Venom #163

Venom #163 is noticeably flawed, but it is a fun enough installment. The action is fun and fairly creative, and the artists put in great work, the latter of which really holds the entire issue together. I can recommend this one, even if it isnt exactly a must-read. Feel free to pick it up. Read Full Review

Poison-X concludes by throwing shocks our way that carry no real emotional weight due to previous developments with the X-Men's fate. Read Full Review

Perhaps when the larger Poisons storyline that Cullen Bunn is telling is complete this chapter will feel more worthwhile, but for now, it just feels like a derailment of what he had going on in X-Men Blue. Read Full Review

DDJamesB

Mar 08, 2018

Poison-X was fun. It wasn't a masterpiece by far, but it was entertaining and I did enjoy it.

JG3

Apr 05, 2018

Solid issue, some decent action mixed in, obviously this crossover is going to lead to something bigger, but not bad

CrazyforRAMU

Sep 20, 2018

The X-Men take their beating - Teen Jean is MIA with a pretty pessimistic outlook - and run off. Eddie and Venom are blessedly released into Mike Costa's hands for one last sliver of actual character work. The Starjammers foreshadow the upcoming "Venomized" event with all the promise and enthusiasm of a smog warning. The plot is heavy on action and short on creativity; it's just heroes fleeing from unstoppable Poisons for 20+ pages. Add on some extremely unpleasant proportions in the art - you get heads that are too big or too small and never in the goldilocks zone - and you've got a comic that's not fatally flawed but is thoroughly hard to enjoy.