[Boy Blunder]

I know I've said this before, and I don't mean to devolve this into a big debate on the topic, but having grown up in the "Age of Venom," so to speak, I never got into Eddie Brock as Venom. I do love his design as Venom, but something about his role in Spidey's life just didn't compel me to like him. I think, taking off from what Triv said, the fact that he was a psychopath, a serial killer, a factor that couldn't be accounted for, just turned me off from him. I mean, sure, he had some layers to his character, but really, did Peter need another thing to make his crap life even worse? Did he really need to worry that Venom might show up and threaten his family while he was getting a bagel down the street? The guy needs some breaks.

When I was younger, during the era when symbiotes were at an all-time high, I dug them from an aesthetic standpoint. They looked cool, therefore they are cool, right? But as far as a story, I don't really care for them. They're all too one-note, even Venom himself, at least most of the hosts. It's why I got into Agent Venom so hard - his story had more depth to it, for my dollar, than any other iteration of Venom, even Brock (especially Brock - I don't know that I'm ever really gonna be a fan of him). Sure, you have some questionable decisions made during his tenure, some odd stories (I honestly liked the whole 'purging the symbiote of its bloodlust' story from GotG, even if I think it could have been written a LOT better), but Flash has had so much growth as a person, both with and without the symbiote, that he's always gonna be my favorite Venom. Hands down.

Aside from Mayday in the 'Earth X' comics, but that's more due to the badass design