Venom #26

Grnbekk's intriguing tale of corporate greed, fatherly abandonment, and finding help in unlikely places continues to be an enjoyable and violent read. The introduction of symbiote Black Widow was the perfect way to spice up this book, and her full debut with her new slimy partner was gorgeously written by Grnbekk and beautifully illustrated by Ohta and D'Armata. Even with my reservations about pacing and placement within the greater whole, this issue was a blast to read, and I highly recommend everyone pick up Grnbekk'sVenom as long as they can. Read Full Review

Venom #26 takes the comic into a drastically different direction, making for a slightly awkward issue that is uplifted by spectacular visual presentation. Read Full Review

After the bombastic Venom #25, it's hard not to feel anything but being let down by the new direction of the series. Read Full Review

maljoss

Nov 06, 2023

This comic is very good. Starting with the art, Julius Ohta did some great work. No inker listed, so it's all on him, and he nailed it. The characters look good, and are drawn consisntently. His interpretation of symbiot effects, particulaly transformations leaned into horror, which I enjoyed. His story telling is very good - pages layed out cleanly, and easy to read, 4-5 panels per page. A single real splash page, and it's done right, taking advantage of the a page turn. The colors look really good, the generally dark pages broke up with blues and reds rather than gray-scale. This comic looks great. This story, by Torunn Gronbekk, was rather good. It's a revenge story. It's a corporate greed story. It's a sinister secret organizatio n story. Gronbekk has blended these elements into something really dark and interesting. I want to see where this goes. Frankly, it's more interesting to me than whatever "timey-whimey" shenanigans Ewing is up to (God, #25 was mediocre). There are narration boxes, but they're used sparingly, and to good effect. Overall, I really enjoyed this comic more

Screaming Enigma

Dec 07, 2023

I still miss whenever Al Ewing is writing this series, but this issue wasn't bad by any means. I do believe that this was an improvement over her previous issue and I do think that Natasha with a symbiote is interesting, but I wish this tied in more with the story we've been getting previously. I think that maybe Ram V. leaving the title to sign exclusively with DC may have had a hand in derailing previous plans for this series, but I just wish this was better. Hopefully everything ends up coming together nicely.

Afre

Oct 12, 2023

It's pretty okay, placement is very questionable again. However, it's not fair to compare Gronbekk's run to Ewing's, has Ewing has had 2 years worth of setup, whereas Gronbekk only just started. I don't see how this is connected to Absent Throne and Meriudus yet, and I hope this won't become a side story.

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daspidaboy - Oct 18, 2023

Did al Ewing left Venom?

Afre - Oct 25, 2023

No, he returns in #29. Torunn took over Ram V's part of this comic, who is now working for DC exclusively for few years.

CrazyforRAMU

Jun 07, 2025

The art's pretty fantastic, and I think the premise of the story is fundamentally workable. I totally failed to connect with this script, though. It lays out the antagonist in the driest, most expository way. It also presents a thoroughly generic spy lady and insists it's Natasha Romanoff. I'm just not buying that yet. Maybe I can be convinced in the future.

DaddyChar

Oct 14, 2023

I really think Venom should just be a one writer book right now. At the very least when V was on he tied it in to what Ewing was doing.it does not seem like Grønbekk is making an attempt to bridge the gap between Eddie and Dylan. On it's own merits I also think the issue is only ok and doesn't utilize enough of the art to tell you how a character is feeling instead opting to have like 10 narrator bubbles on any given page to tell you what the characters are thinking

DDJamesB

Oct 15, 2023

Eh. I was enjoying the Ewing story. This issue just did a complete change and not really for the better. Just another slightly decent symbiote story.