Extreme Venomverse

Venomverse

by Ryan North

Face front, Venomaniacs! The Summer of Symbiotes is here, and you're vacationing in the Venomverse - along with a host of brand-new and returning twists on your favorite Lethal Protector! Including a fresh spin on a timeless tale, starring Eddie Brock as…Spider-Man! A whole side of the Brock family tree you never thought you'd see! The Venom of 1602! The incredible L.M.V. - that's Life-Model Venom, for short! Madame Venom of the Old West! The return of Spaceknight! Venom Noir! symbiote shenanigans starring the Black Cat and Jeff the Land Shark! And more varied and visceral versions of Venom! But don't get too attached to any of them, because not every symbiote gets out alive! Collecting EXTREME VENOMVERSE #1-5.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Spider Man

168 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2023

About the author

Hi, I'm Ryan! I was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1980 and since then have written several books. You can read my Wikipedia page for more, or check out my author site at RyanNorth.ca!

I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.

I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good

Reviews

[Miga Avalos · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book lied to me. There wasn't a Venomzilla in it when one of the covers literally had it

[Sandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Diverse Varianten von Eddie und Venom versammeln sich zu einer Armee um Anne Weying, um sich dem Kampf gegen Carnage (welcher ist hier noch nicht ganz klar) anzuschließen.
Jede der Varianten bietet eine faszinierende Reise durch das Multiversum, in dem der Symbiont in verschiedenen Gestalten und Zusammenhängen präsentiert wird. Von actiongeladenen Panels bis hin zu ausgefallenen Interpretationen des Venom-Charakters bietet der Comic eine Menge Entertainment und visuelle Abwechslung. Meine liebste Variante sind der Hai Jeffrey als Haustier von Kate Bishop, natürlich mit Klyntarverbindung und Venom als Hofnarr in einem Königreich, aber auch als Pfarrer macht Venom eine gute Figur.
Spaß machen die einzelnen Kurzgeschichten auf jeden Fall, aber das dicke Ende kommt natürlich erst im Folgeband Der Tod des Venomverse, denn spätestens hier werden Vorkenntnisse um die verschiedenen Venom-Ableger nicht verkehrt sein, tauchen dort viele von ihnen erneut auf.

Die Vielfalt der Zeichenstile und die künstlerische Kreativität tragen dazu bei, dass Extreme Venomverse es wert ist, mehr als einmal betrachtet zu werden, insgesamt ein lohnenswertes Leseerlebnis für Fans der Symbionten und eine gelungene Mischung aus Action, Spannung und bildgewaltigem Spektakel.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of the more middle of the road anthology books Marvel has put out for a while - I've been pleasantly surprised by the most recent Spider-Verse books for example, which have been four star books and pretty high quality. For some reason though, Venom doesn't seem to translate to the multiversal stage quite as well.

Some of these stories are great - Old West Madame Venom and Eddie Brock Spider-Man are great, and I liked the creepy little girl Venom who eats people while looking adorable, but most of the other stories are forgettable. Who thought Baseball Venom was a good idea?

At least a lot of these characters do show up in Death Of The Venomverse, so it's not a complete waste of time however.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars
Remember all the Spider-Verse comics where we got to see many different Spider-people throughout the Multiverse? Not only how they lived in their world, but then how they were recruited for a fight with all the other Spiders?
This is pretty much the same, except all Venom... and they are coming together to fight Carnage. The actual team creation and fight is in another TP called "Death of the Venomverse" which I should be reading soon.
Overall, this was entertaining and fun, but not nearly as much as Spider-Verse. My favorite Venom? Either the Venom that uses a katana, or Necroko, the anime girl Venom who uses a Venom'd Magical Girl Wand. LOL
Recommend, especially if you are going to read the sequel.

[Will Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bought this on a whim and really glad I did! Lots of fun short stories featuring multiversal versions of Eddie, Peter, and the Venom Symbiote. The authors use the premise of a multiverse to great effect pitching wildly different sets of characters and settings using the same tropes Spidey fans are familiar with. The real benefit of a collection like this is that the stories are short and sweet, so even if one of them isn’t to your taste, it’s over soon and at least has damn good art. Hats off to all the art teams on this series, juggling a variety of tones and styles like this is hard and it all looks beautiful. It’s great on its own, but it got me interested in the “Venomverse” line of stories so maybe I’ll check out the rest next!

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

When you have a 'mega event' and need to explain away a BUTT ton of new characters...THIS happens. Five issues jam packed with alternate universe Venoms. You thought Spider-Verse stuff was crazy?

Could have just been an anthology of 'What If?' shorts featuring only Venom. Meh. There's been worse. This wasn't horrible. The art was varied. Nice way to showcase new talent. Give them a little platform.

Bonus: King Pain looks like a Orca Man....ummm...
Bonus Bonus: part of a mega event with no real payoff

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's another prelude book for another Venomverse crossover event. And while I haven't read the actual event title, I'll concede that some of their ideas for alternate Venoms were pretty fun. So I can't speak too how well this title will connect, but I will praise many of the characters they've brought to life here.

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bunch of short vignettes introducing us to a whole range of Venom-variants throughout space and time. Some of these are really good, some are fairly questionable (baseball Venom). It all seems to be setting up something else--the death of Venomverse?

[Jacob · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its more of a 2.5 very mid but ill still keep up with the story and see where it goes

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Half of them were very good or fun weird, the other half were either okay, weird in a not fun way, or mean to my goo, overall it was fun though, Peach Momoko carries as always

[Daniel Butcher · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bunch of venoms…most I don’t dig.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite a menagerie of Venom symbiotes. I liked some of the variants.

[Nunya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd take a good 25 issue run for magical girl venom and her yuri adventures.
That can be an apology for not giving VEN#m a single story.