He even introduced the Jury, a team of armored former Vault guards who were out to get revenge on Venom for killing their friend. He introduced Eddie’s vindictive millionaire father. He had Eddie Brock move to San Francisco and find a new role as the protector of a secret, underground society of homeless people. He still did Lethal Protectoras a fantastic starting point, introducing ideas that were, unfortunately, mostly dropped and quickly phased out. Michelinie was either too busy to write the series regularly or just wasn’t interested. It turned out to be the first arc in a five-year run of Venom stories. In 1993, we got the six-issue miniseries Venom: Lethal Protector by Michelinie, Mark Bagley, and Ron Lim. Without that vendetta, he wasn’t going to go rob banks or try to take over the world. After all, other than being ultra-violent, Venom’s only real villainous MO was trying to kill Spider-Man.

He also teamed up with Spider-Man when Carnage first showed up, and there was even a backup story at some point that showed that in-between getting the symbiote and deciding to go kill Spider-Man, Eddie Brock actually used his powers to help save someone.ĭavid Michelinie, Venom’s co-creator, was writing Amazing Spider-Man at the time and did a two-parter based on 1) making Eddie Brock more sympathetic, and 2) getting him to ease off Spider-Man and accept that maybe Peter Parker isn’t the worst person ever.

A couple What If issues suggested the idea of using him as a violent anti-hero. He was a big seller as a Spider-Man villain, and Marvel was starting to flirt with the idea of doing more with him. To explain the likes of Riot, Scream, Lasher, Phage, and Agony, you have to go back to the early ’90s when Venom was starting to get a little too popular.

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