Venom is Going Gold and Getting a New Mysterious Meatsuit

Since 2017, Marvel’s boosted Venom into one in all its A-list characters and made positive to have him headline a comic event once in a while. Proper now, Eddie Brock and his son Dylan are going head-to-head within the pages of “Venom Struggle,” and as soon as that wraps, a brand new period for the character will kick off. The twist? It received’t be both of the Brocks within the title function.

Days in the past, Polygon formally introduced Al Ewing and Carlos Gómez’ upcoming collection, All-New Venom. Whereas Eddie will probably be seemingly MIA, Dylan will probably be investigating the brand new fella that the Symbiote’s partnered up with. It is a thriller story with the teenager Brock working as a detective of kinds, and there’s already 4 suspects narrowed down as potential candidates: New York mayor Luke Cage, Each day Bugle staple Robbie Robertson, villain Madame Masque, and longtime Hulk ally Rick Jones. Ewing mentioned every of them has a “good chance” for being the brand new host, like Masque’s “huge plans” after the “Gang Struggle” occasion and Robbie seeking to remedy problms a la Superman, and the hope is that readers received’t instantly finger the suspect.

No matter who’s within the goo, All-New is Venom on the road degree as soon as once more after the previous couple of runs (a few of which have been from Ewing and cowriter Ram V) have been so cosmic-heavy. “It’s extra like a Spider-Man-level story,” he defined. And with a deal with character and “ground-level superhero motion,” he teased that this new deadly protector will probably be combating like road heroes do. “This Venom doesn’t battle like we’ve seen [him] earlier than. […] We will pull off every kind of thrilling new tips and enjoyable new issues, proper from challenge one.”

For readers who’ve been studying Ewing’s work for a very long time, he likened All-New Venom to old-school superhero comics, and a manner for him to flex his artistic muscle groups. “Venom calls for some extent of craziness and wildness and enjoyable,” he mentioned. “And I feel All-New Venom goes to embrace that much more.”

All-New Venom will kick off in December.

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