This is a good one-shot that does well to build off what we know and set up some interesting threads going forward. It does, however, feel a bit slow in its middle as it lacks some real conflict for a long portion of the tale. The cover is sadly misleading too, but that's pretty normal these days. All that said, if you're at all interested in Sleeper, the newest Symbiote to hit the scene, don't miss this. Read Full Review

While other Web of Venom titles opt for more obvious horror, The Good Son #1 takes another less traveled, but just as creepy path. Gifted a truly haunting energy by Zac Thompson and a very capable art team, Web of Venom: The Good Son #1 is the start of a creepy slice of Marvel life that we rarely see in the 616. Even with an early drag in the opening pages, this Web of Venom spin-off shows real promise. Read Full Review

Overall, this package as a whole was okay. Outside of Funeral Pyre, these Web of Venoms haven't really been grasping me, and this newest one is just…fine. Seeing Dylan be a negative influence character archetype was different and took a minute for me to roll with, but I can't say I really hated it. If its a condition of being under Knull's influence, there's not much the kid can do, and it saves the character from being a sudden heel-turn from out of nowhere. Still, it's an issue that shows the two boys sneaking out and causing some trouble, before ultimately coming to blows themselves. The most important take away is the revelation of Dylan being far from a Good Son like we thought. All in all, its just an okay story, with okay art. Read Full Review

A creepy kid story that just barely touches on nature vs nurture when it comes to these kids of famed baddies. Read Full Review

Web of Venom: The Good Son is an important chapter in the unfolding saga of Venom vs. Knull. Many will want to pick it up for that alone. The writing is solid, but at the same time, no moment really makes this book stand out to me. Because the art is kind of hit or miss, I can’t say that everyone needs to read this right away. Read Full Review

Moments of greatness can be found in the art by Dio Neves but overall it cannot overcome the general lacklust in the narrative. Read Full Review

I actually enjoyed this. No seriously.. I did

It's quite good. We actually get to see characters are reacting to the trauma of Absolute Carnage and it's unsettling. I'd love to see more stories like this, and see them go even deeper in exploring how kids deal with the messed up stuff they see, and the adults we consider heroes simply abandoning them.

A really good read but i just wish they would explain whats going on with Dylan already

" Exactly ! My dad was a goblin. He's scared i'm gonna be a goblin too. Our dads are the same. Monsters who just pretend they're human. "
- NORMIE OSBORN

It's really interesting to see how the children of Spider-Man's most prominent frenemies, Eddie Brock and Harry Osborn (Venom and Green Goblin), develop their relationship with their similar backgrounds. This issue feels pretty important regarding what's going on in Donny Cate's Venom run. My biggest problem is how the dialog doesn't always match what is shown in the art. For example, characters facial expressions don't always match with what they are talking about. I think at one point Eddie says Normie hit a baseball too hard while Normie is clearly holding a mitt and Eddie has the bat. Aside from that, the additional short Sleeper story is pretty cool.

Dylan and Normie have themselves a mark-one creepy child adventure playing with Dylan's leftover shred of Carnage. Normie's got himself some Goblin Childe PTSD, but Dylan has flat-out Wrongness in him. There's some pretty important plot work for the Venom-verse here, but the storytelling is the wrong sort of creepy. The B strip is a smaller, more successful, but also less ambitious bit of backstory for Sleeper.

This wasn't very good. The first story felt so convenient and out of place. The second story was unnecessary, but fine.

I thought that the Thompson credited on the cover was Kelly Thompson and boy was I disappointed.