Name: Venom
ISBN: 9781302906023

Mike Costa

Venom is back in his classic form, and deadlier than ever! The symbiote you know and love has returned to New York City. No more 'Agent of the Cosmos.' No more 'Lethal Protector.' It's time for a new Venom, and it's great to be bad. But now that Venom is back on Earth and back in the gutter, just who has bonded with him - and turned him back into the slathering, fanged monster? Collecting: Venom 1-6.

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Dimitris Papastergiou

Fun start.

New Venom! 

Actually, GOOD Venom takes up a BAD host. 

Nice switcheroo at the end! Fun stuff \o/

Emmett

This first volume took a very long time (90% of the book) to set things up and most of the events felt circumstantial and inconsequential. All the crises introduced in the plot dovetailed to one end and it was a rather circumlocutory way of uniting Brock and his symbiote (which does not actually happen until the final panels). Lee's interaction with the symbiote was an intriguing reversal of power that created an interesting dynamic; the latter, evidently so accustomed to doing the controlling, is ill-prepared for a situation which places it at the mercy of its human host. The visual contrast is striking and unusual - after that initial (decisively violent) confrontation, the usually imposing symbiote becomes much smaller and often wears a dejected expression. At one point it becomes a Baby Groot-like manifestation of a Conscience, perched on the shoulder of its host where its pleas and warnings go unheeded. Add to that its blind panic when battered by incendiary missiles and that almost childlike baffled rage it displays when emotionally betrayed, and I did feel very sorry for it.

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