Definitely a linking issue but still had enough Frank beating some ass to be enjoyable and the flashback was just really cool.

A very enjoyable read that sets up some really interesting situations that Im looking forward to seeing how are resolved over the next few issues.

Another great issue of Venom that kept building and progressed the story in a meaningful way. For a book, without really any fight scenes of anything crazy for the artists to really sink their teeth into it looks fantastic and shows the ability of the art team to take a story such as this and make it look so badass. As with Donnys style again there was an interesting cliffhanger at the end that has me bursting at the seams to get my hands on issue 12!

This book going to be huge and Cates is really doing some awesome things blazing a new trail in Marvel Cosmic and now he has been able to effectively shed some of the burden of catching people up we are really going to see this book get crazy. BUY IT!