It's so damn good even if it's super short. So the first part is a two parter of Brock being tested on by The Maker. So refreshing to have a good venom series again. It has a great plot, interesting characters, suspense with a sweet mix of horror and action! So I may have had a couple issues with this volume but nothing too major. So yeah, after a mindless but entertaining start to the series I was pleasantly surprised to find this volume is not-so-mindless but still entertaining. Only reason I read this volume right now despite a lot of other titles having been higher on my priority list is because I’m gonna be reading Absolute Carnage and a friend (Hi, James!) recommended I read this before Absolute Carnage. Volume 1- I considered dumb but entertaining. Most superhero stories have a comic relief element somewhere, that unfortunately seemed absent here. I was sitting there thinking who was he and what’s his deal (until the friend who recommended this mostly explained it, nothing explained in the comic). what?” Main thing was the not Reed Richards in this. I got most of it but a lot of things had me like “umm. It’s not terrible but could definitely use improvement. The ending! Oh my gosh, I don’t wanna say much about it but the ending shocked me so much! As a fan of Marvel and Horror this comic mixed the 2 extremely well. This is more of a horror comic than I expected it to be and I think that’s awesome. The action scenes are pretty awesome and very exciting!

Cates added a lot of depth to the Venom character in this volume and it’s great. So another big improvement, I actually care about the characters this time around.

We get some pretty great panels in this volume. In volume one while I considered it an entertaining read, I thought the story was maybe at least A LITTLE stupid so I like that the plot got better.

Venom the abyss