People were very struck by the ending of issue six where Venom says, “I love you” as it dies because he – I say he, but it is gender-less – It’s sweet. But if you look at that scene, Eddie is almost burnt to death because of the Symbiote. Eddie’s life is shattered, but he is still begging for the Symbiote to not leave. It’s horrible.
so, since trying to reach out to your partner when you cannot sense their presence anymore after they risked their life protecting you while you saved the world is deeply disturbing if you really think about it, because, you know, i’m sure we can somehow blame the symbiote for an evil space dragon coming to earth and eddie deciding to incinerate it, i’ve created this mock-up of what this scene might have looked like with an emotionally healthy eddie:
apart from the writer’s injecting his queerphobia (that is inextricably a part of what this is) into his work, what gets me is the bizarre, obvious, head-tilting inaccuracy of what he’s saying
to the point where i am legit almost wondering if the issue wasn’t actually written by him.
because
‘eddie is almost burned to death because of the symbiote’
what.
what tho.
that just wasn’t what happened.
at all.
that statement is such a strange, misleading way of presenting the events that occurred in Issue 6 that it’s making me conjure up actual conspiracy theories.
did Marvel notice that the internet has picked up on the fact that one of their more popular male characters is in a non-heterosexual relationship? did they decide they wanted to shut that shit *right* down before all the cowardly straight fanboys they expected the movie to bring in showed up? did they *tell* cates to reframe the current series as the story of an angsty cool guy struggling to overcome his addiction to something unhealthy and deviant?
like….cates, my dude,
‘…but he is still begging for the symbiote to not leave. it’s horrible.’
what, in yr mind, cates m’lad, should eddie have said at that moment, when he lay on the floor wracked with agony and terror, alone and wondering where his closest companion and THE STORY’S SECONDARY PROTAGONIST had gone? ‘hey, u dead bro? ok, not a problem. 🙂 u do u.’
I have a theory that Cates intended the end of #6 to be a quick and dirty wrap-up of the Costa run.
The Symbiote had said the L-word which was supposed to make this run roughly in the same continuity as Costa’s but then the Symbiote died so this run doesn’t have to deal with the uncomfortable topic anymore. That’s it, arc finished, done. It’s Eddie’s story now.
And then people kept pestering Cates about how sweet and heartbreaking this scene was. Just keep coming back to this, asking him about topics he specifically didn’t want/wasn’t interested to write about.
So he tried to issue a clarification aaand it went downhill from here I guess.
Oh no, this could be the reason. He killed the symbiote so that he could “soft reboot” the symbiote. Ugh, I’ll keep going to see what’s going on next but *sigh*
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