Let me make this absurdly clear: Ultimate Eddie is really lame. Yeah Venom is the reason why Peter’s parents are dead in this continuity.Īnyway, cut to a bunch of years later, Peter is now Spidey and because of documents he just discovered about his parents he decides to get back in touch with Eddie, now a college student. becoming the first Venom and crashing the plane, killing everyone on it. Unfortunately on the flight there Eddie’s father tried the suit on. The two started working on a secondary version of the suit which they called “phase 2”, making it form fitting and enhancing not only the host’s immune system but also their physical strenght in hope to use it as leverage for a court case where they were going to try and take their project back. The two eventually got short on funds and had to resort to working for Trask industries but the company eventually stole the project from their hands. An organic suit that could enhance the immune system of the body making it able to cure anything, even Cancer. Ok so, back in the day Peter and Eddie Brock were childhood friends and their fathers were two scientists working together on a project. But where’s our favorite bulky tentacle idiot in this new continuity? Not every single alteration was necessarily good or worked, but the Ultimate comics are still a really huge inspiration for lots of secondary media Marvel puts out even to this day (Spider-man Homecoming for example takes A LOT of inspiration from the later issues of Ultimate Spider-man).
The series was written by Brian Michael Bendis (a writer with a very specific style of writing for which he’s costantly made fun of) and drawn by Mark Bagley (long term artist who already worked at Marvel for a long time by that point and he was extremely familiar with the character of Venom since he worked on the Lethal Protector series and a lot of Spider-man comics during the 90s, Venom’s iconic look is based mostly on Bagley’s art despite not being the first artist to draw the character, that would be Todd Mcfarlane).Īnyway, the point of the Ultimate comics was to repackage classic stories but with a more modern taste. Don’t be fooled tho’, all of them are shit. Marvel really really wanted to make their comics appealing to a newer and younger audience, so the idea they came up with was to create an entirely new and secondary continuity with revamped and reimagined versions of their main heroes. Yeah why not, Ultimate Venom is a big part of my childhood so this feels like a good topic to tackle, especially to talk about why i’m really dissatisfied with how it was used later on in the Ultimate Spider-man Series. (This symbiote lecture was originally on Tumblr and was deleted in 2018 after tumblr started randomly deleting users and content on its platform)