Venom #15

Fans of Dylan Brock should pick up Venom #15 to see how he's turning from a reluctant kid to a heroic leader. You'll need to pick this up to understand how Normie goes from an afraid kid to his eventual turn as Red Goblin. Read Full Review

Splash pages really earn their place in the story this month with Hitch's ability to draw amorphous muscular bodies never looking better than two symbiotes beating the snot out of each other. Read Full Review

Afre

Jan 19, 2023

I really like how Eving and Ram are using Dark Web crossover to move their own story forward, instead of taking a break while this event happens to focus on demon shenanigans. This is the best kind of tie-in I would say. The issue itself is fine. Not the best and New York looks to have a lot less demons in it, but writing is still solid.

Psycamorean

Jan 25, 2023

I can't deny the drop in quality when Ram V picks up the scripting reigns. But this was still good.

Screaming Enigma

Nov 29, 2023

A solid issue here. I hate to say it, but I'm starting to dread whenever V. is writing an issue. It's not because he's not good at writing, as I typically enjoy his work and I do think his story with Dylan in this series is pretty solid. It's just that Al Ewing absolutely kills it just about every time he writes this book. I like V. as a writer, but I really do wish this series just had Ewing writing it. As much as I like V., Ewing's writing is just much more interesting when it comes to this series.

DDJamesB

Jan 19, 2023

It was pretty good for the most part. The part I really struggle with is that in issue #200, the ending is Eddie seeing Dylan become Venom. Then this series starts in a way that he didn't want Dylan to bond with the symbiote. Then that kind of got put on the back burner, but now it's being brought back and it's jarring. I get that between creative teams, things get switched, but it's hard for me to follow that the end of Cates run its fine and now all of us sudden he shouldn't bond because he changes codex.

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Afre - Jan 20, 2023

There reason why Eddie didn't want Dylan to bond with the symbiote in #1 isn't that. In #4 (from Dylan's viewpoint) and in #9 (from Eddie's viewpoint) Eddie learns that bonding with Venom caused Dylan to be taken by the Life Foundation. Dylan informed him "bonding with the Symbiote got me in this trouble in the first place!"

Afre - Jan 20, 2023

So Eddie then travels even more back in time in #9 to the events of #1 (while his own past self from #1 was still traveling through time) and during that time he called Dylan and informed him not to bond with symbiote, hoping that he could stop the future from happening. But before he could inform Dylan about Archer, Meridius forces Eddie to move to Bedlam's body, leading to the events of #10.

DDJamesB - Jan 20, 2023

I actually really appreciate this. I will have to reread. Thank you.

Federico Liguori

Jan 26, 2023

Not the biggest fan of this part of the story. It's a little random and generic, but not necessarily bad.

CrazyforRAMU

Dec 26, 2023

My comparatively low rating isn't *entirely* about the weak introduction of the guest star at the end--but that is definitely pushing the needle down for me.