"ILLUMINATION" STARTS HERE!
As Dylan Brock builds an army, his father and the original Venom, EDDIE BROCK, finds himself more alone than ever before, working through a change unlike any he's been through ever before! But the real question is: what will Eddie become once he's on the other side?
Rated T+
Eddie Brock continues his trippy misadventure through time and space, but the length of the current story arc is beginning to weigh on the comic, threatening to veer it off course. Read Full Review
Venom is clearly headed for an interesting place, but it's also been going on this road of genre babble for a while now. Read Full Review
Final Thoughts:Venom #18 gives us the conversation between Eddie Brock and the mysterious floating hand he met at the end of the last issue. The biggest problem is that this whole comic is just extensive exposition. Readers unfamiliar with the cosmic history of Marvel Comics and with Al Ewing's Defenders: Beyond series will be a little lost. On top of that, the comic kind of devalues Knull in a way that rubs this reviewer the wrong way. Overall, readers can either read or skip it at their leisure. Read Full Review
This issue is high science fiction at its very best.
If you'd have told me such a descriptor would apply to a book starring the epitome of the 90s Venom, id say it was unlikely.
Until you told me Al Ewing was writing it.
Best issue of the week. Ewing is so good at pulling threads and maximizing their effect to tell new, entertaining stories.
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Al Ewing's Venom is simply a lesson in comic book making, everything Ewing touches he raises to the tenth power.
I love this series so much.
Beautifuly crafted!
Good lord, Al Ewing is the man. This was just a really well-written issue. Ewing does a fantastic job of elaborating and building upon multiple aspects of the already complex story he’s been telling so far. On top of that, CAFU delivers some incredible art once again.
On its face, it's just a one eyed dude swimming in dead klyntar goo philosophizing to the hand but Al Ewing is writing this one so it's a pure joy to read. The way he goes around with his narrative to lay the connection to the king in black and the beyonders. I never bought into Knull's super villain level/threats from Cates' run even though he had me early one but it became cartoonish. Ewing cuts Knull at the knees and rebuilds in order to hopefully get Eddie away from that whole mess. We'll see if he can deliver on that. It is way too ambitious but man is it well done! Cafu is the perfect fit as his art is fantastic and so well detailed with no shortcuts taken and D'Armata kills it on colors.
Well, the art's gorgeous. I already knew CAFU could draw insanely great anatomy; it's nice to see they can also handle mind-bending cosmic weirdness.
It's a deep, thoughtful interlude for Eddie Brock, and I appreciate the way that character and plot both develop along rigorously rational lines. Once you get through it and look back at it, it fits perfectly with what's come before.
The cosmic weirdness itself, though? It's mark 1 Al Ewing cosmic weirdness, which is cool, but it's not exactly novel to me anymore. I've seen it in Ultimates, in Immortal Hulk, in Defenders Beyond. It's comfortingly familiar--which is not entirely a good thing when it comes to cosmic weirdness.
Finally, I'm not sure whether I feel more
I really liked this. It's incredibly complex yet so entertaining.
It's interesting for sure. It's just I feel like we aren't getting any real progression with the book. It's just keeps throwing me through more cosmic circles, and I am ready for more. I do feel like this issue will kickstart the next phase. Hopefully I'm right.
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