You had me at “This fully ignores ‘Venom: Dark Origin’ because it frankly just contradicts every other mention of backstory." No but seriously thank you for the amazing run down of Eddie’s (and Venom’s) history in the comics.
Venom: Dark Origin single-handedly put a curse onto my household for generations and the fact that it’s title as on origin story might mean people pick it up for their first Venom comic gives me headaches tbh.
It’s so wild that it’s been published in 2008, too. Like I could understand this take on Eddie appearing in like… 1990, before all his solo series happened. I would still not agree that it’s a reasonable interpretation of his character, but I could at least sort of see where it is coming from. But 2008 is like… someone looked back on the whole decade of the 90s which all gave us content of Eddie as a genuinely well-meaning but HUGELY misguided man and went ‘you know what? nah. fuck that guy’.
Dark Origin wants us to believe Eddie has been a compulsive liar from childhood on. Where’s the basis in previous comics for that? Since when has lying ever been a trait associated with his character???
It also wants us to believe that Eddie only had one big story in his journalism career and that this was the Sin-Eater one, which is bizarre when literally everything else establishes that he has had a stable career before. Hell, there even was the Krooba bonus comic set during his work for Daily Globe.
And then what on earth is up with this miserable depiction of Eddie and Anne’s marriage (pre Sin-Eater especially)??
We literally have Anne’s recounting of their happy marriage as one of the first bits of Venom backstory ever written…..
Point is, THANK YOU FOR AGREEING WITH ME THAT DARK ORIGIN SUCKS.
And thanks for your nice words too, I’m glad other people enjoy my Eddie reference writing!!
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