What the Hell Is Up With the New Venom?
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?It’s a rhetorical question, since I already know the answer. But if you don’t want to know who the new Venom in the Marvel universe is and why he doesn’t look at all like Venom, consider this your SPOILER WARNING.
The new Venom is Flash Thompson, former bully of Peter Parker and recent Iraq war veteran who returned home after losing both of his legs in battle. He and the alien symbiote have teamed up to work for the government, hence the Spider-guy in the Spider-military duds in the picture above. The good news for Thompson is that Venom effectively gives him his legs back; the bad news is… well, it’s fucking Venom. You can read all about it/him/them in the new Venom series beginning in March.
I don’t have feelings either way about the new Venom, although I am mildly annoyed at the symbiote’s odd determination to bond only with people that know Peter Parker personally. I’m calling it now — within 10 years, Mary Jane will be Venom for a bit. Within 20, Aunt May will too. You just wait and see. (Via Comics Alliance)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.