Venom #1

[cyberghostface]

 





Eddie finds himself...

Comments

[deh_tommy]

So is Eddy dead and that’s his spirit talking to the Hela-looking dude?

[beyondthefringe]

That's what we're led to believe... he died in the present and his mind made a new body at the end of time.

Meridius looks like a mashup of a Venom and Aleph from Hickman's Avengers run, and the mention of a Garden doesn't help much either.

[armycat23]

Must be awkward walking through doors with those bars on his head.

[onsokumaru]

So, Crab People exist in the Marvel Universe?

[beeyo]

Look like crab

Talk like people

[akodo_rokku]

I mean obviously Eddie's consciousness survives in the Kkyntar Hive. This isn't even the first time it's happened. I'm surprised he even bothered keeping the old human bod around in the first place.

[blues32]

It's probably a strain on the human brain otherwise. Without a familiar anchor, he's bound to be swallowed up in all those different minds the hive is made of. He needs his body.

[iamrman]

I'm more interested in Eddie's adventures in space. Where does Kang fit in to all of this?

[scorntx]

The fact he's calling Eddie his friend is also pretty strange. Kang's never been one for friends.

(Although, he does have a fondness for blondes. Eddie's blonde...)

[blues32]

Sleeper makes for the cutest kitty.

I'm a bit confused. Wasn't Dylan Venom now? Except he was more wearing the symboite like armor than a costume?

[cyberghostface]

They were both Venom at the end of Cates's run. In this issue the symbiote was away from Dylan for whatever reason but arrives to rescue him after the explosion.

[tinygaylaura]

I'm not sure what's happening but that is a very adorable cat I think that cat should get some kind of plush from Marvel

[blues32]

Judging from the coloring, that's Sleeper. I really hope that's just Sleeper in the shape of a cat and not Sleeper bonded to a cat. I don't think a cat can sustain a symboite for long and live.

[cyberghostface]

It’s just in the shape of a cat. The Venom symbiote did something similar by taking the form of a dog before.

[tinygaylaura]

Oh okay!

I thought it was some kind of space cat

[blues32]

Yeah, the eyes threw me off. When Venom was a dog, it still had pure white eyes. Guess Sleeper is just better at it.

[zachbeacon]

How is this as a jumping-on point?

I like the writer but he tends to be continuity-heavy and I know the last few creative teams went a bit nuts with the symbiote lore.

[cyberghostface]

It’s taking the status quo and characters from the end of Cates’s run and running with it.

[blues32]

"A bit nuts" is an understatement. Symboites went from an alien race to the sheddings and building materials of an ancient dark god that went around killing Celestials. The spider symbol went from being because of Julia Carpenter's costume to being based on the symbol the dark god wears.