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Venom’s greatest tragedy has everything to do with Eddie Brock, and even after losing its former host there might not be anything it can do to shake it.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Venom #3, available now from Marvel.
Eddie Brock has always been one of the most tormented figures in the Marvel Universe, though recent years have seen him overcome everything to become a greater version of himself than ever before. At least, he was up until being obliterated in an assault by the Life Foundation, which left his son Dylan on the run with no one to turn to besides his symbiote companions. Though Dylan isn’t entirely alone in his search for answers, he is still wracked with grief over Eddie’s apparent loss, and he isn’t the only one dealing with having been orphaned overnight. It turns out that the Venom symbiote is going through just as much of a crisis of its own, and it is more tragic than anyone could have expected.
Eddie Brock’s apparent demise has left everyone close to him reeling, not the least of which was the Venom symbiote itself. Amidst the chaos that was been wrought by the Life Foundation’s anti-symbiote crusade, Venom has looked back on everything it has done and felt over the years, and it all came back to Eddie. Despite the thousands of years of traversing the cosmos and warring against various enemies, Eddie Brock had become the thing that tethers Venom to the position it is in now. Even though Venom had considered walking away from it all, the symbiote couldn’t bring itself to leave Dylan on his own. At least, not as long as it represented all that is left of Eddie Brock at its heart no matter how much it would rather be anything else.
Venom #3 (by Ram V, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie, Alex Sinclair, and VC’s Clayton Cowles) highlighted just how deeply tied to Eddie his former symbiote truly was not just through Venom itself, but also through Dylan’s hesitance to spend much time with it whatsoever. When Dylan took a shot at breaking into an old research facility in his hunt for answers, he decided on only bringing the Sleeper symbiote along with him. This left Venom behind on their own for the night and made it wonder just what Dylan is so afraid of.
There were the obvious, ominous warnings Dylan received about bonding to Venom, but those didn’t have anything to do with him wanting to keep his distance. Rather, it is the fact that Venom had become so synonymous with Eddie that Dylan kept waiting for his father to step through the living darkness and back into his life. That alone was more devastating than anything the symbiote had in mind when it first broached the subject, and there is no question that it is a particularly deep cut. Especially when considering the fact that Venom can’t shake the very same feeling.
Venom may have once been a symbiote in desperate need of a host, but the events of King in Black had proven that the old rules hardly apply to the modern era, and the titular symbiote still can’t shake the parts of Eddie Brock that live on inside it. That isn’t so shocking after how much time the two spent together and how strong their bond became over all those years, yet their relationship is no replacement for the independence which Venom has never really tasted.
Then again, having become directly tied to the last living god of the symbiotes has surely given it a perspective that no others of its kind have ever experienced. If nothing else, Venom at least has the opportunity to make a name for itself without a host directing it one way or another, even if the path it ultimately chooses is the one Eddie would have taken all along.
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