Oh also, old numbering is cool when it allows a comic to be tethered to a tangible history you can refer to. Like, there's been, in one form or another, a Detective Comics book on the shelves since 1937, there's been an Action Comics since 1938, continuously, except when their title characters died or John Byrne was writing the defining story of 80s Superman.
It doesn't work when Venom does it, because the 150 number comes from adding together a whole mess of miniseries, plus four volumes of the ongoing that are separated by years. (Like, there's two years between the end of Venom volume 2 and the start of Venom: Space Knight, which is the next solo Venom book)
Marvel has done all that it could in order for their books to have no history. Which is why renumbering to bring back old numbers is meaningless. And if it's all they've got, well: they're fucked.
