A whole menagerie of D-list villains are out to annoy Venom. He's probably going to do a lot more than annoy them back. Read Full Review

Venom: Lethal Protector #1 is a great continuation of a beloved classic. Michelinie returns to the character to remind readers of what the character was like during his first solo series. Both the slightly corny dialogue and the interactions between Eddie and his Symbiote is a fantastic demonstrations of how far they have come both together and separately. Read Full Review

That's okay though, because Micheline is willing to take the Marvel faithful back to school, but even though this can serve as a remedial course, truly this remix of "Venom : Lethal Protector follows the same vein of "X-Men Legends or "Spider-Man Ben Reilly, but without the same promo campaign for either title. But ever the underdog, Venom would be proud of the rollout for this series with Valenza's base colors, Fiorelli's art that is far from Clayton Crain level, but captures the simplicity of Venom's first foray into his own comic series, finding his own legs. Well, Eddie should not have any problem now, with the rich universe built around him that Spidey doesn't even have to pop his head into one issue of this new series ! Read Full Review

Venom: Lethal Protector #1 is a comic that's steeped in 90s nostalgia. The dialog and art is over the top in ways that aren't always good, but the plot is entertaining and has a lot of potential. Read Full Review

All in all, you could do worse than Venom: Lethal Protector #1 if you prefer a more vintage Venom story, but TBD on whether or not it builds up to something worth following. Read Full Review

Do you like old-school Venom? Then this is probably what you want, if not, keep searching. Read Full Review

A great start for a classic Venom comic. I really enjoyed the story. For now is much more simple and without gods or other cosmic creature as we are used nowadays. The story set just after Eddie is fired from his journal and it still hates Peter for what he did. In this issue he tries to be good, but unfortunately no-one ever belives him. Moreover, the presence of the life foundation is very interesting, what are they up to. This new foe, "Humbug", seems a bit weird but I have to say it works and hipe to understand more why he hates Eddie and Venom.
Great issue, grab it if you still can, a very old-fanshioned Venom story.

Not too bad, but I would have expected a better start.

It's a solid story, but a simple one. Like it's built of Duplo blocks when the modern audience is used to at least Lego complexity.

I really like the art. It's quite retro in its layouts, but the character designs are modern and most panels get an admirable level of polish.

The script is decent. Maybe even good. But the prose features a host of my unfavorite 90s writing tactics: tell-don't-show characterization, melodrama, repetition, inconsistent character voices, and a pathological interest in dad jokes and lame wordplay.

I wouldn't call David Michelinie a bad writer. But I would argue -- strenuously -- that he's a DATED writer. "I don't believe nothin's broke so I ain't a-gonna fix it," that's him.

This definitely is a full throwback to the early days of venom. However, what this book did for me is solidify how much I love how far they've taken this character of late. I do hope others get more out of this than I did. I don't think it is bad in any way it just wasn't for me.

Why does humbug always has a bad fate? No one was ever good to him in H4H and he was killed by Shang I don't know when he was revived but in this issue. He's gain showed as the bad guy. Show the guy some respect.

Now coming at the art which was fantastic! All the panels are well drawn especially the Venom ones.