The man - who is not the real Jack O'Lantern - recognizes Venom and surrenders, begging for mercy and saying he just found and stole Jack's costume and gear.Īs Venom towers over the man, silhouetted by lightning, Eddie laments that this isn't him and that the symbiote isn't listening. He pleads with the symbiote to stop, but it only responds with maniacal laughter and bloodthirsty screaming as Venom pounces on Jack, shattering his pumpkin helmet. The Venom symbiote takes over, reducing Eddie to a passenger in his own body. As soon as he thinks that, Jack O'Lantern pulls out a pistol and shoots one of the cops, fleeing into an alley. Despite feeling like a coward and telling himself he would've intervened had something gone wrong, he's relieved that the situation is under control. Taking pictures from a nearby rooftop, Eddie laments that the symbiote's renewed bloodlust makes him unwilling to engage in combat lest it go berserk. His buyers - the Grizzly, Kangaroo, and Hippo - are skeptical and dismiss him as an idiot but before Jack can respond, the lights go out and they are surrounded by police. In a warehouse, Jack O'Lantern attempts to carry out an arms deal, unloading high-tech guns that he claims came from Norman Osborn's private stash and don't trigger Spider-Man's Spider-Sense. While he can barely control the symbiote enough to get from Point A to Point B by web-swinging, he's affirms to himself that he's not completely useless despite being sidelined. Transforming into Venom, Eddie notes that he lost his job at the Fact Sheet due to being unable to concentrate on writing with the symbiote screaming psychotic nonsense into his brain and trying to force him to kill everyone around him. A police scanner interrupts his brooding, declaring that the Jack O'Lantern has been sighted.

Eddie tries to calm it down until its voice goes silent, pondering the symbiote's latest backslide into murderous rage and bloodlust - which at its worst is so intense that it frightens him. He apologizes to it as the pills begin to take effect, staring into his unkempt reflection as it suddenly launches into a furious tirade, threatening to kill him from the inside and eat his brains. As Eddie takes a handful of pills, the symbiote begs him not to shut it out and that it can be better. As it rebonds to him, the symbiote asks why its mind hurts and if Eddie knows what's wrong with it, but when he tries to reassure it that nothing's wrong - heading into his apartment's bathroom - it snarls that he's lying, demanding to know why he's taking anti-psychosis medicine if nothing's wrong. Eddie replies that he did, noting that he didn't know it even could have nightmares, and the Venom symbiote replies that it didn't know either. He tries to reassure it that the thunder won't hurt it, but it interrupts and asks if he saw the monster. Sitting up, he notices he is alone before correcting himself that he is never alone, looking to where the Venom symbiote is huddled in the darkness, separated from him. Abruptly realizing that the dream is not his but his symbiote's, Eddie awakens as a bolt of lightning splits the sky overhead. Black tendrils burst through the door and snare the warriors, yanking them through the air into the gaping maw of an enormous beast, which speaks in an alien language as it devours them.Įddie Brock, viewing these events as a nightmare, is initially confused not recognizing the place or the language, but feeling like it belongs to him.

In medieval Scandinavia, a group of Norse warriors attempt to bar the doors of Heorot Hall against an attacking monster, their jarl demanding to know where Beowulf is.

Rex Strickland's Warehouse (First appearance).

Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Mentioned).

Rex Strickland (First appearance photo).

Vikings (Only appearance death in dream).

Unnamed symbiotes (First appearance merge with the Grendel Symbiote) (Controlled by Knull).

Unnamed soldiers (First appearance death).

Grendel Symbiote (First appearance) (Unnamed) (Controlled by Knull).

God is coming.' - Venom Symbiote Appearing in 1st story

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