3.5
Venom: Lethal Protector Prose Novel
ByPublisher Description
The first of Titan's new series of original Marvel novels, starring Spider-Man's arch foe Venom in his anti-hero role as the Lethal Protector.
WHEN EDDIE BROCK BECOMES BIOLOGICALLY LINKED TO A
BIZARRE ALIEN SYMBIOTE, THE TWO SHARE A COMMON GOAL.
At first they seek to squash their arch-foe Spider-Man. After repeated attempts, Venom reaches an uneasy truce with the web-spinner. Brock leaves New York and heads west to San Francisco, the city of his birth, eager to put trouble behind him.
Trouble has different ideas.
Brock commits himself to becoming a defender of the innocent, but he's a six-foot-three-inch, 260 lb. figure with bulging muscles and fangs like a shark. Venom quickly draws attention--first from a furious Spider-Man, who's certain Brock has broken his word, then from a team of armored enemies who set out to kill the "Lethal Protector."
Venom joins forces with the web-spinner, only to face an even deadlier threat--five trained killers, each wearing a symbiotic suit like Brock's.
These are the Spawn of Venom,
and they're out for blood.
WHEN EDDIE BROCK BECOMES BIOLOGICALLY LINKED TO A
BIZARRE ALIEN SYMBIOTE, THE TWO SHARE A COMMON GOAL.
At first they seek to squash their arch-foe Spider-Man. After repeated attempts, Venom reaches an uneasy truce with the web-spinner. Brock leaves New York and heads west to San Francisco, the city of his birth, eager to put trouble behind him.
Trouble has different ideas.
Brock commits himself to becoming a defender of the innocent, but he's a six-foot-three-inch, 260 lb. figure with bulging muscles and fangs like a shark. Venom quickly draws attention--first from a furious Spider-Man, who's certain Brock has broken his word, then from a team of armored enemies who set out to kill the "Lethal Protector."
Venom joins forces with the web-spinner, only to face an even deadlier threat--five trained killers, each wearing a symbiotic suit like Brock's.
These are the Spawn of Venom,
and they're out for blood.
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3.5
“What a waste of time. I decided to read this because I wanted to try something featuring Venom and I can say this is not a great way to experience the character.
Venom has left New York and returned to Eddie Brock’s home town of San Francisco in hopes of becoming the hero the city needs. He unfortunately does what Venom does and kills a criminal in his first day in the city, which alerts Spider-man to his whereabouts as well as a group of business men who each have different intentions for the antihero.
The opening chapter of this novelisation was so promising. Venom is not the point of view character, instead we focus on the criminal he attacks and the victim he saves. Venom is written well here but after the chapter finishes the story just speeds along and becomes impossible to really follow what is going on.
The characters are all one dimensional and bland. I am not expecting much from an adaptation of a 90s comic book story but the attempt here is just sad. Venom is the highlight of the story, getting some fun action scenes but that is not enough to save this story. Spider-man’s inclusion is pointless, he is used to explain the history of Venom which is fine for newbies to the characters but it isn’t done well enough to really fit. He also undermines the impact of Venom.
The villains are all bland and having 8 of them is unnecessary. The introduction of the Jury (and the Venom Spawn) are fine but with the exception of Scream, are all pointless and nondescript, each blending into each other. If they were all just put into the character of Scream it would be so much better.
In conclusion this book is just bad. Not worth reading. If you are interested read the graphic novel instead. Avoid at all costs.”
“atenção, rapazes. se o seu homem:
● tem 1,91 de altura
● é calvo
● tem músculos maiores do que as suas coxas
● tem uma língua de setenta centímetros
● sua pele é feita de gosma preta
cuidado!!!! esse não é seu homem! é o alienígena homossexual venom e seu namorado, eddie brock!
puro suco dos anos 90. temos aqui: empresários malignos atrás de ouro perdido, mercenários caricatos usando mechas, um fanático religioso com uma bazuca, a gentrificação criando um bairro subterrâneo comunista de moradores de rua, denúncia contra a violência policial, homem-aranha homofóbico, pistolas a laser, homens bombados em roupas curtinhas, diálogos completamente melodramáticos em pontos que beiram a insanidsde e claro, e muito, muito homoerotismo. mas, no meio dessa bagunça brega e, não vou negar, gostosa, tem uma boa história sobre pertencimento e não deixar seu passado definir seu futuro.
vale a pena ler se você quer ver algo que é 100% quadrinhos, tanto pro bem quanto pro mal. apesar de tudo que poderia ter me afastado, eu particularmente achei o prato final uma delícia.”
About James R. Tuck
James R. Tuck lives and writes in Atlanta. He is the author of the Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter series, co-author of the Robin Hood: Demon's Bane trilogy (with Debbie Viguié), and co-author of Arrow: Fatal Legacies (with Marc Guggenheim). James is an accomplished tattoo artist, loves dark fantasy novels, Golden Age comics, and the blues, and used to throw people out of bars for money.
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