Venom #20-21 - "All Out"

[laughing_tree]

Standards and Practices asked me if the t-shirt had a hidden meaning. I want one, is the hidden meaning. -- Al Ewing



















Issue 21 -

Comments

[beyondthefringe]

If you drew me a line from Eddie Brock of the '90s to Eddie Brock of 2023, I'd ask if you were yanking my chain because it's just bizarre.

[blueprintstyles]

I was hoping this would be Flexo

[lbd_nytetrayn]

So, uh, the clothes thing...

Do symbiotes not mimic clothing anymore?

[blues32]

He's a human symbiote. Eddie would probably feel uncomfortable in running around like that. After all, he always wore underwear when bonded to Venom.

[cainofdreaming]

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[cainofdreaming]

Eddie's now a human symbiote, maybe they have different rules?

[akodo_rokku]

So he jumped back into his own remains and grew a new body, which he can control as if it *was* a klyntar symbiote. So he can heal himself instantly, turn off his pain receptors, etc etc. But since it's not made of goo, no shapechaning, I guess?

Not sure how lassoing someone with his intestines fits into all that, but I've been enjoying Ewing's run so I'm willing to let it slide.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Oh, sure, it's not a huge sticking point for me or anything. It's just one of the signature abilities of Spider-Man's "new" suit that was always a favorite of mine. Like one of those, "why would you want this if you could have someone's powers" deals, and I wasn't sure if it got phased out or what.

[starwolf_oakley]

Does the Life Foundation have a new "deal" now? They were used rather often in Spider-Man and Venom stories. I don't know if "All symbiotes, all the time" is the new mission statement.

[super_fly]

Wait what

[mastermahan]

What's so hard to understand? Eddie Brock simultaneously died and didn't die in Limbo. When he died in Limbo he ended up in the center of the multiverse getting lessons from a giant talking hand who's one of his many future selves, so he used his King in Black powers to possess his own skeleton. When he didn't die in Limbo he took over a biker gang off-panel. Now Eddie Brock and Eddie Brock are fighting.

There's nothing confusing about it at all.

[bruinsfan]

I think the giant talking hand is somehow ALL of his future selves, if i understood that issue correctly.

[mastermahan]

Huh. Maybe this is a bit confusing.

[scorntx]

Giant Talking Hand (or Eventuality) is the now-inevitable end result of all of Eddie's timelines, regardless of what happens in them, including dying, being depowered and turning evil again.
At least, according to him at any rate.