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PAULO SIQUEIRA & RACHELLE ROSENBERGCOVER ARTISTS

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DISGRACED REPORTER EDDIE BROCK STUMBLED UPON AN AGGRESSIVE ALIEN ORGANISM CALLED A SYMBIOTE DURING ONE OF THE LOWEST POINTS OF HIS LIFE. SHARING A SIMILAR NEED FOR JUSTICE IN THE FORM OF VENGEANCE, THE SYMBIOTE AND EDDIE BONDED, AND THEIR UNION GRANTED EDDIE POWERS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF SPIDER-MAN, AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF OTHER UNIQUE ABILITIES. TOGETHER,

THEY NOW FIGHT CRIME AS THE WICKED WEB-SLINGER CALLED VENOM!

HOWEVER, BEFORE VENOM BECAME THE SCOURGE OF THE CRIMINALS THAT COMPOSE NEW YORK’S SEEDY UNDERBELLY, HE WAS ONE OF THEM.

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DONNY CATES WRITER KEV WALKER ILLUSTRATOR CHRIS SOTOMAYOR COLORISTTALL TALES

DAVID MICHELINIEWRITER

RON LIM ILLUSTRATOR

SCOTT HANNAINKER

RACHELLE ROSENBERGCOLORIST

ROUND TWO

JEFF LOVENESS WRITER TIGH WALKER ILLUSTRATOR RACHELLE ROSENBERG COLORISTNOBODY DOES IT BETTER

JAMES STOKOE WRITER and ARTISTUNSTOPPABLE

*see venom #1!

I’m telling

you guys. venom is @#$%^&.

nah, get over

it. he’s not all that.

no, the other blond venom. the

super hero.

the space ranger?

I don’t know nothing

about no space rangers.

brock is dead?

yeah, venom ain't that scary, jack o'lantern.

I heard he broke good now anyway. ain’t he some kinda soldier? avenger-

like dude?

he gouged

my #$%^&@ eye out,

man!*

wait, I’m confused. how many

venoms are there?

I mean, I was venom

for a whi--

that’s the old one. blond dude. osborn

killed him, like, last week.

I mean…I was just selling some

guns to some guys like you do, not hurting nobody, and here

comes venom.

I thought maybe he’d rough

me up a bit and turn me in or whatever

messed-up morality crap he’s on these

days but…but…

he starts speaking in tongues, and he ripped my freaking eye

out of my head!

I mean, ain’t you guys seen the

news? he’s like some kinda freaking dragon

or something now!

eye.

venom. the real venom…

I know from experience. let

me tell you about it...

…he’s terrifying.

I’m messed up, man! I can’t sleep! I keep seeing him over my shoulder and when I close

my eyes.

it ain’t funny! I’m telling

you--

kid’s not wrong.

“I knew I wasn’t dead.

"venom hadn’t pulled any punches,

either physical or emotional.

“he’d hit me with fists and

bombshell news about spider-man,

my ex.

“dead wouldn’t hurt

so much!

“and I wasn’t about to let him get away with either!

“of course, as the old saying goes, the best-

laid schemes of mice and men--

“--and cats--

“--gang aft agley!

“that’s scottish

for, ‘think again, sister!’

"I was pretty sure my nose was broken,

and I had bruises on my bruises.

"I was weak as a kitten.

“anger still seared my heart,

but my head had to admit:

“instant gratification wasn’t gonna

happen.

gotcha!

“I still had connections

from my early days.

“a man with a stained smOck and a revoked

medical license patched me up.

sort of. I recuperated

for a day or two--

"--then went on the hunt!

“I knew venom was searching for spider-man, probably surveilling his

known hangouts.

“so I did the same.

"it took a while, but I was patient...

“...determined...

“...and eventually--

"--at a residential neighborhood in

forest hills...