In just a handful of issues, Cates introduces a new villain for Eddie, explores his childhood, and drops a major twist about our protagonist. Cates has retconned some of the shallow, annoying things about Venom and made him a layered and much more tragic figure. He was a character who existed more as a cool design than as a fully fleshed out star of his own title. One of my long-running reasons for disliking Venom was that he felt like a character who was “edgy” for edginess’s sake. There’s also a desire to build out the Venom mythos beyond just being a part of the Spider-Man niche of the Marvel Universe. The title leans into its horror elements more than it’s superhero roots. It’s a fascinating study of body horror, precisely the moments where Eddie loses time and learns the symbiote was moving him around and speaking for him. Donny Cates’s run on Venom has been all about the strange symbiosis between Eddie Brock and his companion.
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