This iteration of Scream shows a lot of promise. The book has a good lead in the form of Andi (Agent Venom’s former sidekick, Mania), it has one of the best supporting cast members in comic history, Aunt May, and the book is coming out during a time when symbiotes are actual characters and more popular than ever. So what went wrong? For starters the book has a good bit of filler. Scream encounters the main antagonist of the book, Big Mama (Marvel’s iteration of Grendel’s Mother from the Beowulf myth) and then just repeatedly gets captured and breaks free. The forms Scream takes to escape are cool (shout outs to the art team for all their cool monster designs), but when the same thing happens again, and again, and again in the SAME SPACE for multiple issues the book gets very boring and feels padded out for no reason. Another strike against the book is the way the flashbacks are handled. I’m all for seeing more of Thor fighting symbiote dragons, but the accompanying narration was excruciating. I don’t know if the text was the story of Beowulf verbatim, but I remember hating the old English of the original myth and this was a slog to read through. Eventually I stopped reading the text in these sections and just followed the visuals, as the art did a great job showing the action and Thor traveling throughout the realm hunting Big Mama. I don’t really have any strong feelings about this book being cancelled, but I hope Andi gets another shot at stardom sometime soon.