#Venom: Lethal Protector Vol. 1 1993

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"NOW IN HIS OWN LIMITED SERIES!" -- LETHAL PROTECTION WILL SOON BE UPON YOU ALL!

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on close-up and original cover art to "Venom: Lethal Protector" Vol. 1 #1 [in a story titled "Dark Soul Drifting"]. February, 1993. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Mark Bagley and Sam De La Rosa.

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[symbiotic-slime]

I just started reading the venom comics last year so I totally get the feeling! It can seem very daunting and overwhelming, but I promise it’s really not that bad once u get into it!

if you’re planning on reading physical copies, I would start with the Symbiosis epic collection. This goes over the origin story, the spiderman era, and the early days of Eddie and the Symbiote. if you’re reading it online, the comics in order are:

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 (1984), Amazing Spider-Man #258 (1984), Amazing Spider-Man #260 (1985), Fantastic Four #274 (1985), Amazing Spider-Man #261 (1985), Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man #98-100 (1985), Web Of Spider-Man #1 (1985), Web of Spider-Man #18 (1986), Web Of Spider-Man #24 (1987), Amazing Spider-Man #298-300 (1988), Amazing Spider-Man #315-317 (1989), Avengers: Death Trap the Vault GN (1991), Quasar #6 (1990), Amazing Spider-Man #330-333 (1990), Amazing Spider-Man #344-347 (1991), Amazing Spider-Man Annual #25 (1991), Web of Spider-Man Annual #7 (1991), Darkhawk #13-14 (1992), Amazing Spider-Man Annual #26 (1992), Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #12 (1992), Web of Spider-Man Annual #8 (1992), and Amazing Spider-Man #388 (1994)

Then I would move to the Lethal Protector epic collection. This is when Venom starts getting their own comics, they’re no longer just a Spider-Man character. Again, if you’re reading online, the comics in order are:

Amazing Spider-Man #359-363 (1992), Spider-Man Special Edition - The Trial Of Venom (1992), Web of Spider-Man #94 (1992), Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance #4 (1992), Web of Spider-Man #95 (1992), Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance #5 (1992), Web of Spider-Man #96 (1993), Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance #6 (1993), Marvel Comics Presents #117-122 (1992-1993), Amazing Spider-Man #373-375 (1993), Venom: Lethal Protector #1-6 (1993)

After that, you can kind of read the 90s era comics in whatever order you like, or skip over some entirely if you want. This is just personal preference, but I would highly recommend reading:

Venom: Separation Anxiety #1-4 (1994-1995) and Planet of the Symbiotes [includes Amazing Spider-Man: Super Special #1 (1995), Spider-Man Super Special #1 (1995), Venom Super Special #1 (1995), The Spectacular Spider-Man Super Special #1 (1995), and Web of Spider-Man #1 (1995)] - Eddie and the Symbiote get forcibly separated and have a break-up so messy that it causes an alien invasion. We’ve all been there.

Venom: The Hunger #1-4 (1996) - Amazing plot and very gay if ur into that lol

Venom: Seed of Darkness (1997) - This is a one shot prequel!

I can give you more 90s series if you’d like but I don’t want to overwhelm you with choices lol

I would recommend mostly skipping past the early 2000s comics (cancer era Eddie and Symby certainly are characters who exist) and move on to the 2010s-ish time frame.

If you care about my boy Flash Thompson (or just want to read about badass adventures featuring the Symbiote), read Agent Venom! (I can reblog this again with a reading order if you want to read it!)

If you don’t want to read Agent Venom, skip to the Costa era comics. Reading order for these is:

Venom Vol. 3 #1-6 (2016), Venom #150-158, Venom Inc. [includes Amazing Spider-Man Venom Inc Alpha #1, The Amazing Spider-Man #792 (2015), Venom #159 (2016), The Amazing Spider-Man #793 (2015), Venom #160 (2016), Amazing Spider-Man Venom Inc. Omega #1 (2018)], Venom & X Men: Poison X [includes X Men: Blue Annual #1 (2018), X Men: Blue #21 (2018), Venom #162 (2018), X men: Blue #22, Venom #163 (2018)], Venom #161, #164-165

And that’s basically it! The Cates run is mid in my opinion, and I haven’t kept up with the current run. There’s a bunch of mini series I can tell you about if you want :)

i only watched the venom movie and i wanna know more about venom by reading comics and shit but i dont know where to start this entire reading comics thing is so overwhelming WHERE IS A GOOD STARTING POINT

begging shouting for help

[oflgtfol]

fucking Creachure

[kitausuret]

I'm being bullied; bullied, I say!

Regardless... here we go, I guess?

So a lot of this is admittedly conjecture on my part, but I've read a real good chunk of Venom comics (like... pretty much everything Eddie's appeared in) so I feel like I know his character pretty well. Disclaimer, though: for the purpose of this, I'll be more or less ignoring the retcons from "The Abyss" arc of Venom vol. 4.

So, we start with what we know about Eddie growing up.

(Venom: Lethal Protector (1993) #3; Michelinie, Bagley)

For reasons we understand, Eddie spent a lot of his childhood very well cared for physically, but not so much emotionally. Even all that said... I find it curious that there's no mention at all of much social life for him. You'd think if there had been anyone significant in his life, they'd get a mention here, right? Instead, pretty quiet.

But we already know from Amazing Spider-Man #375 how deeply and devotedly he had been in love with Anne Weying!

It's something we don't see really at all. In fact, I can really only think of three characters we do - Anne Weying, Beck Underwood (from Venom: The Madness), and the Venom Symbiote. Three. Three. In almost 35 years of comics. Anne describes him as charming, and obviously we all have eyes - he's a very conventionally attractive man! But for all the gorgeous people that come into his orbit, he sure doesn't give 95% even an iota of a hint attraction.

But he's so wholly devoted to Anne, all the way up until her death, and of course to the symbiote. Why? Because he knew their hearts first. Because Eddie developed a deep emotional bond with each of them and then, then came the attraction. It's my belief that this doesn't even happen with others because he never gets to know them.

(Venom: Lethal Protector II #1; Michelinie, Karami)

Wow, he still loves her! 🥺

But this also tells me that Eddie does still want and desire connection and intimacy. It's just such a rarity for him! Which is something that feels very demi-coded to me. 💜

But even beyond all that, there's also the fact that Eddie Brock was very much created in the narrative as Peter Parker's foil. He is Spider-Man's flip coin, and while I'm not saying Peter is, you know, hypersexual or anything... he is very much not asexual.

Like, at all.

So I think that it's not too crazy to think that might be another deliberate difference between Peter and Eddie. Peter, with his string of people he's been so madly and so quickly in love with, though of course for a large chunk of time he was indeed married to Mary Jane... he has an approach to love and relationships and yes, sex as well, that we don't see with Eddie. And I think that's very cool! Like yes, let's have a wide variety of characters who are loving and devoted to their partners in totally different ways! It's fun and enriching and makes life interesting.

If anyone has anything else to add pleeeeeease say your piece because I really love asexual-spectrum Eddie I think he's neat and have you ever seen a more biromantic guy. Insane. I love him.

(Venom: The Hunger #4; Kaminski, Halsted)

I think it was asexual day yesterday and I think it was also yesterday that I saw the new issue of Venom that came out.

The thing is that I can't stop seeing the color palette they used for the cartoons and thinking "very asexual"

Eddie is not asexual, but technically all symbiotes are and he is like the symbiote God, you know, literally God of a completely asexual race xd

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PIC(S) INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Spotlight on the second set of brand new Tumblr cover photos that I've used in the past month or so, and which I'm sharing with you all now. This month, featuring such finds as:

Inner gatefold sleeve to 1972's "Black Sabbath Vol. 4," the fourth studio album by English heavy metal band BLACK SABBATH.

Partial sleeve art to the Japanese movie poster to "STAR WARS" (1978), released in Nippon cinemas in 1978. Artwork by Seito.

English rock and roll band MOTÖRHEAD, during the band's classic period, photographed with a Union Jack flag in Berlin, Germany, c. 1981-'82.

Spotlight on partial artwork to Frank Frazetta's "A Princess of Mars" original painting (1970).

Boxed set of Ultraviolence QEE by Frank Kozik. Limited to 200 pieces. Designed by the late, great Frank Kozik.

Partial promotional art to "Venom: Lethal Protector" Vol. 1 #1. February, 1993. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Mark Bagley & Sam De La Rosa.

English rock band THE BEATLES (as a five-piece), performing live in Hamburg, Germany, c. 1962.

A DEAD KENNEDYS concert tour poster for the band's first tour of the UK, promoting their then-newlyreleased "Plastic Surgery Disasters" LP, c. fall/winter 1982.

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