I find it hillarious that somehow comic book Eddie has managed to trick people in the fandom into thinking he has even 1 bit of his shit together at any moment in his life. Comparisons of him and movie Venom like “shit together vs. human disaster” as if comic Eddie doesn’t frequently live in sewers eating nothing but twinkies and spiders like god damn spider geog.
He just bathes sometimes, people.
Literally the only reason comic Eddie looks remotely put together is because the symbiote mimics clothing so it looks like he owns even one clean shirt (he doesn’t). Like, people note the sweaty hoodie on the side of “human disaster” movie Eddie but like…it’s honestly better than any clothes comic Eddie might actually own and often better than what comic Eddie wears despite the fact that he could make his clothes look like anything with just a thought.
He’s a dumpster fire of a human being and I LOVE HIM
comic eddie isn’t even just a mess in a funny relatable type way, he’s genuinely in deep shit a lot of the time. like, he’s a “scrounging together enough cash for a movie ticket so they can sleep in a safe place for a couple of hours” type mess.
eddie’s convinced he doesn’t need anything else so long as he gets to be with his symbiote. “as long as we have each other we will survive” etc etc etc.
and he’s not just frequently homeless himself, he’s basically declared himself patron saint and protector of homeless people (and specifically the formerly homeless people now living underneath san francisco)
YEAH YEAH YESYESYES poverty and homelessness are really really important themes in Venom canon and i am so glad the film went along with it (a factor which i strongly suspect contributed to its massive, staggering worldwide popularity)
And that time he found an abondoned underground bunker that’s relatively clean and safe compared to the fucking sewer, he took Anne there after she was almost killed by a religious freak to heal and protect her, thus exposed the place and ended up homeless (if you can call that a home) afterward.
Eddie is a mess in the old comics but he’s always written as being nice to the other common people, especially those in need and are not “important” enough to gain help from the authority. I simply can’t see him as a “bad guy”.
this is journalist eddie’s reaction to meeting KROBAA the Living Darkness and i’m yelling my whole soul out of my body because he really is just like that. he really was just always like that. absolute number one monster ally. gazes deeply into the eldritch alien goop’s eyes and decides it’s just another lonely soul.
looked this up again because i wanted to show off some samples of eddie’s Extremely Noir Writing Style but then i realised that this is the only other eddie comic written by the writer of the hunger, so that explains that.
and everything else.
like god damn.
that is literally what happened but god damn, eddie.
“Suddenly, what I saw was no alien monstrosity – but just another lonely soul cast adrift upon the vast indifference of heaven.”
well
Eddie was like: bitch, my Other is the Abyss.
Jokes aside I really like it when the writer showed his eccentric but not necessary “villainous” side. I must read it
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