Venom is an interesting character starting out as a newly designed spiderman costume and becoming a sentient being. Though the editors did their best, don't expect many storylines from the first half of this collection to be resolved on page. Now being much older, I wanted to look into all of the Venom stories of the old comics that I was too young to appreciate before. Readers have whined about how Venom coming to MJ's apartment and trying to exploit Parker's position is so demeaning to MJ's character. While a great example of best of spider-man, some stories are kind of a snooze like the ones with puma amd the rose, but the main beats of this collection are great.

But ridding himself of his riotous raiment proves an even greater mistake when its alien enmity bonds with mortal madness to form our hero's most dedicated decimator! Later Spider-Man decides to have his suit checked out by Reed Richards, and right as they're studying the symbiote, we cut to the Hobgoblin, who takes out a bunch of the Rose's men to prove he's the Hobgoblin. I genuinely find it so ugly and bizarre it's distracting to my whole reading experience, but again, I do know that's not a universal opinion. Using sonic weapons they were able to temporarily disable Venom and inform him that his "son" is killing innocents.This isn't to say that Birth of Venom is all bad, as when it finally gets going, it's rather exciting. Venom and Spider-Man briefly fight until the assassins join them with Sonic weaponry to disable Venom. While this book definitely had some silly stuff you usually find in older comics, it was still very entertaining.

He tells Peter that he didn't attack because he didn't want to hurt innocent people and told him to meet him at the Seacrest Estate in Manruk.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

The problem with 80's Spider-Man is the pure daytime opera storytelling style which made my eye roll roll roll. There are a lot of dramatic sub plots as well which were too cheesy at times, but also humanised the characters.I think in almost every issue within this book, it had to be mentioned and explained what Spider-Man "spider senses" do. They fight with Venom winning and then leaves to find his foe at a meat packing plant where Peter was changing clothes. When Eddie Brock enters the picture, than it starts becoming mind-numbingly fun with some great help from McFarlane sketchy art.