Edge of Venomverse #1

The opening salvo of Marvel's 2017 Venomverse event makes one thing immediately clear: the symbiote doesn't play favorites. Francesco Mattina's cover depicts a figure fusing the X-Men's yellow-and-blue costume — complete with claws — with the writhing black tendrils, massive fanged maw, and coiling tongue of a Venom symbiote, lunging forward against a blood-red backdrop flanked by eerie teal-lit laboratory tanks. It's a genuinely unsettling collision of two Marvel icons rendered with painterly intensity, and it sets a dark, anything-goes tone for the anthology series to come.