Venom #154

The cover of this 2017 Marvel issue, rendered by Gerardo Sandoval, tells a tense, visceral story at a glance: a wide-eyed, shirtless man with blonde hair reaches out desperately as the massive, looming form of Venom — all jagged white spider-symbol and gnashing teeth — rises behind him, symbiote tendrils coiling around them both. "Skin Deep" promises exactly the kind of unsettling human-versus-symbiote tension that the title suggests, with Mike Costa's script brought to life by Paulo Siqueira's art and Rachelle Rosenberg's colors. For fans of Venom at his most imposing and threatening, issue #154 looks like a genuinely compelling chapter.