When last we left our hero, Eddie Brock's personal situation matched up surprisingly well with the Goo Goo Dolls' "Amigone." Let's see what happens next!
Cover shows the symbiote smashing out of it's cage. Can a liquid "smash"? BUT WHERE IS EDDIE BROCK?
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Venom: Separation Anxiety
"Part 2 of 4: Lost Souls"
Written by Howard Mackie
Penciled by Ron Randall
The symbiote is still in his tank, in "devastating" pain because he's not with Eddie. They have a weird kinda bromance going on, don't they? It screams so loud guards hear it for miles. It starts pressing a tendril to the glass, which beings slowly cracking... uh oh... UH OH oh hold on there's a scene transition.
Eddie's unconscious somewhere, dreaming of his asshole deeds. He wakes up and immediately starts trying to kick some symbiote ass again, but the others subdue him. They broke him out of prison because they want his help understanding their own symbiotes. Wouldn't it have been better to wait for the scientists to finish researching him then...?
Brock's all sad. His symbiote's gone, he can't help them, leave me alone. Hot red/yellow symbiote who still doesn't have a name insists they're decent people, despite the assaults and treason. She looks a lot better with her "mask" retracted, but that might just be because I am totally gay for comic characters not wearing their masks.
RIDDLE TIME! What do you do when you see a fire-breathing, skateboarding, karate-kicking, out-of-control dinosaur coming at you? Uh, call poison control? Radical Rex is apparently the "raddest, baddest fire-breathing T-Rex ever to shred prehistoric pavement" and is out to "save the dinosaur race." I'm not hopeful about that one, friend. God dammit Sonic the Hedgehog, this is your fault.
Then Bullpens Bulletins. That's kind of early in the book, dudes. There's a "match the character to the phrase game," and who the HELL's catchphrase is "What the shock?" or "Argon's Genes?" Though I do love "Don't yield! Back SHIELD!" I don't think I've ever heard Nick Fury say that, but I can totally see him saying that. In the "Now on Sale" box we see that Venom: Separation Anxiety #3 is available as of this moment (weird), and Wolverine #89's synopsis is "Hey, Ghost Rider - quit hogging the road!" I hope this is the issue where Wolverine's driving the speed limit, and Ghost Rider goes around him then cuts in front of him and there's NO COPS around and once again someone breaks the rules and gets ahead without retribution and Wolverine says that is ENOUGH and stabs him right through the scrotum.
Red and yellow girl whose name we STILL DON'T KNOW talks about how they agreed to join the "Life Foundation" and join with alien symbiotes because with a name like that, how could they be evil? Apparently the Life Foundation's plans were "in conflict with our own value systems" (so like, pro-gay marriage conflict or baby-raping conflict?) so they fled. Their symbiotes are still young and immature (and probably freaked to hell and back about not growing up on Zarlon V or wherever the hell symbiotes live), and they need Brock's help to understand them. Um, if you'd have just surrendered to the government guards back there, they could separate you and study the hell out of them, but treason works too.
Brock tells them to go to hell, cold-cocks the bitch, and tries to escape. "Carl" grabs him, and says he's done reasoning with him, and I guess they're going to force him to tutor them? Eddie just laughs at him. This series is really winning me over to Brock, guys.
Back in the facility we left like 9 pages ago, the symbiote's escaped and slaughtered everyone. Dr. Zwerling is still alive, so they medevac him away in a chopper. As you can probably guess, the symbiote is hiding inside the doctor (ewwww) and takes over the chopper. "Coming. Eddie." it thinks. Hm.
The other symbiotes restrain Carl, and tell him to control his other. Are all symbiotes all violent? I thought they were intelligent beings, and generally they go around enslaving planets and stuff. Huh, oh well. Carl "sucks" his symbiote back in; his friends are very encouraging about his breakthrough, but Eddie just keeps making fun of him. Ahahahahahaha faggot. Donna (oh, red and yellow is named Donna) very maturely tells him not to make fun of them, as they're really trying very hard not to kill everybody. I like these guys. Brock calls her a faggot. I like Brock too!
SHAQ-FU AD! But who would pick the non-Shaq characters in a fighting game called Shaq-Fu?
Brock is thrown into a pit, and sees a shadowy figure. He monologues that he has to kill all symbiotes, but it's just Kenny. He tries to get an interview. WHATTA SCOOP.
The symbiotes are fed up, trying to think of some way to make Brock help them. Hey, guys... when he had his costume, he pretty much did crazy homicidal things 24/7, I don't know why he's the expert in teaching you how not to do that.
Kenny's asking Brock all kindsa questions, but he tells him to shut up. He can feel his other coming, and he's getting a crazy person smile. Wuh-oh. He's going to fall right off the wagon!
Soldiers find the downed helicopter, everyone dead. Bummer. See ya next issue!
The letter writers have basically just started writing directly to Venom, bypassing the writers entirely.
MORTAL KOMBAT II!
YOU WILL DIE
YOU WILL DIE
FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP?
I don't have the next issue, and uh... I might have to find it. This is pretty entertaining.
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