Two stars for the artwork. The story, characters, and messages in this woke piece of crap cost it the other three. This comic pretty much contains every check box: "strong" female characters that can beat up any man without effort, gentrification plot, business mogul as the baddie who also happens to be white, weak male main characters who have their asses handed to them constantly by said strong women, wtf happened to spiderman?, the word 'oppression,' pandering, and speeches about rising above...

Terrific start. 5 stars. Then it completely fizzled and limped along for another 150 pages. 1 Star. Characters monologuing at each other, people doing things inconsistently, an inability to just “go there”... the dude is a living vampire, fer cry! Lean into that!I can only imagine how much better this would’ve been in Al Ewing’s hands. His Immortal Hulk run does both body horror and existential angst right within the framework of the Marvel universe. Plus, the entire scheme is down to manipulati...

Okay, that wasn't terrible.I wasn't expecting much from a Morbius comic book series, but this 9-issue limited run had a pretty decent story. It's complicated and feels akin to the likes of Batman's Court of Owls situation, but with a distinctly Marvel spin with the likes of the Rose involved and even some Superior Spider-Man action to boot.Morbius is a tragic hero at best and a sad anti-hero at his worst and this book did its best to try to play that balance well. It's nothing amazing and I don'...

Mooooooooooooooooooorbius versus............gentrification, or something?Chill, Mike, I'm just telling it like it is!Still, it was an amusing spell with Marvel's favourite "Living Vampire".

Morbius seemed like a dumb idea to me. Dracula as a Marvel character? I gave the character a shot here, and I must say I was convinced. The opening is very strong, setting up a decent backstory and compelling main character. The main story arc of fleeing, finding yourself and your new connections while also figuring out what is going on in Brownsville, was good enough. The ending was one I appreciate as a RPG DM… resolution that upscales the stakes and pulls the character into new uncharted wate...

I've always loved the character of Morbius, and I liked him in this volume. It was just a bit boring, sadly. It was just okay. Not upset I read it, but not real jazzed either.

Underdeveloped story and characters. Things are just thrown in there to move the story along but don't get fleshed out or fully explained. The art was inconsistent with some issues being ok to some being bad. It seems that Morbius is just a character that is not written in a way that I enjoy. I wanted to get primed for the upcoming movie and I'm glad I did but I will probably not be revisiting him anytime soon.

This was okay. I appreciate that this volume contains a whole arc. Morbius tries to help people but just ends up making things worse, which is kinda relatable but doesn't make for the best story. (view spoiler)[Morbius tries to hide out in Brooklyn but ends up getting involved with gangsters. Apparently there were people in the shadows trying to move Morbius into place to take out the gang leader, so that they could gentrify the neighborhood. (I guess?) The motives for these rich people behind t...

Oooooh! Sony's making a movie about this little weirdo?Well, this was one of those odd little titles I saw while scrolling around on Marvel Unlimited that I decided to read on a whim. Mostly, it worked out for me.The first issue was really good. It had nice art, snappy panels, a few jokes, and a good intro into what Morbius was doing and why he was doing it. I especially appreciated that it explained he was fresh from a prison break (The Raft) and trying to stay low. Now, considering everything

Spider-Man vampire villain Michael Morbius escapes the Raft, Spidey’s version of Arkham Asylum, and decides to lay low in a small town called Brownsville - there he becomes the downtrodden’s champion against the street gangs that rule the place. A Morbius mini-series seems like a really weird choice to be a part of the first wave of Marvel NOW! launches (they went with Morbius over Black Widow, Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer and a dozen others?!) but it’s surprisingly ok, for at least half of it. To...

After escaping Ravencroft, Morbius seeks refuge in Brownsville, New York - a town with a serious gang problem. When the presiding antagonist is dispatched, the town opens up to competing gangs wrestling for control. Chief among them is mob boss The Rose, a puppet installed by Morbius’ father trying to gentrify the area by martyring his son. It’s very inconsistent, with the first half mildly entertaining, and the second act failing to juggle by the D-List Marvel villain’s motives.

Poor Morbius. Great concept blown with poor planning and a weak story. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome without Tina Turner. The art is weak and the characters are so poorly fleshed out and uninteresting. I love Morbius, and unfortunately he even gets a substandard Spider-man to deal with.

Morbius is a character that never screams "starring role" to me and this book proves that point well. Sadly, the plot was the biggest issue. Morbius gets manipulated into doing...things...by a terrible and cliched villain. The reasons make little sense. Morbius isn't very likeable here and the same goes for his generic supporting cast. The art, especially by Richard Elson was good but this story and dialogue were extremely bad. Overall, this is a fine example of not every character can pull of t...

This was interesting; Morbius (as pointed out numerous times in the story) has always been kind of a morose sad sack of a character, someone who is done to more often than someone with real agency. The idea of an energy vampire - someone who's not *quite* a vampire is fun, especially in the context of the Marvel 616, but here it's maybe just one or two issues longer than it should have been to set up what is, ultimately only an okay conclusion. Fascinating more so than fun.

I have never really read about Morbius very much, so I only really had a general idea of what he was about. It turned out to be enough for this volume. This is a longer trade, covering 9 issues of a somewhat underwhelming story. It features a fugitive Morbius heading to Brownsville, a part of New York that apparently no super-heroes go to, because it's so rough. I get that idea, but it gets a bit strained by the end, when I think they might break that rule for giant explosions and the like. The

Not bad. The living vampire is an interesting character. He can cross and re-cross the super hero battle lines as villain or anti-hero. In this incarnation he is playing the anti-hero. The story here is ok. Morbius is kind of a b-list character and he goes up against a small cartel of c-list opponents. The book suffers from some inconsistences. Morbius basically walks out of a super-max prison and avoids recapture for weeks by wearing a hoodie, but he gets an embarrassing beat down from the only...

Surprisingly good. Good ideas, good writing, good art, good length. Morbius is not a character I was familiar with, and yet he came off well and is a story I would follow. Which is even more surprising since he's basically a vampire with bad luck or maybe even bad karma. Not an idea book, just a decent story - but the ideas may follow.

This guy’s getting his own film? This guy?!In preparation for the long-stalled release of Sony’s Morbius film, I recently read the 2013 collection by Joe Keatinge, which attempted to update the character’s backstory and drag him into the Marvel universe as an anti-hero sort of protagonist. Did it work? Well, for the purposes of this series, yes. But 8 years on, I can’t say that Michael Morbius has become any more important than he was then.The story picks up from his recent escape from supervill...

Michael Morbius gets involved with mobsters and other street-level problems. You really couldn't ask for a worse mismatch, and it's brought further down by muddy writing an an overabundance of characters that you don't really care about. There are a few high points, demonstrating that Morbius could be used right, one being the Dan Slott issue from Spider-Man that gives Morbius' backstory and the other being Morbius' return to Horizon. But for the most part Keatinge tries to take Morbius in his o...

This started off really strong with Morbius going to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville to hide out from the cops. (They do try and make Brownsville sound like it's in the middle of nowhere.. It's in the middle of Brooklyn right next to Cypress Hills, where Ghost Rider hangs out. They missed an opportunity not having him show up too.) Ultimately, this devolves into a D-List Spider-Man villain making a play to gentrify the neighborhood.Richard Elson's art is really good. It was a real downg...