Blogging can be a chore and if you need to walk away for a bit, no one is going to fault you for that. I find I can manage once a week or so at Longbox Graveyard but there are definitely times when I wonder if I can keep the string going. I find it helps to have regular Wednesday columns and to get several blogs ahead, so I can take “blog vacations” for a week or two and readers are none the wiser.

Good luck, see you soon I hope!

And I don’t see his worry for what might happen to the Black Widow if she fell as particularly sexist. BTW, in the BW’s own (brief) series, there was always a revealing scene in which she was taking a shower or changing her clothes, not notably necessary to the plot. Now that was sexist. (And it worked; I bought every issue).

While I HATE Venom on a team (thunderbolts, dark avengers, secret avengers), I think this one is bar far the best for the character to grow. From The Avengers point of view, you’re right – it is silly to bring the symbiote on board. However, in their defense they are looking more at the man in the symbiote rather than Venom. I’m mean c’mon, their the freakin avengers; if he gets out of hand I’m sure they can take him down (a lot more easily than the Hulk). From Venom’s point of view (as well as Remender’s character development), this makes perfect sense. Venom went awol and the governement did not have control anymore, so The Avengers fill that need. It also creates more tension between Flash and (one of his) addictions, the symbiote, since he cannot have it whenever he wants. For me, I think Avenger-izing Venom is a necessary evil in order for readers (who may of given up on him in the 90s) to realize he is not a one dimensional, brain eating, Spidey villain anymore.
As far as Spidey knowing who he is, I’m sure that will happen this year. While Spidey made Venom (no pun intended), my hope is that Spider-Man isn’t showing up every 5 seconds and that Venom can have adventures that don’t revolve around Spider-Man.