Rex Strickland

Rex Strickland is a Vietnam veteran who was once bonded to a symbiote during a classified military operation, leaving him with rare firsthand knowledge of the creatures. That history pulls him into Eddie Brock's orbit when a new symbiote-related threat emerges.

Rex Strickland stepped onto the Marvel stage in 2018 with one of the most talked-about Venom runs of the Modern Age — Donny Cates' genre-redefining take on the symbiote mythos. Sharing pages with heavyweights like Eddie Brock, Peter Parker, and the cosmic darkness of Knull himself, Rex moves in genuinely dangerous company. Though his catalog footprint is compact at eight appearances, the Venom series he calls home is one of Marvel's most acclaimed modern runs, making every panel he occupies count.