More like “Eddie Brock: Dark Origin.” I bet you wouldn’t ever have guessed he was bullied as a kid? OK, so that was predictable. But he was also a sociopath. As a young boy, Eddie steals a cat then takes credit for rescuing it. He thinks the Virgin Mary is his mom. He gets mugged, Spider-Man saves him, and then takes credit for beating up all the thugs. And that’s all just issue #1.
Issue #2 revisits Sin-Eater’s murder of Jeanne DeWolff and how Eddie, as an intern at the Daily Bugle, manipulated that news story. When Spider-Man captured the assassin, Eddie’s behind-the-scenes machinations (which enabled Sin-Eater to continue his killing spree) are revealed, leaving Eddie suicidal and hating Spider-Man.
Enter the symbiote in issue #3, when Eddie is suicidally depressed. The symbiote appears as a tear in the eye of a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Very nice touch, well-done sequence.
COVER TO #4
It’s in issue #4 that we get more of the origin of Venom, i.e., the consciousness of the symbiote and how it developed into an anti-Spider-Man personality.
Venom and Brock then go after their mutual enemy: Peter Parker/Spider-Man.
The re-telling of Spider-Man and Venom’s first fight is done well, and the tale ends with Venom and Brock captives in the Baxter Building.
This was much, much better than I expected it to be.
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