Sunday, November 18, 2012

Venom #27 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

After the excitement of the last two issues, this one is a bit of a pause, allowing the various converging storylines to merge.  The problem is that we don't really get anywhere until the end of the issue.  Bunn emphasizes that the symbiotes are slowly killing the Microverse and most of the issue is dedicated to a fight with the Enigma Force, Kaine, and Venom on one side, the symbiote army on another, and Carnage on his own side.  The denouement comes at the end of the issue, where Flash takes control of his anger and somehow uses it to destroy the symbiote army.  Bunn isn't entirely clear on how he manages to do that and I have to admit a little eye-rolling as we once again plumbed the depths of Flash's tortured soul.  Is there any problem that can't be solved by him crying over his father?  I also didn't really follow how Carnage dissolving somehow turned him into a mini-symbiote army in the Macroverse, but hopefully we'll learn more about that in the last issue.  I'm a little concerned that the shift to the Macroverse is going to side-step the issues we have in the Microverse, like who the Redeemer and Marquis Radu really are.  But, I guess we'll see.

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