Sensational Spider-man #39 - Marvel

This was an interesting story. The best thing about the art was when Peter, MJ and Anna Watson decide to hold a seance, with Madame Web, to try to reach Aunt May. The seance art was done by Clayton Crain. He's pretty awesome. With the blurred edges and stuff, it really looked like something we would see in a dream sequence. What they don't know though, is that while all of this is going on, Eddie Brock just happens to be in the same hospital getting his cancer treated. The irony of Eddie is, when he finally started repenting and sold the alien symbiote that is Venom, he thought he could start his life over again. What he didn't know is that he had terminal cancer, and that Venom was keeping it at bay. But, now that he's not there, his health is deteriorating quite rapidly. So whether he's really there or not, Eddie thinks that Venom is talking to him. Eddie, or they, find out that May is in the same hospital, and Venom talks him in to buying a cheap knock-off black Spider-man costume, so that he can get in to character and go on a killing spree. He has him kill his nurse first, to see if he still has a taste for it. Although Eddie does it, he tries to justify it, " . . . for interrupting his sleep as often as she did . . . for taking his blood and always missing his vein . . . for the condescending pity in hr eyes whenever she looked his way . . ." But when he gets to May . . . he just can't do it. He sees her lying there helpless in her bed, and he knows how innocent she is in all of this. He just can't bring himself to do it. He stalls long enough that Peter comes back from the seance and finds him in his room. "She's all right Peter. He wanted me to hurt her, but . . I wouldn't. The nurse yes . . but not someone as innocent and good as your aunt is . . . . I thought I could get rid of him, but he was inside, all the time . . . but I cut him out. I cut him out of me . . . look how I cut him out. I've done terrible things Peter . . . but I'm not a terrible person . . ." And with that he does a swan dive out the hospital window. Of course Peter saves him. And when he wakes up he thinks he sees Venom again. "I'm . . . ? . alive still? You . . . you're . . . fine with me. Now that we know who's in charge." I think maybe his cancer is in his brain. Anyways during the seance Peter found May, she was in a memory with Uncle Ben, but she didn't want to come back. She goes into what looks like her house, but there's something in there behind her. Peter can't quite make it out, but it looks ominous. And when she slams the door, Peter's out of the trance. Lot's of action. And also a great Clayton Crain cover. To bad this books going a way soon.