Venom’s Final Form Just Proved We’ve Only Seen the Beginning of His Power

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Venom #36

The “Venom War” continues, as Marvel reveals that readers have only just begun to witness the full extent of the symbiote’s potential. Torn between time and space, Eddie Brock and his time-displaced future selves have seen dark visions of his son as a new destructive King in Black. Meanwhile, Dylan Brock has received similar visions of his father’s fate, with both having major implications for the Venom symbiote’s power level.

Venom #36– writtenby Torunn Grønbekk, CAFU, and Frank D’Armata flashes readers into a possible future where an older Dylan Brock continues to wage war against the symbiotic forces of his father.

In this potentiality,Eddie has already dominated the Earth and has employed horrific amalgamations of symbiote and metal, that look like they came straight out of War of the Worlds, to devour what resistance is left. While the King in Black’s victory is considered the eventuality of this future, Old Man Dylan has set to travel time to do what is needed to guarantee Earth-616’s Dylan Brock emerges victorious.

Marvel’s “Venom War” Is Pushing Venom To The Extreme Limit Of His Powers

Venom #36 – Written ByTorunn Grønbekk; Art By CAFU; Color By Frank D’Armata

Things have gotten complicated for Marvel’s most popular symbiote-wielding anti-hero. Following the events of Absolute Carnage and King in Black, the once simple reporter turned Lethal Protector has been thrown into the blackest void of Marvel’s intricate multiversal cosmology. To best understand what is at stake, it’s worth understanding exactly what it means to be a King in Black. The first King in Black was created by the Celestials in the first iteration of the multiverse as a means to balance the infinite acts of creation that multiversal iteration, and all subsequent ones, were to experience.

Knull, Eddie’s predecessor, was born in the primordial void between the Sixth and Seventh Cosmos‘ and is the progenitor of all symbiotes. As the new King in Black, it is expected thatEddie, like Knull, will reside in his infinite void until the Ninth Cosmos is born, and he can resume his role as a cosmic destroyer. However, Eddie, despite his destiny, is only human; his son, on the other hand, is something far greater. Dylan is the biological child of both Eddie and Venom, giving him the genetic basis to evolve into something beyond his father.

Marvel’s Symbiote Lore Continues To Get More Complex With “Venom War”

Time & Space Mean Little To The “King in Black”

Back to the present, as the Venom War wages on, father and son clash in a time-spanning battle to become the one true Venom destined to be the ultimate King in Black. With each believing the other will lead to the destruction of the Multiverse, their conflict will surely bring infinite strife across all reality. As Eddie and Dylan’s battle over Venom continues, and the time-traveling nonsense that comes with it, things are bound to get more complicated than they already are. Hopefully, moving forward, Venom #36will better clarify the twisted future Eddie and Venom are capable of.