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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
I'm presuming this is the big finale of the Ewing Venom run, since it's what the run has been building up to. It did increasingly feel like we were getting to a stopping point.
As we near the end, my feelings on this run are mixed. I hate time travel stories so I might be a tad biased. I dislike the whole Timey-Wimey Ball plot, but I do love the other central idea of the run, namely of Eddie going on a crazy cosmic journey as King in Black contrasted with Dylan dealing with more mundane stuff as the new Venom/Codex. The two writers aspect was also a bad idea, making everything more convoluted and there being a vast gulf between the experimental, boundary-pushing Ewing issues and the frankly So Okay, It's Average issues from the other writers; it's like Ewing is the only writer of the various ones working on it that really cares that much and isn't just sleepwalking through the assignment, getting Dylan to the required places so that Ewing can keep doing his thing.
Looking back, while there's a lot to like about this run, it needed more time in the oven and it also needed to have only one writer.
I kinda wonder how much of this run was planned and how much has been changed.
A long while ago it looked like we were building to a Team Kings in Black vs Team Venom fight. But the Dark Web event apparently messed with the idea by reverting Eddie's character over the last 20 years for another Venom v Spiderman round.
And now it looks like the big climactic fight with Meridius is being changed to accommodate Carnage's story arc for another rematch with him.
#IceBearForPresidentYeah I feel like this Venom run got really hampered by several factors including Ram V suddenly leaving. He was building up to something with his whole Carnage saga but that got sliced when he had to leave to being exclusive for DC, leaving other writers like Packnadel, Bunn, and now Gronbekk to pick up the slack on what he was building up.
Its likely that Carnage's sudden appearance in Venom issue 30 and the whole Necrosis crossover is them rushing the whole God Carnage storyline to a quick conclusion, especially since the Venom War announcement completely took even more of the remaining steam out of Necrosis. Which further proves the whole multiple writers thing was a bad idea because of how quickly things fell apart if the other writer suddenly leaves.
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Wasn't it stated that Ewing doesn't have much interest in Spider-Man? If true that probably transfers to the rest of the Spidey franchise including Venom and probably explains some things with the books direction.
TIL Spider-Man is apparently prohibited
from drinking beer
by order of Marvel.
Edited by lalalei2001 on Feb 25th 2024 at 5:57:56 AM
The Protomen enhanced my life.![]()
"Sure, I can't drink beer, but I'm a science major, I'll do my own special alcohol !"
Edited by Thesegougou on Feb 25th 2024 at 1:20:25 PM
I'm not crazy, just creatively different.Peter also once got Unsuspectingly Soused when he unknowingly drank spiked punch at a party (Web of Spider-Man vol. 1, #38). He then ended up having to fight Hobgoblin like this, culminating in him tying himself to an electrical tower with webbing as he tried to swing on it, and only barely escaping before the villain rammed him head-on with his bladed glider (which, thankfully, shorted out the cybernetic controls to the Hobgoblin's glider, which caused him to be rocketed away screaming).
And yes, Spidey was wearing the black suit then, though in this case, it was the cloth replica that Felicia made, not the Venom symbiote. And when Peter returned to the party demanding to know who spiked the punch, it turned out to be his then-landlady's husband.
Edited by TrashJack on Feb 25th 2024 at 1:19:48 PM
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
It was Macendale, according to the Marvel wiki. In hindsight, I should have realized it was him at the "rocketed away screaming" part. Kingsley never would have been humiliated like that, especially not at the hands of a sloshed Spidey.
Edited by TrashJack on Feb 25th 2024 at 1:20:33 PM
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary

How is Normie Osborn doing these days? Is he still pals with Dylan?
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"