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trgrze20's review
4.0
3.5. Enjoyable, but man did it have some cheesy jokes in it. I don’t know if the comics are also like that and that’s why they were written. They made me slightly cringe. I also wish we had some verbal resolution or friendship made between spider man and venom towards the end.
It was fun to read to from the perspective of venom to get a more inside look and background.
It was fun to read to from the perspective of venom to get a more inside look and background.
diegoo21's review against another edition
3.0
Very 90s indebted. Tries to get violent while retaining the kid-acceptable tag. Venom as well as his human counterpart Eddie Brock are muscled up to the max, Mary Jane appears briefly but always overtly sexualized and the story has some interesting points among some really silly stuff. The battles are okay, you get to see Spider-man and Venom team up and the Symbiote children of Venom are introduced, though rather quickly defeated and not differentiated past two of them having boobs. Knowing what to expect this is still a very fun and entertaining read.
aimlessinkpot's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
librarimans's review against another edition
3.0
I've not read this since it originally released back in the early 90s, and it's still pretty entertaining. Michelinie shoves a whole lot of story into six issues, but manages to wrap everything up nicely at the end. If I could do half stars, this would be three and a half, but I'm rounding down here because the art takes a nosedive when Bagley leaves midway through.
helpfulsnowman's review against another edition
2.0
Comics Companies in the 90's: "Holy shit, this Venom character is really selling! We need to get him in his own book so we can cha-ching! Let's make him into a hero, no, ANTI-HERO, and that's how we'll make a mint!"
The problem with this line of thinking is that these folks weren't wrong. They made a good chunk of change from characters like Venom in the 90's.
But good god did I hate turning a villain into a hero. That's just...the worst. It's the most 90's thing in this book, and this is a book where the main character has a mullet that would probably even make 90's kids say, "Whoa, too far!'
Although...now that I think about it, there's been a BIG resurgence of Joker being the main character, sometimes hero, in Batman stories these days. I'm not talking about the movie so much (I don't think he was supposed to be heroic in the movie) but White Knight and a couple others definitely pose Joker as an anti-hero, maybe, or even a secret hero.
I have to say, Venom from the 90's reminded me A LOT of Deadp00l. You might not be able to tell, but those are zeroes in Deadp00l because I think that dude is a big zero in the comics. The movie was fun, but the comics somehow just never seem all that hilarious to me. Deadp00l is, like...wacky? But not funny? He's silly...but not funny?
Maybe because Deadp00l just doesn't fit into the Marvel U, yet they insist on teaming him up with other characters all the time. They need to stop with the team-ups, stop having him fight villains we know, and just make him be his own thing.
You just can't have Deadp00l and Captain America together. Just doesn't work.
The problem with this line of thinking is that these folks weren't wrong. They made a good chunk of change from characters like Venom in the 90's.
But good god did I hate turning a villain into a hero. That's just...the worst. It's the most 90's thing in this book, and this is a book where the main character has a mullet that would probably even make 90's kids say, "Whoa, too far!'
Although...now that I think about it, there's been a BIG resurgence of Joker being the main character, sometimes hero, in Batman stories these days. I'm not talking about the movie so much (I don't think he was supposed to be heroic in the movie) but White Knight and a couple others definitely pose Joker as an anti-hero, maybe, or even a secret hero.
I have to say, Venom from the 90's reminded me A LOT of Deadp00l. You might not be able to tell, but those are zeroes in Deadp00l because I think that dude is a big zero in the comics. The movie was fun, but the comics somehow just never seem all that hilarious to me. Deadp00l is, like...wacky? But not funny? He's silly...but not funny?
Maybe because Deadp00l just doesn't fit into the Marvel U, yet they insist on teaming him up with other characters all the time. They need to stop with the team-ups, stop having him fight villains we know, and just make him be his own thing.
You just can't have Deadp00l and Captain America together. Just doesn't work.
books_and_cha's review against another edition
3.0
After re-watching the film on Netflix (ahead of Venom: Let there be Carnage's release), I decided to read the comics for Venom. I don't know what I expected, but it certainly wasn't what I found.
The mini-series Venom: Lethal Protector was entertaining. Venom's character arc focuses on his transition from villain to anti-hero. As the story progresses, you see Venom care for the greater good. There's a good bit of Eddie's backstory that tries to justify some of his past actions. The art was okay. I liked the way Venom and Spiderman were rendered.
Spiderman was all over this series, which was more of a hindrance than anything. It was almost like Spiderman needed to acknowledge that Venom had changed for the latter to be considered a legitimate protagonist.
The story is also set in 1960's San Francisco, which was . . . jarring. There were quite a few slurs being passed around. The dialogue and voice-over were corny and dramatic, which ended up being funny to me, the sheer soap-opera vibe this had.
Overall, a very interesting foray into the comic world. I wouldn't say I loved it, though.
The mini-series Venom: Lethal Protector was entertaining. Venom's character arc focuses on his transition from villain to anti-hero. As the story progresses, you see Venom care for the greater good. There's a good bit of Eddie's backstory that tries to justify some of his past actions. The art was okay. I liked the way Venom and Spiderman were rendered.
Spiderman was all over this series, which was more of a hindrance than anything. It was almost like Spiderman needed to acknowledge that Venom had changed for the latter to be considered a legitimate protagonist.
The story is also set in 1960's San Francisco, which was . . . jarring. There were quite a few slurs being passed around. The dialogue and voice-over were corny and dramatic, which ended up being funny to me, the sheer soap-opera vibe this had.
Overall, a very interesting foray into the comic world. I wouldn't say I loved it, though.