It seems so strange to me that this particular team of X-Men would willingly allow strange symbiotes to bond with them. It’s a question I never asked and never needed answered. What if Venom teamed up with the X-Men and they all bonded with symbiotes? Once Cyclops learns Corsair’s in trouble, he convinces the X-Men that the only course of action is to kidnap Venom and make him join their rescue mission–in space! I may have skimmed over some parts, but does it even matter? This five-part story (yes, five–but it feels even longer) seems like it was dreamed up on the floor of a ’90s child’s bedroom, or on a ’90s teen’s scrap paper. You see, Scott’s space pirate father Corsair and his Starjammers got mixed up with the alien bounty hunter Killer Thrill (yep, that’s her name) and her gang of symbiote-powered bad guys. Hey! Why not pair one of the ’90s’ raddest anti-heroes with the time-displaced original X-Men?īut how did they come together, you wonder? Well, it’s all Cyclops’ fault–making this the one time #CyclopsWasntRight. In small doses, he (or is it they) is fine, but a while ago Marvel decided Venom was the new Deadpool and had to appear everywhere. There’s no denying Venom’s design is one of comics’ coolest, but the character has never really appealed to me. Now, you too can experience that disappointment in the Venom & X-Men: Poison X trade paperback. Unfortunately, what started so strong ( a perfect 10) went off the rails the minute writer Cullen Bunn brought Venom into the mix. Believe me, I take no pleasure in typing out my disdain for this story, as month after month, X-Men Blue was consistently my favorite series. There are many ways to describe the X-Men Blue/Venom crossover that was Poison-X and, as you can likely surmise, none of them are positive. A cash grab prequel to another cash grab.
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