After two back-to-back hit Venom: Lethal Protector comics, Venom co-creator David Michelinie will triumphantly return to deliver more epic tales set in the villain-turned-anti-hero's early days this May with Venom: Separation Anxiety.
This time around, the legendary Amazing Spider-Man scribe will be joined by Venom and Death of the Venomverse artist Gerardo Sandoval for another heart-pounding saga starring a wilder, brain-eating - yes, you read that right: brain-eating - Eddie Brock.
In his latest retro Venom series, Michelinie will pit Eddie against a new foe with the power to alter reality itself, Purple Man! When the iconic villain uses his terrifying mind control powers to torment Eddie and steal his symbiote for himself, everyone's favourite symbiote slugger may need to ask for unlikely help to get it back and save his sanity.
Long live...the King in Purple?!
"I'm always delighted to write a new Venom story in a retro background," Michelinie said earlier today. "With 'Separation Anxiety' as the required theme, the problem became how to do something that's already been done - have Eddie Brock separated from his symbiote 'other.'"
"So I thought, what if there was a deeply creepy villain with a decidedly bloodthirsty agenda who was able to take bits of Eddie's symbiote away every time the two touched, with that enemy slowly growing stronger as Venom slowly grew weaker? And that was the nugget that became 'The King In Purple.'"
We're definitely intrigued to see what happens when Venom crosses paths with Purple Man and with Michelinie at the helm, we're expecting this limited series to be a fun ride for fans.
The consensus these days seems to be that comics aren't as good as they once were. That's largely because the characters fans love have been changed so much in recent years, meaning a "retro" series like Venom: Separation Anxiety can deliver the version of Eddie Brock we all fell in love with once upon a time.
Tom Hardy plays Venom in Sony Pictures' divisive movie franchise, while David Tennant lent his immense talents to Purple Man in the first two seasons of Jessica Jones.
Check out Paulo Siqueira's Venom: Separation Anxiety #1 cover below which we're sure you'll notice pays homage to Charle Vess' iconic Web of Spider-Man #1 cover. We'll hopefully have more to share with you about this one soon.
VENOM: SEPARATION ANXIETY #1 (OF 5)
Written by DAVID MICHELINIE
Art by GERARDO SANDOVAL
Cover by PAULO SIQUEIRA
On Sale 5/15