Spinner Rack: Venom... in SPAAAAAACE
All right, MY Flash Thompson Venom never went to space, but some of my issues are included in this cool trade!
Only one trade paperback hitting the old spinner rack this week. I must be slacking off. I’ll try to do better next week. To make up for my general laziness, I’m also including some details on a new Kickstarter campaign that will be starting SOON!
On to the books!
VENOM: SPACE KNIGHT EPIC COLLECTION
In this groundbreaking era, the Venom symbiote and its new host Flash Thompson head from the streets to the stars as a defender of the cosmos!
Flash Thompson, Agent of the Cosmos! If Venom and his new symbiotic sidekick, Mania, survive a war to save Philly from underworld boss Lord Ogre, Flash will have to confront his past as a bully and make a momentous decision about his future! Taking on a new mission as a Space Knight, Venom swashbuckles his way across the universe, helping the helpless and punishing the violent — until he's made to fight in an alien arena! Flash faces one surprising enemy when his symbiotic relationship with his Klyntar becomes one of hunter and prey — and then another as he returns to Earth just in time for CIVIL WAR II and a showdown with one of his oldest friends! Get ready for Venom vs. Spider-Man like you’ve never seen it before!
This collection includes the last few issues of my VENOM run, along with Robbie Thompson’s VENOM: SPACE KNIGHT run and several other Venom stories!
Man… I would really, REALLY love to return to the era of Flash Thomspon Venom and his partner Mania. Alas, I don’t see that ever happening. Still, it’s fun to look back on those days. And I DO get to right former Mania host Andi Benton again in the upcoming VENOM WAR: DEADPOOL. So there’s that.
Aw, man! The campaign for THE FARAWAY #2 will be starting VERY soon. If you’re unfamiliar, here’s the breakdown:
We know the story, right? While playing a fantasy role-playing game, a group of friends accidentally transports themselves into a fantasy world. Therein, they meet a friendly magical gnome who grants them magical weapons and guides them through their adventures. They face dark forces, but they rise into the roles of heroes and reaffirm the lifelong bonds of friendship in the process.
Yeah.
This isn’t that story.
Our heroes are transported into a magical kingdom of warriors and wizards and dragons and catacombs, yes. They meet a friendly magical gnome, yes. They are granted magical artifacts of great power, yes. But, within minutes of arriving in the fantasy world, this group of five college students finds themselves thrown into an adventure that is more horror than high fantasy.
Our heroes have arrived, you see, in the DARKEST if dark fantasy worlds, where the “evil overlord” has already successfully conquered the realm and enslaved all of the free peoples. It is a nightmare realm populated by the most awful monsters and the most cruel sorcerers and warlords.
Think of it as a tale of survival horror... in a land like Mordor… if the corruption of Mordor spread across all of Middle Earth.
Trapped in this violent, vicious, unforgiving, terrifying (and terrifyingly lethal) realm, our heroes struggle for survival as, at every turn, they are faced with malignant monsters, foul magic, and fiendish foes.
Written by master of horror comics Cullen Bunn and illustrated by high-energy artist Vitalii Kalchenko, THE FARAWAY takes the familiar tropes of “gamers trapped in a fantasy world” and twists them into something reaaaaaal naasty.
If you missed the campaign for the first issue, don’t worry! You can grab that issue right along with issue 2!
The campaign will only last 15 days from its start, so make sure to follow the project so you don’t miss out!
And, just to keep you in the loop, here’s a look at books that are coming up in the near future!
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