some pretty terrible art from Bianchi. He has done decent stuff before but this is rushed and inked poorly. Many times you characters couldn't be distinguished. The story is a '80s team-up for Spidey with characters that won't be seen again for a reason. Just abysmal.
April 23, 2019
I think the whole point of this story was to say, "people in Cuba have a hard life". There was absolutely nothing else about this story that was interesting or compelling or necessary.
The art was decent.
The art was decent.
March 9, 2024
I don't remember disliking a comic so much as this one. The art is bad, panels are messy and hard to follow. Some dialogue makes no sense and it's so out of place. No wonder why this isn't collected in the HCs.
January 22, 2020
This was awful. The writing was heavy-handed, Peter was way out-of-character, the Santerians are terrible characters, and Bianchi’s art was muddled and difficult to follow. Just all-around terrible.
March 1, 2020
Really, really terrible. Boring. Didn't seem like a Spider-Man story. Just bad.
March 15, 2020
Spider-man gets involved with a group called the Santerians and their rescurrected friend
August 18, 2020
Explicit religiosity in comics is good. It's better than vagueness or ignoring it completely. I like this author's style much better than Dan Slott. Art is ok, similar to Ramos but more restrained.
September 25, 2022
Que merda de história
March 25, 2024
Story pretty much complicated and uninteresting. Art of inside was uncommon. It was mentioned thelogical subject intensively. I feel that this plot didn’t suit to Spidey’s comics.
October 3, 2025
Kind if the annoying side story to an awesome series.
September 21, 2023
Devia ser enterrada de tão má que é.
Péssima arte, extremamente inconsistente, difícil de distinguir personagens e uma história que não tem ponta por onde se pegue 😬
Péssima arte, extremamente inconsistente, difícil de distinguir personagens e uma história que não tem ponta por onde se pegue 😬
March 17, 2017
A book that explores faith in a unique and fascinating way.
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November 21, 2017
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Entre a ciência e o misticismo, este volume centra-se num homem que regressou à vida na noite em que foi enterrado. Afastando-se qualquer hipótese de ter sido enterrado vivo (tinha sido autopsiado) o homem-aranha investiga o caso.
Ainda mais estranho do que ter regressado à vida é o facto deste homem efectuar alguns milagres por onde passa e o de não agir como anteriormente. Algo mais parece estar por detrás do regresso do seu corpo à vida e o Homem-aranha segue as pistas até à cidade de Remédios em Cuba.
Entre lutas com os Santeiros e outros elementos sobrenaturais pouco corpóreos, o Homem-Aranha é obrigado a enfrentar os seus próprios fantasmas, mais propriamente o fantasma do seu tio que o guia por esta aventura com uma série de frases obscuras e misteriosas.
Apesar de cruzar elementos religiosos de outras culturas, retirando-lhe um pouco da aura negativa de superstição e engodo, este volume de Homem-Aranha é engraçado mas prefiro as restantes aventuras apresentadas até aqui. Os Santeiros são um grupo complexo, de opinião mutável que justificam algumas cenas de batalha pouco objectiva.
Mas se em termos de história não fiquei tão bem impressionada, já do ponto de vista visual este número possui páginas espectaculares, em que a densidade da coloração consegue ser balanceada por uma disposição mais cuidada sem sobrecarregar a vista do leitor.
Entre a ciência e o misticismo, este volume centra-se num homem que regressou à vida na noite em que foi enterrado. Afastando-se qualquer hipótese de ter sido enterrado vivo (tinha sido autopsiado) o homem-aranha investiga o caso.
Ainda mais estranho do que ter regressado à vida é o facto deste homem efectuar alguns milagres por onde passa e o de não agir como anteriormente. Algo mais parece estar por detrás do regresso do seu corpo à vida e o Homem-aranha segue as pistas até à cidade de Remédios em Cuba.
Entre lutas com os Santeiros e outros elementos sobrenaturais pouco corpóreos, o Homem-Aranha é obrigado a enfrentar os seus próprios fantasmas, mais propriamente o fantasma do seu tio que o guia por esta aventura com uma série de frases obscuras e misteriosas.
Apesar de cruzar elementos religiosos de outras culturas, retirando-lhe um pouco da aura negativa de superstição e engodo, este volume de Homem-Aranha é engraçado mas prefiro as restantes aventuras apresentadas até aqui. Os Santeiros são um grupo complexo, de opinião mutável que justificam algumas cenas de batalha pouco objectiva.
Mas se em termos de história não fiquei tão bem impressionada, já do ponto de vista visual este número possui páginas espectaculares, em que a densidade da coloração consegue ser balanceada por uma disposição mais cuidada sem sobrecarregar a vista do leitor.
March 4, 2017
This may be the worst Spider-Man story I've ever read and I read the complete Clone Saga.
November 26, 2017
an uninspiring story featuring a dozen new characters with zero personalities and a plot which decides to discuss and test the philosophy's and reasoning's peter has to his lack of religious beliefs even though the events of the story don't warrant him questioning himself at all.
To make matters worse the art is horrendous, with an overly dark colour palette, ugly as sin faces and a noticeable lack of dynamic movement from characters, particularly when moving form one location to another (which when drawing Spider-Man, possibly the most dynamic and flexible character in comic books, is a big issue).
A massive step down from the current main run of Spider-Man comics, not worth your time or mine.
To make matters worse the art is horrendous, with an overly dark colour palette, ugly as sin faces and a noticeable lack of dynamic movement from characters, particularly when moving form one location to another (which when drawing Spider-Man, possibly the most dynamic and flexible character in comic books, is a big issue).
A massive step down from the current main run of Spider-Man comics, not worth your time or mine.
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