Spider-Boy #4

Bailey stops trying to gain Spider-Man's respect and embraces his inner monster, while Madame Monstrosity reveals the identity of his mother in Spider-Boy #4. Read Full Review

The entire book benefits from the talents of artists Paco Medina and Ty Templeton and colors Erick Arciniega and Dee Cunniffe, and the I'm genuinely interested in where this series goes next. Read Full Review

Spider-Boy #4 is one of the better issues in the series because it introduces a mysterious villain, delivers a fair amount of age-appropriate drama, and plants intriguing seeds for what comes next. Still, Slott has a bad habit of reframing decent villains as jokes, which kills the hero vibe of the book, so better falls short of great. Read Full Review

ResearchReader

Feb 26, 2024

This was a fun book but Peter is written wildly out of character. He puts a lot of trust in miles (mostly from the get go), but doesn't trust Bailey even after he proves himself and saves the day? Slott is terrible at writing these interactions and it makes Miles and Spider-man look like a-holes. Poor Bailey. Besides that at least Bailey is acting like a kid would with the misunderstandings and trying to find a family/group of people who understand him/respect him. He is still trying to find his place in this displaced world so it makes sense. The second story with the clone spider-boy is kind of sad. Still worth reading in my view. Bailey is a good character all in all.

derbycomics

Feb 24, 2024

Spider-Boy continues to be a low-stakes affair with a lot of heart. It was great to see Peter, Miles and Bailey all interacting with one another, even if Peter continues to seem quite out of character with how he talks down to Bailey. I’m glad we got to see the twist revealed at the end of this story without the question mark being dragged through multiple issues. It offers an interesting new dynamic to the plot that was starting to get a tad repetitive. I’d like to see Bailey start spreading his own wings and not needing to rely on Spider-Man to keep things going. I also need to call out the AMAZING knock on the Fast & Furious franchise. That may have been one of my favorite sequences in any comic book this week.