lostboys Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 I know he only did like 15 issues before leaving for Image. I just find it odd that Venom wasn't in any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradejunky Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 McFarlane has stated in an interview that the only reason they created Venom was because he wanted Peter in his regular red and blue costume because that is how he knew Spider-Man, and wanted to draw him in his classic suit. Venom was the byproduct of taking the symbiote off him and moving it to Brock. To them, Venom was probably kind of a throw away. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazyboy Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, gradejunky said: Venom was the byproduct of taking the symbiote off him and moving it to Brock. The symbiote had been thought to be dead for three full years by the time Venom made his full debut. Spidey was wearing a regular black costume based on the symbiote design because he had fond memories of how it had tried to bond with him against his will multiple times (or maybe for some other reason ). 1 hour ago, gradejunky said: To them, Venom was probably kind of a throw away. Venom may have been "kind of a throw away" to McFarlane, but Michelinie created the character and started the (very) slow build-up to the revelation that the symbiote was actually still alive before Todd even started working on the Marvel Universe. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeksAreMyPeeps Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I read somewhere that Spidey editor Jim Salicrup didn't want to oversaturate the Spidey books with Venom, so they basically kept him for special occasions. Keep in mind too that McFarlane wrote the book, and was new to writing, so he may have had some ideas for stories floating around and developing in his head for far longer than Venom had been around, so it may have been less of a challenge to bring those ideas forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostboys Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 Venom would've fit in nicely with the darker vibe that McFarlane seemed to be going for. Mac Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalPSI Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) On 6/17/2021 at 4:44 PM, lostboys said: Venom would've fit in nicely with the darker vibe that McFarlane seemed to be going for. Ultimately Venom should had killed Spiderman/Peter Parker. He was Spidermans evil twin, which is why they went the way they did, down the path of "antihero" as there was really nowhere to go with the character as a villain. There was really only one path to take Edited June 20, 2021 by Dr. Dank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin76 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 He put his black suit back on in issues 13 & 14, but we did get to see Mcfarlane draw some characters he never drew before on his ASM run, Ghost Rider, Morbious, Wendigo, & X-Force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
