Venom has a cape now?

[JLS Comics]

So this is from Contest of Champions #1 ... is this cape permanent or what?? It looks like he ripped it off of Parker's back

[Kurolegacy]

That's an alternate Venom so from the looks of it, in his reality he killed Spidey and wears that as a trophy of sorts.

[L.R Johansson]

That's impossible to say - the book hasn't come out yet. It does look however, as if it's an alternate Universe Venom - perhaps he's still Eddie Brock - and finally ate Spidey's brains, in the contest.

That, or maybe it's an alternate PETE - one that never rejected the symbiote, and he's carrying that shred of his old suit, as a reminder of who he really is - about his vow.

I'm pretty sure I've seen Flash-Venom sighted in the post-SW Guardians -book, so we do know that Flash will still be Venom - so that can't be the mainline 616 Venom - it's an alternate character.

[JLS Comics]

Yeah mainline Venom will be off on his Flash space knight adventures. That's a good point, LR Johansson, I wonder if it is an alternate Peter

[Celgress]

Got to be an alternate version. Flash/Venom has never looked, or been, that epic. lol

[Venomous Mask]

I think it's a trophy ala the skull in ASM #347.

[berserkerclaw]

It's already confirmed in an interview that this is An alternate Eddie Brock as venom .

[JLS Comics]

It's already confirmed in an interview that this is An alternate Eddie Brock as venom .

Right but how did he get the cape

[berserkerclaw]

Books not out yet how should I know

[JLS Comics]

Books not out yet how should I know

lol ok then.
Obviously it's not out yet but I'm glad we got to clarify that yet again for anyone who might've been still wondering. You've been around here a lot longer than I have so I know you realize this but I did notice we tend to talk a lot about books that aren't out yet...

[L.R Johansson]

It's already confirmed in an interview that this is An alternate Eddie Brock as venom .

Do you have a link to that interview? I'm curious to hear what the writer actually said about some of the iterations of the characters.

[berserkerclaw]

lol ok then.
Obviously it's not out yet but I'm glad we got to clarify that yet again for anyone who might've been still wondering. You've been around here a lot longer than I have so I know you realize this but I did notice we tend to talk a lot about books that aren't out yet...

Lol I know.

[berserkerclaw]

Do you have a link to that interview? I'm curious to hear what the writer actually said about some of the iterations of the characters.

I don't have a link but I have this snippet :

Anyway, we're bringing back a couple of characters readers might think we couldn't -- the Collector's reach, in certain cases, extends to the dead. And since the Player On The Other Side has access to a myriad of alternate realities, we can have people like the Eddie Brock Venom or a version thereof, the Sentry from "Age Of The Sentry," and the return of Joe Fixit. I hope those revelations whet your appetite, because I'm keeping the real humdingers under wraps until the time is right.

[Venomous Mask]

Slimier than a crawling slug, more putrid than a state fair outhouse...