It's Deadpool and Venom, y'all! If you're looking for a fun comic that adds some cool backstory to one of Spider-Man's best villains and Marvel's best heroes, check this out. It definitely didn't disappoint. Read Full Review

Fans of Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars will delight in Cullen Bunn's return to the 1980's era with this follow-up series that's possibly even more bonkers than its predecessor. Read Full Review

A large chunk of the book is taken up with where the Venom symbiote left Spider-Man, I like the material surrounding Venom and I like the little bit of Deadpool that we get. Can't say I'm interested in the aliens. The little promo captions at the bottom to allude the time period are a nice touch.

This was a solid start for explaining the movement of the suit from Spiderman's loss of it to Deadpool himself. That said, I'd kind of expected this series to be funnier, but there were relatively few quips or references in this issue at all, and the majority of it was mainly narrative exposition about how we got to where we are now. That would be fine, if it was interesting - but really the questions raised here are: if it's not humorous, then what is the mystery here, where is the intrigue, where is the captivating hook. More succinctly, why should we care about any of this at all? I have a feeling this series has potential to get better, and that this issue was just necessary filler. But really for a first issue you want the story to be engaging to a new reader - and honestly this was just plain and boring. more