#asm comics

[red-hydra]

One of my favorite facts about Cletus is that he absolutely is smart enough and capable of manipulating/charming people. He just actively chooses not to most of the time, probably because he doesn't have the patience to.

[watsonmj]

PETER PARKER 

[that90ssmshow]

Amazing Spider-Man #327 (1989)

[watsonmj]

MJ WATSON in ASM (2018) #75

[watsonmj]

which comic is “every happy thought i ever had begins and ends with you, and every unhappy thought begins with the realization that you’re not there, because i screwed up.” from?

amazing spider-man (1999) #44 (straczynski & romita jr) ❤️

[watsonmj]

Then Suffer

JMS HAS ONE RIGHT... AND IT'S PETERMJ... THANK YOU FOR HER WHAT THE FUCK. SHE MAKES ME WHOLE!!!!! UGH!!!! ... IM IN MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF PAIN

[watsonmj]

There are days I love her so much I can’t breathe.

Y’ALL REMEMBER THIS LINE? BECAUSE I DO. SO OFTEN. PETER IN LOVE IS A SIGHT TO SEE 🥺

[red-hydra]

Guys! I got it figured out!

Torment is Cletus.

What's his personal connection to Peter, you ask? The one line none of us seemed to be able to connect because it just didn't fit?

Carnage bonding to Peter.

So we saw at the end of Venom #256 that Carnage (finally) left Eddie and bonded himself to Torment:

(Yes, I know he says "the start of a beautiful friendship" but it hasn't even been a minute since they bonded. I guess it wouldn't be impossible for Cletus to briefly conceal his thoughts so that Carnage wouldn't immediately recognize him.

It's Marvel, okay? It's not that farfetched.)

However, we only see Torment in his original form in the subsequent covers:

And sure, maybe that was done to avoid obvious spoilers, but maybe it was also because Carnage got angry [either at Cletus leaving him or at him showing up like this after all this time] and now he's the one leaving Cletus.

And he takes Peter as his host.

This is further supported by this variant cover of ASM #26:

Well, a girl can dream. Until we know for sure, this is just a theory.

(A comic theory.)