>>106728396Doubt it and if he did, by then most readers would've stopped caring anyways to go check. I tried to be positive, tried to "wait and see" where he was going with the story, and by this point I'd say the best way to fix things would be to have Eddie and the Venom Symbiote wake up from a "terrible fever dream."
Regardless of how "good" the art is or how "eh" the writing is. Cates just doesn't get the character of Eddie nor the Symbiote at all. Eddie since the beginning has been pathetically passive and anybody that knows anything about Eddie is that he's an active fucking participant.
Even when he's tied up in a straight jacket, he's planning and he takes any second of lowered guard. Symbiote or not.
Who Cates is writing isn't Eddie, it's some mopey loser that has life HAPPEN TO HIM. Can't believe it took me 11 issues of slogging to realize it wasn't going to get any better. For crying out loud, Venom is FUN. Not "Lol hyper meta/random" fun like Deadpool, but a fun that only a nutcase like Eddie could provide.
I could rant about this run forever and unlike the movie, the more I think about it, the more I hate it. I guess cuz I've sworn myself away from capeshit and the first time I allow myself to fall in love with a character enough to read the comics and get active with the current run, I get slapped with shit that actively tries to destroy everything that made those characters worth caring about. Just gross. I'll pretend that Venom ended with First Host and focus on actually good runs/stories.
At least I got the TBP for 50% in a Black Friday sale and then made my money back when I sold it to the Half Priced Book Store.
