Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Graphic Novel)

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The first half of the book moseys about slowly trickling out tiny details about the symbiote while Spider-Man faces off against villains who are decidedly not Venom. Reading this series of comics (there are 6 or 7 comprised in this graphic novel) was pretty nostalgic. Roger Stern has written for radio, television, the stage, and the Internet, creating scripts for everything from sketch comedy to flash-animation.

The problem with 80's Spider-Man is the pure daytime opera storytelling style which made my eye roll roll roll. Before going to fight Venom, Spider-Man visits Ann Weying, Eddie Brock's ex-wife in the story and asks her about Eddie. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. After a brief fight, Spidey escapes but Venom discovers a change of address form in Peter's clothes. 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.Spidy isolates the symbiote and places it in Baxter building for safekeeping, but it gets out and binds itself again with Peter.

I, of course, started with Birth of Venom, which chronicles Venom's beginnings and his earliest encounters with Spidey. 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. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). To be fair, this book does exactly what it states: It offers background for the symbiote and its second host Eddie Brock to become Venom. I do think (after Todd McFarlane takes over as artist for the series) that the Venom story (and the art) later brings Venom to the greatness that most of us think about when thinking about Venom and I really enjoyed the later portion of this collection.It is however a good example of art and writing styles throughout the years and shockingly for comics a well executed plan over several months. Anyway, Spider-Man freaks out and crushes Venom under a few machines and swings out, accidentally leaving his change of address forms behind. Great fun story, that gives more than just nostalgia if you read it back then, and with some amazing (YEAH THAT'S RIGHT) artwork to go along with it. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.