Buzzword Readathon #4

So I understand why certain choices in this comic were made but that doesn't mean I need to like them. On the whole I found the experience of reading this pretty insufferable, and I know that may sound like an overreaction but once you read this you'll know what I mean.

The Venom in this comic is a post-Peter Parker, post-Flash Thompson Venom who is much more into being the hero nowadays. Unfortunately, Lee Price is the next person to find the symbiote and he is very much into the whole villain thing. Now, as I said, I understand the choices made here; I understand that Lee is meant to be unlikable. But the problem is that he isn't even a fun kind of unlikable. He's the kind of unlikable where you want his mere existence wiped from your brain.

My other big issue ties in with my hatred of Lee; this comic is stuffed to the brim with dark, angry men, and it got extremely tiring after a couple volumes. The story and art unfortunately aren't anything to write home about, either.

Then, suddenly, at the end of issue 5 there's a beacon of hope in the form of one Mr. Eddie Brock. And, spoilers I guess, by the end of the volume we've gotten rid of Lee and Eddie's back with his darling. Honestly, if you're interested in Mike Costa's Venom run I would recommend just skipping to volume 2 because this really functions more as a prologue so we know how Eddie and the Symbiote came together.