Venom #160

VENOM INC pt. V

Written by Mike Costa
Penciled by Gerardo Sandoval
Cover by Gerardo Sandoval
Published Jan 10, 2018

   Venom, Flash Thompson, Mania, and Black Cat move in on Lee Price's gangster summit armed with rounds of anti-venom. Meanwhile inside, Spider-Man is one of them. They prepare for the attack when he makes a joke - a noticeable mistake. When they turn on him, he shoots his anti-venom coated webs and the calvary bursts in. They all fire at the inklings mercilessly while Spidey appeals to the newly freed Hammerhead for help.

Ready for action!

   As they fight, each supervillain is slowly brought back to reality. Mania throws the antivenom but is concerned her symbiote may be hurt in the process. Finally Price mobilizes his armory and once they're able to shoot back, Spidey and company make their move.

You sure this stuff is safe?

   Eddie explains to Flash that they need to stop thinking like soldiers and more like suicidal maniacs. He drops to the floor and tells Andi to hit the bullets he’s wearing around his midsection. She does so and the explosion takes out all the remaining Venom slaves. But when Eddie expects to be separated from his symbiote as well, he sees Spider-Man above him, shielding him from the blast.

Mum's the word, Edward.

   They collect themselves and realize the tiny alien shards seem to all be heading in one direction. Andi hesitates, afraid that harming the symbiote would harm her own. But either way, it’s a moot point. The shards slowly begin to merge all around Lee Price. With that, these heroes are about to have their hands full, but unfortunately for us, we’re left to be continued.

Venom + Guns = SUPER SCARY VENOM!

   You know, it’s pretty cool that the Dan Slott era of Amazing Spider-Man begins to wrap with such an awesome crossover. Another interesting part of this all is that you get multiple sides of Venom - the good from Flash Thompson, the evil of Lee Price and the plain confused middle ground of Eddie Brock. Not to mention Black Cat, I’d be scant to find something to criticize about this arc. I give this one a 9/10.

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