Amazing Spider-Man #15
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| Writer | Zeb Wells |
| Artist | Ed McGuinness |
| Cover Price | $3.99 |
SPIDER-MAN VS. VENOM! 'NUFF SAID?
What is Chasm's plan, and why is Venom helping him?
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8.6
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
Dec 14, 2022McGuiness is a master of visual storytelling and every page and panel is filled with energy and excitement. I love the visual style a lot and was impressed with the action. Read Full Review
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8.5
AIPT - David Brooke
Dec 14, 2022Dark Web has two great tie-in issues out today, and Amazing Spider-Man #15 is one of them. Come for the zany demons and Venom, but stay for the incredible art and solid comedy. Read Full Review
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8.0
Comic Watch - Dustin Gebel
Dec 14, 2022McGuinness and Rathburns art brings a bombastic energy to the issue that delivers on the fight between Spider-Man and Venom and the promise of weird demons attacking New York, but takes some missteps in character anatomy and physical details. The coloring from Menyz and lettering from Carmagna are the MVPs of the issue, working in new styles and techniques that level up the usual work seen on the title, matching the high energy of the story and art. Read Full Review
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8.0
ComicBook.com - Chase Magnett
Dec 14, 2022The action possesses abundant energy as it pulls readers eyes across the page, and Venom is particularly fun to witness as the character thrills back to its mindless early days. The Amazing Spider-Man #15 promises a lot of fun ahead in the series' tie-ins and "Dark Web" as a complete event. Read Full Review
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7.0
COMICON - Tony Thornley
Dec 21, 2022Spidey and Venom cross paths in a silly fun new issue. It looks great, and it's fairly basic in its storytelling. Definitely worth checking out! Read Full Review
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5.5
Weird Science Marvel Comics - mrgabehernandez
Dec 16, 2022Amazing Spider-Man #15 is an odd tie-in to the Dark Web event with a showdown between Spidey and a regressed Venom. The action scenes are great, but the jokey tone of the book weakens any dramatic impact, and the plot doesn't make a lick of sense. Read Full Review
USER REVIEWS Back to Top
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8.5
This was a pretty fun first issue for the Dark Web crossover, which I was not expecting. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting this to be bad, but I was expecting this to be a more serious storyline. The tone set in the previous issue made it seem that way, in my opinion, but this was still very entertaining.
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8.0
An interesting book, very cartoony though. The plot is a little bit juvenile, but its still interesting.
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8.0
Big fight go boom.
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7.5
Does Dark Web make any sense? Nope. But this issue was fun and I love Ed McGuinness. I suppose we have to take this as it is: a cartoony mess crossover. Ok.
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7.5
Stupid, but very fun, also McGuinness is great
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7.0
Yeah Dumb Venom is back and so are the 90s. Like we didn't have the Lethal Protector mini this year. Anyway... This event is going to be dumb fun might as well just enjoy it. Although I wish McGuinness was drawing the main run, his art fits this more light-hearted ongoing better than JRJR's.
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7.0
It's plain dumb humor in a story that doesn't require your thinking cap. If you ask questions it all falls apart. I'm just enjoying the amazing Ed McGuiness art that has been inked flawlessly by Rathburn and colored exquisitely by Menyz and even Caramangna lettering was spot on for the tone of this dumb story. I had high hopes for Zeb Wells on ASM but I guess I keep lowering the bar of what's acceptable.
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7.0
I just don't really care for the story that's happening here. It's fine but I don't think that an event was needed just for this and reading it after it has come out and seeing all of the tie-ins, there is no way the amount of story that it would take to wrap this all up justifies it's length. McGuinness' art is pretty good but not his best. He's got this weird thing going on making all of the characters have really thick, short necks. I never noticed it before because I mostly saw his work on the Hulk and Superman/Batman and it wasn't nearly as distracting there. There were some bright spots in here tough. I thought the humor was great and Wells really does seem to understand the character's voices but not necessarily the story he is telli more
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7.0
The bad guys push their various agendas forward and Spidey, as is too often the case these days, is stuck in passive/reactive mode. Both the writing and the art are solid but emphatically not spectacular. This is a relatively small bite of plot development and the creators expend more effort than they need to chewing it up. I remain underwhelmed/disappointed with the way this title uses Kamala Khan.
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6.5
Some of the parts were just stupid. The art was the real star. The issue was passable. Just didn't feel exciting.
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6.5
Hm, not quite what I'd hoped for. The dark humor of Inferno would seem like something that Wells would be right at home with, but we don't get a ton of it because we're too busy with a subpar fight between Spider-Man and a stupid Venom (apparently we'll get some explanation for this later, but "Venom is like his old bad guy self but dumb" is hardly a compelling lead-in). Ben and Peter meeting for the first time since Beyond! only drives home how undermotivated Ben's villain turn seems. And Ed McGuinness's art is fine (this isn't his best work, but second-rate McGuinness is still damn good) but his bright, cartoony style is the exact opposite of what this crossover calls for.
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6.5
This is just silly. Screaming Christmas trees. I'm only reading ASM so the story feels disjointed.
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6.0
It's... passable. It's not the worse comic I've read, but after a solid opening, this felt much more cartoonish and not as good. The opening gave me a sense that this would be more of a horror event, this part feels more from Scooby-Doo. Maybe it's because the art change, but the writing too feels much more childish. I still dislike what they did with Ben. And this even still doesn't feel like a Spider-Man event. It's just... not what Spider-Man run currently needs. But it is entertaining. Venom being straight from the 90s is an odd move, but I'll read the tie-ins before I judge that move more.
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6.0
I don't understand why any of the villains in this are acting the way they are.
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3.5
FCBD issues have more plot than this
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3.0
Wow, this was bad. I was very optimistic for Zeb Wells' run but this issue makes me very nervous. Inferno was great for being a serious story with goofy elements but this shows Dark Web is trying to capture that but is failing by going so cheesy goofy even in the villains portrayals that there's no story to be invested in.
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2.0
Gotta love when decades of character development for Eddie Brock gets thrown away because plot!
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