Venom #7: Seeking a Friend for The End of the World

Ok, I’m either confused or impressed, this issue went a really interesting direction that I’m super intrigued by, again I won’t reveal said direction, as I’m a bit confused, or impressed? Can’t decide. Anyway, there is a funny little bit where Venom finds out Flash is dead, which happened months and months ago and I assumed everybody forgot, but it makes sense that he would be more upset than most as Flash was a former Venom host when Eddie was out of commision for a while.

First Reed Richards cameo of note since the FF return, not unlike Wolverine (who has a story in the annual that came out the next week) I feel like cameos from these returning heroes are mandatory in many books, we’ll see.

Regular series artist Ryan Stegman has taken a break for a couple of issues, as noted above this issue is drawn by Iban Coello. Iban’s style is a little more cartoony than Stegman but really pretty excellent. The Evil Reed especially likes really good, as does the rampaging symbiote.

Interesting to note that Marvel credited Stegman on the cover, not Coello. Possibly indicating a last minute change, or obviously, it could be a mistake.