How would you rate Nick Spencer's first year on Amazing Spider-Man?

[Mister Mets]

Nick Spencer's first year on Amazing Spider-Man is done, with 24 regular issues and four Hunted tie-ins. We had the opening issue with big changes to Peter's status quo, an opening arc influenced by a former CBR poster's suggestion, spotlights on Boomerang, Black Cat and J. Jonah Jameson and a big encounter with Kraven. So what did you guys think?

If anyone needs a refresher on the various stories, I started a thread asking for the favorite story from the first year.

[Jman27]

Great! A+ for me. I look forward to reading every issue although I prefer Ottley on the art more often. Cause Ramos body portions look weird to me now. I like the focus he gives to the supporting cast like Mj, Jonah and Felicia. And it's well received too in my opinion hoping he continues the great work

[Snoop Dogg]

The first 6 months of all-character setups would've admittedly gotten really grating if he wasn't comics' best comedy writer. Hunted picked it up significantly and was a fun ride with a great ending. I'd take the first arc of SamCap + Standoff over it all, but there was not an issue I didn't think was pretty hot. The book also looked consistently very good even if I'm not the biggest Ottley stan. I do need more of that trademarked Spencer cruelty in Year 2, though. Gibbon was a good morsel, but Kindred's gotta turn it up a notch if he wants to be Hydra Cap tier and an A-List Spidey villain. We were promised that he would leave a huge scar and that we're heading towards one of the biggest Spider-Man stories ever, so my faith is fully intact. I'll bite bullets for you, Spencer.

Um, uh... I give it a B!

[Hugo Strange]

Very Good. There were better runs, but at least it's better than any ASM phase in the '10s.

[Celgress]

I'll give him a solid B.

[blackspidey2099]

I’d love to give it a B+/A- since I don’t think anything Spencer has done on ASM yet fits as a “highlight” of either Spider-Man’s best stories ever, or one of the best titles at Marvel currently. However, it has been consistently well made and well written, and delivered on every count for me as an enjoyable comic. For that reason, I feel like rating it a “B” would be a disservice to how much I’ve enjoyed this comic.

[NC_Yankee]

Nick Spencer's first year on Amazing Spider-Man is done, with 24 regular issues and four Hunted tie-ins. We had the opening issue with big changes to Peter's status quo, an opening arc influenced by a former CBR poster's suggestion, spotlights on Boomerang, Black Cat and J. Jonah Jameson and a big encounter with Kraven. So what did you guys think?

If anyone needs a refresher on the various stories, I started a thread asking for the favorite story from the first year.

I give Spencer an A. I save the A+ Grades for Ditko, Romita and Conway, but when compared to Slott who I gave an F he is doing great.

[Jekyll]

Solid A thus far. The stories are fun and I look forward to each issue.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Solid A from me as well.

To me every issue had something going for it. The comedy is really good and funny, and the characters feel right. I wouldn't say that Spencer's run feels like the Spider-Man of old as some do, rather it feels like a legitimate follow-up to JMS' run that we never got.

Smaller stakes, friendly neighborhood, and more grounded world.

[Batman Begins 2005]

I also voted A. Spencer gets the voices, corrects Slott's mistakes, balances story and humour well. Back to Basics and Heist the standout stories.

[Spidey5640]

Gave it a B, some great stuff, my personal highlight being the Heist arc and seeing Felicia back in character. Overall just a tad too lighthearted at times with some forced humor. The clone of Kraven was a let down conclusion for an otherwise great Hunted arc but Spencer deserves credit for putting and keeping so many interesting subplots in play. Looking forward to Year 2 and hopeful he pulls an A + in next years poll

[Immortal Hulk]

It's be pretty good, imo. Nothing spectacular as I expected, but very, very entertaining! A solid B+.

[exile001]

I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.

It's been fun! Stuff has happened, he's introduced us to a new looming "big bad", classic enemies and been used well, supporting cast is solid, Boomerang is king. PETE AND MJ!!!!! All good stuff so far.

I wish he'd slow down a little sometimes, eg, there was a lot of potential to explore Peter and Spider-man split from each other. That said, Hunted was perfectly paced, so maybe he learned from that. I see his pace overall as very similar to Slott's and I do mean that as a compliment.

[Michael Watkins]

it's the run that has been most enjoyable to me.

[bob.schoonover]

Tentative B+ so far. I'm enjoying the run, but we're obviously still in the early days. It's really not hard to imagine, for example, the Kindred reveal/plot/arc being awesome and moving this run up to an A+ or being so stupid that I stop reading the book (with all options in between being viable, as well). The B+ covers both my feelings on the run so far and where I imagine the Kindred stuff lands - more likely than not to be good but not amazing.