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| Venom: Separation Anxiety | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | December 1994 – March 1995 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Main character(s) | Eddie Brock Riot Lasher Scream Agony Phage Venom |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Howard Mackie |
| Penciller | Ron Randall |
| Inker(s) | Sam DeLarosa Rus Sever (#4) |
| Letterer | Ken Lopez |
| Colorist | Tom Smith |
| Editor | Danny Fingeroth |
Venom: Separation Anxiety is a four-issuecomic booklimited series published byMarvel Comics from December 1994 to March 1995.
The plot featuresEddie Brock separated from hissymbiote costume. It stems off from aSpider-Man arc[1] also published byMarvel from November 1994 to December 1994.
Avideo game loosely based on the storyline was released in 1995. The storyline was also largely the basis for the 2018 feature filmVenom, as well as elements of the 2024 filmVenom: The Last Dance.
Eddie Brock and the alien symbiote are now held at very distant locations from one another. His five spawns created by theLife Foundation show up and bust Eddie out, because they want him to teach them how to control their symbiotes. They also takeDaily Bugle reporter Ken Ellis (disguised as Eddie's doctor) hostage. The Venom symbiote also breaks free and escapes. It travels from host to host trying to find Eddie and rebond with him. Meanwhile, Eddie and Ellis escape, and, as the other five symbiotes try to find him, someone stabs and killsAgony. The others believe the murderer is Brock, andPhage convinces the others to find and kill him.
Eventually Eddie is found by the remaining Life Foundation symbiotes holding the body of another dead symbiote. The remaining symbiotes capture Eddie, trying one last time to convince him to help them, but then it is revealed thatScream (one of the Life Foundation symbiotes) is actually the murderer, having used a sonic knife to pierce the symbiotes and kill the hosts.
She announces that all symbiotes are evil and that makes the humans who bond with them also evil, and she intends to kill Eddie. She also reveals plans to track down and ultimately killCarnage. But Brock's symbiote finds him in time, and the two rebond intoVenom. They easily beat Scream, and she is arrested. Venom escapes before he is recaptured, having doubts in his mind about him being Venom.
In late 1995 a video game loosely based on the storyline was released, entitledVenom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety.
The storyline was largely the basis for the 2018 feature filmVenom, as well as elements of the 2024 filmVenom: The Last Dance.
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