Reviews

Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide, Vol. 1 by Paco Díaz, Cory Smith, Dan Slott, Javier Garrón, Greg Smallwood, Simone Bianchi, Christos Gage, Stuart Immonen, Jason Aaron, Alex Ross, Anthony Holden, Jeph Loeb, Pier Ronchetti, Mary Wilshire, Marte Gracia, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith, Todd Nauck, David Hein, Mike Hawthorne, Jordie Bellaire, Louise Simonson, Jose Molina, Matteo Buffagni

hilaritas's review

2.0

Not great, although there are cool elements. It's sort of fun watching Peter win for once, as he enjoys the fruits of heading a multi-national company with more toys than Batman. But that's part of the problem: this book basically turns Spidey into a quippier Iron Man or Batman. It loses a lot of the flavor of Spider-Man and his everyman, can't-catch-a-break street-level antics. Sure, there are some nods to that, but they don't make up for the overall sense that this is not a very interesting direction to take the character. Furthering that point is the fact that the chief antagonist, Zodiac, is not very compelling and appears to be headed towards a very cliched trope which I won't spoil. The best part of this is Alex Ross's covers. This wasn't the worst thing I've ever read, but I won't be continuing with the book.

audz100's review

2.0

i’ll always love a good spider-man story but making peter parker the ceo of a giant multinational company sort of blows up his character’s premise and not really in a way i can get on board with

[edit 7/27/19: initially i gave this 3 stars because I generally like spider-man and the art was fairly good, but due to the number of times in the past year that I’ve brought up in casual conversation how much i viscerally hate the premise of the Worldwide series, I feel the need to bring my rating down]