WHAT IF...BEN GRIMM BECAME VENOM? When BEN GRIMM returns to Earth after his exploration of space post-SECRET WARS, he finds that the FANTASTIC FOUR has trapped a helpless Klyntar symbiote in Reed's lab! But is that symbiote really helpless? Or is it truly one of the most dangerous symbiotes in the galaxy? Witness the birth of a brand-new VENOM!
While it only has 36 pages to explore its ideas, there is something engaging about the ideas on display in What If...? Dark: Venom #1,even if they are mired in an over the top edginess that fails to deliver on the poignancy of themes that could have otherwise been really strong. Read Full Review
Sadly, the third act turns this interesting relationship into pure edginess, but there's 2/3 of an interesting and badass at times comic in What If Dark Venom #1. Read Full Review
It's yet another skippable installment in this new What If? line. Read Full Review
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"Ben Grimm is ashamed of his monstrous appearance" is a pretty played-out vein. Creators have been mining it for 60 years. Still, this issue tackled it with enough storytelling skill in the words and art that I was initially on board. It continued to look and sound good all the way through.
But the proposition that Ben Grimm is a weak man; the trite, Nietzschean theme at the end; and the gratuitous killings curdled my enthusiasm.
(Also, the absence of Johnny Storm--the team member BUILT out of anti-symbiote powers--was awfully conspicuous.)
I can't deny it's a story told fairly well. But I question if it should have been told at all.
ben grimm gotta be the dumbest guy in the marvel universe
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