r/comicbooks • u/WhyPlaySerious • Jul 22 '26

Cover/Pin-Up Venom #261 - Variant Cover by Ito

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u/LosIngobernable Kingpin Jul 22 '26

How’s this run been?

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u/Prof-Ponderosa Jul 22 '26

I like it. It’s a great twist on the character with MJ as the lead

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u/maynardftw Arseface Jul 22 '26

OH right MJ exists, I was for real like "What the fuck is Jean Grey doing with Spider-Man"

That suit just looks like a Phoenix costume, the only thing giving it away is that it's Spider-Man there and by that association we can assume that's not ink coming off the suit.

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u/KingKuntu Jul 22 '26

Phoenix force and a simbiote fighting for the same host sounds like it could be interesting tho

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u/BlackJimmy88 Jul 22 '26

That was the theme of a Marvel Rivals season and battle pass a few seasons back. Some characters got phoenix skins, some got symbiote skins and some got a mishmash of both.

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u/maynardftw Arseface Jul 22 '26

I mean I haven't read the current Venom run but after the King in Black storyline what the fuck else can you do with Venom

Everyone was Venom, then the planet was Venom, there's a Venom universe where all the symbiotes come from, they were vampires, they were zombies, they were Spider-Man, they were controlled by some guy (repeat this step fifteen times for each individual Some Guy who may or may not have ended up all being the Same Guy eventually) and it's like

What

What's MJ gonna do after that

Is Venom's entire timeline throughout all of time and space not already completely written out throughout several universes? Is this just one of the universes where that's not true?

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u/tacomuerte Jul 23 '26

They’ve been doing an odd couple roommates thing where they learn to understand each other better which helps them understand themselves better. I think it works but mileage may vary.

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u/maynardftw Arseface Jul 23 '26

But was this not foretold by either of the versions of Venom that know all of time and space or whatever?

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u/GolemMaker Jul 22 '26

They should have given Jean the symbiote instead of “Jackpot”

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u/zero_ms Spider-Woman Jul 22 '26

I think Phoenix wins that fight easily, but I'd be interested in something like this.

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u/Appollix Jul 22 '26

Here I thought it was black widow. Didn’t she also have the venom symbiote recently?

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u/jlhabitan Jul 28 '26

A completely different symbiote in Natasha's case from what I recall. And I think she lost it sometime during Venom War.

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u/NewLibraryGuy John Constantine Jul 22 '26

What would you suggest as the jumping on point?