Amazing Spider-Man #20

Terry Dodson's art is spectacular. The visual style and look of the characters is brilliant and visually engaging throughout the issue. Read Full Review

It's another classically styled issue of Amazing Spider-Man that manages to bring readers something fresh but recognizable. Read Full Review

I had a ton of fun with this issue, and it feels like the creative team did too. If Marvel is going to keep Peter and Mary Jane apart, it'll be easier to accept if a lot of stories have this much freedom and flirty banter. Read Full Review

A side quest that doesn't feel all that urgent, or connected to the main plot. Read Full Review

The second-half of a two-part story by Joe Kelly and Terry Dodson doesn't make a lick of sense, but it does offer some fun moments between Black Cat and Spidey beating the wannabes. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #20 will get folks talking. It's not the most effective action comic while also only doing a so-so job relaying relationship chatter that doesn't quite say much. That said, Spider-Man confirms he and MJ are over, and it's a new era of love for Black Cat. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #20 is shockingly bad. From terrible, Whedon-style, snarky dialog to repetitive pee jokes to surprisingly terrible art. Save your money. Read Full Review

Hex

Oct 09, 2023

Everyone complaining about the, "but she's more like a sister--" are either genuinely illiterate, completely attention deficit and can't read three more word bubbles or are simply idiots operating because some ASM Redditor/Twitter incel told you it was bad. Peter is clearly not over MJ and clearly doesn't see her as a sister. Felicia knows that and IMMEDIATELY called him out for it. But he's realized he's changing. Love changes and that line about love with a capital L changing to a lower case one hit a lot harder for me than I thought. This issue has flaws, mostly in the art department. In the last issue there was enough good to overlook the bad but most of this was bad. Not sure what happened. A lot of the dialogue involving anyone but Pe ter, Felicia and Kareem was pretty mediocre. You could tell they didn't really care and White Rabbit is always obnoxious so I won't say she was written poorly, that's just how she's written. I still liked it despite those faults. Y'all are just dumb or something getting mad over one line that was cut off, addressed immediately and explained. I'm glad Peter is moving away from that but I will always be a Black Cat/Spider-Man guy over Peter and MJ. One of those two relationships is way more toxic and its not the one with the sometimes criminal. more

Psycamorean

Feb 26, 2023

I don't care about the scene where Peter tries to convince Black Cat (and himself) that he no longer has the same feelings for MJ. Anyone who's reading this comic should realize that nothing about how Peter is acting in that scene cements anything that he is saying as his genuine feelings towards MJ. He's obviously trying to say what he thinks Black Cat wants to hear, which is why he stumbles with the whole "she's like a sister" thing. The last time MJ was the direct focus of this comic, he was fighting Wolverine and screaming about how he loves her. We're about to get a several issue long arc about how Peter supposedly does something really bad in an effort to save MJ... This isn't the end all, be all of their relationship. Don't be the cl owns on social media slitting their wrists over this. Calm down. It'll be okay. It would be okay even if the scene was entirely sincere. I promise. With that out of the way, I have to say that this is a substantial downgrade from the last issue. It seems like the story got a bit too hectic for Kelly to reasonably tie it all together without cutting some corners. The Dodson art is a bit messy as well. I do think most of the banter is good, and I had fun reading it, but it fails to deliver like the previous issue did. more

+ Like • Comments (2)

• Likes (3)

• Screaming Enigma
• Toonstrack
• Hex

BirdmanG07 - Jun 21, 2023

I wish this ended up being true.

Psycamorean - Jun 21, 2023

I don't think it's false. Maybe you don't consider what Peter did to be all that bad, but the spirit of what I was saying was true, that we got a long arc all about how much Peter will do for his love of MJ

CrazyforRAMU

Apr 20, 2024

Slapping in a slightly-significant Relationship Momentâ„¢ for Pete and Felicia gives this issue some sorely-needed weight. The script is focused on funny banter and the art is devoted to sexy splashes. What's missing from both sides of the storytelling is any sense of world-building, character development, or scene-setting that would make this conflict memorable. It's still a decent comic and a fun read, because the creators are very good at those things they're focusing on. But without that deeper work, this can't be more than an amusing diversion.

KittyNone

Feb 22, 2023

Lots of the usual fun ideas and banter from Kelly, but the Dodsons turn in messy rush job art that makes the comic borderline unreadable. Such is the way of fill-ins, I suppose.

+ Like • Comments (1)

• Likes (4)

• Hex
• Kreniigh
• jbong
• Kalaoui

Hex - Feb 22, 2023 (edited)

I've honestly never thought the Dodson's did well on interiors. It's almost always a huge step down from their covers. I'd rather have them doing covers over JRJR and Gleason or someone who has shown a significant talent for drawing Spidey that has been underrepresented.

Screaming Enigma

Feb 27, 2023

While I did, personally, enjoy this a bit more than the first part, it still was kinda average. One thing I wasn't a huge fan of was the dialogue during the fights. Maybe it's just an issue I, alone, experienced, but I felt as though it was a bit difficult to figure out what was going on during the action sequences, while also reading what was being said. As I stated in my review of the previous issue (#19/#914), this is issue also very much filler, which was to be expected with the guest creative team. On the other hand, this issue did get me more excited for one thing in particular. That being the relationship between Peter and Felicia. I've always preferred the two of them together as opposed to MJ or Gwen. I'm hoping that it's something that goes much farther than these two issues. However, I also wouldn't be surprised if it ends so they can go back to Peter & Mary Jane. Fingers crossed Peter and Felecia are long-term! more

DDJamesB

Feb 22, 2023

It was once again another pointless issue. I know it was a fill in story, but give me a break. This was only slightly ok due to the art and the nice interaction with Felicia at the end.

Kalaoui

Feb 24, 2023

What a waste. There is no end to this cycle rinse and repeat. Dodsons were poor on art and gave a very rushed job. What a waste of time and money.

jbong

Mar 02, 2023

This issue was really phoned in, both writing and art.

Mout

Mar 19, 2023

Two issues for for a time out of the big stuff, and instead of nice character moments and dialogue, we got a meaningless fight that lasted way more than it should´ve

Afre

Feb 22, 2023

Before I give my thoughts about this issue, I wanna talk about this series overall. It's currently heavily disliked by the vocal part of the ASM fanbase, and especially this issue's leaked panels just added fuel to the fire. Wells' style is very BND-esque. And tbh, his stories would fit more with BND that happened ~15 years ago than now. Especially since we don't know what caused this "Wells' BND", 10 months later. So, overall, I don't like the premise. But Wells' run hasn't had the time to shine either. 20 issues in and only abouty half of them are actually part of Wells' own run. Only half of them are not tie-in, anniversary issue, part of an event or written by a guest. So it's still too early for me to say this is the worst run e ver, we haven't really seen what the run could be. Since I feel like it never had the opportunity to even shine from the start. Like only 10 issues of this run have actually been Wells moving forward his own storyline. And that is not a lot. I say all this, to give an idea that I do not dislike this run. It has ideas I disagree with, some I dislike heavily, but most of them work because Wells writes them pretty okay. I dislike feeling that they come from BND -era, but I still enjoy issues that actually go somewhere. This issue itself just didn't work for me. Dodson's art was very messy and most of this issue was just action. That had bad art. Kelly's dialogue was mostly okay, but the second part made this whole two-parter feel rushed and forgettable. And the final pages? I thought with added context they would flow better, make more sense, but... nope. It feels very out-of-place, maybe because guest writer wrote it, but... I don't get it. And Felicia dating Peter is not something I hate, but for now it hasn't shown to be worth it, especially since Jed did wonders with Felicia's character. The pairing is cute and if MJ isn't the focus, why not have Peter date Felicia. I just hope it goes somewhere and isn't forgotten in the following three months. Felicia deserves better. So this issue was a mess. Just... not good, even if I enjoyed the first part. And Peter and MJ are not happening. I really hate the idea, but let's pretend I accept it. The next arc will focus on what Peter did 6 months ago (because of MJ) which feels... odd? To first say Peter doesn't love MJ that way anymore to immediately jump to a storyline where them caring for each other is the main focus (so much so that Peter fights FF and works with Norman). And that just feels odd? Like what is this run trying to do. I started this by explaining my thoughts on Wells' run. Why? Because I wanted to say that even if I didn't like this issue that much, disliked Dark Web heavily and this run's plan is very perplexing, that doesn't mean Wells' run is "the worst ever". Because it really isn't. The first arc is really good. And this run has had so much potential. But I just wish this was an actually 20th issue of Wells' run and not the 10th "placeholder-issue". But because this is just a placeholder and Wells' run hasn't gone anywhere still like only 10 issues (1-5, 7-8 and 11-13) have actually been his own thing. Yeah, mostly rambling. So TLDR: 4,5/10, mostly bad because the art, "MJ is like a sister to me" didn't help. more

samizrozami

Feb 23, 2023

The story is nothing but i do like the peter x felicia ship

Federico Liguori

Feb 25, 2023

I swear, I understood absolutely nothing. It's like watching indefinite colored spots do random things. What kind of useless trash has this series become? And people were complaining about Nick Spencer! The final dialogue is the equivalent of a kick in the balls for a Spidey fan.

wakizashireviews

Feb 27, 2023

It's rare that I give such a low rating but this was a poor issue of ASM. The "humor" and story by Joe Kelly was all over the place. A lot of action scenes in which nothing really happened. The "Silicon Six" characters that have zero impact on the story or the reader. Bizarre "pee pee" jokes, again. That "love her like a sister" line at the end was just wrong on so many levels. And I hate to say it but the Dodson's art looked very rushed and sketchy at times. NOT a recommendation.

Tiki

Apr 22, 2023

Worst f—king issue

Toonstrack

Mar 08, 2023

Anyone saying that Peter said "MJ is like a sister" without qualifying that statement by adding that Peter was very clearly lying to himself and Felicia and trying to rationalize his feelings and that Felicia points this out explicitly, is arguing in bad faith.