r/comicbooks • u/WhyPlaySerious • 8h ago
Cover/Pin-Up Venom #261 - Variant Cover by Ito
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u/LosIngobernable Kingpin 7h ago
How’s this run been?
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u/WhyPlaySerious 5h ago edited 5h ago
Paul is broken up with (which is basically treated as a celebration with how its framed, drawn, and coloured) and dies in it which is a win in my book
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u/Prof-Ponderosa 6h ago
I like it. It’s a great twist on the character with MJ as the lead
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u/maynardftw Arseface 5h ago
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 5h ago
Phoenix force and a simbiote fighting for the same host sounds like it could be interesting tho
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u/BlackJimmy88 4h ago
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 4h ago
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/Appollix 5h ago
Here I thought it was black widow. Didn’t she also have the venom symbiote recently?
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u/newbiggielefts 5h ago
It's Ewing so even at its worst it's still good enough to pass the time and not be completely shit. Among his Marvel work it's probably towards the bottom though.
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u/USB_FIELD_MOUSE 5h ago
I’ve really been enjoying it. Never cared much about venom as a solo book. Came into cause I heard Dylan was very anti Paul. Which was fun and I loved it. But the art and the writing has me hooked. Hell it even makes Paul not entirely hateable.
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u/theghostwhorocks 5h ago
I fell off of Venom a while ago because I lost interest. But this cover is one of the coolest! A truly fantastic piece of work. I'm tempted to hunt this one down for it alone.
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u/Many_Swordfish3446 2h ago
Yeah, it's a really nice piece of at work. Kinda pulls you back in even if you dropped the series a while ago.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 5h ago
Does the mask not match the reflection?
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u/Zick-zarg 2h ago
I think it is more the hand that shouldn't be where it is? with this hand position, the mirrored head looks more like a hologram than a reflection on the tube's surface.
also, the hands reflection is missing.
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u/Monster-Zero 4h ago
haven't been following Venom recently, but i guess now that the audience knows it's MJ there's no need to have her Venom form be a big hulking dude anymore? what's the in-story reason for that?
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u/andjuan 4h ago
She and the symbiote finally accepted each other
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u/WhyPlaySerious 46m ago
An explanation to further fanservice that would make Hideo Kojima proud, lol.
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u/playwthfire 4h ago
I'm not really into this run as Mj as Venom tbh but the variant cover looks amazing
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u/Confident-Leg107 5h ago
"Don't worry MJ, I'll let you out once we discover the cure for 23 stab wounds to the back"
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u/BoogerSugarSovereign Spider-Man 4h ago
Has Peter ever worn a lab coat over his suit before in an issue? Ngl I kinda hate it and think this cover would hit harder without it
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u/SuperZX 2h ago
Is this Alex Ross?
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u/WhyPlaySerious 1h ago edited 1h ago
Marvel and DC have been employing a lot of fan artists/rule 34 artists lately who have incredible work and are getting popular on Instagram and Twitter to do their variant covers now. This is done by an artist whos goes by Ito, and whos online handle is @ItoScaresMe
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u/SuperZX 1h ago
Damn, he's really good, I confused him with Ross
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u/WhyPlaySerious 56m ago
Yeah, this new initiative to find which artists people love online and then 'officializing' them by giving them actual cover work is really cool to see. There is a sea of talent opened up to the industry now.
Joshua Swaby and Jhony Caballero are two more artists who are an example of this. They both have very distinct but amazing artstyles, and now they can shine on actual covers sold in stores.
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u/sdtsanev 44m ago
It's gorgeous and I want it! The series doesn't really match that dark of an aesthetic, but who cares, it's a variant!
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u/Zack_Thomson 7h ago
I see Spidey's entering his Mister Freeze era