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Venom (2003) (Collected Editions)
Venom, Vol. 3: Twist
It's symbiote vs. symbiote, and Spider-Man is forced to play damage control as the two bloodthirsty Venom creatures cause havoc in the city Patricia Robertson must gain control of the alien symbiote that's eating away at her long enough to kill the original Venom, Eddie Brock. But Spider-Man has other plans and enlists the help of the Fantastic Four.
Collecting: Venom 14-18
Collecting: Venom 14-18
120 pages, Paperback
First published December 8, 2004
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January 26, 2025
Skottie Young makes this book readable. It’s still terribly written, but you can see why Skottie became a household name even in this early work. His art is cartoony and exaggerated like the other artists that preceded him on this run, but he has a much better grasp of visual storytelling, composition, and page layout. I can at least say that Daniel Way or the editor recognized what they had with Skottie, and it seems like they game him room to breathe. There are multiple splash pages and two page spreads that really makes this arc feel like the grand culmination of the run. The art adds weight to an otherwise pretty incomprehensible and boring story. Edgar Delgado’s colors are also great.
November 2, 2022
Somehow it got worse. The plot is nonsensical. Spider-Man is here because OF course. Guess wolverine didn't move enough units. Two venom fighting couldn't be anymore boring.
Yeah shit, this was bad.
Yeah shit, this was bad.
July 15, 2015
I don't know why this series appears to have so little love in the comic book reading community. I loved it. I'll probably even read it a second time later this year as I run low on new stories to read.
Loved the story and I really dig the art work. It is very stylized, but as long as you like the style that isn't a bad thing, at all.
Very happy with this run overall.
Loved the story and I really dig the art work. It is very stylized, but as long as you like the style that isn't a bad thing, at all.
Very happy with this run overall.
July 27, 2024
(Read in 2004, review from 2024)
At the time this was frustrating reading this because 6th grade me didn't realize a comic book series could be canceled without resolving the plot. So this one ended on a cliffhanger with several unresolved plots and I have no idea if they were wrapped up in another Marvel series. Other than that action was good but it was frustrating how stupid a lot of the characters in this acted.
At the time this was frustrating reading this because 6th grade me didn't realize a comic book series could be canceled without resolving the plot. So this one ended on a cliffhanger with several unresolved plots and I have no idea if they were wrapped up in another Marvel series. Other than that action was good but it was frustrating how stupid a lot of the characters in this acted.
February 17, 2025
The ending didn't quite live up to the beginning. This is a little confusing as all the different players come together. I assume this is still considered canon, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned much. Overall this was a decent Venom series, but it started out so strong and then sorta fizzled.
October 2, 2022
This book is a Mess, and it's easy to see why it was cancelled. It's a Spider-Man/Nick Fury/Fantastic Four/Venom story where they throw a hundred plot ideas at a wall, and they all smash through the wall, and land in a sewer.
The Is The New Venom Good Or Is It Evil / Is the weird character created for this series Good or are they Evil / Venom Symbiote Vs Venom Symbiote story is just a mess, and I didn't care about any of the characters.
Also, the two Venoms look so alike that you're never quite sure which one you're following, which COULD have been a cool conceit (or "Twist" as the title implies) but is just an absolute mess of a story where you get the idea that neither the artist nor the writer had any idea what they were doing.
It's one of the worst Venom books I've read so far, which, I guess, is an impressive feat.
The Is The New Venom Good Or Is It Evil / Is the weird character created for this series Good or are they Evil / Venom Symbiote Vs Venom Symbiote story is just a mess, and I didn't care about any of the characters.
Also, the two Venoms look so alike that you're never quite sure which one you're following, which COULD have been a cool conceit (or "Twist" as the title implies) but is just an absolute mess of a story where you get the idea that neither the artist nor the writer had any idea what they were doing.
It's one of the worst Venom books I've read so far, which, I guess, is an impressive feat.
September 28, 2022
Well, of the three collections in the run, this was by far the best, but that isn't saying much. The whole story (across all 18 issues) was disjointed, weird, and just patched together. This volume at least tried to piece things together somewhat, but it ended on a cliffhanger that (I don't think) ever really resolves. It seems like overall, this story is swept under the rug.
Skottie Young did his best to try to artistically represent the hodgepodge of characters he was given, but all in all, this whole run should be skipped, even by the most adamant Venom fans.
Skottie Young did his best to try to artistically represent the hodgepodge of characters he was given, but all in all, this whole run should be skipped, even by the most adamant Venom fans.
May 10, 2016
No idea what's going on in this book or who these people are! Worse off...I just don't care! The writing in this is terrible and they make these characters look like the biggest idiots! I didn't make it very far into this...it was just bad! The art in this is pretty far off too as most of the characters look like Plastic Man with incredibly elongated features.
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