YMMV / Venom (2021)

• Awesome Moments:
  • Eddie and Bedlam's face-off in issue #20, ending with a Battle in the Center of the Mind where Eddie unleashes a devastating "The Reason You Suck" Speech on Big Red.
  • With a little help from Kang and Doom, Eddie gets a time machine, and uses it to get to the Garden of Time... and land it on Meridius.
• Broken Base: Many fans have come to lament the slow narrative pace — with Al Ewing generally writing one Eddie Brock issue for every four Dylan Brock issues Ram V writes — and come to see Ram V's half of the series as inferior to Al Ewing's, with the main positives being the return of the Life Foundation and more content featuring fan-favourite Sleeper. The Venom symbiote backsliding into corruption for the umpteenth time, Dylan being an Inadequate Inheritor to Eddie both in-universe and out-of-universe, and the Series Continuity Errors related to Extreme Carnage have also been criticized by fans; but on the flipside the lore-building and sense of mystery that Al Ewing has been cultivating has been praised and largely met with interest, with Meridius being seen as an interesting antagonist and even an improvement over Knull. However, with the reveal that all the Kings In Black are Eddie at different points in time, with Eddie outright becoming Finnegan to prove it, this has changed with many fans frustrated that Eddie is being forced to regress in his character development after Donny left him at his most heroic.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Funny Moments: In issue #25, due to a case of broken time machine, Doctor Doom and Eddie wind up in the Cretaceous. Doom explains his time machine creates "synchronicities" and wonders what on Earth could be there connected to either of them. Cue Venomosaurus Rex!
  Doom: Any relation?
  Eddie: Don't look at me.
  V-Rex: Brroooockk...
  Eddie: Seriously, I have no idea.
• Just Here for Godzilla: General consensus amongst readers of the first few issues is that the issues written by Al Ewing are the main reason to read it. While Ram V's portions are not considered bad, they're inferior and uninteresting compared to Ewing's time-bending Myth Arc that takes the character to insane and exhilarating new places, much in the way Ewing has before with books like Immortal Hulk.
• Nightmare Fuel: The inciting incident of the plot, with the "Ringo" symbiote getting possessed by (as we later learn) Meridius and slaughtering a hapless group of alien refugees.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Leaving aside the typical fandom complaints about Eddie Brock no longer being Venom again and the cosmic shakeup to Venom's status quo, several fans have lamented the series not following up on the new status quos established by Extreme Carnage — which ended with Sleeper being bonded to a former soldier named Hank; while Venom has it inexplicably hostless and in the form of a cat, living with the Brocks again. Ram V has admitted this was because he started writing the scripts for Venom and Carnage while unaware of the specific details on how Extreme Carnage would be ending, with editors doing nothing to correct the ensuing continuity errors until it was too late, and stated on Twitter that he'd come up with an in-universe explanation for Sleeper no-longer being bonded to Hank — which came into effect in Venom #11.
• Unexpected Character: The final page of Free Comic Book Day 2022 hit fans with a triple-whammy: Normie Osborn apparently becoming an Anti-Venom version of the Red Goblin, Lee Price somehow back from the dead, and Flexo the Rubber Man — a Golden Age character who previously had nothing to do with symbiotes.