Venom #28-29 Review

 

Hello Everybody :). This is my first post on my all-new Marvel-ous Blog ;). I'm due to take over from Adam Zenobi as the regular reviewer for Venom on the site spidermanreviews.com starting with issue 30, so I thought I'd do a quick review of #28-29 to lead up to that. I'm new to Cullen Bunn's run on the series and if this is the standard, then I'd say right now, this is a decent comic book, the key word here being decent. Right now the plot, whilst there's some interesting occult stuff here and there, is pretty much an excuse to get Flash to move to Philidelphia (which in my opinion is just to get him out of the way of the new Spider-Man so Flash doesn't become suspicious). On the plus side though, Bunn has a good voice for Flash that's very consistant with Rick Remenders work on the series. I especially like the scene in #29 when Flash critcises himself for throwing around football terms when he should be saving lives, only to come right out and say how its just a cover up to mask his fear of failure.

Flash's sparring match with Valkrye is fun to read, the scene where Venom accidentily refers to Valkrye as his girlfriend is a much needed dose of humour in an otherwise tense and creepy atmosphere. The two make an interesting pair and I hope Bunn takes things in an interesting direction for them. The character of Katy Kiernan meanwhile comes off as a clone of Norah Winters from Amazing Spider-Man, only a little more annoying. The villians of this particular story are the U-Foes, who I've seen before but don't know anything about. They aren't very interesting as villians (though their ultimate scheme has yet to be fully unveiled) . Thony Silas provides some entertaining artwork that matchs Bunn's writing (although personally I prefer Tony Moore's work on the series). Ultimately, this isn't anything outstanding, but its still a decent read and I look forward to the resolution in #30. As for the future of the character, well, I like how far Flash has come since the early days of Spider-Man and honestly, I hope he lasts a few more years as Venom. Eddie Brock will always be my undisputed favourite Venom, but Flash comes really, really close...