Venom #34 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)`

OK, sure, it's not too hard to write a great symbiote-vs.-symbiote story, but I have to give credit to Bunn all the same, because I really enjoyed this issue.  Bunn made it pretty damn clear that Flash was getting his ass handed to him and his "Hail Mary" play at the end showed the kind of tactical decision that a former combat veteran like Flash should make but, frankly, often hasn't.  (For a moment, I was worried that he was going to play dead...again.)  Bunn built the tension to that final moment really well, in no small part thanks to Shalvey, who really goes to town here in showing just how much more powerful Toxin is than Venom.  Moreover, Bunn's makes it clear in this issue that Venom is still going to be spending the next few issues cleaning up the U-Foes' mess, since the Symbiote Slayers seem to be from the same batch of experiments as the Figure was.  It's an approach that at least explains why this number of crazies have suddenly flooded Philly's streets.  It can't last forever, but, for now, at least, it's working.  Good stuff.