Amazing Spider-Man #57

Kingpin makes a play for his daughter. Heroes and villains wield the American justice system in their best interests. And Digger has a spectacularly uplifting experience in Amazing Spider-Man #57. Read Full Review

THIS IS A GREAT ISSUE. Read Full Review

Romia Jr. continues to create some great art throughout the issue. The visuals are wonderfully detailed and perfectly capture the mood and tone of the story. Read Full Review

While The Amazing Spider-Man #57 has some awkward moments in story and art, there are far more where they work together to push the story forward. Read Full Review

If you like crime family drama, Amazing Spider-Man #57 will satisfy you. Tombstone has to rush to prevent himself from going to jail for a long time, but can he kill his own daughter? I guess we'll find out by the end of the story arc! Read Full Review

Zeb throws some major curveballs at readers here and the writer's strengths, for me, normally revolve around Peter's "lower stakes" adventures. Read Full Review

Amazing Spider-Man #57 ratchets up the stakes, action, and tension when Tombstone makes bail and takes steps to make sure he stays out of jail. Unfortunately, the goodwill created by building momentum is spoiled by a bizarre trap that's too dumb to believe. Couple a bad creative choice with bizarrely inconsistent art, and you get a wildly uneven issue. Read Full Review

Un Cómic Más / Dave DSG

Sep 11, 2024

Plot Spider-man, She-Hulk and Mayor Luke Cage take Tombstone to jail, however, Michele his lawyer manages to get him out on bail, until the trial begins, the detail is that the key witness is Janice Tombstone's daughter, who agrees to take her father to jail. Upon being released on bail, Randy and Janice are watched by Spider-man, while Tombstone sends Rabbit and his team to track them down when they are transferred, however, Spider-man turns them into a decoy, thinking that Tombstone doesn't know what he's doing. Sadly, Tombstone reaches where Janice is, we don't know if he eliminated Randy in the process. This is another exciting episode full of action and chases, where nothing is what it seems and the plot twists will leave you shocked. The double splash page of the train is AMAZING. Art John Romita Jr. gets that gloomy, grim tone out of this situation and incorporates it into the unique body language he gives Spider-man with his art. It's a privilege to read comics illustrated by this legend who always evolves by using you. JRJR always shows one or more splash pages that define the comic. Summary Janice is the key witness to bring her father Tombstone to jail, so she must be guarded no matter what, but it's not easy to overcome the new Kingpin more

BillyBat

Sep 13, 2024

Hey, if Zeb Wells had written this kind of arc from the beginning, he would be considered one of the best Spider-Man writers instead of being hated by the fans. A very solid comic, full of action and strong characters, what more could you ask for?

Toonstrack

Sep 11, 2024

This issue was intense af. Turns out my prediction was the same one the characters made... and the wrong one. This is one of the strengths wells has that gets overlooked I feel. Our expectations are "Lonnie would never hurt Janice directly, hed just kill someone close" and at the beginning of this run he wouldn't have. Thats something Tombstone practically laid out himself over the course of the run, between gang war and even the planned wedding. He has for the entire run put Janice's wants over his own. Except for two times, the end of gang war and now. This calls all the way back to tombstones flashbacks early in the run, where he was powerless to protect himself. Now with that power in his sight and in his grasp, he isn't willing to let ANYONE get in the way of it. He's become just like Fisk. Its a character shift; and a subversion but one thats been baked into the writing of the character from the beginning. Hes still the kid being taken on as a child, but now he sees Janice and spider man as the ones doing the harassing, and so the lion comes out. Also the train thing was a pretty clever and cool ambush both visually and concept wise. It made it seem authentic, something extreme Lonnie would do knowing what he's up against. So it being a ruse is harder to expect. Wells is going out with maybe his strongest arc. I wish it'd been this consistently great the whole time; but if he sticks the landing ill still give him props for this. more

BirdmanG07

Sep 22, 2024

Where was this the rest of the run? In response to Nick Lowe’s letter responses, there are a LOT of us who have not enjoyed this run, I don’t believe that’s as “bold” of a take as you believe.

DDJamesB

Sep 12, 2024

If only the quality was like this the whole time. This has been a good arc so far.

Kalaoui

Apr 11, 2025

This should have been the first year or year and a half then you do the nonsense after you get credit in the bank. Oh well better late than never.

Kenjamin

Dec 16, 2024

Art: 2.5/5 Story: 3.5/5 Total: 6/10