Name: Venom
ISBN: 9780785127482

Zeb Wells

On the unlikely day when an embittered, washed-up journalist met a spurned symbiotic organism from an alien planet, one of Spider-Man's greatest enemies was born ... a force of evil and vengeance like no other in the Marvel Universe - VENOM! But is it as simple as that? Discover the true, twisted roots that gave rise to a lifetime of malevolence for Eddie Brock and the symbiote!

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Dimitris Papastergiou

Ah.. it was ok. To pass the time. Not much.

Emmett

'This world is hard and cold and sharp...and now so am I.'

Admitted not a fan of Medina's art style (nor the colouring), but Eddie's moral greyness coupled with a sense of justice keeps him interesting. He is a complex character, with a solid and sympathetic backstory which admits human weakness, mistakes and ineptitude, and the pitiless harshness of circumstance, and one man's confrontation with that unpredictable terrain otherwise blandly called 'life'. It is that beguiling combination of darkness and light - and, fascinatingly, how he gives in but also pulls back from that temptation- that allows this reader to root for him. It ends on a defeated and yet touching note.

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