Venom Appreciation (Eddie Brock)

[Cville]

Good issue. More of an info dump, but I liked it. Ending set a cool issue 3

[Venomous Mask]

I'm glad Cates is going back to the idea of the symbiotes being world eating plague monsters. While I do like the Klyntar concept, past stories have shown that much of the galaxy is far more familiar with the symbiotes as being threats instead of guardians. And I still think that it would be cool for symbiotes and the Brood to be distantly related.

[strathcona]

I don't actually read the Venom series (though I am thinking about picking it up), but I figured you guys would be the best ones to ask. What is Venom's current timeline? I read X-Men: Blue where he went off in space a few months back with the teen O5 for a crossover. Then there was a Venom event, and some appearances in Amazing Spider-Man and now the new series... yet in X-Men: Blue the team is still lost in space with Venom along for the ride. Has there been any attempt to rectify the continuity?

[Celgress]

I'm glad Cates is going back to the idea of the symbiotes being world eating plague monsters. While I do like the Klyntar concept, past stories have shown that much of the galaxy is far more familiar with the symbiotes as being threats instead of guardians. And I still think that it would be cool for symbiotes and the Brood to be distantly related.

Well put friend well put.

[Imago]

I'm glad Cates is going back to the idea of the symbiotes being world eating plague monsters. While I do like the Klyntar concept, past stories have shown that much of the galaxy is far more familiar with the symbiotes as being threats instead of guardians. And I still think that it would be cool for symbiotes and the Brood to be distantly related.

Yeah im glad Cates is going that way as well, but unlike you i don't like the concept of Klyntars... at all. I hate that retcon by Bendis, i dont even like the name >:[


BTW, Venom #3 is out next week

Here're some preview pages:

[Imago]

[Celgress]

Looks simply amazing.

[Captain Craig]

As an aside I got my Venomnibus vol.1 in the mail over the weekend. Opened up to inspect it and enjoyed seeing that oversized art jump out at me in so many places.
I read 90% of that as it was coming out back in the 90s. I know it's not an apex of story telling, even knew that at the time. However, watching a character unfold that grabbed the audience and industry was such fun. There are some nuggets in there among the rough for that time period. I look forward to reading it in the weeks ahead. Got some material lined up in front of it though.

[strathcona]

I don't actually read the Venom series (though I am thinking about picking it up), but I figured you guys would be the best ones to ask. What is Venom's current timeline? I read X-Men: Blue where he went off in space a few months back with the teen O5 for a crossover. Then there was a Venom event, and some appearances in Amazing Spider-Man and now the new series... yet in X-Men: Blue the team is still lost in space with Venom along for the ride. Has there been any attempt to rectify the continuity?

Nobody able to answer this question for me?

[Imago]

Nobody able to answer this question for me?

Yeah it can get a confusing, all we know is that in the new Venom series a few months have passed since the last Costa's issue.. so my guess would be: Poison-X (crossover with the X-Men Blue) > Venomized > The Nativity (last Costa arc) > Amazing Spiderman appearences > New Venom Series

The X-Men blue team is back on earth btw.

[Samson3191]

Wow. Issue #3 is gorgeous and scary and a game-changer. I just finished it. So. Good.

[Venomous Mask]

ALL BOW BEFORE KNULL!

[themasething]

I dunno what it is about this series that is turning me away from it. I love Brock as the host, the symbiote is amusing in it's own right, and this dark storyline should be right down my alley... but for some reason I just feel like dropping this book. Heck, I think the only reason I've stuck around through these three issues is I was expecting a more "Lethal Protector" style Venom than the weird one that we suddenly have with all the Vietnam tin-foil hat stuff, demon and Symbiote god...

[Imago]

New stills from an Entertainment weekly article on Venom:





Also, some words on why Hardy wanted the role:

There are a few reasons Tom Hardy wanted to star in Venom. He’s played his fair share of villains, he explains, and he was looking to try his hand at a comic book superhero for once — preferably an interesting one, with a complicated past and murky morals. His son Louis is a huge fan of the character and was more than willing to school his dad in Venom’s rich comics history. And gee, wouldn’t it be fun to play both a down-on-his-luck journalist and the goopy alien parasite who infects him?

But really, it came down to one thing.

“As far as Marvel characters, I have to say for me, Venom looks the coolest,” Hardy says with a laugh. “That sounds a bit shallow! But I appreciate that he has a kind of brazen swagger and a zero foxtrot attitude.”

And so the Oscar-nominated actor signed on to bring one of comics’ most notorious anti-heroes to the big screen. See, Venom may be a Marvel protagonist, but he’s no cape-and-tights do-gooder. His human side is Eddie Brock, a journalist reeling from a recent scandal. Desperate to get back on top, he starts investigating the Life Foundation and its cryptic leader, Dr. Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed). Before long, Eddie is exposed to a slimy, tar-like alien known as a symbiote, which imbues him with extraordinary powers and takes up residence in his head, rent-free.

“There’s a tragic clown element, which I find funny and is harmonious with some of the work that I like to do,” the British actor, 40, says. “There’s something funny about the circumstances of having a gift but it’s a tragic gift. It’s a superpower you don’t really want, but at the same time, you love it. It makes you feel special. He’s a reluctant hero and an anti-hero.”
Venom is the first of Sony’s new films based on characters from the Spider-Man comics, although it’s a separate world from last year’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. (It’s also not part of the deal between Sony and Disney that allows Tom Holland’s Spidey into the Marvel Cinematic Universe). The creature first made its comics debut in the early ‘80s, where it bonded with Peter Parker before eventually setting its sights on Eddie Brock. Over the years, Venom has evolved from Spider-Man villain to misunderstood anti-hero, and after an appearance in 2007’s Topher Grace-starrer Spider-Man 3, he’s finally stepping into the spotlight.

The film leans heavily into Venom’s violent tendencies (have you seen those teeth?) as well as the body horror that comes with sharing your skin with an alien. In forming this Venom, director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) explains, “We talked a lot about a werewolf and what it is when you get infected or bit by a werewolf.”

But although a man may transform into a wolf or Jekyll may transform into Hyde, Eddie Brock and Venom don’t really switch from one to the other: Instead, they occupy the same body at the same time and have to reluctantly learn how to coexist.

“Usually a human gets imbued with powers or an alien comes from outer space and has to figure out how to live on our Earth,” Fleischer says. “But this is really about a relationship between two people who have to work together to create this hybrid symbiotic relationship.”

That duality of the role is what fascinated Hardy, and a key part of developing each character was finding their two separate voices. “It’s a bit like Ren and Stimpy, you know?” Hardy says, laughing. “They have different sounds. I always saw Venom as sounding like a James Brown lounge lizard, and Eddie Brock is kind of…” — he switches to an aw-shucks American accent — “I don’t know, an everyday kind of guy. But he’s inherited this massive ego, this beast.”

The result is a black-and-white hero whose morals are anything but. “There’s that biting-off-heads issue,” Hardy admits, “which is not what you would expect from, say, Captain America taking down a crook.”

[Frontier]

The Venom look is definitely on-point .