33 years later, Marvel is bringing back one of my favorite comics of all time for an All-New Venom variant cover
Oct. 8, 2024Amazing Spider-Man #347 is one of the best Venom stories ever, and Marvel is reviving it for an All-New Venom variant cover
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Marvel is giving fans a whole slew of fresh looks at the Venom symbiote’s new black and gold style with a wave of variant covers forAll-New Venom #1by writer Al Ewing and artist Carlos Gomez. And though I’ve got some questions about the new direction - including the mystery identity of Venom’s new host - the vibes the variant covers are cultivating are immaculate, even referencing one of the best Venom comics of all time.
I’m talking about Amazing Spider-Man #347, one of my own personal all-time favorite comics, which tells a classic Venom story in which Eddie Brock lures Spider-Man to a remote island, hunting him like the Predator. It’s an absolute ripper of an issue by Venom’s co-creator writer Dave Michelinie and artist Erik Larsen, showcasing the peak of Venom as Spider-Man’s most bloodthirsty foe.
Marvel has “remastered” a page of Erik Larsen’s art from the issue, which leads off this gallery of variant covers. There’s also the main cover by Adam Kubert, and variant covers by Iban Coello, Humberto Ramos, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Skan, Stephen Platt, Chris Giarrusso, and of course, a revival ofMarvel Vs Capcom 2 concept artby Bengus:
As implied in the quote, Marvel has narrowed down the identity of the new Venom to four candidates - Robbie Robertson, Luke Cage, Madame Masque, and Rick Jones, any of whom would be pretty surprising. And if Marvel is channeling the vibes of the early, monstrous Venom, I’m on board to find out the answer, as those early Venom stories are a pitch-perfect blend of alien body horror and superhero action.
We’ll find out more when All-New Venom releases on December 4.
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