That said, it’s a new start, a new mythology, and clearly a friendly entry point for new readers. There are a lot of Venom stories and some are referenced in Donny Cates’ run on Venom. What to read before Venom by Donny Cates? During his fight with a cosmic monster, he discovered the real origin of the symbiote, opening a new way in the mythology of this iconic character. To do that, he aligned himself with heroes. When Donny Cates took over the writing duties on his title, Venom got back to Eddie who is searching for redemption. He went from Eddie Brock to other hosts but came back to Eddie. Together, they became Venom.įriend or foe, Venom changed over the years and became a major Marvel player. At the end of his rope, Eddie met the symbiote.

This reporter for the Daily Globe wrote a story exposing the identity of the Sin-Eater but Spider-Man revealed it was not the truth and Eddie lost his job. Following its rejection, the alien symbiote tried to get back to Peter Parker, but ended up bounding with Eddie Brock. When Reed Richards realized it was more than a piece of intelligent fabric, he helped Spidey to get rid of it. The series is well worth continuing of you've made it this far.Introduced during the first Secret Wars event in the “80s, this alien symbiote was Spider-man’s black costume for a short period of time. Its only the one book and since Absolute Carnage was awesome it really doesn't detract from this rating. Otherwise this will look incomplete and will not make sense. That to be is truly #3 of this series, rather than this I'd call #4. What I will say is that if you're going to continue with this series you absolutely need to read the one off collection of Absolute Carnage. Anyway, this edition is much shotter than the others, and is much more about Dylan than Eddie this time. Strange as this may read, but his face and jaws look like Venom. In Donny Cates's series he has never been drawn better here. No disrespect to whoever did it before, but Venom here actually looks like Venom. What I will say is that the representation of Venom via the art is the best here of the entire series thus far. The emotional aspect of Eddie and his journey continue's to hit hard, even if he isn't in this collection much. If you're here you've probably read the others. You'll understand why in a second) I'm not going to try to sell you on the series. I absolutely love this series, and since this is the third (although, I'd rather call it the '4th' if I'm being honest.

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