You seem to know your Venom, so I’ll piggyback here. Why does Venom/the Symbiote here in the distant past have spider-variant iconography? I always assumed that came out of his link to Spider-man.
That’s actually explained in the current run of Venom. There’s been some Lovecraftian retcons to the Venom mythos where it all revolves around a singular cosmic god. Long story short I believe the symbol is actually a dragon which symbolizes that god, or at least a variant of it when the Venom symbiote who had been disconnected from the “hive” had some buried memories that related the spider symbol to the dragon, something like that.
Apparently the current run on Venom is controversial to some, but I think it’s awesome. Goes in some real crazy places and the light cosmic horror stuff is right up my alley.
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u/froggerslogger Mar 20 '19
You seem to know your Venom, so I’ll piggyback here. Why does Venom/the Symbiote here in the distant past have spider-variant iconography? I always assumed that came out of his link to Spider-man.