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Venom by Donny Cates Vol. 3: Absolute Carnage
by Donny Cates
This is the Venom side of the Absolute Carnage event, though it doesn't have much Venom in it (he is busy in the main event comic, I guess).
It starts with Eddie trying to adjust to not having Venom then quickly gets them back together because of course and also Carnage is coming up. This is pretty weak after the last issues of emotional abuse and gaslighting, and makes them seem even more pointless and ill-conceived.
Putting that aside, Venom teams up with Spider-Man to try to stop Carnage from collecting codexes to wake Knull up, which is bad. They leave Dylan (Eddie's kid) and Norman Osborne's kid with The Maker while they go to break daddy Osborne (who believes he is Carnage from some past events I don't know) out of jail so the can test The Maker's codex extracting device on him. Seems a bit ethically suspect, but this is a Venom book so it is probably fine.
Most of this arc focuses on Dylan and Normie back at the lab as they deal with The Maker being a creep, a symbiote from space named Sleeper coming to help, and a crew of Carnage spinoffs coming to take Normie's codex.
It is not your normal super hero stuff, but is fun. I read it interlaced with the events of Absolute Carnage, which probably helped to ground things and make this more consequential. Bringing in the Norman Osborne angle and Sleeper feels like a non-sequitor but works to move the story forward. I also like The Maker here as just a very suspect version of Reed Richards.
I liked this overall and I think it really needs to be read alongside Absolute Carnage to give it stakes and make sense of what is going on here.
I am reading it in the Cates/Stegman Venomnibus and it is one of the better sections so far!
It starts with Eddie trying to adjust to not having Venom then quickly gets them back together because of course and also Carnage is coming up. This is pretty weak after the last issues of emotional abuse and gaslighting, and makes them seem even more pointless and ill-conceived.
Putting that aside, Venom teams up with Spider-Man to try to stop Carnage from collecting codexes to wake Knull up, which is bad. They leave Dylan (Eddie's kid) and Norman Osborne's kid with The Maker while they go to break daddy Osborne (who believes he is Carnage from some past events I don't know) out of jail so the can test The Maker's codex extracting device on him. Seems a bit ethically suspect, but this is a Venom book so it is probably fine.
Most of this arc focuses on Dylan and Normie back at the lab as they deal with The Maker being a creep, a symbiote from space named Sleeper coming to help, and a crew of Carnage spinoffs coming to take Normie's codex.
It is not your normal super hero stuff, but is fun. I read it interlaced with the events of Absolute Carnage, which probably helped to ground things and make this more consequential. Bringing in the Norman Osborne angle and Sleeper feels like a non-sequitor but works to move the story forward. I also like The Maker here as just a very suspect version of Reed Richards.
I liked this overall and I think it really needs to be read alongside Absolute Carnage to give it stakes and make sense of what is going on here.
I am reading it in the Cates/Stegman Venomnibus and it is one of the better sections so far!