Venom homecoming

Fun start. New Venom! Actually, GOOD Venom takes up a BAD host. Nice switcheroo at the end! Fun stuff \o/

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.