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Marvel ’s newVenomseries has expose a shocking truth ; that the United States Government has been running a secret symbiote - soldier unit for decades . Venom agents have been traveling the humans , running covert ops on behalf of the US Government . And now those symb - soldiers are dangerously out of control .
The origin story of Venomis a matter of comic book caption by now . In the aftermath of the firstSecret Warsminiseries , Peter Parker returned to Earth wearing a new fateful uniform . He finally learned that this opprobrious costume was actually an exotic symbiote , and rejected it . angered and angry at this rejection , the symbiote bonded with acerb reporter andsoon to be action movie Italian sandwich Eddie Brock , and create a whole Modern being - Venom .
It ’s a tale that ’s been fictionalize many time ; but it seems it was n’t the first symbiote story on Earth .
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Venom#1 opens with that origin story in station , with Eddie Brock suffer horrendous nightmares . His " Other " is in danger of getting out of control ; it ’s taking all Eddie ’s endeavour to arrest the symbiote from kill inexperienced person . As a resolution Brock has attempted to pull back from the action , settling for calling in anonymous tip to the constabulary . But when one would - be supervillain makes a break for it , Brock suffer control . At that second gear , Venom is suddenly more exotic , and more terrific , than he has ever been before . luckily for the hapless criminal , help is at hand in the form of a man who knows far too much about symbiotes .
The humanity in question calls himself Rex Strickland , and he bring out to Brock that he used to be a Venom agentive role himself . " A retentive time ago some booster and me got hold fast with some crazy alien # $ % @ , " Strickland explains , " and go ' round the world kill people for the United States Government . " What ’s more , Strickland suggests this was decade ago , excuse that being bring together to a symbiote slow down the age process ( explaining Strickland ’s vitality ) .
In recent years , wonder briefly hadFlash Thompson maneuver as Agent Venomin what seem to be an improper plait . But it seems Thompson was far from the first to bond with a symbiote in religious service to his land .
Strickland love the Venom symbiotes in ways that Eddie Brock does n’t . His line of questioning - How old is Brock ’s symbiote ? How many hosts has it had before him ? What does it care to eat ? And even - what ’s its name ? - reveals Brock does n’t know the answer . Even after all these years stick with the symbiote , he still has n’t ever acknowledged it as a creature with an identity of its own .
It ’s a sheer move on the part of new series writer Donny Cates , but it ’s one that exhibit real promise . This series is clearly mark to explore the surreptitious origin of the Venom symbiote , to reveal secrets of the symbiote ’s past that have until now been undiscovered , and even to bring out a secret political science performance to use symbiotes as weapons of warfare .
By the end of the way out , though , Eddie Brock is look with one more question . His place in the symbiote legacy is one mystery … but the most pressing interrogation is why this black ops team is come to HIM for help .
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Venom#1 is available now fromMarvel Comics .
