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Just finished reading the first 10 issues of Spawn for the first time in my life. Really waited a long time to start this one!

Halfway through. Looking forward to getting deeper into the run. As someone who knows next to nothing about the character Thrawn I’m waiting to see when the villainous traits come out. Right now he comes off more as a highly intelligent and stoic tactician. I’m sure we’re getting there.

Somehow I’ve managed to never read a Star Wars novel, but I’m glad I’m starting. I don’t know how I came across Thrawn. In fact I’m not even caught up on the films yet! I might have just been browsing the Kindle library and their algorithm struck a note. I’m about a third of a way through the book and it seems to be laying the foundation for the additional books in Timothy Zahn’s run.

Overall this a very solid read, it has a 5 star feeling to it. The Deadpool run was super effective as were the stories that followed after.

Nearly done with this one and before any reviews or thoughts, I have to commend the author for having read the entire catalogue of Marvel up to 2017/2018. It’s an extraordinary feat and his knowledge of the Marvel Universe is unparalleled. That said, I’m not sure I see an overarching thread or point to this book other than to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the decades of source material.

It’s not that I’m NOT enjoying this story arc. But I feel Like I’m just seeing lots of red and repetitions of the same Carnage monologues replicated over and over again. I’m enjoying it enough, but also looking forward to moving on. Maybe I’m symbioted-out.

A lot of the first one third of this book crossed over quite a bit with the Donny Cates Venom run (Volumes 1 and 2). It’s now getting into some of the Spider Man stories which is great timing as I was feeling ready for a different perspective.