Man... West Coast Avengers is super disappointing so far, it's only two issues in so I'm hoping they can turn it around but they are really not doing my girl justice.

It doesn't particularly help that they decided to comprise the team of characters that are from cancelled series (America, Hawkeye, Gwenpool) or have been flying below the radar and almost faded into obscurity. Plus a lot weren't particularly written well in their own runs recently so any interest for them is almost dead at this point.

Plus Kelly Thomson isn't particularly the best writer. From what I heard she's good on some titles like Mr. and Mrs. X/Rogue and Gambit (I've seen people that liked those two minis) but not a lot of people liked her Hawkeye run. Or West Coast Avengers so far. And now she's going to write Captain Marvel, a constant train wreck when it comes to relaunches.

Honestly I like the idea of the team being made up from characters from canceled series, and barring Quinten, I like most the characters on the team. Hell the only reason I’m reading this at all is for Gwenpool.
I don’t think I’ve read any of Kelly Thomson’s work before, but so far, she’s not really winning me over. I’m going to keep reading for a few more issues, at least. See if this is just stumbling at the beginning or if she really just doesn’t need know how to handle these characters.

X-Men Blue is pretty much done. Jimmy went on to become Poison(who is basically Wolverine and Venom rolled in one) which is just everything 7-year-old me would probably want. Recently started reading Spider-Man hearing Boomerang is his roommate, and I LOVED Boomerang and his shenanigans on Superior Foes of Spider-Man so that will keep me busy.

Folks, if you have not, PLEASE PLEASE check out X-Men Grand Design. It is a recap of what the X-Men went through so far in the comics, and if it was just that I would not care, but the art. THE ART. IS SO GOOD. There are some nice panels that should be printed and hung on a wall. Just for the art it is worth it. Again, Ed Piskor's art is beautiful. Still not convinced? Okay.*click*
https://i.imgur.com/i3uu9wn.jpg?1

X-Men Grand Design is great. It's good to see the X-Men of old once again. I dropped X-Men Blue after the whole time travel arc. Didn't interest me anymore and really no intention of picking it back up.

Spencer's Amazing Spider-Man has been consistently good so far. I was a bit hesitant with Spencer cos this was the guy who thought making Captain America a Hydra agent was a good idea. But Spencer has been nailing it with ASM, definitely enjoying it more than the huge majority of Slott's almost 10 year run with Spidey.

Also, if anybody hasn't already, check out the What If? Spider-Man/What If Flash Thompson Became Spider-Man that came out this week. It's probably the best of the new What If?s so far. I definitely enjoyed it.

Other great titles at Marvel nowadays are Soule's Daredevil, Ewing's Immortal Hulk, Cates' Venom and his Cosmic Ghost Rider mini-series, and Zdarsky's Marvel Two in One (although the art has really downgraded and isn't particularly good now).

Venom was an average movie. Not good or bad, just okay. I think this movie is nowhere as bad as Catwoman as some people make it out to be. I still won't call this movie a good movie though.

The best thing about this movie was the really solid performance from Tom Hardy. He did a great job on playing the role and I'm glad that they pick him for the role. I also didn't mind the CG for the movie and I thought it looks fine for the most part. Anyone who says this movie has CG from 1995 is being too harsh. It's no Avatar CG, but it's hardly the worst CG ever.

Everything else in the movie falls flat sadly. The characters and story are pretty generic and boring. You can tell how the movie is going to start and end from the very start of the movie. I didn't care for anyone except for anyone except for Eddie. Carlton Drake had a cool plan for his evil ideas, but they are not freshened out very well.

Another thing I did not like about the movie is the inconsistent tone. This movie feels like a serious horror movie then it becomes a comedy. People thought the humor in The Predator was bad when this is worse if you ask me. You can tell that Sony did step in and changed a lot of things to make it feel more friendly.

While the movie is a bit darker and violent than the MCU movies, that's not saying much. I do agree with most critics that the action and violence in the movie did felt water down. It has a similar issue that other comic book superhero movies had like Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Spawn and Jonah Hex where they took characters who are known to be dark and violent than water them down to be PG-13. I know Venom has been in many comics aim towards all ages, but Venom has solo comics aim towards to adults.

If X-Men can get R rated movies while the main series be PG-13, why can't Venom? Even if the movie sucks with an R rating, at least having some over the top death and gore scenes would be fun to watch.

Overall, Venom is average at best with good acting and wasted potential. This movie could have been so much more, but didn't. I would recommend renting this movie at your local Red Box or wait for a possible streaming option later. I give it a 6/10.

Yep. It recaps the most important arcs all while presenting it in a nice art style. As for X-Men Blue I think what made me keep reading was that it was just refreshing to see the OG first class with new gear and do what they do best. I wasnt too keen on the symbiote thing but Jimmy being Poison was fun to see. If I was able to break the laws of time travel and was allowed to show kid me one thing from the future it would be Poison. Kid me would be like "To hell with Avengers, THEY PUT A SYMBIOTE AND A WOLVERINE INTO A BLENDER AND MERGED IT?!". :lolol
Regarding the costumes I hope Marvel takes some major notes from X-Men Blue when producing MCU X-Men movies. The designs are just perfect and the colors are a nice nod to their individual costumes from the old days.

SO HYPED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83s6NO1NE0

Let me guess. Red superhero costumed Daredevil is Bullseye cosplaying Daredevil.

Venom made 80 million on opening weekend. We will probably get a sequel, but I wish they didn't water it down for possible MCU crossovers if they don't know if that will happen. The movie can't fit into the MCU anyways.