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Venom (2003) (Collected Editions)
Venom, Vol. 2: Run
Venom sets his sights on a tasty little snack hanging out in the northern regions of Canada: a short, hairy Canadian guy with a bad temper...the X-Men's Wolverine!
Two of the deadliest and most relentless forces in the Marvel Universe face off in a grudge match neither is guaranteed to walk away from! Plus: Where's Eddie Brock? And, what turned this one-time Lethal Protector into a bloodthirsty homicidal maniac? The shocking truth behind Venom's resurgence is revealed!
Collecting: Venom 6-13
Two of the deadliest and most relentless forces in the Marvel Universe face off in a grudge match neither is guaranteed to walk away from! Plus: Where's Eddie Brock? And, what turned this one-time Lethal Protector into a bloodthirsty homicidal maniac? The shocking truth behind Venom's resurgence is revealed!
Collecting: Venom 6-13
192 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2004
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February 17, 2025
This is turning out to be a good series. In this volume, we get Venom vs. Wolverine, as well as a prequel showing what lead up to the events in Volume 1. This volume sets the series firmly in the Marvel U. The art is a different style than I'm used to, but it's growing on me. (No pun intended given this is a Venom series.) Too bad the series didn't last longer, as there's only one more volume.
November 2, 2022
Somehow the plot got dumber. Wolverine is added in the storyline to move units. Only can take so many issues of wolverine being taken down by venom before gets boring. Weird clone subplot. Yeah this story is mostly bad but least the art is good.
July 11, 2015
I've noticed that this run of Venom isn't the most popular with readers. I'm really not sure why. I mean, he's still an alien symbiote and he's going to have to be like that for a while. Those familiar with where he's from and where he's going can look at this story as a very interesting phase of his life.
Heck, this could count as his late-teens or early twenties. He's almost the Venom he can be.
But this story? Fun. I know the art is VERY stylized. Luckily for me, I really dig it. Like, a lot.
Personally, I like this run and can't wait for volume three to arrive so I can finish it off.
Heck, this could count as his late-teens or early twenties. He's almost the Venom he can be.
But this story? Fun. I know the art is VERY stylized. Luckily for me, I really dig it. Like, a lot.
Personally, I like this run and can't wait for volume three to arrive so I can finish it off.
July 27, 2024
(Read in 2004, review from 2024)
Read this one right when I was getting started in Marvel comics. Was one of my first exposures to Venom the character and this story, where a Venom clone fights and temporarily infects Wolverine was a fun one for an 11 year old. In hindsight Wolverine with a symbiote wasn't as rare as I thought and the plot is heavily inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing (not the Marvel Thing) but this was still fun read for the time.
Read this one right when I was getting started in Marvel comics. Was one of my first exposures to Venom the character and this story, where a Venom clone fights and temporarily infects Wolverine was a fun one for an 11 year old. In hindsight Wolverine with a symbiote wasn't as rare as I thought and the plot is heavily inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing (not the Marvel Thing) but this was still fun read for the time.
March 1, 2023
Story = 2, art = 4
August 9, 2016
Still not sure I really like this Venom series. He has always been a character with a lot of promise, especially when he is in his most 'heroic' mode.
This series to me though isn't Venom, there is no human host a la Eddie Brock it is just the symbiote trying to find hosts in a desolate landscape. As much as Way tries to instil some interest in the supporting characters it really doesn't work for me personally. The 'named' star of the book has nothing to it other than been violent and hungry for hosts. The first volume wasn't that good and that was based on the classic John Carpenter film 'The Thing'.
This one is even less interesting even with some nice touches (the female duo hunting the symbiote) and the addition of Wolverine feels like one of the most blatant 'lets get more readers' grab I've read!
This series to me though isn't Venom, there is no human host a la Eddie Brock it is just the symbiote trying to find hosts in a desolate landscape. As much as Way tries to instil some interest in the supporting characters it really doesn't work for me personally. The 'named' star of the book has nothing to it other than been violent and hungry for hosts. The first volume wasn't that good and that was based on the classic John Carpenter film 'The Thing'.
This one is even less interesting even with some nice touches (the female duo hunting the symbiote) and the addition of Wolverine feels like one of the most blatant 'lets get more readers' grab I've read!
May 25, 2021
The second third of Daniel Way's justifiably cancelled Venom series takes his cool premise from the first volume and tosses the new Venom symbiote at Wolverine. It then tosses in some Fantastic Four continuity, and transforms from an interesting horror/sci-fi premise to a Run Of The Mill superhero book with too many characters, none of them developed in an interesting way. Also, the art starts to degrade from Stylistic to Messy as the story goes on.
I wouldn't reccomend this volume to anyone but the most die-hard Venom enthusiasts, and I don't think this volume is going to make them very happy.
I wouldn't reccomend this volume to anyone but the most die-hard Venom enthusiasts, and I don't think this volume is going to make them very happy.
December 27, 2017
Missing issues?
First off, fun book. After the symbiote escaped in the last book, it really cuts loose in this one. Venom vs Wolverine. New characters named Vic and Frankie are pretty cool. Patricia and The Suit are back. And we get some references to Mr Fantastic somehow being involved and that Spidey will play a role in the next volume.
The only bad is that I think this volume is missing books. Its advertised as issues 6-13, but its actually only 6-10. I quickly looked at Volume 3 and it starts with issue 14, so I guess 11-13 are just not printed in these volumes. So part of me feels like I'm missing a chunk of the story, and since this volume costs more than the other volumes but is advertised to have more issues in it, I'm taking some points off in my review. Great story, great art, but not the reading material it advertises.
First off, fun book. After the symbiote escaped in the last book, it really cuts loose in this one. Venom vs Wolverine. New characters named Vic and Frankie are pretty cool. Patricia and The Suit are back. And we get some references to Mr Fantastic somehow being involved and that Spidey will play a role in the next volume.
The only bad is that I think this volume is missing books. Its advertised as issues 6-13, but its actually only 6-10. I quickly looked at Volume 3 and it starts with issue 14, so I guess 11-13 are just not printed in these volumes. So part of me feels like I'm missing a chunk of the story, and since this volume costs more than the other volumes but is advertised to have more issues in it, I'm taking some points off in my review. Great story, great art, but not the reading material it advertises.
January 21, 2025
The artwork gets quite a bit better with this arc. Paco Medina is continuing the more exaggerated and cartoony look started with the first arc of the series, but his visual storytelling is more clear. The coloring also continues to be strong. The story continues to slowly crawl, and the addition of Wolverine is absolutely unnecessary and underutilized. The protagonist from the first arc is sidelined for Logan, and we lean almost nothing about the different mysteries agents hunting Venom. This is the story in which a “nuke” is randomly dropped on Wolverine in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, and almost nothing is done with the idea. He immediately rebounds and there are seemingly no consequences.
September 25, 2022
I've read Daniel Way's stuff before and really enjoyed it, much less so with this run. The artwork throughout remains "cartoony", and the entirety of the story seems jostled and incoherent. The last 3-4 pages at least tie things up, and clear up some of the divergent lines, but overall this whole run has been mediocre at best. I'll finish it out, but I'm severely underwhelmed.
August 18, 2017
At least the first volume was a rip-off of John Carpenter's "The Thing"--this piece of crap is so dull that it's honestly made me want to take a full break from Venom stories, altogether. Everything from the art to the dialogue is absolutely atrocious. Can't believe this shit was published.
January 1, 2020
This made me want Venom, Wolverine, and Reed Richards in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I love the simplicity of the tale. I read this entirely with the idea that I did not want to read something complicated in mind. It's fun and it's fast.
December 3, 2022
Esta parte me ha gustado menos que la anterior a pesar de ser también bastante entretenido y te deja con un final abierto que te deja entendido que la trama seguirá
November 6, 2023
Crap crap mega crap
November 7, 2020
Wow, this was superfluous.
I've never been a fan of Way's, or his Wolverine, and the "art" regresses from not-to-my-liking in the beginning to WTF near the end (very bad Humberto Ramos wannabee).
I have read some of the single issues preceding this collection (and did not like them) and of the two storylines contained herein the first continues the apparently masterless sybiote's killing spree, with some minor, mostly unexplored, characters trying to stop it, others, even less rounded, trying to catch it for their own purposes.
Also, there is a completely unnecessary Wolverine guest-appearance here in what - after volume 1 - amounts to another five issues of drawn-out nothing.
The second story at least reads like a story and explains some of the background to what happened in this "Venom" series so far (which, as already stated, is not much. Hunt, hunt, kill, kill, slobber, slobber. By then ten issues worth...).
It also presents the most unlikeable portrayal of Reed Richards I've read in a long while, and...still leads to nothing.
I really do not care enough to take a look at the sequel.
I've never been a fan of Way's, or his Wolverine, and the "art" regresses from not-to-my-liking in the beginning to WTF near the end (very bad Humberto Ramos wannabee).
I have read some of the single issues preceding this collection (and did not like them) and of the two storylines contained herein the first continues the apparently masterless sybiote's killing spree, with some minor, mostly unexplored, characters trying to stop it, others, even less rounded, trying to catch it for their own purposes.
Also, there is a completely unnecessary Wolverine guest-appearance here in what - after volume 1 - amounts to another five issues of drawn-out nothing.
The second story at least reads like a story and explains some of the background to what happened in this "Venom" series so far (which, as already stated, is not much. Hunt, hunt, kill, kill, slobber, slobber. By then ten issues worth...).
It also presents the most unlikeable portrayal of Reed Richards I've read in a long while, and...still leads to nothing.
I really do not care enough to take a look at the sequel.
February 6, 2016
WOLVERINE!! 8D
I loved how he was kind-of treated as a side-line character, where each time he got up to beat Venom, somebody would taze him, explode him, possess him. Whoa, poor guy. He was just minding his own business and then, all these people come in. Feel so baaad for the guy but it was hilarious, anyway.
I loved how he was kind-of treated as a side-line character, where each time he got up to beat Venom, somebody would taze him, explode him, possess him. Whoa, poor guy. He was just minding his own business and then, all these people come in. Feel so baaad for the guy but it was hilarious, anyway.
April 2, 2013
6-10 Run. Guest Starring Wolverine.
11-13 Patterns. Prologue. Guest Starring Fantastic Four and Nick Fury
December 3, 2018
The art of the early naught’s hurts my soul. Pretty well written though.
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