When Venom does make his entrance and Spidey and Sonja do team up, the book pick ups speed immensely. Spidey makes with the quips. Sonja focuses on her true enemy, and she even gets in a couple of unwitting wisecracks at Spidey's expense. I was also pleased that Sonja treated Venom like the loser that he is, and Gath killing all the redheads is a nice little glimpse at his hatred and fear of Red Sonja. Now that the decompressed preliminaries are in the can, Spider-Man and Red Sonja just might turn out to be half-way decent. Read Full Review