Venom: Dark Origin Worth Reading?

[ArachnidAvenger]

I saw this when I was looking for TPBs on Amazon and it caught my eye. It's pretty cheap. I just want to see if anybody liked and if it was important to anything happening recently in ASM or other books.

[Mister Mets]

It's not important for anything that's happened in ASM, but I thought it was worth reading.

[ArachnidAvenger]

It's not important for anything that's happened in ASM, but I thought it was worth reading.Thanks. I enjoy Wells work so I'll get it.

[SomeBodyAtCBR]

I didn't like it. It portrays Eddie Brock as this kind of weak, awful person. It changed around his back story a lot.

And I still don't get why getting the lead on someone who calls himself a mass murderer and turns out not to be would ruin someone's career. What was he supposed to do? Wait until the guy kills someone on the phone to ensure he's the right guy?

[Mister Mets]

Thanks. I enjoy Wells work so I'll get it.Let us know what you think about it.

[ShadowSonic]

I didn't like it. It portrays Eddie Brock as this kind of weak, awful person. It changed around his back story a lot.

And I still don't get why getting the lead on someone who calls himself a mass murderer and turns out not to be would ruin someone's career. What was he supposed to do? Wait until the guy kills someone on the phone to ensure he's the right guy?

He kept writing about the guy and withholding his identity, when he should have just told the cops about this guy from the start. That way, the cops would have just told him that "The dude who called you was a false lead, sorry". As it is, he wrote a series of articles about this guy who the cops went after that turned out to be a fake. All those articles made the Globe look like idiots and liars so Brock had to take the fall.

At least this Eddie being some scheming Intern and not an experienced journalist explains why he never bothered doing a check on Gregg himself and seeing he was a compulsive confessor like an journalist would have.

And the "lied his whole life thing" explains why he hated Spidey so much: He was already nuts and hated Spidey for exposing his lie while totally forgetting about Gregg. After all, Gregg was a "fellow liar".

[SpideyZERO]

I think this series is worth reading. It potrays Brock as a troubled person who normally we will take pity on, then he copes with it the wrong way and ends up being a bad guy. Like Spidey said, Brock refuses to take responsible on whatever mistakes he has done. It's an interesting interpretation on Venom. I enjoy the art too

[matthewaos]

I liked that mini. I think it is worth reading. I also liked the art. I think Wells did a vey good job on this and Doc Ock year one.