Warning: I thought the new 'Spider-Man' writer was gonna ruin the book

When they announced the new creative team for Amazing Spider-Man, I was ready to drop it. The last writer's run was a mess, and I figured this was just more of the same. But after reading the first three issues, I gotta admit, the character voices are spot on and the art is killer. They actually made me care about Peter's daily grind again, which I haven't felt in like 5 years. What finally sold me was issue #2, where he has that quiet talk with MJ on the fire escape. Anyone else get totally blindsided by a comic they were sure they'd hate?

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nina_campbell1d agoTop Commenter

Thought it would be awful but that fire escape scene got me good.

logan_ellis1d ago

Was that the one with the rusty ladder and the cat? I had a similar thing happen on an old apartment balcony, minus the dramatic music. That feeling of expecting a disaster and then getting a quiet, weirdly sweet moment instead just hits different. Makes you forgive a lot of the clunky stuff that came before it.

jamie77023h ago

Been there. I almost dropped Daredevil after the Shadowland event. The next run started slow, but the art on the rain scenes in issue five was so good I stuck around. Sometimes a single quiet panel or a great action sequence can save a whole book for me. You just have to give it a few issues to find its feet.