While this issue deems itself the start of something epic, first impressions are anything but. Using the tired trope of another symbiote birth, it just feels as if this is a throwaway story for contractual purposes. The pencil and color work are done well, making Venom and his book look better than ever, but it feels like this path has been gone down before. By this point, what else can be done with Venom and Eddie? Costas answer is to usher in a new generation of symbiote antics, which hardly feels epic.