Venom #28

[cyberghostface]

 

Warning for suicide

Comments

[thanekos]

Points for the variation on " mystery villain who turns out to be someone familiar " - the unmasking was by someone who had no reason to care about their original identity, and then the villain effectively becomes an enhanced version of their older self.

[beyondthefringe]

Everytime they try to upgrade Scorpion, I feel an irrational fondness for the sleekness of his original design. It's silly, but at least it's not all armor-clad edgy like some of the redesigns have been.

[deh_tommy]

Oh fudge, I thought Virus was gonna be Jack O’Lantern.

So, does everyone in the squad know Dylan is Anne’s son?

[zachbeacon]

I can't talk about the rest of this comic. That thing growing on Peter's lip is too distracting.

[silverhammerman]

“Has a past, but he’s cool now” in reference to a serial killer is (probably intentionally) the funniest example of superhero comics’ highly contextual approach to morality and forgiveness possible.

So is Peter Parker Spider-Man here or no?

Bringing back Scorpion isn’t a terrible idea, given how he’s tied to Venom these days, but the whole Virus thing and now giving him an evil symbiote just doesn’t seem terribly inspired. Like, we all know that Scorpion is essentially a joke. He might well be the jobbiest of Spidey’s enemies, so unless he’s recontextualized in so way I don’t see him feeling like a real threat.

The Codex = Dylan revelation is silly and expected. I suppose the obvious resemblance between him and Knull is going to be used to loop this book back around to more Knull stuff yet again.

[cyberghostface]

I think Peter is just a reporter here.

[lordultimus]

He has a spider-sense, though.

[shakalooloo]

Love Reed's surprised face there!