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Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Graphic Novel)

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Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Although the extent to which I knew this character only included his stint in the Spider-Man Playstation One game, I always held that he was the best villain in the Spider-Man universe.

Brock directs the symbiote to imitate a gaurd's uniform and plays dead Some dumb-ass gaurd thinks he's a fallen colleage and turns off the noise blasts and Venom kills him and escapes to NY.I will say, and I know this is personal preference, but I just HATE the 80s comic art, which was the last chunk of this collection. Honestly, apart from the two pages of Secret Wars, I feel like I could have skipped this volume entirely. He brought Venom to the Fantastic 4; they put him in a sonic containment cell and shipped him to the Vault.

I think that would have slightly helped this collection, since readers would not have been anticipating Venom the whole time and thus could not be disappointed when he only shows up at the very end. It starts with how Spiderman gets the black costume, then has some issues from Amazing Spiderman of him learning about the costume and fighting crime with it, then his separation from it, followed by the first two battles Spidey has with Eddie Brock/Venom. To be fair, this book does exactly what it states: It offers background for the symbiote and its second host Eddie Brock to become Venom. Peter succumbs to the bells before the symbiote does, but it saves him cause it can't just let him die.Despite being a big Marvel fan, this was the first time that I read about the earlier stories involving Spider-Man and Venom. The symbiote is the main focus here, but the book also gives the spotlight to the villains Kingpin, the Hobgoblin, the Rose, and Jack O'Lantern.

Only later into the graphic novel do we finally see the separation of the symbiote and Spider-Man, which leads into the origin of Venom. If you take the superhero element out, Peter Parker and his family/associates/friends could read like a quality soap opera. And this collection has a giant hole in its center, leaving out Gang Wars, Peter's wedding to Mary Jae, Kraven's Last Hunt, and more. Later Spider-Man decides to have his suit checked out by Reed Richards, and right as they're studying the symbiote, we cut to the Hobgoblin, who takes out a bunch of the Rose's men to prove he's the Hobgoblin.While this book definitely had some silly stuff you usually find in older comics, it was still very entertaining. I'm not complaining about their appearances in the book, but rather how they're thrown in as plot devices.

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