Who is the all-new Venom host? Marvel teases the four main suspects

“We are Venom.” When symbiote host Eddie Brock bonded with Spider-Man’s alien costume, a shared hatred of Peter Parker and Spider-Man transformed the scorned duo into Venom: a parasitic supervillain turned Lethal Protector. The Venom symbiote has had other hosts – including Flash Thompson (as Agent Venom), Mac Gargan/Scorpion (as Venom and the Dark Avengers’ Sinister Spider-Man) and Eddie’s son, Dylan Brock – but there’s an all-new Venom- host in Brand new gif by writer Al Ewing (Immortal Thor) and artist Carlos Gómez (Fantastic Four). The only question is… who are they?

Spins off Ewing’s run Poison and his five-issue Symbiote saga Venom Warwhich concludes with the all new Venom debut in Venom War #5 November, Brand new gif #1 (on sale December 4) stars a Venom who is not Eddie Brock. Marvel is keeping their identities a secret after the gold-covered first issue, but according to the synopsis, the all-new Venom could be “the journalist… the terrorist… the sidekick… or even the mayor.” (More about the suspects below.)

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Venom War #5 goes on sale on November 27, followed by the all-new Venom #1 on December 4.

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“We’re moving away from the big cosmic thing,” Ewing said Polygon. “The pendulum swings away from that and back to a much more intimate, character-based story, but also has a lot of that ground-level superhero action, being less about cosmic entities battling in each other’s mindscapes, or mysterious zones outside of time. , and much more on the streets – web-slinging, chain-slinging, doing the Venom thing. It’s almost like returning to an old-fashioned superhero comic, but with a few twists that we’ll be excited to introduce. .”

As Dylan Brock searches for the new Venom host and battles AIM and the Symbiote Squad along the way, the suspect list includes:

Brand New Venom Suspect #1: The Journalist (Robbie Robertson)

Long before he was The daily bugleThe film’s editor-in-chief, a young Joe “Robbie” Robertson, attempted to expose the criminal dealings of his former high school classmate: Lonnie Lincoln, who would become the gangster Tombstone and the new Kingpin of Crime.

In the recent gang war event that kicked off on the pages of Awesome Spider-ManRobbie’s activist son, Randy, was shot and nearly killed when the gangster Hammerhead sent hit men to kill Randy’s then-fiancée: Janice Lincoln, the Beetle, aka Tombstone’s daughter. Randy worked with Mayor Luke Cage to repeal former Mayor Wilson Fisk’s law criminalizing superheroes before he was hospitalized.

“Robbie Robertson is someone else who was affected by the big gang war and Spidey,” Ewing said Polygon. “He was never tempted by power or superpowers,” “Has that changed after his son became so involved in New York’s criminal underworld and fell in love with the Beetle? Does Robbie want to find a way to control things in some way to get?” which you know he can’t do as a newspaperman. Is this one of the great secret identities, like Clark Kent, a newspaper reporter – or newspaper editor, in Robbie’s case – who hears about trouble and then goes out to deal with it? ?”

All New Venom Suspect #2: The Terrorist (Madame Masque)

The gang war culminated in an all-out war between Madame Masque and the Beetle. Whitney Frost, the daughter of former Maggia leader Count Nefaria, manipulated the events of the Gang War and turned AIM into her army before being defeated by Spider-Man and street heroes like Luke Cage, Danny Rand, She-Hulk, Daredevil ( Elektra) and Miles Morales.

“Madame Masque is another big suspect,” Ewing teased. ‘She comes straight from the Gang warwhere we last saw her in a Spidey context. She has plans. Do these plans involve claiming a symbiote? Do they involve taking revenge on other gangs with an identity no one would ever suspect? The ultimate mask for Madame Masque? I couldn’t possibly comment…”

Brand New Venom Suspect #3: The Sidekick (Rick Jones)

A mainstay of the Marvel Universe since its introduction in 1962 Incredible Hulk #1, Rick Jones was the sidekick to the Hulk and Captain America before becoming a hero in his own right. While wielding the Nega-Bands, Rick took on the powers of Captain Mar-Vell, and later merged with the Kree warrior’s son, Genis-Vell, when he assumed the mantle of Captain Marvel. For a short time, a gamma-mutated Rick A-Bomb, a blue-skinned abomination who fought the Red Hulk.

“Has the sidekick now become the main hero? That’s the question,” Ewing said. “(The suspects) have to function well as a group that bumps into each other, even if they don’t always meet. Each of them should be a fun possibility, a group where the reader can’t point to just one of them. and go, like Oh, it’s that one. Hopefully we have achieved that.”

Ewing continued, “It’s good to write a version of Rick who has been through a lot of things and has come out the other way.” This is a much more relaxed, joking and funny Rick than we are used to from me. It’ll last longer…unless he’s going through something else now. Who knows…’

Brand New Venom Suspect #4: The Mayor (Luke Cage)

Luke Cage as Venom? Sweet Christmas!

The former hero for hire, formerly known as Power Man, replaced Wilson Fisk as mayor of New York City and reluctantly complied with Fisk’s anti-vigilante Powers Act as the gang war raged through the city. But when Spider-Man villain Alistair Smythe attacked the city with an army of Spider-Slayers, Mayor Cage donned a stealth suit – and even his own Hulkbuster armor, the Cagebuster – to thwart Smythe’s operation, despite he was in violation of the city’s laws. Powers Act.

After being a member and leader of the New Avengers and the Thunderbolts, will the steel-skinned Harlem hero take on a whole new identity as Venom host?

“We’ve seen heroes get symbiotes to get a little more done. And we’ve seen Luke Cage struggle to take to the streets and do what he loves while sitting behind the mayor’s desk,” Ewing said . “Would this be a way to do that? Would this be a way to put on a different identity, to kick the ass that he knows needs to be kicked, but in a capacity where he doesn’t officially involved?”

“He doesn’t have to answer questions like he would if he went out into the streets in his mayoral suit and did what he used to do for the community. Maybe a symbiote is the perfect cover for him,” Ewing added. “Again, who can say? I’m just saying words. These are all just possibilities…’

Brand new gif #1 goes on sale December 4 from Marvel Comics.