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Marvel Knights Spider-Man Vol. 2: Venomous (Marvel Knights Spider-Man (2004-2006)) Kindle & comiXology

by Mark Millar (Author), Terry Dodson (Artist), Frank Cho (Artist) Format: Kindle Edition

4.4 83 ratings

Part of: Marvel Knights Spider-Man (2004-2006)

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Collects Marvel Knights Spider-Man #5-8.

As Spider-Man continues to search for Aunt May, things go from bad to worse for the wall-crawler! Everyone's favorite symbiote, Venom, is back. Hold on to your spit, there's a beatdown coming for at least one guy with a spider on his chest! Featuring Black Cat, Venom, Doctor Octopus and the X-Men!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00PJ2CCFU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (March 7, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 7, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 321073 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 101 pages

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Along with Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar has been one of the key writers for Marvel Comics in the 21st century. After proving himself in the ’90s as a talent to watch while writing for DC Comics and the UK comic 2000AD, his arrival to Marvel came at a time when Ultimate Spider-Man had just shot up the sales charts. It was in this environment that Millar made his first major contribution to Marvel with Ultimate X-Men, as Millar integrated forty years’ worth of X-Men history, characters and lore into a solid two-year run, making the companion title to Ultimate Spider-Man every bit the creative and commercial success. Next up was The Ultimates, a new rendering of the Avengers that was to continue building on the success of the Ultimate line. He and artist Bryan Hitch pulled it all off in spades: The Ultimates and its sequel, Ultimates 2, were ensconced at the top of the sales charts every month; what’s more, they were critical successes, as well. Meanwhile, Millar was invited to enter the regular Marvel Universe to take a stab at two of its most iconic characters: Spider-Man and Wolverine. Paired with industry heavyweights to draw his stories — Terry Dodson on Marvel Knights Spider-Man and John Romita Jr. on Wolverine — Millar brought the same fast-paced and cleverly constructed plots with which his Ultimate fans were already familiar. Amid building a small library of Millarworld indie comic books — including the titles Chosen and Wanted, the latter of which was turned into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Angelina Jolie — he managed to write Civil War, the epic seven-issue miniseries that definitively reshaped the landscape of Marvel’s heroes. Kick-A**, a Marvel Icon project done in tandem with John Romita Jr., made an impressive impact on the sales chart before also being adapted for a major motion picture. In addition, Millar has reunited with Civil War artist Steve McNiven in both the pages of Wolverine and their creator-owned book Nemesis.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024

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Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2012

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first time purchasing online". Ok, first time purchasing, and it took like a month to reach my destination. But the product is high quality, and it was within the expected time. Totally recommended.

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Lawrance Bernabo

JJJ offers $5 million for Spider-Man's secret identity

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2005

With the success of the "Spider-Man" movies there has been a marked increase in the number of Marvel comic books featuring the web-head. From "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "The Spectacular Spider-Man" in the main time stream and "Ultimate Spider-Man" going back to the beginning to start anew, we then had "Marvel Age Spider-Man" retelling the original Stan Lee & Steve Ditko stories, with "Marvel Knights Spider-Man" and "Spider-Man Unlimited" doubling the contemporary adventures of our hero. Now we can throw in "Marvel Adventures Spider-Man" and "Spider-Man/Human Torch," and that is without getting into all the mini-series, guest appearances, and team appearances. Although the artwork is not the most compelling I have seen, it is Mark Millar's writing on "Marvel Knights Spider-Man" that stands out among the new crop.

"Venomous" presents issues #5-8 for the second volume of the "Marvel Knights Spider-Man" trade paperback collections. The problem is that Aunt May is missing having been kidnapped by an old foe who has learned Spider-Man's secret identity and is out to get him and get him good. Following a wild goose chase engineered by the Owl that had him tangling with both the Vulture and Electro, Spider-Man ended up in the hospital where a picture of him with the lower half of his face exposed by his tattered mask is on the front page of the "Daily Bugle." Smelling blood in the water, J. Jonah Jameson is offering $5 million to anyone who identifies the man in the picture and reveals Spider-Man's secret identity. The Black Cat is helping Spider-Man, but Mary Jane does not like the Felicity Hardy hanging around her husband.

As you can tell from the title Venom is going to show up in this one, but first Spider-Man has to tangle with a drug-addled Doctor Octopus, a NYPD SWAT team, and Norman Osborn. This requires a visit to the Xavier Institute for some psychic help in finding Aunt May, but the news is not good. Add to that the Parkers's money problems and the fact that somebody is experimenting on his old foes, Spider-Man is about ready to crack (and this is before Venom actually shows up). Fortunately a coffee break can help clear the webs, but the next thing you know Peter Parker's old classmates are trying to give him a wedgie at his high school reunion and then things get really bad.

Millar and artists Frank Cho and Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson are heaping a lot of bad times on Spider-Man but in an intricately structured way. Consequently, things do not start spiraling out of controlling but just keep pilling on Spider-Man. Aunt May's fate still being on the back burner is the only significant weakness, because he really would crack under all that pressure by the time we get to the end of this four-part story. But overall "Venomous" delivers a nice on-going nightmare for the web-head and a solid story. Plus, there is a nice punch-line as Peter Parker comes up with a way to get JJJ off of Spider-Man's back. Okay, it would not really work once JJJ stops to think about it, but it is still a nice little joke.

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N. Durham

Millar is still amazing

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2004

Collecting the four part storyarc, Venomous continues Mark Millar's run on the newly launched Marvel Knights Spider-Man, but for those looking for some sort of closure after the cliffhanger ending of the first storyarc (Down Among the Dead Men), you're going to be left hanging again. Picking up right after the end of the first arc, Peter Parker finds that a million dollar reward has been offered by J. Jonah Jameson to anyone who reveals the identity of Spider-Man. As if that weren't enough, Aunt May is still missing, and after paying a visit to X-Men telepath Rachel Summers, is feared dead. But, there is something else going on as well. What are the police doing working with Doctor Octopus? What is Norman Osborn hiding and why is he in danger? And just who is the mysterious assaillant who knows everything there is to know about Peter? In the thick of it all, Eddie "Venom" Brock has auctioned off his alien symbiote, and now there is a new, sadistic individual wearing the costume and pushing Spidey past his limits. Millar's writing is just plain awesome (is it me or is he having Spidey say "What?" a lot?) and his characterizations of the villains and various in-jokes are refreshing to longtime web heads. The art by Frank Cho (in issues 5 and 8) is superb, while the art by Terry and Rachel Dodson (issues 6 and 7) is as great as it was on the first arc. All in all, this is definitely worth picking up for longtime Spidey fans, and it will leave you salivating for the next chapter.

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Raymond M. Rose

Venom is back!

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2005

The cool thing about Mark Millar is that he never gives you the same old thing the same way as everyone else has. In The Ultimates he gave us the Avengers, different and flawed. In Wanted, he gave us a group of super-villians, at war with each other. And in the second volume of Marvel Knights Spiderman, he gives us Venom. But this is a Venom that's vastly different and flawed and amazing.

Millar just keeps the story flowing and really knows how to knock your socks off.

Trust in Millar and all will be well.

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Hannibelectro

Kindle version has bad zoom

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2016

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The comic is great but the kindle version has zooming problems on the last issue in this collection. All the zooming in the last part of the book cuts word bubbles in half and is unreadable unless you're zoomed out and have good eyes

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Luke McKoy

This is the sequel?

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2007

This story did not seem realistic to me, there were too many things in it that I could not believe would ever happen. While the artwork was good, I didn't like the way Venom was designed. For the most part it didn't feel like it belonged in the whole May being captured saga, but many graphic novel trilogies seem to do that.

As a side note, if Spiderman's so hated by the general public, where do these people get all the Spidey outfits from?

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Storm Phoenix

Venom....oh wait, this isn't Venom, this is A FAKE

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2005

I am a HUGE venom fan. I have a shelf of nothing but venom comics. I have Venom Action Figures, Shirts, heck I even have a Mask of him!!!!!

So when I saw this storyline I was excited. However, the very first thing that turned me away was the artwork. I don't like the new way Venom is drawn, so that's not appealing. He just doesn't....feel right this way.

Next is the storyline. The REAL Venom, with the symbiote/eddie brock is no more. That right there is also another turn off for the story. When I say "VENOM" I mean Eddie Brock and the Venom Symbiote, not somebody else and the symbiote. Eddie/Venom just have one of the coolest combined minds ever, and they're so much fun to watch in action they way they act together.

Personally, the storyline, art, and characters I thought were all bad. The REAL Venom's gone, and I didn't enjoy watching him leave. 1 Star, and that's being GENEROUS.

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MadManMarvel

The Perfect Spider-Man Epic - in Three Parts - Part 2

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2015

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This is an almost flawless 12 part storyline.
Unfortunately it is broken into three equal parts but desperately needs to be read as one multi-part adventure.
It is unputdownable.
The entire story centres on Norman Osborn’s revenge on our hero threatening Peter’s wife Mary Jane and apparently arranging for the kidnapping of Aunt May.
Threaded through are excellent revamps of some second string Spidey-villains and a monumental shift in the story of Venom.
Please do not try to read only one of these volumes it really cries out to be read in sequence.
Part 1 features a fresh new look at the Vulture and is one of his best treatments ever.
Part 2 features a fresh new look at Venom ...or two... and is both significant and interesting.

This story feels like it counts.
Doctor Octopus does not quite get the quality moment to shine like others and the concept of the Sinister 12 (yes 12!) is not given much spotlight but this is a powerful character and story driven series that deserves to be in your collection.
Highly recommended.