• Venom's back and badder than ever!
• But people are starting to take notice, including Mac Gargan, who's suited up as the SCORPION for the first time in years!
• Also featuring another WEB-SLINGING, WALL-CRAWLING, SPIDER-SENSE-ATIONAL GUEST STAR!
Rated T+
The Venom/Scorpion grudge match is off to a great start. Scorpion is a more threatening villain here than he's been in some time, and Lee Price is almost sympathetic for a change. Bring on round two. Read Full Review
I'm still hoping that Lee meets a grisly and undignified end"just not with the symbiote. I'm not sure what it says about the series that a savage, id-controlled parasite is more interesting than the main human character, but I'll keep reading (and enjoying) the book if it continues its current upward swing. Read Full Review
Perhaps it's just as well that Venom seems due for a major status quo upheaval so soon after its debut. The series simply isn't working in its present state, as the compelling portrayal of the symbiote itself is undercut by an aggressively boring main character. This issue also compounds the book's visual troubles by featuring two artists with wildly incompatible art styles. Read Full Review
If you are looking forward to the May 2017 release of Venom #150 do not let this series get you down. We can assume this flat story telling of new host, Lee Price, will either get the hint, get a swift kick in the ass and make some changed or he will become a foot note in the history of Venom hosts. This book does have the potential to tell a great story and do a lot to set up the inevitable return of Flash Thompson to the Venom scene. The art has the possibility to really be great, it just needs the right direction to allow it to stand out in the right ways and not let it come across as incoherent. If you are feeling down after reading this issue just do a Google image search for Todd McFarlane Venom and take a nice trip down memory lane to get yourself pumped up for issue #150. Read Full Review
Venom & Scorpion use an intimidation gig as an excuse to thrash each other. I am getting frustrated with reading this cheap ripoff of a Hong Kong action movie instead of the story of how Venom and Flash broke up. This issue also features one of the worst art mismatches in recent memory. The six Jaunan RamÃrez pages dropped into Gerardo Sandoval's comic are the penciling equivalent of a surprise banjo solo in the middle of an Al Green song.