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Venomverse
Venomverse
During a routine battle with the villainous Jack O'Lantern, Venom finds himself transported to a far-off world and learns a terrible truth - a deadly new species called the Poisons has emerged from the vastness of space, and to make matters worse, they're hunting Venoms! Trapped on the planet's surface with a ragtag band of Venomized heroes, Eddie has no choice but to mount a counteroffensive and hope to find a way home!
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128 pages, Paperback
First published December 27, 2017
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About the author
Cullen Bunn
2,109 books1,061 followersCullen grew up in rural North Carolina, but now lives in the St. Louis area with his wife Cindy and his son Jackson. His noir/horror comic (and first collaboration with Brian Hurtt), The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. The follow-up, The Damned: Prodigal Sons, was released in 2008. In addition to The Sixth Gun, his current projects include Crooked Hills, a middle reader horror prose series from Evileye Books; The Tooth, an original graphic novel from Oni Press; and various work for Marvel and DC. Somewhere along the way, Cullen founded Undaunted Press and edited the critically acclaimed small press horror magazine, Whispers from the Shattered Forum.
All writers must pay their dues, and Cullen has worked various odd jobs, including Alien Autopsy Specialist, Rodeo Clown, Professional Wrestler Manager, and Sasquatch Wrangler.
And, yes, he has fought for his life against mountain lions and he did perform on stage as the World's Youngest Hypnotist. Buy him a drink sometime, and he'll tell you all about it.
Visit his website at www.cullenbunn.com.
All writers must pay their dues, and Cullen has worked various odd jobs, including Alien Autopsy Specialist, Rodeo Clown, Professional Wrestler Manager, and Sasquatch Wrangler.
And, yes, he has fought for his life against mountain lions and he did perform on stage as the World's Youngest Hypnotist. Buy him a drink sometime, and he'll tell you all about it.
Visit his website at www.cullenbunn.com.
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November 5, 2023
Venom fights other Super Venoms while all the other superheroes turn into Venoms.
May 4, 2018
Venomverse is a huge pile of nothing. Just nothing. Like why was this made?
So edge of venomverse atleast had various stories that kept it flowing a bit. We get different writers putting their characters in the venom suit. Sure it didn't all connect but least was a decent idea. This? Well this is just one big brawl between a whole shit load of venom users verse the anti-venom users. It's fight after fighter, chase after chase, and you just don't feel ANYTHING bad is REALLY going to happen. Not to mention Eddie Brock as venom is boring...give me Flash.
Good: Some decent art?
Bad: The plot is dumb as shit. Carnage's dialog is beyond awful. The stakes, if you want to call it that, are hardly there. The pacing is really bad, just chase chase, fight, chase, fight, and then it's over...that's it.
Overall this is a very skippable title. I wouldn't give this one any of your time. A 1 out of 5.
So edge of venomverse atleast had various stories that kept it flowing a bit. We get different writers putting their characters in the venom suit. Sure it didn't all connect but least was a decent idea. This? Well this is just one big brawl between a whole shit load of venom users verse the anti-venom users. It's fight after fighter, chase after chase, and you just don't feel ANYTHING bad is REALLY going to happen. Not to mention Eddie Brock as venom is boring...give me Flash.
Good: Some decent art?
Bad: The plot is dumb as shit. Carnage's dialog is beyond awful. The stakes, if you want to call it that, are hardly there. The pacing is really bad, just chase chase, fight, chase, fight, and then it's over...that's it.
Overall this is a very skippable title. I wouldn't give this one any of your time. A 1 out of 5.
September 12, 2019
This felt like fan fiction. Venom gets transported to another dimension full of Venom symbiotes merged with other heroes. They are all being hunted down by these little flowery bone looking guys called Poisons. When they merge with a Venom they get all boney armored and turn evil. There were no stakes here. It's all just mindless fighting for five issues. Iban Coello's art was very good though.
February 28, 2018
Great art but the story is not very good. Venom gets teleported to some venomverse where all the supers are venoms and there are also some weird "poison" alien dudes who are battle the venoms. That about sums up the story, you don't get a lot of background about the venomverse but maybe that is explained later. I will say the art is very cool, detailed, and really the main attraction. Seems like they set it up for more volumes but I don't know.... it is not a strong beginning
March 8, 2018
Only marginally better than the prequel "Edge of Venomverse".
This takes a potentially interesting premise and does very little with it. The plot is slow and meandering and little is actually accomplished.
At least "Venom Inc" was up to par,, and the movie shows promise. (I love me some Tom Hardy!!)
This takes a potentially interesting premise and does very little with it. The plot is slow and meandering and little is actually accomplished.
At least "Venom Inc" was up to par,, and the movie shows promise. (I love me some Tom Hardy!!)
December 26, 2019
What do you do when you have a breakout hit like Spiderverse? Make sequels! Franchise that shit! Exploit the idea as far and wide as you can!
Venomverse borrows the general idea of having a group of similar type characters fighting to the death against a threat to the multiverse. This time around, the danger is an alien species known as Poison, who are the perfect host to the alien symbiote. Basically, this event series is a big old excuse to get various Venomized superheroes from across the multiverse in the same dimension to beat on previously Venomized superheroes who are now under the parasitical control of Poison. You got your 616 Eddie Brock Venom, an alternate universe Captain America Venom, an Old Man Logan Venom from some other time and place, and so on and so forth, fighting against a Poison Hulk, a Poison Scarlet Witch, and a bunch of other Poison former-heroes who now wouldn’t look out of place in a Michael Bay Transformers flick.
This trade is five issues of fighting, followed by more fighting, and concludes with even more fighting. It’s not particular deep, meaningful, or memorable, but Cullen Bunn at least makes it pretty fun. It’s a nice one and done, and unlike the original Spiderverse it’s not structured so that all the important plot points are left to be handled in numerous tie-in titles for bonus cash grab attempts. Of course, there aren’t really any truly important plot points to begin with here. It’s just all fighting all the time, but at least Bunn knows that and he certainly delivers on the promise of non-stop action with a minimum of plot for filler.
Venomverse borrows the general idea of having a group of similar type characters fighting to the death against a threat to the multiverse. This time around, the danger is an alien species known as Poison, who are the perfect host to the alien symbiote. Basically, this event series is a big old excuse to get various Venomized superheroes from across the multiverse in the same dimension to beat on previously Venomized superheroes who are now under the parasitical control of Poison. You got your 616 Eddie Brock Venom, an alternate universe Captain America Venom, an Old Man Logan Venom from some other time and place, and so on and so forth, fighting against a Poison Hulk, a Poison Scarlet Witch, and a bunch of other Poison former-heroes who now wouldn’t look out of place in a Michael Bay Transformers flick.
This trade is five issues of fighting, followed by more fighting, and concludes with even more fighting. It’s not particular deep, meaningful, or memorable, but Cullen Bunn at least makes it pretty fun. It’s a nice one and done, and unlike the original Spiderverse it’s not structured so that all the important plot points are left to be handled in numerous tie-in titles for bonus cash grab attempts. Of course, there aren’t really any truly important plot points to begin with here. It’s just all fighting all the time, but at least Bunn knows that and he certainly delivers on the promise of non-stop action with a minimum of plot for filler.
December 29, 2021
It was ok, a bunch of Venoms VS a new kind of threat to the symbiotes.. nice artwork!
Nothing to get too excited about unless you're a huge fan of Venom I guess! If you'd like to look how Captain America and the rest would look like with the symbiote then this is your jam. The enemy on this one is uninspired and boring, and looks like it's straight out of a Michael Bay movie.
PS. Yes most of these Poisons look like Transformers.
PS2. At some point they say "we don't like that you call us 'poison'" and on another instant Cap or someone says "we call them Poison because bla bla" and then the so called 'Poisons' are calling themselves Poison.. like what? They embraced that shit? They forgot they don't like to be called like that? What? Meh..
Other than that the idea is nice, the execution is mediocre, and the dialogue is sometimes terrible. aaaand the plot is kinda predictable. You can see from miles away what Deadpool's going to do from start to finish.
Nothing to get too excited about unless you're a huge fan of Venom I guess! If you'd like to look how Captain America and the rest would look like with the symbiote then this is your jam. The enemy on this one is uninspired and boring, and looks like it's straight out of a Michael Bay movie.
PS. Yes most of these Poisons look like Transformers.
PS2. At some point they say "we don't like that you call us 'poison'" and on another instant Cap or someone says "we call them Poison because bla bla" and then the so called 'Poisons' are calling themselves Poison.. like what? They embraced that shit? They forgot they don't like to be called like that? What? Meh..
Other than that the idea is nice, the execution is mediocre, and the dialogue is sometimes terrible. aaaand the plot is kinda predictable. You can see from miles away what Deadpool's going to do from start to finish.
December 20, 2017
Oh deary deary dear.
I wasn't that keen on Edge of Venomverse but hoped the main event would have something more to it than fist fights and fan service. Dear reader, I hoped in vain.
All the current, movie-delivered, fan favourites are present (Rocket Racoon, Deadpool, Old Man Logan, Doctor Strange) but even the novelty of seeing each combined with their very own Venom symbiotes doesn't offer much. After Agent Venom and the Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel had pretty much exhausted the fun that had to hold.
It's not even as if any of these characters are that affected by their joining either; it's essentially a straight team-up with some very underwhelming villains.
Do not do yourself the disservice of giving Marvel your cash and telling them you want more of this.
I wasn't that keen on Edge of Venomverse but hoped the main event would have something more to it than fist fights and fan service. Dear reader, I hoped in vain.
All the current, movie-delivered, fan favourites are present (Rocket Racoon, Deadpool, Old Man Logan, Doctor Strange) but even the novelty of seeing each combined with their very own Venom symbiotes doesn't offer much. After Agent Venom and the Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel had pretty much exhausted the fun that had to hold.
It's not even as if any of these characters are that affected by their joining either; it's essentially a straight team-up with some very underwhelming villains.
Do not do yourself the disservice of giving Marvel your cash and telling them you want more of this.
June 22, 2021
Just a cheap rip-off of Spiderverse, with some fan favorite characters.
Art is good, but the story is incredibly generic. Poisons are nominated for the most boring crossover villain ever made, by far.
Art is good, but the story is incredibly generic. Poisons are nominated for the most boring crossover villain ever made, by far.
May 17, 2024
این عنوان یکی از به یادموندنی ترین داستان هاییه که از جهان مارول خوندم بعد چند سال هنوزم جزییات داستانش تو ذهنمه. ونوم به جهانی منتقل میشه که سیمبیوت ها به زمین حمله کردن و تقریبا هر قهرمانی یکی از اونا رو داره؛ البته اونایی که باقی موندن! ایده ایده جذابیه! طراحی جذابه! داستان جذابه! اکشن خوب! پیسینگ خوب! حتی کمدی خوب! که من یادمه تاحالا ددپول رو توی کمیک ندیده بودم و چقدر اینجا نمک بود، یه دیالوگ نداشت که شما بخونی و لبخند رو لبت نیاره. واقعا فوق العاده بود.
March 28, 2018
not terrible
March 15, 2018
Cullen Bunn's story here is weak; the Spider-verse and Venomverse stories feel like fan service or, worse, perhaps something akin to fan fiction. Venomized heroes from multiple universes fighting Vonomized villains and claimed heroes called Poisons. Furthermore, the fanservice seems to be cynically drawn from cinematic world, not the comic book one, with Rocket Racoon, Deadpool, Old Man Logan, and Doctor Strange all showing up in Venom versions along with comic favorites like All-New Wolverine and Spider-woman. The introduction of Carnage to the Venomverse lacks any real consequence even though it serves as a deus ex machina. Iban Coello's art and designs are good enough to keep my interest.
September 13, 2019
Fresh outta watching the new VENOM trailer and since I was waiting for Donnie Cate's Venom #5, I thought I'll give this a shot. It started off pretty good and no, that statement doesn't mean that it doesnt end on a bad note. It was a good read, loved the Venomization of the Marvel superheroes and the art by Iban Coello was just delicious. Its always a pleasure seeing Eddie Brock Venom since thats the one I grew up with. Venompool was fun. The Poison as a villain felt a bit underwhelming and dont even get me started on the rushed ending. What could have been an epic ending was watered down to just ok. The 'shawarma' was good but I am skeptic Marvel would return to Venomverse 2 anytime soon?!
July 12, 2021
Estuvo entretenido aunque siento que le faltó algo.
En la misma tendencia que el ya famoso evento de Spider Verse donde diferentes Spider Man de múltiples realidades se unen para enfrentar a una amenaza en común llega Venom Verse cuyo concepto es prácticamente el mismo.
La historia de este evento inicia con Venom cazando a un villano de Spider Man en su nueva faceta de ser un anti-héroe cuando de pronto es convocado a través de un portal que lo lleva a encontrarse con múltiples versiones de si mismo en una especie de New York Post- Apocalíptico. Cabe destacar que esas versiones aunque tienen en común ser huéspedes del simbionte Venom, el simbionte es portado por versiones alternas de los héroes del universo Marvel en una dinámica de What If? Debido a esto podemos ver como luciría el Ghost Rider de Robbie Reyes si tuviera un simbionte, Old Man Logan y Deadpool e incluso el Doctor Strange si estuvieran “venomizados”. Después de la impresión inicial, el Hechicero Supremo le explica a Venom que ha sido convocado para lidiar contra “Los poisons” una especie alienígena que es capaz de viajar entre realidades y que esta cazando a los Venoms del multiverso para fusionarse con ellos, arrebatarles la voluntad y ser parte de lo que ellos llaman “la colmena” y dicho sea de paso absorber los nutrientes del usuario humano del simbionte y matarlo.
Siendo totalmente honesto puedo decirles que el evento me gustó a pesar de carecer de toda originalidad posible hasta el punto de parecer una parodia del propio evento de Spider Verse pero con más violencia y humor negro. El guion te mantiene entretenido pues en todo momento hay batallas campales muy espectaculares entre los venoms y los héroes que ya han sido “poisoneados”, en ciertas partes de la historia habrán muertes de personajes que la verdad no se veían venir e incluso puedo decir que las interacciones entre los héroes y los 5 primeros números de “edge of venomverse” (cómics precuela que vienen incluidos en mi recopilatorio) son de lo mejor que he leído en algun tiempo en cuanto a dinámica de what if? humorístico se refiere pues nos muestran las aventuras en solitario de estas versiones del multiverso con una dosis de humor negro que si se siente bastante fresca a comparación del propio evento de venomverse.
El dibujo de la saga en general pues…no me gustó mucho, los trazos se ven muy simples y los diseños de los poisons literal solo son versiones blancas de los héroes con púas, si, hay momentos que se ven espectaculares y hay uno que otro héroe poisoneado o venomizado que tienen su enfrentamiento y que se ve excelente, pero fuera de los números de “Edge of venomverse” creo que en en general la saga no destaca mucho por el arte.
Es difícil decir que puedo recomendar esta saga pues yo soy muy fan de Venom y sin duda alguna creo que si volvería a leer el evento, pero es que hubo tantos peros a lo largo de la lectura que a riesgo de recomendar este volumen sin estar totalmente satisfecho yo diría que si eres fan de Venom, te gustó Spider Verse y no tienes problema con apagar el cerebro un rato con tanta inconsistencia, pues adelante, dale una oportunidad, al menos en el fanservice pues si cumple bastante bien.
En la misma tendencia que el ya famoso evento de Spider Verse donde diferentes Spider Man de múltiples realidades se unen para enfrentar a una amenaza en común llega Venom Verse cuyo concepto es prácticamente el mismo.
La historia de este evento inicia con Venom cazando a un villano de Spider Man en su nueva faceta de ser un anti-héroe cuando de pronto es convocado a través de un portal que lo lleva a encontrarse con múltiples versiones de si mismo en una especie de New York Post- Apocalíptico. Cabe destacar que esas versiones aunque tienen en común ser huéspedes del simbionte Venom, el simbionte es portado por versiones alternas de los héroes del universo Marvel en una dinámica de What If? Debido a esto podemos ver como luciría el Ghost Rider de Robbie Reyes si tuviera un simbionte, Old Man Logan y Deadpool e incluso el Doctor Strange si estuvieran “venomizados”. Después de la impresión inicial, el Hechicero Supremo le explica a Venom que ha sido convocado para lidiar contra “Los poisons” una especie alienígena que es capaz de viajar entre realidades y que esta cazando a los Venoms del multiverso para fusionarse con ellos, arrebatarles la voluntad y ser parte de lo que ellos llaman “la colmena” y dicho sea de paso absorber los nutrientes del usuario humano del simbionte y matarlo.
Siendo totalmente honesto puedo decirles que el evento me gustó a pesar de carecer de toda originalidad posible hasta el punto de parecer una parodia del propio evento de Spider Verse pero con más violencia y humor negro. El guion te mantiene entretenido pues en todo momento hay batallas campales muy espectaculares entre los venoms y los héroes que ya han sido “poisoneados”, en ciertas partes de la historia habrán muertes de personajes que la verdad no se veían venir e incluso puedo decir que las interacciones entre los héroes y los 5 primeros números de “edge of venomverse” (cómics precuela que vienen incluidos en mi recopilatorio) son de lo mejor que he leído en algun tiempo en cuanto a dinámica de what if? humorístico se refiere pues nos muestran las aventuras en solitario de estas versiones del multiverso con una dosis de humor negro que si se siente bastante fresca a comparación del propio evento de venomverse.
El dibujo de la saga en general pues…no me gustó mucho, los trazos se ven muy simples y los diseños de los poisons literal solo son versiones blancas de los héroes con púas, si, hay momentos que se ven espectaculares y hay uno que otro héroe poisoneado o venomizado que tienen su enfrentamiento y que se ve excelente, pero fuera de los números de “Edge of venomverse” creo que en en general la saga no destaca mucho por el arte.
Es difícil decir que puedo recomendar esta saga pues yo soy muy fan de Venom y sin duda alguna creo que si volvería a leer el evento, pero es que hubo tantos peros a lo largo de la lectura que a riesgo de recomendar este volumen sin estar totalmente satisfecho yo diría que si eres fan de Venom, te gustó Spider Verse y no tienes problema con apagar el cerebro un rato con tanta inconsistencia, pues adelante, dale una oportunidad, al menos en el fanservice pues si cumple bastante bien.
April 4, 2018
The story is okay. Most writers who write Venom tell the same dumb story. Venom vs more evil Venoms. That's it. Almost every writer does it and its boring. Either that or he fights Spiderman.
In this, he does both. Venom is pulled into an alternate universe by a symbiote possessed Dr Strange to help a resistance of multidimensional symbiote covered Marvel characters like Capt America, Old Man Logan, Deadpool, X23, and more battle against a race called The Poisons, who pretty much just convert symbiotes and their hosts into Poisons.
What sings here is the art. The story has some okay moments, but the art is fantastic. I would've given this a 3, but the digital copy is all sorts of messed up. It has the front and back covers, as well as the credits page of Edge of Venomverse, the prequel to this. I had to swipe in a few pages to see Ivan's amazing artwork to know that I actually purchased the right book. So it loses a point for presentation.
If you're a Venom fan like me, its worth a purchase. I own it in single issue format, printed trade paperback, and now digital. I really just love stating at the art. And there are a few awesome moments in the story.
In this, he does both. Venom is pulled into an alternate universe by a symbiote possessed Dr Strange to help a resistance of multidimensional symbiote covered Marvel characters like Capt America, Old Man Logan, Deadpool, X23, and more battle against a race called The Poisons, who pretty much just convert symbiotes and their hosts into Poisons.
What sings here is the art. The story has some okay moments, but the art is fantastic. I would've given this a 3, but the digital copy is all sorts of messed up. It has the front and back covers, as well as the credits page of Edge of Venomverse, the prequel to this. I had to swipe in a few pages to see Ivan's amazing artwork to know that I actually purchased the right book. So it loses a point for presentation.
If you're a Venom fan like me, its worth a purchase. I own it in single issue format, printed trade paperback, and now digital. I really just love stating at the art. And there are a few awesome moments in the story.
May 29, 2018
Rating: 3/5
October 25, 2018
Meh. Good but not excellent
July 12, 2018
I know there was a lot going on in this story but I just couldn't care about any of it.
For context I get much the same feelings for all of the "BIG" Marvel events, more heroes doesn't automatically make for better stories. This suffered a lot from that.
If you want something a little different by Mr Bunn I can't recommend Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints enough.
For context I get much the same feelings for all of the "BIG" Marvel events, more heroes doesn't automatically make for better stories. This suffered a lot from that.
If you want something a little different by Mr Bunn I can't recommend Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints enough.
December 21, 2017
[Read as single issues]
I love the idea of this book - Venom gets drawn into an interdimensional conflict with symbiote-targetting monsters, and Venoms from across the multiverse band together to win the war for reality. Great! Sign me up! But the actual execution is a little...flat.
The story meanders around for the first few issues, putting Venom the back foot as he and his new friends are slowly picked off by the Poisons. It's only once Venom rallys the troops and introduces a wildcard into the mix that things really take off, and then just when everything looks like it's going to end with a bang, it kind of just whimpers instead, with no lasting consequences on Eddie at all, and a tease for the upcoming Poison X Venom/X-Men Blue crossover instead of a proper resolution, which is disappointing.
Iban Coello tackles all five issues of the series, which is great considering it shipped weekly. Like the series itself, his art plays it pretty safe for the most part. The designs of the Venoms from across the multiverse, and especially the Poisons, are very good howver, looking a little like Beetleborgs crossed with Transformers crossed with Marvel heroes and villains. It's very 90s, and I love it.
High potential, not really allowed to fly as high as it could have.
I love the idea of this book - Venom gets drawn into an interdimensional conflict with symbiote-targetting monsters, and Venoms from across the multiverse band together to win the war for reality. Great! Sign me up! But the actual execution is a little...flat.
The story meanders around for the first few issues, putting Venom the back foot as he and his new friends are slowly picked off by the Poisons. It's only once Venom rallys the troops and introduces a wildcard into the mix that things really take off, and then just when everything looks like it's going to end with a bang, it kind of just whimpers instead, with no lasting consequences on Eddie at all, and a tease for the upcoming Poison X Venom/X-Men Blue crossover instead of a proper resolution, which is disappointing.
Iban Coello tackles all five issues of the series, which is great considering it shipped weekly. Like the series itself, his art plays it pretty safe for the most part. The designs of the Venoms from across the multiverse, and especially the Poisons, are very good howver, looking a little like Beetleborgs crossed with Transformers crossed with Marvel heroes and villains. It's very 90s, and I love it.
High potential, not really allowed to fly as high as it could have.
October 24, 2018
To think I was so hyped about this.
You know how Pikachu is heavily marketed by Nintendo/Gamefreak with its countless dress-up variations?
This is the Marvel equivalent of it.
Adds a cool factor to characters we never thought they needed, but essentially adding nothing to the narrative as a whole. The story is effectively a blunt pencil: there is no point at all.
You know how Pikachu is heavily marketed by Nintendo/Gamefreak with its countless dress-up variations?
This is the Marvel equivalent of it.
Adds a cool factor to characters we never thought they needed, but essentially adding nothing to the narrative as a whole. The story is effectively a blunt pencil: there is no point at all.
February 7, 2018
Honestly...prepared to hate it!
I actually enjoyed and the concept of multiversal Venoms quite a bit...and how they all react to Brock.
I would have liked to have seen Flash in this tale though too.
I actually enjoyed and the concept of multiversal Venoms quite a bit...and how they all react to Brock.
I would have liked to have seen Flash in this tale though too.
February 13, 2022
2.5
علشان ديدبول بس... لو ما فيها كنت بعطيها ١؟ وايد ضحكني ولما تحول كان حلو وايد شكله + شكيت فيه من البداية هيهي
+كارنج وايد كيوت ويضحك عايبني ابا اقراله اكثر سككسكسكسكش + فينم حرفياً ماله حضور يزعل؟؟ ذي اول كومك حاله اقراها المفترض تكون مذهلة بس الغلط علي ما اعرف اختار سكسكسكضكضك
علشان ديدبول بس... لو ما فيها كنت بعطيها ١؟ وايد ضحكني ولما تحول كان حلو وايد شكله + شكيت فيه من البداية هيهي
+كارنج وايد كيوت ويضحك عايبني ابا اقراله اكثر سككسكسكسكش + فينم حرفياً ماله حضور يزعل؟؟ ذي اول كومك حاله اقراها المفترض تكون مذهلة بس الغلط علي ما اعرف اختار سكسكسكضكضك
January 28, 2018
Worse than Edge of Venomverse. Just wasn’t a fan. Did not live up to Spiderverse in any way, shape or form.
April 19, 2018
Visualmente es bonito, pero la trama no es nada del otro mundo.
August 11, 2020
I read this after reading Spider-Verse and Spider-Geddon because I figured why not? I wanted to see the continuing adventures of the -verse stuff so I read Venomverse and...
Eh. It's a pretty lackluster series overall that has some interesting ideas but much like Spider-Verse and ESPECIALLY Spider-Geddon its strongest parts are the ones that aren't even related to the main story. Except unlike the other two this one has a rather big problem with those supplementary issues focusing on other characters.
Alright, so, first off, the main story line. There's an alien race called the poisons that are these really small white humanoid figures. If they make even the slightest bit of contact with a symbiote the two merge into one and the symbiote's host is essentially "digested" and they take over. They're also a little hivemind-y so there's that to deal with. So the poisons are extremely dangerous, and in order to combat them a version of Dr. Strange with a symbiote of his own summons symbiote-ified versions of characters from other universes to join the fight against the poisons. All of that's a cool enough setup, but the execution from there just doesn't do a whole lot. It offers a good deal of space to have super cool symbiote versions of characters like Captain America, Rocket Raccoon, Ghost Rider, and the like but it doesn't really do anything with them. They mostly exist to show up, be converted into poisons one at a time like it's a horror movie, and the series just has a rather anticlimactic finale that doesn't so much deal with the problem as hope it goes away.
It's just not a very good event. Thankfully it's much shorter than Spider-Verse or Spider-Geddon, but it's still almost entirely skippable. All except in one area.
The early tie-in issues setting up other alternate universe versions of symbiote characters are pretty cool. Seeing a symbiote version of Rocket Raccoon attempt to assassinate a mashup between Carol Danvers and Captain America is neat. Having the Punisher use a symbiote gun with teeth while he takes out the Kingpin is also super rad. And the easily best issue (in my opinion) is almost pure comedy, focused on Gwenpool and her symbiote trying to be a more nice hero so that she can impress Daredevil.
The tie-ins are fantastic, and I honestly want to buy the trade with only those issues. The event itself is pretty dull and the characters that had entire issues to set them up are killed off with little regard (Gwenpool isn't even in the event alive! When she shows up she's already been killed!)
Don't read the event. But do read Venomverse War Stories, and Edge of Venomverse.
Eh. It's a pretty lackluster series overall that has some interesting ideas but much like Spider-Verse and ESPECIALLY Spider-Geddon its strongest parts are the ones that aren't even related to the main story. Except unlike the other two this one has a rather big problem with those supplementary issues focusing on other characters.
Alright, so, first off, the main story line. There's an alien race called the poisons that are these really small white humanoid figures. If they make even the slightest bit of contact with a symbiote the two merge into one and the symbiote's host is essentially "digested" and they take over. They're also a little hivemind-y so there's that to deal with. So the poisons are extremely dangerous, and in order to combat them a version of Dr. Strange with a symbiote of his own summons symbiote-ified versions of characters from other universes to join the fight against the poisons. All of that's a cool enough setup, but the execution from there just doesn't do a whole lot. It offers a good deal of space to have super cool symbiote versions of characters like Captain America, Rocket Raccoon, Ghost Rider, and the like but it doesn't really do anything with them. They mostly exist to show up, be converted into poisons one at a time like it's a horror movie, and the series just has a rather anticlimactic finale that doesn't so much deal with the problem as hope it goes away.
It's just not a very good event. Thankfully it's much shorter than Spider-Verse or Spider-Geddon, but it's still almost entirely skippable. All except in one area.
The early tie-in issues setting up other alternate universe versions of symbiote characters are pretty cool. Seeing a symbiote version of Rocket Raccoon attempt to assassinate a mashup between Carol Danvers and Captain America is neat. Having the Punisher use a symbiote gun with teeth while he takes out the Kingpin is also super rad. And the easily best issue (in my opinion) is almost pure comedy, focused on Gwenpool and her symbiote trying to be a more nice hero so that she can impress Daredevil.
The tie-ins are fantastic, and I honestly want to buy the trade with only those issues. The event itself is pretty dull and the characters that had entire issues to set them up are killed off with little regard (Gwenpool isn't even in the event alive! When she shows up she's already been killed!)
Don't read the event. But do read Venomverse War Stories, and Edge of Venomverse.
October 11, 2019
I really was not sure what to expect from this, and I have to say I was more disappointed than I thought I would be. As a true Venom story, this is a riff on the Spider-Verse story that had been hinted at in a variety of Spider-Man stories. However, this Venomverse seems to entirely have been a what-if scenario that may or may not be canon. It would be interesting if it was part of a larger expansion of Venom's backstory, but I don't think it will be lasting. The problem with setting up the Venomverse in this way is that there is no narrative keeping everything together. The Poisons just happen to find this advantage over the specific Klyntar symbiote known as Venom? And enough of them figured out a way to pull other Venoms from other universes to build an army? All before the original Venom gets pulled into the fray? That is much harder for me to believe than the what-if of other heroes and villains encountering the Venom symbiote after it and Eddie first separated. And that is what I am hanging on to, since Venom is not Venom without encountering both Eddie Brock and Peter Parker first. The influence of their personalities combined is what made the Venom symbiote unique in the first place, so I really don't understand how some people, like Robbie Reyes or Laura Kinney, could have the same symbiote.
Ignoring all of that...the fights were fun, but I think the characterization of some of the Venoms and how they interact with their symbiotes could have been explored more. Specifically, a Venom Panther ruling Wakanda and the concept of Veno-MJ (Mary Jane Venom? IDK) are fascinating to me. I feel like T'Challa would be much more fearsome with the symbiote than he was shown to be in the book. And does MJ's inclusion mean that in her universe she is Spider-Woman? So many questions!
Overall, I have felt like the Klyntar have been underserved and not explored enough in the Marvel Universe, and I was hoping this would do more of that, which is why I was more disappointed than I thought I would be. I know there are stories I haven't read that that does some of that, so I will have to make it a point to track those down.
Ignoring all of that...the fights were fun, but I think the characterization of some of the Venoms and how they interact with their symbiotes could have been explored more. Specifically, a Venom Panther ruling Wakanda and the concept of Veno-MJ (Mary Jane Venom? IDK) are fascinating to me. I feel like T'Challa would be much more fearsome with the symbiote than he was shown to be in the book. And does MJ's inclusion mean that in her universe she is Spider-Woman? So many questions!
Overall, I have felt like the Klyntar have been underserved and not explored enough in the Marvel Universe, and I was hoping this would do more of that, which is why I was more disappointed than I thought I would be. I know there are stories I haven't read that that does some of that, so I will have to make it a point to track those down.
December 13, 2018
Tras leer edge of venomverse, esperaba que este evento fuera malísimo. La verdad es que me entretuvo bastante; no será el mejor cómic de este año, pero cumple con su tarea de entretener y dar fan service.
Al ver la alineación que nos esperaba para protagonizar el evento, (en edge of venomverse) me sentí decepcionado. ¿Acaso era necesario tener a x-23 y logan o a Deadpool y Gweenpool? Fue realmente horroroso que su idea de equipo de simbiontes incluyera dos veces al mismo arquetipo de personaje. Pero justo antes del evento, hay un cómic que se llama algo así como "Tales from the rebellion" o algo parecido en donde nos muestran en historias cortas, a 5 simbiontes más mucho mejores que los que habíamos visto antes.
Cuando el evento arranca va al grano. Y creo que eso se respeta en todo el cómic en general; no desperdician páginas o momentos, al ser una historia corta, aprovechan cada página para darnos un poco de acción y mover la historia hacia adelante.
Creo que lo que más lastima a este evento es que la premisa sea verdaderamente simple. Tenemos una guerra entre Simbiontes y Poisons; los simbiontes son buenos, los poisons malos y no hay nada más ahí. Bunn nos regala una historia de guerra, entretenida, si, pero endemoniadamente simple.
Hubo algunos momentos de fan service emocionantes como las peleas de Brock contra un personaje querido por todos, y que era de esperar que se enfrentaran.
El final queda con un súper cliff hanger para que decidas comprar Venomized, la continuación que nadie pidió del evento. ¿Yo? ya la compré así que no tengo más opción que leerla y esperar a que mejore aunque sea un poco.
Al ver la alineación que nos esperaba para protagonizar el evento, (en edge of venomverse) me sentí decepcionado. ¿Acaso era necesario tener a x-23 y logan o a Deadpool y Gweenpool? Fue realmente horroroso que su idea de equipo de simbiontes incluyera dos veces al mismo arquetipo de personaje. Pero justo antes del evento, hay un cómic que se llama algo así como "Tales from the rebellion" o algo parecido en donde nos muestran en historias cortas, a 5 simbiontes más mucho mejores que los que habíamos visto antes.
Cuando el evento arranca va al grano. Y creo que eso se respeta en todo el cómic en general; no desperdician páginas o momentos, al ser una historia corta, aprovechan cada página para darnos un poco de acción y mover la historia hacia adelante.
Creo que lo que más lastima a este evento es que la premisa sea verdaderamente simple. Tenemos una guerra entre Simbiontes y Poisons; los simbiontes son buenos, los poisons malos y no hay nada más ahí. Bunn nos regala una historia de guerra, entretenida, si, pero endemoniadamente simple.
Hubo algunos momentos de fan service emocionantes como las peleas de Brock contra un personaje querido por todos, y que era de esperar que se enfrentaran.
El final queda con un súper cliff hanger para que decidas comprar Venomized, la continuación que nadie pidió del evento. ¿Yo? ya la compré así que no tengo más opción que leerla y esperar a que mejore aunque sea un poco.
May 13, 2019
There is a very interesting core idea here.
First think of Venoms as zombies.
Now think of traditional zombies and personify the infection as a small creature called a Poison.
Venom zombies can be zombified if they touch Poisons
The book then explores the difference between the symbiotic relationship of Venoms and hosts and zombification.
There is even a meta commentary about how soulless it is to have each character be whomever they were but just have venom slapped on top for no reason. Wolverine has a symbiote, does he use it, no he is still just Wolverine, then why does he need the symbiote? To sell a future toy maybe?
Where this book fails, is that Cullen Bunn does not realize any of the ramifications of his story within the story. It is left to the reader and not in a show don't tell kind of way , but in a I am doing his job with this fan fiction kind of way.
The book is boring as a whole. Same series or future toys smashing into each other for no apparent reason then there is a twist, but you could see it coming and it is not much of a twist so there is another twist, but hopefully we never have to see it pay off.
Venomverse most likely exists because Spider-man did it and if Venom does whatever Spider-man does then you may see him as a hero by association, however, Venomverse does not devote any time to letting you care about the secondary characters and does not show any stakes about why stopping the bad guy matters (it tells you some, but I was not invested).
3 stars for my fanfiction about this, 1 star for the book itself.
First think of Venoms as zombies.
Now think of traditional zombies and personify the infection as a small creature called a Poison.
Venom zombies can be zombified if they touch Poisons
The book then explores the difference between the symbiotic relationship of Venoms and hosts and zombification.
There is even a meta commentary about how soulless it is to have each character be whomever they were but just have venom slapped on top for no reason. Wolverine has a symbiote, does he use it, no he is still just Wolverine, then why does he need the symbiote? To sell a future toy maybe?
Where this book fails, is that Cullen Bunn does not realize any of the ramifications of his story within the story. It is left to the reader and not in a show don't tell kind of way , but in a I am doing his job with this fan fiction kind of way.
The book is boring as a whole. Same series or future toys smashing into each other for no apparent reason then there is a twist, but you could see it coming and it is not much of a twist so there is another twist, but hopefully we never have to see it pay off.
Venomverse most likely exists because Spider-man did it and if Venom does whatever Spider-man does then you may see him as a hero by association, however, Venomverse does not devote any time to letting you care about the secondary characters and does not show any stakes about why stopping the bad guy matters (it tells you some, but I was not invested).
3 stars for my fanfiction about this, 1 star for the book itself.
May 26, 2025
So much running around for basically nothing. That ending sure wasn't a proper resolution because the bad guys are still around. I definitely won't be reading whatever comes next. This volume is far from worthwhile, unless you find the cool costumes to be enough. It's probably the weakest story Bunn has authored.
The Venom we all know and love gets transported into a different world where there are several more characters bonded with their own Venom symbiote. They are being hunted by an enemy that can take control of their symbiotes - the Poisons - and they are losing ground.
The Venom we all know and love gets transported into a different world where there are several more characters bonded with their own Venom symbiote. They are being hunted by an enemy that can take control of their symbiotes - the Poisons - and they are losing ground.
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