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Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Graphic Novel)

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It's got some lovely classic Spider-Man writing here which balances the line between lame and heartfelt and also has classic narrative dissonance with the down to Earth street crime of Spider-Man and the cosmic shit which in my opinion as a whole ruined comics. I thought Eddie Brock was supposed to be a well-established character in the Spider-Man universe prior to bonding with the symbiote, but I guess I was wrong about that.

The way Spider-Man talks to people generally don't talk like that which makes him hard to relate to and see as human.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. This isn't to say that Birth of Venom is all bad, as when it finally gets going, it's rather exciting. Honestly, apart from the two pages of Secret Wars, I feel like I could have skipped this volume entirely.

It was never clear in the comics what the symbiote was doing when it took Spidey out on clandestine trips at night, for example. He literally comes from nowhere and has no substantive preexisting character development to speak of.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. Spidy isolates the symbiote and places it in Baxter building for safekeeping, but it gets out and binds itself again with Peter. We wonder why Hydro-Man suddenly popped up, or what happened to the Rose, and the Hobgoblin, but none of their reasons ever connect with us. As usual he overpowered Spidey and before he could finish him off, Venom went to save a baby in trouble. Ann then convinces Eddie that Spidey saves innocent lives and Venom decides that if he kills Peter, future innocents will die so he tells Spider-Man that he will hunt him no more as long as Peter does the same.

With a new Spiderman movie coming out next month I thought it was prudent to take a look back at my favorite superhero as a child. It does make for slightly weird reading just bc of the chunks of time taken out and summarized, which sometimes dumps the reader into a totally different situation and style. Modern readers looking for a history lesson might also be annoyed by the differences in certain key characters who are (obviously) suddenly missing a few decades worth of character development. This probably wasn't a problem back in the 80's, but when you're reading each issue back to back in a collection like this, the technique becomes incredibly annoying. Though the editors did their best, don't expect many storylines from the first half of this collection to be resolved on page.Definitely pick this up with Vengeance of Venom TPB to get a more fulfilling arc in the Spidey vs Venom saga. It starts with how Spiderman gets the black costume, then has some issues from Amazing Spiderman of him learning about the costume and fighting crime with it, then his separation from it, followed by the first two battles Spidey has with Eddie Brock/Venom. on the other, maybe i will just watch the films, listen to riley, rather than look at more superhero comics. He then took a knocked out Venom to the Fantastic Four where Venom was placed in a special tank while a new prison is being built for him in the Vault. Eddie Brock himself does not appear until his full development as Venom despite him being mentioned in previous issues.

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