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Symbiotic Smackdown
Family feuds – and goo – are at the heart of Marvel’s latest crossover, Venom War
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
→ IN ANTICIPATION OF VENOM: THE LAST DANCE HITTING the big screen, Al Ewing is bringing his three-year stint scripting the symbiotic anti-hero’s flagship monthly to a head with his own blockbuster crossover. Illustrated by Iban Coello, Venom War pits original host Eddie Brock against his son, Dylan Brock, who has also previously bonded with the parasitic alien.
“The plan with Venom has always been to bring the Eddie and Dylan halves of the book into conflict with each other,” says Ewing, who co-wrote the 2021 version of Venom’s first 12 issues with Ram V. “The exact nature of that conflict has evolved as I’ve had more time with the book, but Venom War has been on the cards in one form or another since the book started, and as it drew closer it became clear that it’d be very much ‘event-shaped’ in the way Marvel readers understand that.”