VENOM Co-Creator David Michelinie Returns to Write New Comic Series Set During Eddie's Early Days
David Michelinie, the comics writer who co-created Eddie Brock aka Venom with artist Todd McFarlane during their run of Amazing Spider-Man in the 1980s, has returned to write a new Venom series for Marvel Comics.
The comic is titled Venom: Separation Anxiety and the story is set during Eddie's early days as a lethal protector. The series will consist of five issues and it finds Eddie and the symbiote facing off against the sinister mind-control powers of Zebediah Killgrave, the Purple Man.
Long before Eddie Brock becomes the King in Black, he'll face the King in Purple. "When the iconic villain uses his terrifying mind control powers to torment Eddie and steal his symbiote for himself, everyone's favorite symbiote slugger may need to ask for unlikely help to get it back AND save his sanity!"
Michelinie shared in a statement: "I'm always delighted to write a new Venom story in a retro background. With Separation Anxiety as the required theme, the problem became how to do something that's already been done — have Eddie Brock separated from his symbiote 'other.' So I thought, what if there was a deeply creepy villain with a decidedly bloodthirsty agenda who was able to take bits of Eddie's symbiote away every time the two touched, with that enemy slowly growing stronger as Venom slowly grew weaker? And that was the nugget that became 'The King In Purple.'"
Marvel Comics has also released the cover art for Venom: Separation Anxiety #1 created by artist Paulo Siqueira, and as you’ll see, it pays homage to Charles Vess's classic Web of Spider-Man #1.
