Marvel’s Most Powerful Villain Returns

VENOMVERSE REBORN (2024) ISSUE 1
▸ THE DARKEST WEB IS RESPUN! Dive back into the darkness as the Venomverse is reborn, with stories of symbiotes from all across the Multiverse! First, Benjamin Percy and Brian Level spin a tale of the murder of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes by one of their own…but who? Then Christos Gage drags Venom from Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man 2 across the Venomverse to take on Knull! And all the while, Al Ewing and Danilo S. Beyruth set the stage for the tales spinning out of the ongoing VENOM series!
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[@comics_explained]

Apologies for the audio quality issue. The AirBNB I'm at has really bad reflections.

[@agentjtravel_walkthru4205]

Rob for the win!!!!!!! Thank you for all the hard work bro!!

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

It's okay, Rob. It reminds me of the early "Marvel Explained" days. Hit me with massive nostalgia.

[@kingshadow8782]

It’s alright Rob.

[@hybridvenom9]

E

[@Jaigantic97]

All good homie. Do ya thing 🙏

[@GustavoRubio]

Seeing Knull iconography in SpideyPS5 was awesome

[@zzirfamo24]

Supposedly he will be DLC for Spiderman 3

[@dzd__2216]

@@zzirfamo24not happening lol

[@zzirfamo24]

@@dzd__2216 the leaks already confirmed it kiddo. Cope tho

[@charliecantcap9170]

Got chills when I saw that. The game really had everything, and far exceeded my expectations content wise

[@prouser32]

Rob has so many 'Most Powerful Gods' up his sleeve.

[@noprobllama9747]

Oh my goodness I remember listening to Comicstorian Knull and Venom story a year ago. 😢

[@polketex5043]

Knull should be like Darkseid being like the Main version exists outside the Multiverse in the Sphere of Gods and sends Avatars to each Universe to conquer their goals which Darkseid is the Anti Life Equation and Knull's would be Darkness or something like that.

[@BSM-vw6cf]

I think that title goes to Oblivion.

[@polketex5043]

@@BSM-vw6cf Used to be but Marvel Gods storyline change him to be more aligned to the Living Tribunal and they exists in the Multiverse not outside of it since in the Gods storyline anyone can go to them and ask a question but it takes sacrifices.

[@BSM-vw6cf]

@polketex5043 I like that in this comics we get confirmation that the Eventuality, Eddie Brock as the King In Black, is multiversal. I always thought he's universal.

[@archaicrapture]

I thought it was like that - Dylan Brock as Codex: as an avatar. It just got ridiculous with the follow-up story. The Lost One, Beyonders & King in Black - how does this even work or make sense.

[@BSM-vw6cf]

@archaicrapture so the thing is that the King In Black is ment to be the opposite of the Beyonders, yet I hear people say that doesn't mean the King In Black is as strong as a Beyonder.

[@ryeung30]

One thing I think should be cannon is that knoll can't control orginal man made symbiote (1610) just because it wasn't based off knoll's creation so he should be ble to control it

[@Octavio_CantuTB5]

I might be wrong but I remember Knull being able to control or influence Gwen Stacy's Venom symbiote and Mary Jane's Carnage symbiote even though he didn't make them.

[@BSM-vw6cf]

I think it was because it mixed with Knull's living abyss

[@artifactland69]

knull isn't aware of the multiverse when carnage killed him too. I expected him to at least expect multiversal variants.

[@BSM-vw6cf]

@@artifactland69 he did say he could tell that Carnage was from another reality or realm

[@vitalqua320]

Love your creativity, it's inspiring!

[@kamenrangerzeo8251]

I thought the best moment is when the Venom from the Insomniac Spiderman universe tells off Knull and even call sympathetic and it's amazing on how powerful that this version of Venom is when he literally bodies one of the Symbiote Gods own creations.

[@ceral1871]

Knulls dragons aren’t that powerful. Only one of his dragons is extremely strong and it’s the Grendel

[@agentchen6788]

My fav part is this Venom, who's Harry Osborn, told Knull that he can't do anything to him even he claim to be a god

[@XXMatt0040XX]

​@@agentchen6788 And I absolutely buy into him being smart enough to recognize that there's some "cosmic law." Harry is a genius in game, which isn't shown much because of the game's plot. "You're some kind of genius, Harry Osborn." Is Peter's line when you do the aftergame EMF experiment (I actually went through a NG+ after watching this yesterday)

[@BSM-vw6cf]

@ceral1871 I thought the symbiote dragons were made to kill gods, they're definitely stronger than average symbiotes.

[@ceral1871]

@@BSM-vw6cf only certain ones, Grendel big mother etc.

[@warmachine68]

Thanks for making this

[@teamvlcn6820]

Am I the only one who wants to see a Spider-Man story where he keeps a Symbiote without making him crazy? With everything we know about them these days, I see no reason why Spider-Man can't have a Symbiote of his own. It would also help to make Peter not feel so alone.

[@michaelkelley2727]

beyond omega level: LOCKJAW

[@midnighttrain522]

Ayoooo pause

[@joeypadilla9728]

When I saw that spiral on conners' whiteboard I shrieked 😂

[@ZechariahSolomon-sc9lc]

My God the art in this run is phenomenal

[@kiplockhaven382]

Thank you for showing Donny some love as you always have. His venom run was my absolute favorite and I love his other comics as well. Some people knock him for reasons that seem personal but I've always thought his writing is just pure fun as well as heartfelt. Good video 🤘.

[@zerosolus]

Thanks for the recaps. Always. Even if we're following along, it's always good to have them.

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

I like to imagine Knull constantly listening to "Last Resort" by Papa Roach. Probably would be his most favorite song.

[@Leobroly]

Listen Last Resort by Falling in Reverse

[@lagosz1]

King in Black was one of the most fun events put out by Marvel Comics in a long time. I feel like almost the whole comic community at that time was following it in a really tight knit, and excited fashion. The moment when Eddie summoned and combined mjolnir and the surfer's board was SO EPIC!!! That run gave me the same amount of joy that Maximum Carnage did when I was kid. It was one for the books! I'm glad I was following you and DopeSpill as it unfolded! Had fun with the community on that one!

[@archaicrapture]

The King in Black event was amazing. Ngl, that Eddie Brock follow-up story was just a**.

[@RPGMeridius]

I LOVE you CE KEEP up the great videos

[@metamorphicorder]

Did you change mics? Oh in an airbnb. That explains the change in sound.

[@toriantyler7086]

Bro rob used to sound sooo excited to deliver us these stories!! Your charisma was everything.

[@kenagames4667]

You definitely deserve more recognition for this!

[@milk3024]

Personally I like the idea that there is a Knull per universe rather than Knull being a Living Tribunal like entity. Personally that makes me feel a bit better for the times we’ve seen him defeated. I understand the enigma force being the light to Knull’s darkness but for me it’s hard to imagine that a single universe’s enigma force would’ve been enough to put down Knull if he was a Living Tribunal type entity. Either way, love Knull, great character with good history. I just hope all these symbiote stands throughout earth-616 eventually lead somewhere like Sleeper and Dylan being Codex, Venomverse and Carnage plus Meridius. It’s so much but hope things come together well enough.

[@crucible1084]

they could have the thing is, marvel already wrote symbiotes off as a multiversal hivemind If knull was the same as each cosmic being in every universe like eternity and galactus i can't really what his purpose would be, cause each cosmic being has some sort of job for existing. cause knull and symbiotes kind of act like a parasite in the multiverse they do nothing helpful for the multiverse its like theyre just there to do nothing but spread throughout the multiverse and take over random hosts, quite literally like a parasite.

[@Jezee213]

I think the Enigma force is a singular thing its from the Micro verse and there is only one.

[@ljreigns1945]

@@crucible1084this isn’t necessarily true we’ve seen cosmic entities who don’t really serve a purpose in the sense of a multiversal society we have guys like chaise king and abraxas who’s sole purpose was to destroy and if that too is knulls purpose there isn’t really a problem and as to the rest of the symbiote race think of them as like almost the nova force or green lanterns they aren’t bad by nature and would rather do good

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

Greg Land art aside, it was epic seeing Venom stare down Knull and tell him "We have at least two people in here, and yet you are the one with the identity crisis. Because you believe you are Him."

[@Watch-0w1]

Believe he who? The one above all?

[@Memb3rs-only]

Don’t see a problem with Greg lands art

[@MrGonz801]

Wow. This is the first time that I've been part of the "bear with me a minute" crowd. It feels kinda great.

[@MrGonz801]

Seriously though, if what you're saying about The Living Tribunal is true then why TF is carnage able to go multiversal?

[@miguelarcachero6103]

Venom(Earth-TRN688):"✝️!!!!!!!"💢🤯💢

[@Chr0nicjamz187]

20th or suttin love this channel!!!

[@siner2442]

🎶They call me King in Black! I’m back! I’m back!🎶

[@jonathan__g]

Interesting idea they did here. I would love to know at what point in the game this story took place since there was at no point a time when Venom disappeared for an extended period of time and with the way the story ended I can't see where this would line up.

[@strifenineteen]

I don't think it matters, just 1 point where Harry is full on Venom and not on screen. If I caught it right Knull said something about him not remembering any of this conversation when he goes back

[@jonathan__g]

@@strifenineteen If that point was said then I missed it and I guess it covers that issue.

[@zacharytaylor5584]

Just wanted to say that I got a FULL episode of Marvels animated Avengers as an ad for this. Thought that was both funny and appropriate

[@josephvasquez9392]

The first sentence was crazy and made me interested

[@amanzeihedioha]

Rest in Peace, Comichistorian

[@frankofam1069]

*Who could’ve seen this coming* 🙄 lol JP I finally joined Patreon!! watching the uncut version of the boys

[@brandongrajeda2932]

Rob I appreciate you

[@danielsosa7630]

I love this

[@joshuaingobo1559]

I like that an alternate future Eddie (and Venom) became the narrator so that he would tell us about two universes where he never became Venom. It’s interesting! For the first part, I like that the Venom of Earth-1048 (aka the PS4 Spider-Man universe) refuse to join Knull’s army during the King in Black back in 2018 before he returned to his universe. For the second part, it’s shocking and surprising that the Avengers of another universe were killed by Venom.

[@DylanPeevy]

Can you plz if you don’t already have one make pod cast !!! Would love to listen to ya at work lol🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@coreysparkman7576]

Homelander really did go off with that bar🤣great moment

[@DeMarDeRozan-qn7mh]

WHERE MY VENOM FANS AT😈

[@XXMatt0040XX]

Pre-watch: I was shocked that they went full King in Black on the game. In Dr. Connor's lab, there's a TON of references. The game is made with love. Let's see how the story goes. Mid-watch: -I think Harry saying "I'll be going now" is just perfect. However... it's hard to know who is truly in the driver's seat. The symbiote or Harry. I am going to assume Harry. -I now believe the perfect symbiosis has already occurred. Yes, I am aware of the panel showing exactly when this occurs. -I love how Harry is admitting to what he's doing. I love that I can actually rationalize it. It's a sick, twisted rationale, but I get it. We cannot forget how the lab was Harry's dream. -Harry's mind broke when he threw the cane at the glass. Healing the world was so important to him even in highschool. It was basically his mother's last wish to him. It makes sense that he'd rationalize taking away free will after all he'd went through in my opinion. Especially after the way Peter treated him and his realization that nobody cared about EMF as much as he did. -And it makes sense that he'd be able to admit to depriving free will, think about what people's free will has done to Harry, such as the G-Syrum, Peter's aggression, MJ not respecting Harry asking her to leave even. All of this happened over the course of probably 30 minutes... And he was taking all those meds that Peter calls him on. Harry was not right in the head when he re-bonded with the symbiote. -Given the humanity I explained Harry still having, I don't think I need to explain how Harry doesn't see his people as "under control." -Okay, Harry being revealed and saying "I already have a father." And especially "He loves me." Heartbreaking... It's truly heartbreaking to me. Benjamin Percy, I applaud that dialogue. Bravo sir. -I dislike Knull being demoted from his status as an Oblivion aspect as well. I honestly dislike the current Venom run and found it disrespectful to the whole theme of Cates' run; fatherhood. And how a father would do anything for their son. But now that it's no longer Eddie Brock, the Man of a Thousand Second Chances, rather a cosmic eventuality... I gave up on Knull being special. Also, Carnage killed another Knull, calling him a knock-off. -While not aware, I firmly believe Harry is intelligent to have figured out that there's a reason he wasn't already taken out. Harry was able to make a particle accelerator function mid-battle. He's a genius. Post watch: I like it. It adds to the game's alien nature at the ending, which shocked me. And I loved it. I think since you can decide whether or not to consider it cannon, it doesn't really matter much. I like it and actually I am going to choose to add this to the game's story.

[@XXMatt0040XX]

If you read this entire comment, thank you very much. I love the PS5 game, and I'm going to be playing it now after posting this comment lol. If you aren't aware, New Game Plus is now a thing in it!

[@tonelve551]

Can you PLEASE do a review on the Blood Hunt series!!

[@HazzardousEco]

I was blown away seeing the Knull Wings popping out of Harry Venom in PS5 Spider-Man 2; really took me by surprise =)

[@jackieanderson9408]

This was sweet.

[@gohanblanco6390]

Gotta love the one of the many classic Rob quotes “ he’s the emo kid that smokes cigarettes all day and listens to the Cure 😂

[@frownmastr]

If there is a Knull in every universe...... there is a crossover we need to see...

[@kingshadow8782]

Nice.

[@vergilrules1616]

Beyond omega level: The Comicstorian

[@qiydaarJohnson]

The ORIGINAL KNULL is a Multiversal being but their are Ripples so it makes sense it would be smaller scale Versions Of Knull out there. It wouldnt make sense to why there are different universes& comics in the first place so it definitely makes sense

[@DEML91]

Yes, Knull was originally a multiversal being and we even saw him act in a multiversal level with Codex but for some reason in the King in Black story he became a universal being to make Carnage seem stronger , which to me was a really dumb move just for the sake of power creep.

[@TheRealSpiderMew]

Knull is on the same level as Galactus i would say. He started as one, but split as each timeline split from his time in the cage. He rejected this real role and its why he didnt stay a singularity.

[@darealshmk19]

I was waiting for this return. Can't wait to see knull on the big screen

[@jamesallenyz431]

Think they did already and called him maleketh. Rewatch Thor the dark world, they used knulls motive with maleketh in that film.

[@docproof26]

When Rob said PlayStation I thought it was PS1 era Venom from the Spider-Man activation game 😂😂😂

[@Account1746]

These movies Finna be lit whenever/if theyre made

[@harikiran4339]

Him turning to one guy throughout the multiverse to a king in black in multiple universe is due to eternity and his siblings itself. As he eventually did take part in events of the universes and the more he spents time in it the more he diffrentiates. Unlike the beyonders who tend to stationed in the beyond verse and only take part in uni conflicts when they feel like. Knull essentially became like the giant sentinels like gods who created the universe, each existing in its own universe though they were intially multiversal.

[@buildaggedonarmanaziie4462]

Venomverse Reborn, I mean cool, but I thought, and I actually wanted for Spider-Man to rebond with Venom, like when Carnage kills Kingpin Venom and he said that maybe when he finishes killing all of the Venoms that he will go on to kill all of the Spider-men next. And so I would have liked to see Carnage going after the Spider-men after killing the Venoms, and Spider-Man and the Venom of the realities would have to work together and rebond to take on Carnage and after that Spider-Man actually goes on to become the Eventuality and go on that way.

[@Redtube831]

BIG ROB IN THE HOUSE!

[@Adam-kx9gi]

@ 3:34 LMAO

[@FormlessJKD17]

Instead of symbiote dragons, it should've been symbiote ninjas with Spider-Man like abilities.

[@spliffsforbreakfast]

Rob.. I wish I could pay you to just not post and take a long ass vacation. I really appreciate you powering through and remaining steadfast in posting. It’s definitely inspiring ✊🏾

[@ClashOfTheGamer]

Spider-Man 2 spoiler alert would have been nice for those of us who haven't played it yet

[@xman101]

Him saying it's Playstation venom is more then enough information needed to click off video

[@kalkella8822]

It's almost a year old at this point. Does he really have to put a spoiler warning?

[@DarkstoryX]

Almost a year since it came out. Plenty of time to pick it up and play it

[@Shadeamous]

i wonder if he met galactus before he became galactus

[@tonelve551]

Can you PLEASE do a review on the Blood Hunt series!! 0:24

[@SurprisingFish]

Rob, will you be covering issue 8 of G.O.D.S?

[@juliomartinez6621]

I think Knull would of listen to the Misfits rather than the cure

[@jamestrudeau9419]

Yo the cure is badass!

[@jaketaz2848]

That's cool but lemme know when GORR returns

[@js55j]

Guess we’re getting a venom game

[@KryyssTV]

It does make sense that there is one King In Black in each universe as they were created by the Beyonders to be the "janitors" that work within each reality while the Beyonders themselves exist outside of the multiverse. It's not dissimilar to how they added an Owen Reece to every universe as a kind of killswitch. As it stands though it appears that Insomniac Games have decided on the direction for Venom in their univese and that is to establish Harry as their King In Black since he is now aware of the full potential of the symbiote hive mind.

[@JosephWolfson]

PS5 Venom is overpowered. No weakness to fire! Only sound is his weakness. Might be only time Black Bolt would be useful.

[@GUTSSOZEs]

KNULL bumps the jam LULLABY by The CURE.

[@AxelordSMIJES]

It's almost like you could say that if Knull got his way, everyone's happiness would be null and void, lol.

[@Marx1684]

9:59 If each multiverse Venom caries a bit of the Enigma force that was split at some point & time, I’d dig it.

[@Shatterverse]

He should have yeeted Venom through the portal in a rage.

[@Ryekenhoshin23]

I hope one day they do something with The Void & Knull… get it? Knull & Void 😅

[@its_sonoska]

Rob will you cover beast world?

[@sdc5914]

Knull listening to The Cure is now Cannon

[@xTronSnoWx]

I think he can't control that venom symbiote because if it's based on the ultimate version of venom it was not from space it was actually an experiment and made by science it didn't sneak in from secret wars like the 616 venom

[@brianokuliczki7879]

I liked it.👍👍👍👍

[@Watch-0w1]

Maybe he like dark seid , which there prime knull and he send avatar. Because there time where knull is show to be weak like gorr> thor> knull

[@michaelhall4222]

A classic 70s comic book ending. Geee

[@ytsi7505]

If there is a knull in every universe how can knull sense symbiotes and transport multiverse symbiotes meaning they are connected but not enough to control them ?

[@bizzybrown8372]

Hey do you think the Living Tribunal we see in Multiverse of Madness is supposed to be the one from the comics like the same one ?

[@dillont5920]

Will you be covering the vampire stuff going on in comics right now?

[@encognitusmaximus7598]

Lol had one of them Scooby Doo-esque endings

[@crucible1084]

do you think spiderman ps5 is leading up to just another spiderman game with knull? or a far bigger crossover marvel event with knull as the main villain

[@user-xi8hw3hc7v]

Knull WOULD have been multiversal but he turned down the celestials so therefore never actually became The King in Black. Eddie Brock, once he accepted the title, became multiversal

[@claybylicki3040]

with the homelander bit, how are you feeling about the new season of the boys Rob i’ve seen mixed things on it

[@iancowan3527]

Knull is the same everywhere he goes... Not sure how this story is holding to that... And does this have any effect on Meridius?

[@haroldnabasajean]

isn't the enigma force the same thing that powers the beyonders' concordance engines

[@JoshTWWilliams]

Venom is my absolute favorite comic character in comic for all my life. I waited my whole life for a proper videogame with Venom on it, so that i could enjoy a good story with Venom and not just some 1vs1 game. And now that one finally was released, my life ends up in a a position where my abusive GF manipulated and hurt me and left me with nothing and being homeless, living in a shelter with no money and unable to find any job to hire me so I'm jobless and completely unable to play and enjoy Spider-Man 2 and enjoy my favorite character.

[@Smokie1523]

Stay strong, brother.

[@seanpenn180]

So is Knull related to oblivion?

[@ytsi7505]

In king in black dilan was able to disrupt and destroy symbiotes from other universes like in the venom beyond story?

[@naquanhagan5391]

This actually spoiled venom for me. Stayed away from all spoilers until now😂😂

[@SeeHang]

i sorta want to see the phoenix force vs knull and all of these major baddies fight it out

[@RANInkTV]

At the end of it all, or beginning... Is Knull going to turn out being Dylan?

[@CBrown]

That story was a waste of everything involved: Venom, Knull, Rob's time, your time, the ink and paper it was drawn on, space on the Internet. Everything.

[@davos1585]

Hoping he is the dlc bad guy or dlc for the spiderman ps5 3

[@killaramen386]

OH SHIT IM LIKE THE 31 LIKE THATS DOPE

[@xhy3yag62]

His symbol always reminds me of Batman 💀 for some reason

[@modder15]

I do think if they ever bring Knull into the MCU he should be multiversal