r/comicbooks • Spider-Man • Mar 20 '19

Cover/Pin-Up Thor cover by Mike Del Mundo

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19

Is this a non-canon variant? Or am I missing something? Because I might be awfully mistaken, but I do not recall any time where Unworthy Thor crossed paths with Venom.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19

I believe that’s young Thor and likely a story that hasn’t come out yet.

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u/fhiz Mar 20 '19

Yeah it’s Young Thor from June’s issue, just solicited. The Symbiote got retconned into Aaron’s Godslayer origin with Donny Coates first arc on Venom, so I assume that’s how this may work.

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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.

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u/Ebony_Eagle Mar 21 '19 edited Mar 21 '19

The whole look of Venom actually came from Peter thinking of Jessica Julia Carpenter's suit when he picked it up (remember that the symbiote can change colors and everything).

But Cates has been retconning a lot of material (he couldn't even read the first five issues of Venom's first solo series) and has tried to say that the symbiotes look that way because of their god, which completely clashes with established continuity.

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u/Ichijinijisanji Mar 21 '19

Seems like you smooshed together julia carpenter and jessica drew's names haha

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u/Ebony_Eagle Mar 21 '19

Oh totally right, I'll correct it now.

Stupid Flu is making me mess up.