Venom: The End #1

The End #2

by Adam Warren, Rahzzah (Cover Art), Chamba (Artist)

THE FINAL VENOM STORY! The alien symbiote who bonded with Eddie Brock has been through a lot… but not nearly as much as he has coming. In a tale that literally spans over a trillion years, Venom travels the length of space and time as the last defender of life in the universe!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Science Fiction

30 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2020

About the author

Adam Warren (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his original graphic novel Empowered, for adapting the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book, and for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jeebus! That was terrible. I couldn't even tell you what it was about. The book is jampack of inane technobabble narration. Something about Venom living for billions of years. The art is decent, but the sequential narration doesn't even exist. It's just a bunch of random panels filled with narration boxes of gibberish. It took a pandemic to get me to finish this. Thank God new comics will be back soon.

[Bill · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting one-shot. The writer got to display an truly impressive array of techno-babble and the art's moderately "out there" (although in my memory, Steranko was more so).

If you're a hard-core Venom fan you'll probably love it. Ultimately, I came away with a sense of "well, that was an interesting waste of time".

[Victor Casas · Rating 1 out of 5]

Planeaba reseñar estos comics como un solo libro, pero esta historia fue tan poco satisfactoria, que creo que hubiera hundido mucho la calificación total de "The End" como serie, además que ninguna historia tendrá relación entre sí.

No sé si esperaba algo más trabajado o fue lo anticlimática que era la narración, pero esta historia se las arregla para ser aburrida y larga a pesar de tener tan pocas páginas. Es mi primer comic de esta serie pero ya no espero mucho de los demás... Creo que solo le daré oportunidad al siguiente y ya.

[Brian Garthoff · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great art to look at, utterly painful to read.

[Lukas · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a good comic and I would read it again!

[Stim sio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun and that's about it.

[Scotoma · Rating 5 out of 5]

For the most part, I don’t care for the various Marvel the End mini-series as they depict futures that will never come to pass, What Ifs that are as pointless as most of those futile exercises are. There are exceptions like The Punisher: The End but overall these are usually neither fun nor all that interesting.

What Adam Warren did with Venom: The End is one of the exceptions, utilizing the format and the freedom from the shackles of canon to tell a future history of the Marvel universe that mixes a bit of Stapledonian perspective with moments of the machine singularity craziness from Stross’ Accelerando and the humor that seems more Deadpool at times than Venom into something irreverent and yet majestic. A future history of the futile war between biological life preserved by Venom vs the rampant bootstrapped super AIs of all biological civilizations in the Marvel universe. There’s some clever usage of Marvel’s heroes’ genetic material by Venom to counterattack with various plans and some of the ideas Adam Warren comes up with are both inventive and utterly crazy.

While this kind of format is less like a typical story and more a recounting of a future history it’s done in a tone and style that makes this a fun read especially if your interest intersects with science fiction and future history. But what makes this stand out is how it uses Marvel concepts to create its own unique brand of history and with Venom at the helm makes for an interesting take. This is also one of the few The End miniseries that doesn’t end on a downer, so thanks for that.

Overall really inventive and for just 30 pages well worth the read and worth tracking down.

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Una propuesta en verdad curiosa. Abarcando ese controvertido tema sobre la más que curiosa relación del mismo simbionte Venom con Eddie Brock. Adam Warren se embarca en una ambiciosa y MUY pasada de rosca odisea cósmica donde el mismo tejido del universo y la realidad se pliegan a los deseos de Venom por mantenerse unido a la humanidad (y, sobre todo, a Eddie).

Es fácil que se nos atragante la narración. Desde luego no es una lectura fácil ni enteramente divertida (lo es precisamente por lo que cuenta que cómo lo cuenta). Pero es de las que hay que leer para creer.

[Patrick · Rating 1 out of 5]

Can't say I liked this one. A bunch of science terms being thrown around to make things sound more impressive than they were and honestly...the story just wasn't that interesting.

Most "The End" stories are, but this one was a real let down for me.

I do hope someone liked it though.

[Christoph Weber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Epic!

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a Venom fan, but I love high concept "The End" storied and Adam Warren gives one hell of a final wylde ride.

[Wes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Twisted.

[Michael Dunn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some real nice art, but I just think the direction for Venom taken here takes away a lot of the core traits I like about the character in favor of overly complicated epic sci-fi stuff.

[ceodantes · Rating 1 out of 5]

oh god. a COMPLETE mess.

[Dean · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's all exposition. Not very entertaining. It was slightly interesting but felt like an extremely long version of about introduction to a book series or film.