#venom 165

[microbemaniac]

Meditation on the depiction of the symbiote without a host

If you don't care about my thoughts, these are also just some sick panels to check out!!

So today I was reading separation anxiety (1994-1995), and I was thinking about how different artists depict the symbiote over time.

In separation anxiety, the symbiote looks super humanoid and thinks in actual words:

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of this look--I like it better when he's more amorphous. I could also kind of rationalize it as like trying to emulate personhood having been separated from eddie? And then in terms of how it communicates, I wonder if it's meant to be like "actual words" or more like a representation of how it's feeling?

So then we have the hunger in 1996, of which there are aspects I like better but also less lol:

Like ick what even is this, it's straight out of Alien, and not in a good way. Don't even get me started on the teeth.

Anyway.

I also wanted to point out how Eddie talks to it here, but what it's saying back is only implied. I have more thoughts but this is gonna become like,,, an essay. now this, THIS is what I'm talkin about:

I love this panel in general but specifically, this is the ~amorphousness~ that I dig. It's still a little more angular than is my taste but a gal can't have it all.

If we look forward to the comics of the last like 5-ish years it's totalllllly different. These are from venom 159 (2016) and like. yaaaassss. Not human in the slightest, but also like,,, clearly sentient and verbal!

I think I really like this because it shows how far the symbiote's come but doesn't try to make it a person because it's Not, but it has complicated feelings! It loves! Had to include the nativity, ofc

I have more thoughts, especially on like the current run but I'll leave it here for now since this already feels like a lot.

[anotherramblingfangirl]

I’m seeing a lot of people talking on my dash about wanting to be dating Venom, but I don’t think all of them know that he’s already taken by Eddie Brock.

And that is not a joke or exaggeration.

The above is some extracts from just one issue of the Venom comics and I honestly could not possibly overstate this.

The symbiote, like shown, even outright refers to their relationship as marriage and Brock makes a consistent of a habit in referring to it with romantic terms such as that “love” there. 

There is no platonic interpretations of any of that. Zero, zilch, nada.

Spoilers here for Venom 165, but they also even just had a baby together which they both mutually intend to raise!

So if you guys really do want Venom, you’re gonna have to be open to both aspects of them, Eddie and the symbiote.

Also, be prepared for alien babies too. 

[anotherramblingfangirl]

Venom...sweetie...no. 

You can’t just hope your husband feels and can tell that you’re both pregnant because you’re too nervous to talk about it to him yourself!

I mean I get why, your babies do have a tendency to grow up to be serial killers, but communication is key!

Yeah. You do, after that bomb being dropped.

You’re lucky that Dr Steve was there to get you out of the ensuing mess that followed.

And that Eddie turned out to be fine with it and became immediately attached too:

[anotherramblingfangirl]

Dr Steve, you don't get paid enough to put up with all this nonsense.