Ummm...can this get to the point soon?We get it. MJ and Peter are still dealing with the ups and downs of super hero dating. We've seen it before. It's the ONE thing they didn't reboot. Wait...what? He has a sister and she's a super spy? Of course she is. Way to just casually throw that in. WTF? This also takes place during the Absolute Carnage Super crossover, so we get a quick Carnage cameo. You'd think they'd do more, but maybe they wanted to keep Nick Spencer's slow ass run away from the Car...

Norman Osborne has started to run the way of the Joker where he is nearly omniscient and a baddie on a level just super unbelievable. Norman has not gone as far as the Joker but this book really turned me off. Not super excited to continue this series but I probably will

I loved Spider-Man comics growing up. I still do, but I'm not quite devoted enough to keep up with the comics on a regular basis. Hence, I love the opportunity to check in on my favorite superhero when my library gets the latest collect editions of The Amazing Spider-Man.Recently, I picked up three new collections featuring Nick Spencer as the head Spidey writer and featuring cover blurbs about how great his work was on Marvel's flagship title. And after reading "Hunted," I could see what the po...

It can be difficult to keep up on comics these days. If you miss a lot of backstory, don’t read the blogs, stay out of the chatrooms, don’t have informative nerdy friends and don’t blow your cash on every single comic book that comes out, an occasional dip into the story pool leaves you frustrated and baffled.That’s how it was for me upon reading this. There are a lot of old characters in these stories but I don’t always get the dynamics between them. When did Gwen Stacey become friends with Fla...

I’ve really been enjoying Spencer’s run on this title, but this volume felt… really pointless and messy, yet another awkward “event” tie-in. If you’re reading your way through Spencer’s Spider-Man, this one is entirely skippable.

Oof, those Absolute Carnage issues were rough. They make little sense unless you've read the actual crossover and even then it's just two issues of Spencer spinning his wheels in place. I think the Red Goblin: Red Death one-shot was thrown in just to fill this out. It's some little filler stories from the end of Dan Slott's run on Spidey. The only issue worth reading in this collection is issue #29 where Pete invariably gets tied up helping people instead of seeing MJ off. The end of that kind o...

Another pretty pointless Absolute Carnage tie-in volume, although at least Spencer ties it all in to he ongoing Kindred plot, which makes it that more interesting. There's also a collection of Red Goblin stories that are all kinds of meh. Meh! 5 out of 12.

This is what it's like to be a comics fan:You're reading a series like Amazing Spider-man (AMS), you've just read Volume 5 and you pick up Volume 6. Then you find out that two of the issues in Volume 6 take place as part of the Absolute Carnage event, which is a 5-issue mini-series. So, you think: I'll just quickly zip over to the Marvel App, read Absolute Carnage, then zip back and read those 2 issues of AMS Volume 6. Easy, right?But then you try and read the first issue of Absolute Carnage, an...

This volume actually collects issues #29-31, and the Red Goblin: Red Death one-shot, rather than #29-34 as the solicits said since that'd make zero sense.Issue 29 is a bit of a coda to recent events, as Peter tries to meet Mary Jane at the airport and fails miserably because Spider-Man. This is probably a quintessential Spider-Man story, since he has the best of intentions and then they lead him astray. The ending is a little bit of a shock given the way the Spidey office has been over the last

So I believe this is a a 2-part supplemental tie-in story for the Venom comic "Absolute Carnage" sandwiched between an unrelated Peter & MJ story and a confounding, also unrelated story from the Red Goblin story-arc in 2018. (I'm not a comic book historian, I'm sure something in there was wrong.) Spliced in here are some also-unrelated flashbacks about a young Harry Osborn, to accent the entire thing being bafflingly framed by the yet unconfronted villain Kindred talking to Norman Osborn about S...

Not a whole lot here, but what is isn't so terrible. The Absolute Carnage tie-in issues are about as good as they can be for event tie-in issues. Plus there's a good look at Peter and MJ's relationship and how Spider-Man will always come first (unfortunately). Not sure why the Red Goblin issue is included here, though I guess they had to have something to fill out the page count. The artwork throughout is all right. I wish Ryan Ottley could work a bit faster, though, so they wouldn't have to res...

This collection starts with a truly excellent done-in-one Spidey story that I absolutely loved. A shame, then, that it then proceeds with two issues that are part of the Absolute Carnage crossover event and pretty inessential chapters at that. Absolute Carnage is Eddie Brock’s story, really, with Spidey as a supporting character. I think it would have been better to keep the crossover out of the core Spider-Man book.Then there’s a Red Goblin one-shot that doesn’t even feature Spidey tacked on th...

This was good there just wasn’t a whole lot in here, I really liked the first issue it really delves into who Peter is as a character. He always chooses to do the right thing even at the cost of his own personal happiness. The absolute carnage stuff was decent, I liked the flashbacks where we get to see Pater, Gwen, and MJ back together again.

Yet *another* Marvel comic ruined by crossovers.The opening issue (#29) focusing on MJ and Peter's relationship is great.But then we get a two-issue Absolute Carnage crossover that turns into a semi-comprehensible montage as Spencer fights to make sure nothing happens, and then we get a one-issue special on the Red Goblin, which is a boring and semi-comprehensible murderfest.Bleh. What a waste. You could skip it if not for #29.

Boring as hell when is frozen by the most boring frozen beer.

We're six volumes in, and I'm still enjoying Nick Spencer's run, but I can't help it's missing SOMETHING big.So this is mostly going to revolve around Absoulte Carnage event. And in doing so we have 3 issues that cater to it. Peter's fight against Norman as a Carnage version of Green Goblin. You got glimpses of it in the event but here you get a far more detailed fight. On top of that you get a Goblin Red Nation issue which I guess sets up Norman's future. Last but not least is the very first is...

Half tying into the Absolute Carnage event, half setting up 2099(?) event. So it came as a bit of surprise to me that this was a pretty good volume. Helped a lot by the introduction of Patrick Gleason to Marvel and Spider-man!

Reading the previous volume feels more like a placeholder as it does tie up loose ends from the first year of Nick Spencer's Amazing Spider-Man run, whilst setting up new stories, such as Mary Jane departing for Los Angeles after being cast in a lead role for a movie. The first issue of this volume showcases Peter's preparation for his girlfriend's departure, but before the two say their farewells to each other, Peter has one last errand, which is to help his beloved aunt.Following a great seque...

Not bad but not spectacular. It looks like the Nick Spencer run on spider-man has lost a bit of its steam since the stellarAmazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer, Vol. 4: Hunted. This a okay Spiderman volume with okay art. This volume is not hurt as much by the Absolute Carnage crossover but if you are a completest you may want to read the mention Spider-man event before jumping into this book. I think Ryan Ottley's art was ok but I just did not the colors in this book. Spencer does a good job with