I remember the season Christian was in. And he had a problem (because he was fresh out of fashion school) with understanding how to dress bigger women. And Tim Gunn, who has always been a proponent of needing to design fashion for more natural sizes, helped him to get out of that mind set by planting the seed. That growth we see is from this amazing fashion teacher!
If Venom is so much of a loser back home, how did they end up on this highly important mission? What possible purpose would they serve? Riot is the leader, of course, and I’m assuming Carrion (yellow) and Blight (blue) would probably be like combat and study, so why is this dumb gay there?
And then it hit me.
The only constructs Venom ever produced during fights were defensive. When the Foundation goons bust up Eddie’s apartment, they make a shield to protect the people whose window they just crashed through from getting shot. The fight with Riot, they produce a big one to keep him from tearing their face off. After the rocket, they created a parachute so Eddie didn’t get hurt—at what could easily have been the cost of their own life. They told Anne not to get involved because it would be dangerous.
Venom was just a tank. The only reason they were there was to take damage and keep the others safe.
Fuck, man.
Tank is important, you are important, Venom sweetheart
Tom Hardy is a fucking icon like this is such a cool message that he’s not even intentionally trying to spread. He’s just like, “I look good in that photo, I feel good in that photo, whats wrong with that?”.
Some things were paraphrased bc I was writing this down on my phone as I stood in line to ask a question, but here’s a transcript of the TFCon Chicago 2018 JRo panel. Under a cut, because long
Did terminus lie or was it roller?
TERMINUS LIED TO KEEP MEGS IN THE FUNCTIONIST UNIVERSE
There wasn’t enough time/space to have terminus confronted in a satisfying way and that’s why hes ded
How were the council forged as the vector sigma key?
They may have not been forged that way, their Thing is mythmaking and shifting their bent as politics need so it’s perfectly plausible
Were there any stories u didn’t have space to tell?
He wanted 43 issues of LL for 100 total
Scavengers and firstborn was supposed to be a 5-parter
He wants them to have a miniseries
Infinites was nearly dropped
Cdrw storyline
Improbability police
In ll25?!
(someone else thought he said it was a dropped plot that he wanted to put in LL25 but couldn’t manage. guess we’ll see!)
Wishes he could’ve given rung an arc
What’s ur opinion on shocky as onyx?
He’s impressed by how jb pulled it off
CALLS A FIRSTBORN COSPLAYER GRIMLOCK’S BABY
Important Note: she was wearing a shirt that said I ❤ My Mom with a pic of Scorpinok
Most of his emotional/mental collapse is due to djd blackmail
Did u have any plot ideas hasbro/idw veto’d?
Wanted to include Death’s Head for a crossover but marvel
When the djd are killing blip, helex was gonna kiss his brain out of his mouth. IT GOT TO PENCILS BEFORE BEING AXED. That wasn’t even Hasbro that was just them going “hmm that’s Too Horny”
Venom met and saved the underground people. MPreg. Must read to understand the basic characterization and setting up of Venom as an anti-hero.
Venom: Funeral Pyre (1993)
Venom and the Punisher being two hot-headed dumbass.
Venom: Deathtrap: The Vault (1993)
They need Venom to be the villian to let the Avenger and the Freedom Force shine. Venom ruthlessly killed two (or more) guardsmen held as hostage. Not really fit into his anti-hero actions in the previous series.
Venom: The Madness (1993-1994)
Venom got into a gangbang. They almost got more than they could handle.
Eddie serious got his mind fucked bad.
Demons from other dimention wanted to join the gangbang. Venom outlast everyone. I’m not even kidding.
Venom: Enemy Within (1994)
The unexpected Holoween Special.
Venom: The Mace (1994)
Introduction of the new character The Mace. Even though the dude didn’t really show up in any other future Marvel comics.
Venom: Nights of Vengeance (1994)
Not every alien parasite is boyfriend material.
Venom: Seperation Anxiety (1994-1995)
Why is Eddie back into jail again? No one knows (maybe it’s because of some Spiderman event but I didn’t read the Spiderman titled comics). The symbiote babies are back.
I didn’t suppose to sell this book at first, just wanted to print some copies for friends. But then many friends asked me for it, so I made two purchase links for everyone who wants to buy them, Chinese and English.
Due to China Customs unexpected circumstances and high shipping cost, I don’t ship it worldwide. But friends out of China can find Taobao shopping agent on your local shopping sites. Send them these links they will deal with it for you, it will be safer, also cost lesser.
Note: Everything in this book was already published on internet, nothing new. You can read them via links below. This book is only a collection.
BTW about the biocomponent pendants I made recently, I’m sorry they were all sent to my close friends and I can’t make more for sale. Since I got glaucoma, to make these I have to lower my head to look down at materials in my hands for a long time, which could cause my eyes pressure abnormally high. My eyes hurt during passed days because of this. So… really sorry I can’t make more ;;^;;
The Hunger is good. The Hunger is good because it’s set up as the archetypal grimdark nineties comic only to then thoroughly deconstruct itself and subvert audience expectations entirely.
most obviously, in eddie’s brooding about the inherent sickness of humanity and the hopelessness of existence being revealed as nothing more than the product of a chemical imbalance in his brain. there is nothing more delegitimising you can say about pseudo-philosophical anti-hero monologues than, no, actually, those guys are just depressed, and it sucks for them and everyone around them.
but also in his relationship to the symbiote, which is, at first, presented as cause, symptom, part of his “madness”. like, as sweetly as you can take it, the first time eddie refers to their “happy ending” is… creepy-coded. from his wide-eyed, manic, disheveled appearance to the seeming disconnect he’s experienced from humanity at large, and, specifically, from the heterosexual norm.
holding someone’s hand at the movies has overwhelmingly romantic connotations, and it was fully expected that these connotations would unsettle the average reader. i don’t want to simplify it down to Gay Scary but, you can, you basically can. everything about their relationship and the way it’s described is alien, foreign, weird. and neither of them is a lady. and eddie is broken enough to prefer this to more normal circumstances, is what you might take away from it.
but then- then, later- their affection is something that’s entirely validated. eddie’s decision to be soft, to help, to put down the badass weapons and call off the hyped up mind-meld fight in favour of just showing empathy to his symbiote, of understanding that it, too, was behaving in a way you can reasonably describe as “the kind of edgy that drives up sales” simply because it was suffering- that’s literally what saves the day. it’s lovingly rendered cuddles, not flamethrowers.
but it goes even further than that, because things come full circle with a second romantically charged scene and a second “happily ever after”, with eddie offering his other those heart-shaped chocolates, and it’s just… unambiguously adorable, that time. and defiantly fucking so.
from the beginning, everyone can agree that something’s wrong with venom. but in the nineties, with the kind of tone established, with the kind of grotesque imagery employed, you would think that eddie’s bleak view of the city and the symbiote’s brain-eating are what’s true, what’s the new status quo, and the attachment eddie has to his symbiote is what’s sick, what’ll be punished by the narrative. the misanthropy is what’s right, the deviancy is what’s wrong. what readers might expect to be broken and what actually has to be fixed are direct opposites. i owe my life to The Hunger.
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