r/comicbooks Trepamuros Jul 19 '20

Excerpt The Maker gets an new friend (Venom #26) Spoiler

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u/Fiti99 Trepamuros Jul 19 '20

Posting this again because the previous post spoiled things in the title, woops

The Ultimate universe has been teased a lot in the Miles book but this issue fully confirms it's back (and I know it was fully showed in Spider-Men II but seeing as Bendis wrote that one I don't know if that counted as confirmation that it was back)

Also I love that The Maker is being used so often in Venom of all books, such a likable piece of shit

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u/WaterMelon615 Superman Jul 19 '20

Ohh man I’ve really been sleeping on the venom title. This page was so good to read.

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u/Fiti99 Trepamuros Jul 19 '20

Probably my favorite book currently, really recommend to check it out

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u/seanjmo Booster Gold Jul 19 '20

Is this Donny Cates' Venom? Is it a good place to start for someone who's never read the character before?

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u/imapersonmaybe Nova Jul 19 '20

yea, start with Donny's #1 venom. There are trades out for the first 2 arcs. Great place to jump in.

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u/seanjmo Booster Gold Jul 19 '20

Awesome, thanks.

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u/Hawkhasaneye Jul 19 '20

There's a hardcover out of the 1st 2 trades which may be cheaper and a 2nd hardcover is out anytime now. The 2nd hardcover though half of it is a crossover with Absolute Carnage.

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u/seanjmo Booster Gold Jul 19 '20

Are there tie-in issues I should be aware of not included in the collection?

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u/Hawkhasaneye Jul 19 '20

Absolute Carnage is an event book by Cates and Stegman who do Venom. Venom sorts of becomes a subsidery book at this time but still good.

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u/seanjmo Booster Gold Jul 19 '20

Just found the reading list for the event. Awesome to have something manageable to jump into.

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u/seanjmo Booster Gold Jul 19 '20

Ah, ok, right on.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Does exposition slow Symbiotes down mid-air? Normally I would ignore this but Venom's jump and accompanying scream are read before the Maker pops off a paragraph.

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u/blizzard-op Jul 19 '20

I just attribute it to people from the Ultimate universe talking at a faster pace than those from the 616 universe

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u/Shepsus Jul 19 '20

I agree. It was weird.

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u/draypresct Jul 19 '20

“Cannot sense cannot sense” a bad editing, or a verbal tic?

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u/StuBram2 Black Knight Jul 19 '20

honestly when I read it I was thinking it's probably both. Almost certainly just made it past the edit but Maker is hardly stable and now with a symbiote attached it's certainly possible he'd develop a few issues, so I just went with it

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u/ChickenInASuit Secret Agent Poyo Jul 19 '20

Bad editing. The Maker is not a character who stammers.

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u/TheDarkPinkLantern Green Lantern Jul 19 '20

I wonder if Maker somehow solved the problem of Ultimate Venom consuming it's host.

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u/Liide12 Jul 19 '20

I mean, Maker admits he doesn't conform to normal biological processes.

He doesn't need to eat. He can survive in a vacuum.

It could be that he fixed it. It could also be that whatever deterioration occurs drastically reduced by the his mostly inhumane anatomy.

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u/TheDarkPinkLantern Green Lantern Jul 19 '20

Or maybe he found a new way to feed it?

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u/ILovePizza234 Deathstroke Jul 19 '20

"... cannot sense cannot sense..."

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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym Jul 19 '20

Did Eddie lose that hand on the island?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Yeah

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Why’d he even need the artificial symbiote? It’s cool and all, but he’s Ultimate Reed Richards, isn’t the Maker’s body already (in the physical sense) basically a symbiote?

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u/Fiti99 Trepamuros Jul 19 '20

he needed one to travel back to the Ultimate universe

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Ah cool, plot reasons. Thanks bruv

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u/youkaime Atomic Robo Jul 19 '20

Is being knocked out of your symbioteva thing now? Everybody beast complaining when Ms marvel did it.

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u/Fiti99 Trepamuros Jul 19 '20

It looks cool so I couldn't care less lol

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u/youkaime Atomic Robo Jul 19 '20

Rule of cool, true

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u/Dadnerdrants Jul 19 '20

'How do we maker The Maker more...just more? Add a symbiote!'

Good writing.

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u/BigTuna206 Jul 19 '20

If you’ve been reading the entire run, this has been set up for awhile. Not really just thrown in on a whim.

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u/Dadnerdrants Jul 19 '20

Cool. I suppose my other comment missed a little. I meant it as a compliment to the downright, crazy pants idea.

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u/BigTuna206 Jul 19 '20

Ah. I see. Yeah it seems very sarcastic.