Venom has now passed 700 Million and is rapidly approaching 800M at the global box office.
Thanks to surpassing expectations domesticly, by setting records in the US box office for October openings. Strong box office around the world in places like Mexico, UK, Russia(where it is Sonys biggest movie!), and most of all China (again, Sonys biggest movie!).
Venom had a +100M opening in china, the second largest superhero movie (behind Avengers: IW), and biggest Solo superhero movie. Venom held on strong for its second weekend making anothet estimated $51M.
It will like pass $800M soon and be the 5th biggest grossing movie of the year, behind all the billiom dollar ones.
Venom is beyond successful and we will probably be getting more venom from now on!
Having a bad day? Remember eddie wore crop top on his solo series debut 🙂
I have to thank @beypride for this because if not for their post i probably wont read that comic at all and missed the gem that is spiderman fighting side to side with naked eddie
Let us appreciate that time Venom deviced a plan to render Spiderman unconscious and, instead of killing him right there, they dragged his body to a deserted island specifically researched so that they could have their Ultimate No-Holds-Barred Beatdown because Eddie Brock is just That Much of a Dramatic Bitch.
The fact that the Symbiote went along with this proves that having a fulfilling relationship with Eddie its a priority over killing Spiderman.
i did it. i read all of venom’s original appearances in the amazing spider-man. it was unexpectedly fun. there’s something about these comics. well-balanced. well-paced. feels like a gentle brain massage. anyway.
i cannot overstate how whole-heartedly eddie throws himself into the alien-attached-at-the-brainstem thing. he’s just so down with every aspect of it. like, their union is in no way a mere means to a villainous end.
obviously step one was “we share a BEAUTIFUL HATRED! spider-man sent us both into a spiral of despair and TOGETHER we can take revenge!”
but by the time of their first attempted murder they are already irreversibly bonded and almost exclusively speak in the first person plural. eddie fully considers himself part of a new whole and comes up with “my other” to refer to the symbiote and basically never ever thinks of it as a power-up suit or any less of a sentient being than himself, unlike, say, infamous speciesist peter parker who only doesn’t kill it because killing it might kill eddie.
it’s also different for the other symbiosis we see, carnage, wherein cletus speaks alone and thinks of the symbiote as his sidekick. now, i mean, cletus is kind of a dick in general, but… y’know.
that they’re just super into being one-in-two in general is never better exemplified than when they think they actually achieved their goal and just kind of retire on a deserted island. the symbiote turns into a goofy floral shirt and they have a great time even without their common purpose.
they just hang out. they’re just content. it’s incredible.
they seem so in sync all the time. i’m pretty sure it’s because the symbiote, whose whole deal is being heartbroken by spider-man’s rejection, was so over the moon by suddenly being so fully accepted that it just eagerly adapted to anything eddie deemed important. like, that wacky moral code of theirs? the notion of “innocence”? definitely not its own idea, but it picked it up and it’s vocal about believing in it now.
i don’t buy it as a corrupting influence at all, bottom line. eddie’s just Like That.
I just realized “I’ve survived the Mike Costa Transformers comic, I can survive whatever 2018 Marvel Venom dish out. It won’t be worse then that.” Must be a very confusing statement to comic Venom fans lol
Someone who knows more about the comic Venom please tell me: does Venom 2003-2–4 (the 18 issues one) has anything to do with other previous stories between 1999 to this arc? I think I missed something major here because in Venom: Final, Eddie was captured by the government, but in Venom 2003, he’s out in NYC and was captured by the Fantastic Four.
Did they retcon the whole thing and ignore the old story timeline or?????
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