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crookedtreehouse's review
3.0
The first really focused trade involving the original symbiote also features the debut of the second symbiote, Carnage.
I've been pretty positive about all of the Venom books I've read thusfar. None of them being great, but none of them being completely awful, either. This volume continues that trend. It doesn't make me love Carnage as a villain, nor does it make Venom as a hero or antihero seem plausible or anything to be excited about.
Michelinie's work is just solidly ok. His ideas, including this Venom 2 Electric Boogaloo character, are great, he has the perfect ear for late 80s/early 90s dialogue, in that there are occasional cheesy pop culture references, but he doesn't bombard you with them. Also, his characters act perfectly logically, even if they have to explain every decision they make in a series of endless thought bubbles.
I know that both of these characters are about to become much worse in the hands of other writers, so it is nice to see that, in the beginning, they were both perfectly reasonable members of Spider-Man's antagonists.
I've been pretty positive about all of the Venom books I've read thusfar. None of them being great, but none of them being completely awful, either. This volume continues that trend. It doesn't make me love Carnage as a villain, nor does it make Venom as a hero or antihero seem plausible or anything to be excited about.
Michelinie's work is just solidly ok. His ideas, including this Venom 2 Electric Boogaloo character, are great, he has the perfect ear for late 80s/early 90s dialogue, in that there are occasional cheesy pop culture references, but he doesn't bombard you with them. Also, his characters act perfectly logically, even if they have to explain every decision they make in a series of endless thought bubbles.
I know that both of these characters are about to become much worse in the hands of other writers, so it is nice to see that, in the beginning, they were both perfectly reasonable members of Spider-Man's antagonists.
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