Eddie and his symbiote get wallopped with a 2x4 of Mysterious Past. The exposition is admirably integrated with two excellent action scenes, and each character gets a separate Past to puzzle over. For Eddie, there's the discovery of previous generations of symbiote-wearing men. And for the symbiote, a more Lovecraftian threat that's millennia older. This is just about as promising as a fresh start can get; words, ideas, and art are all superb. I felt ever so slightly let down by the colors, though - grim doesn't have to be drab. The sheer density of ideas and events packed into this issue is formidable, even with its allotment of extra pages.
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