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The following contains major spoilers for All-New Venom #3, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
The number of suspects in Marvel’s ongoing All-New Venom mystery just got a little bit shorter in a big way.
All-New Venom #3 picks up in the middle of the same battle that closed out the prior issue, with the titular antihero having taken a blast of energy straight through the middle of his face. While this doesn’t do any damage, it does cross Luke Cage off the list of suspected hosts. That alone isn’t too surprising, although the sudden appearance of another suspect once things have died down most certainly is. As it turns out, Madame Masque never needed Venom’s help to escape her previous captors, nor does she intend on letting him stand in the way of her continued freedom.
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Written by AL EWING
Art by CARLOS GÓMEZ
Colors by FRANK D’ARMATA
Letters by VC’s CLAYTON COWLES
Design by CARLOS LAO and JAY BOWEN
Main cover art by ADAM KUBERT & LAURA MARTIN
Variant covers by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & FRANK MARTIN and FEDERICO SABATINI & MARTINA “MAFURIAH” FARI
Originally introduced as the Big M in Stan Lee and Gene Colan’s story, “The Coming of Whiplash!” from the pages of 1967’s Tales of Suspense #97, the woman who would become Madame Masque has a list of names longer than most others. Raised as Whitney Frost, born Giulietta Nefaria, and having lived as both Bethany Cabe and Kristine Longfellow, the future Madame Mask grew up in a loving and affluent household that was only ever meant to temporarily temper her true nature. As the daughter of Count Nefaria, Whitney quickly followed in her father’s villainous footsteps after learning of her true origin, and has since become an impossibly capable if frequently underrated fixture of the Marvel Universe.
In recent years, Madame Masque has found a renewed prominence through events like Marvel Comics’ Gang War crossover storyline, which saw nearly every faction of New York City’s underworld join in open warfare for the future of their respective slices of the Big Apple. While this brought the likes of Tombstone and Hammerhead out in the open, everything was orchestrated from behind the scenes by Madame Masque herself. Unfortunately for her, these efforts weren’t enough for her to claim NYC as her own in the way she had hoped, and instead led her to once again be incarcerated and held to account for her crimes. At least, until she made her latest brazen escape in the middle of a packed courtroom.
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All-New Venom follows on the heels of Marvel Comics’ Venom War crossover event, which pitted nearly every single symbiote in the Marvel Universe against one another. At the heart of this event was the battle between Eddie and Dylan Brock over Venom, with both having seen horrifying visions of things to come should the other maintain their bond with the symbiote.While these two and their allies duked it out for the eponymous symbiote, more malevolent forces such as Meridius and Carnage were working on the sidelines to their own ends. Thankfully, things ended with more of a whimper than a bang, although Venom War did open the door for a new, mysterious host to take up the mantle of Venom for themselves in the aftermath.
All-New Venom #3 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel Comics
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