Venom is Going Gold and Getting a New Mysterious Meatsuit

Since 2017, Marvel’s boosted Venom into considered one of its A-list characters and made positive to have him headline a comic event from time to time. Proper now, Eddie Brock and his son Dylan are going head-to-head within the pages of “Venom Battle,” and as soon as that wraps, a brand new period for the character will kick off. The twist? It gained’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 likely be seemingly MIA, Dylan will likely be investigating the brand new fella that the Symbiote’s partnered up with. This can be 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, Day by day Bugle staple Robbie Robertson, villain Madame Masque, and longtime Hulk ally Rick Jones. Ewing stated every of them has a “good risk” for being the brand new host, like Masque’s “huge plans” after the “Gang Battle” occasion and Robbie trying to clear up problms a la Superman, and the hope is that readers gained’t instantly finger the suspect.

No matter who’s within the goo, All-New is Venom on the road stage as soon as once more after the previous couple of runs (a few of which had been from Ewing and cowriter Ram V) had 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 likely be preventing like road heroes do. “This Venom doesn’t combat like we’ve seen [him] earlier than. […] We will pull off every kind of thrilling new methods and enjoyable new issues, proper from situation 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 approach for him to flex his inventive muscle tissues. “Venom calls for a point of craziness and wildness and enjoyable,” he stated. “And I feel All-New Venom goes to embrace that much more.”

All-New Venom will kick off in December.

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