What If Spider-Man Rejected the Spider? (or something like that from 'The Other' storyline) This book put me right to sleep since the brilliant idea for this book was that Peter Parker "dies" and the Venom symbiote leaves the guy its on for its "first love" of Parker. Yeah, it makes no sense and is basically just a bad plot device to get Peter Parker as Venom. Excuse me, Poison. Ugh. And it ends with Gwen Stacey being dug up and made into a symbiote too since she was Peter's "first love." Bad, bad story and incredibly boring writing from Peter David.