I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.The more knowledge the better seems like a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity’s unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.-Sarah Vowell

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 6: Venom by Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Mark Bagley (Penciler), Art Thibert (Inker), Rodney Ramos (Inker), Transparency Digital (Colorist), and Chris Eliopoulos (Letterer)


In the previous comic, Captain Gordon gets killed as a result of a robbery and Gwen comes to stay with Peter and Aunt Mae which causes Mary Jane to become even more jealous. This coupled with the nightmares that she's been having and Peter not seeming to care about her life causes Mary Jane to break up with Peter.  Spider-Man must face off against a fake Spider-Man who is robbing places and giving him a bad name not to mention getting him shot by the cops.  His healing factor plus some help from S.H.I.E.L.D. help with that.

Aunt Mae gives Peter a box of his dad's old stuff and inside is a video of a picnic that he attended with a kid named Eddie Brock and his family.  So he decides to look up Eddie Brock and finds him going to college nearby and working on something that their fathers worked on that he's working on with Dr. Connors.  It's supposed to be a cure for cancer. It's a suit that you wear.  They used Peter's dad's DNA for the black blob of the substance.

One night Peter gets curious about it and breaks into the lab as Spider-Man and takes a small sample to test, but a drop gets on him and changes him into a black version of himself.  He runs into a man who he believes killed his uncle Ben and he is ready to kill that man.  He is barely able to rid himself of the suit.  When he tells Brock of his discovery and the dangers of the suit and that he destroyed the substance, Brock is furious.

But Brock had a second sample and Brock takes the sample for himself and becomes Venom.
He can't control it the way Peter could and he kills the janitor and the two security guards.  Peter, meanwhile, has a heart-to-heart with Mary Jane and says all the things that need to be said while Venom comes for him.

Eddie Brock is not a sympathetic character in this comic as he is in the Venom comics. He's to be blunt, an asshole and getting powers just made it worse.  Peter was looking for someone to connect with the past with and this is who he gets. On top of that, he has two angry females in his life: Mary Jane for doing what he does and Gwen for introducing her to Eddie.  Now more people know his secret too.  Peter just can't win in this comic which is what makes it so good.  I give it four and a half out of five stars.

Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Vol-6-Venom/dp/0785110941/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E8UCOVLX7JSZ&keywords=ultimate+spider-man+vol+6&qid=1554293837&s=gateway&sprefix=ultimate+spider-man+vol+%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-1

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