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A NEW SERIES BY DONNY CATES & RYAN STEGMAN!
In the wake of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s collapse, an ancient and primordial evil has been awakened beneath the streets of New York, and with it, something equally evil has awakened in that most Wicked of Webslingers - VENOM! Still a Lethal Protector of the innocents in New York, this never-before-seen threat could force Venom to relinquish everything it holds dear - including Eddie Brock! Join two of the hottest creators in comics today, Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman, for a VENOM adventure a thousand years in the making!
Rated T+
Eddie and his symbiote get wallopped with a 2x4 of Mysterious Past. The exposition is admirably integrated with two excellent action scenes, and each character gets a separate Past to puzzle over. For Eddie, there's the discovery of previous generations of symbiote-wearing men. And for the symbiote, a more Lovecraftian threat that's millennia older. This is just about as promising as a fresh start can get; words, ideas, and art are all superb. I felt ever so slightly let down by the colors, though - grim doesn't have to be drab. The sheer density of ideas and events packed into this issue is formidable, even with its allotment of extra pages.
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