Venom #151
Writer: Mike
Costa
Art Team:
Gerardo Sandoval, Dono Sanchez-Almara
Marvel
Comics
Release
Date: June 14, 2017
Cover Price:
$3.99
Dino-Man’s Back and You’re Gonna Be in
Trouble
If you’ve
been out of the comics game for a few months and wonder how the Venom title
jumped from issue #6 to #150 don’t sweat it … just one of those quirky Marvel
numbering things. However you did miss
our favorite symbiote back up to some old shenanigans, with Eddie Brock behind
the controls to boot, despite recently being ‘cured’ of its madness. So what’s up with all this new drama, what
new adventures will Eddie as Venom get into, and will Flash came back around
trying to get his buddy back? Let’s find out the answer to some of the
questions and more inside in my week late review for Venom #151.
Things start
out in the New York City underground as some film students attempt to shoot a
scene under the lead of a pushy director.
As the actress heads off to investigate a strange sound we see signs of
something lurking in the shadows, not unlike a Venom smile, leading to screams
from our actress and not the good variety, much to the director’s chagrin.
From here we
check on Eddie, who has brought the priest he hurt at the end of the previous
issue to the hospital, as he struggles to get the symbiote to agree with him
about anything. On his walk out of the hospital he overhears one of the film
crew from the beginning of the book talking about what he just went through and
what attacked him in the sewers.
Venom
travels to investigate the situation and quickly runs into a giant humanoid Alligator
in the sewers under the city. After a
pretty cool fight between the two, which saw Venom get his tongue bitten by the
monster, our anti-hero gets the upper hand while noticing a clue on the beast’s
armor directing Venom to Alchemax but of course.
Venom drags
the monster back to where it came from, dropping it right on Liz Allen’s office
floor, as the two dance around each other verbally. Venom, familiar with the business Alchemax
runs, attempts to bribe Liz into determining what is wrong with the symbiote.
However, after some clever maneuvering by Liz where she figures Venom is a
wanted man, she manages to get ‘the pair’ to agree to do some bidding for her
as well.
Here’s where
we discover the clever twist of the story which is Liz is trying to cover up
and get ahead of some convoluted business practices between Alchemax,
government contracts, and Stegron (aka Dinosaur Man). Since Venom was
successful in bringing back one of Stegron’s monsters Liz wants him to do the
same for the rest of them out there including Stegron himself.
The issue
concludes as Venom heads off on his mini-quest realizing he has possibly bitten
off way more than he can chew at this point in time. He stumbles into a giant underground Dinosaur
Men world he is unprepared to do battle with as the issue concludes with Venom
being taken into custody to Stegron himself after taking a giant L.
Overall the
Venom title has been a guilty pleasure of mine from the Marvel lineup for a
long while now. Although I was a bit
unsettled at all the sudden changes happening to the symbiote after such a
strong period of development the answers are starting to trickle out getting me
back onboard with what’s going on here. The story, albeit a touch on the crazy
side featuring Stegron the Dinosaur Man, seems like its going to be a fun
action filled arc, which is always alright by me in my books of choice. The art still has a very computer generated
look to it, almost like it’s a Telltale video game, which makes it a little
stiff at times, but still enjoyable over all.
Bits and Pieces
Venom
continues to answer some questions about why the symbiote is acting the way it
is while throwing Venom into a new adventure versus Stegron. The book remains an action heavy title
anybody who enjoys the Spider family lineup of books will undoubtedly enjoy.
7.0/10
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