Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Graphic Novel)

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on the other, maybe i will just watch the films, listen to riley, rather than look at more superhero comics. I'm not complaining about their appearances in the book, but rather how they're thrown in as plot devices. Before going to fight Venom, Spider-Man visits Ann Weying, Eddie Brock's ex-wife in the story and asks her about Eddie.

Good story telling, somewhat disjointed as it's told in a fractured arc over several magazines over a few years, there is a lot of exposition needed between some tales to tell what has happened, and you go from Aunt May not talking to Peter to he and MJ moving in with her, so yeah, not smooth. Growing up as a huge Spider-Man fan, I knew all the villains and had all the action figures to prove it. Using sonic weapons they were able to temporarily disable Venom and inform him that his "son" is killing innocents. Cool way to get a collection following just one character, which is nice for cutting out the many overlapping plot lines always happening in comics.The slow build-up of the issues before the creation and confrontation with Eddie Brock as Venom were a little hit and miss (mostly miss) and even some of the initial Venom engagements were merely basic superhero vs. One also has to put up with how comics would recap themselves all the time back in the day, but that's a minor issue. I genuinely find it so ugly and bizarre it's distracting to my whole reading experience, but again, I do know that's not a universal opinion. If you take the superhero element out, Peter Parker and his family/associates/friends could read like a quality soap opera. As a result, nearly without fail, every new issue contained an in-story summary of the last issue's events.

The cool conceit of Peter Parker getting a new costume that also happens to be an alien symbiote originated in Secret Wars. Two assassins, Styx and Stone, were hired by Johnny Caesar to kill Spider-Man, a mission they failed in before Spidey fought Venom. Also interesting to see how the story seemed to go hither, thither, and yon, sometimes with little explanation.The fight continues onto a stadium where Spidey uses the sounds from the speakers to take Carnage down. That's not a knock on the graphic novel, but more so on the quality of comic writing that created Venom in the first place. Although the extent to which I knew this character only included his stint in the Spider-Man Playstation One game, I always held that he was the best villain in the Spider-Man universe. The fact that this is Spider-Man makes it easier for individuals reading who are not big superhero fans to follow, because most people have heard of Spider-Man, so it's easier to understand the general backstory when you are reading it, even if you don't like Marvel or superheroes. when my brother and me were old enough to read word books our mother, school librarian, would let us read no more graphic of any sort.

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. Only later into the graphic novel do we finally see the separation of the symbiote and Spider-Man, which leads into the origin of Venom. Peter succumbs to the bells before the symbiote does, but it saves him cause it can't just let him die. Then Ann appears and begs Venom to stop but then she is about to be crushed by objects because of the previous battle but Venom and Spidey managed to save her.

but then i have to think of the likely readers at least of superheroes comics, kids at least at first, then getting more ‘adult’ over the years. The way Spider-Man talks to people generally don't talk like that which makes him hard to relate to and see as human. I think that would have slightly helped this collection, since readers would not have been anticipating Venom the whole time and thus could not be disappointed when he only shows up at the very end. Starts with Spider-Man breaking a fight with some criminals and then he and Black Cat knock out the rest of them.