[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by donmeca2020

I personally wouldn't mind a symbiote version of quite a few of these characters. For those not in the loop of current comics quite a few characters have turned up with a symbiote as a variant cover special. Some are also real bad ass !

Out of that pic, the only ones I'd really like to see are the Angelo Fortunato Venom (I always liked that look for the character), Earth X Venom (it's Alex Ross after all...) and the classic Eddie Brock in Venom jacket from issue #375, but NOT before we get the Life Foundation Symbiotes in their entirety.

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

No offense to Venom fans, but don't you think the character jumped that shark many years ago? IMHO, that threshold was crossed around the time they had Carnage's (??? - may need clarification - the story irked me so much that I purposely never read it) symbiote take over Silver Surfer...pffffft..as if. Don't get me wrong, I don't totally hate Venom. That said, I also don't run toward stories featuring the character either. I wouldn't put him at Deadpool lvls, but he's real close.

I don't take offense to it because I agree with it. There was a period from about 1992 to 1997 where you couldn't walk down a street without bumping into something Venom related along the way. Then Marvel completely jumped the shark and essentially tried printing money with the guy, with all of the awful limited series (they got really bad after the Madness...although I enjoyed Separation Anxiety...) goofy action figures, T-shirts, posters, video games etc. By then the character had become so watered down during his anti-hero run that I briefly stopped being interested in him altogether. I mean, did Marvel really expect me to buy a 3 issue mini-series with him battling a Pied Piper emulating Demo-Goblin, or "The Mace", a Rob Liefeld looking, reject cyber ninja...at 3 bucks a pop no less?

I because I always felt that he was at his best when Brock was stalking Peter. As a villain, he had charm and charisma, was slick and tricky, and felt passionate, and as a hero for the most part, he just kinda felt forced and cliche', and eventually he kinda faded off because the well had run dry.

Then the thing with Flash Thompson cosplaying as Veno-sher happened and lone behold, here we go again. Thankfully it hasn't hit Deadpool levels yet, but I can imagine that once that first trailer for Sony's Venom drops, it'll be 1996 all over again...or worse...it'll be Harley or DP from last summer...

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Originally Posted by Nitelife

I know everyone loves brock as Venom but i personally felt, for, flash thompson agent venom was at his best. Especially since brock was toxin at the time. I didnt care for space venom but i woulda liked to have seen flash stay as venoms host and retirn to the commando look.

Flash was never Venom to me. To me, Flash was a dude doing a Venom cosplay that he read back in an old "What If" issue, only Frank Castle did it way better.