cannot see much ambivalence as it seems mostly that at least for spidey, motivations of villains are darker and resolutions are somewhat bittersweet. Venom and Spider-Man briefly fight until the assassins join them with Sonic weaponry to disable Venom. I'm not complaining about their appearances in the book, but rather how they're thrown in as plot devices. Peter succumbs to the bells before the symbiote does, but it saves him cause it can't just let him die.

Hopefully there is a follow up to this series that I can read in time for the Venom movie with Tom Hardy. This probably wasn't a problem back in the 80's, but when you're reading each issue back to back in a collection like this, the technique becomes incredibly annoying. Just because there's a new costume doesn't mean there isn't a ton of backstory you need, as this is a point where Parker was dating Black Cat, and was just friends with Mary Jane, and there's a new editor at The Bugle, and Parker's high school friend is fighting with his wife, who's a receptionist at The Daily Bugle, and Aunt May is dating someone and renting out her home as a senior living center. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.The first 200 pages can be summed up as Spider-Man costume feeling weird when he wears it or Spider-Man's costume doing something weird when he does not wear it. But Brock and the symbiote would reunite and escapes from jail and attempts yet again to kill Spidey by taking him to an abandoned island but the Web-Slinger is able to escape again. Growing up as a huge Spider-Man fan, I knew all the villains and had all the action figures to prove it. Now, I understand putting together almost 10 years of development is no easy feat, and that some cuts had to be made, but the story still feels disconnected and its thrown-together approach doesn't mix too well. I was surprised how both amusing and threatening was as I expected that before his introduction he was just some rando, unlike a character with some built-up development like Eddie from Spider-Man TAS.

Keeping Venom's name out of the title would have given readers an unexpected twist when they finally do see Venom emerge for the first time. I have to say Brock's reason for hating Spider-Man is weak, you ruined my career by showing my big story was false? We do eventually get Venom, but his reveal comes as more of a twist to readers than it does an expected development. It was never clear in the comics what the symbiote was doing when it took Spidey out on clandestine trips at night, for example. All we get is some exposition about how Spider-Man apparently ruined Brock's life when he solved the Sin Eater case (from The Death of Jean DeWolff).

The first couple of chapters revolve around Spider-Man running around and fighting crime while showing off his new threads. Honestly, apart from the two pages of Secret Wars, I feel like I could have skipped this volume entirely. Before he goes to fight Venom, Peter stops by a psychiatrist who tells him that the symbiote is having a love-hate relationship. With a new Spiderman movie coming out next month I thought it was prudent to take a look back at my favorite superhero as a child. Its not particularly well written at times, but the way this collection is put together keeps this story coherent at least.

Venom is only in a few issues in this entire thing as they show the build up of pretty much the entirety of Spidey in the black suit. There are a lot of dramatic sub plots as well which were too cheesy at times, but also humanised the characters.I thought Eddie Brock was supposed to be a well-established character in the Spider-Man universe prior to bonding with the symbiote, but I guess I was wrong about that.

Stuff like Aunt May's fight with Peter, Black Cat's love/hate relationship with Spidy/Peter and the sudden appearance of Mary Jane and aftermath were pure family drama. He brought Venom to the Fantastic 4; they put him in a sonic containment cell and shipped him to the Vault. Eddie Brock himself does not appear until his full development as Venom despite him being mentioned in previous issues. He looked just as cool and creepy as I imagined he would look, and he did not disappoint in his battles with Spider-Man. We expected Venom all along, and to treat his first appearance as some sort of unexpected arrival in Spider-Man's story doesn't work well in the context of this graphic novel.I think in a later issue in this book it Peter Parkers spider senses were explained three times in one chapter. If you take the superhero element out, Peter Parker and his family/associates/friends could read like a quality soap opera. Seeing that he can't take down Carnage alone, he goes with the Human Torch to the island Venom is at to ask for his help. I read a compilation of previously produced titles from the beginning of the venom character to the end (or is it? However, he would later escape from the Vault during the time Peter and MJ were evicted from their home by Johnny Caesar, a millionaire obsessed with MJ, and they are living with Aunt May while having financial problems and not being able to find work.