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softgrungeprophet · 5 years

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thoughts on tooth and claw itself....

ehh. it’s a little confusing and convoluted and the dialogue is kinda. lol. very 90s. not the worst thing i’ve read. DEFINITELY into the latex bondage meat puppets??? what a fucking aesthetic, almost hellraiser-esque. god it’s just so fucking 90s.

i have counted no less than three separate head-eating jokes, but venom also used the word pernicious which i am all for--venom’s dialogue in general is so... so much that long-winded shit i love from them, they’re so weird.

also there was at least one gay joke that felt outta nowhere and this kid called eddie’s mom EITHER a prostitute or a lesbian, it’s unclear, so... mixed. venom DOES keep saying “hoo-ha!” which i do love, so thanks for that larry hama

joe st pierre’s art is odd but i actually don’t hate it; it’s very expressive and i like the very square way he draws eddie, tho there are def parts that look really weird.

ah THIS is the source of the classic Venom line, “I don’t have any ears!” (though really it should be “we” huh)

and it suggests that eddie, bonded with the symbiote, has two full central nervous systems (and a temporary third because of dirt nap)

on trial:

i like... this weird long-faced venom with their very heart-shaped eyes and little mouth but the way josh hood draws eddie is kinda weird--i can’t tell if eddie is supposed to be a redhead or if the colorist made matt blonde XD their hair is the same color! i do like how this guy draws spidey too tho... big wide spidey eyes are my weakness. ooh and this carnage is good too..... good symbiotes and spidey suits abound even with weird looking people.

anyway the story in this is more engaging by far, compared to tooth and claw... tho it’s weird to me that they were like, there are no more real superheroes.... and then immediately daredevil and spider-man are brought in?? “it was a sad day when all the real super-heroes went away” SPIDER-MAN IS RIGHT THERE????

it’s super interesting to me that the sound blasts scramble the symbol on venom’s chest, in the art, so the spider’s legs separate--i like that detail of lost composition. but ALSO is constantly blasting Venom with sound, to contain them, like that.... ethical... like is this torture??? oh. “the music blasting is cruel and unusual punishment” i was right it’s unethical

“symbiotes need dopamine from humans to establish their nerve tissue communication link” interesting, and it says this drug stops the brain from making dopamine. just some fun executive dysfunction-in-a-jar i guess.

oh boy some fun anti-mutant stuff....

and carnage said “hoo-ha!” too!! i guess larry hama just likes that. they also seem to, like, talk way different than current versions of inexplicable hick carnage. like.

also everyone keeps calling cletus and eddie puppies and using dog pound analogies and that’s very funny to me

so now...

we move on to license to kill:

oh this venom is very glossy. this art is fine. it’s a little bland. it’s not bad, i kinda like how this guy draws eddie--reminds me a little of how shalvey draws him, i wonder if shalvey took some influence from this comic....

“Hoo-ha!! Coffee, tea, or brains?!” GOD i prefer this so much to now, all this, hoo-ha, fuck

“Well if it ain’t that mongrel, pervert, murderin’, alien-lovin’, psycho-killer, Venom!! You got a lot o’ nerve bustin’ in on the tactical action o’ the Neo Crypto-Fascist Right-Thinkers Party!” Jesus christ what a set of sentences

the fact that eddie immediately questions what the victims of the plane dusting could have done to deserve that, that he’s shocked someone would do something like that to innocents on purpose, feels.... both unusually innocent for eddie yet also in-line with how he operates. hurting an innocent person, on purpose, for no reason??? unfathomable.

ah, evil russians, of course

GOD EDDIE IS SUCH A DORK

ah once again eddie gets to drive a nice red vintage sports car but this time it’s a fuckin 50s cadillac convertible with white-wall tires, amazing

actually this comic came out before seed of darkness i think

even more brain eating jokes... hama loves those huh

man this dude sucks, he’s getting revenge on the entire planet because of? what? an accident he caused? and cause there’s no war going on to fund moer of it? lol okay

why the fuck is there a cyborg geisha, literally what the fuck is the point of including that

again, they call venom a “sick puppy”

fascinating

man all this exaggeratedl communist bullshit is so.... 90s... lmfao

hm yeah that was like. fine. it has its fun moments, but i def have preferred venom on trial so far out of all these........

now i’m gonna take a break cause i’m halfway thru this book after reading for hours XD i used to be much faster

#nadia reads venom #not just tooth and claw but all of em #venom using a nail as a tooth pick is extremely inspired #these comics have more black people per issue than the entire 2018 run combined #this is thru license to kill #i just got to seed of darkness which i will prob reread

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