We’re introduced to the apparent villain of the piece, Humbug, but that’s already an established character in the Marvel mythos. In this first issue, for example, we see what is ostensibly the first time Eddie realizes that the symbiote is weak to high-pitched sound, but we already knew that. There is a novelty to following a younger, greener Eddie Brock learning to live with the symbiote, sure, but the point of a prequel or interquel should be narrative expansion.

(See also: the line of Symbiote Spider-Man comics, themselves all set pre-Venom.) While I’m sure older fans and/or fans of the older material probably enjoy this sort of storytelling mode, it does bring up the inherent problem with prequels and interquels-does any of this matter ? What unseen situation could have possibly happened to Venom back then that is so important to bring up now, decades later?īased on this first issue, I’m not sure there’s any deeper point to the existence of the revived Venom: Lethal Protector other than the nostalgia factor. Marvel does this sort of throwback series from time to time, telling new stories in bygone eras.

īorrowing the title of Venom’s first-ever solo series, original writer David Michelinie returns readers to the early days of Eddie Brock’s vigilante career, long before he really came to bond with the symbiote or anybody even knew what the heck a “Knull” was. It’s #WaybackWednesday for Eddie Brock in the pages of Venom: Lethal Protector #1.

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