Venom: License to Kill #2

The underwater chaos on Derec Aucoin and Ralph Cabrera's cover sets a visceral tone for this 1997 Marvel miniseries — Venom's fanged, tongue-lashing visage erupts from churning blue-green depths while a dark, winged figure dominates the foreground, both seemingly locked in a struggle beneath the hull of a massive vessel looming overhead. "From Russia with Blood-Lust!" promises the kind of globe-trotting, hard-edged action that Larry Hama does so well, and the submerged setting gives this issue a genuinely distinct energy within Venom's mid-'90s run.