Cover: Paulo Siqueira

Venom: Separation Anxiety #2

Aug 2024 · Marvel · 3.99 USD

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“The King in Purple: Part Two: Even a Single Hair Casts its Shadow”

About this Issue

Venom: Separation Anxiety (Vol. 2) #2 marks a rare instance of Venom co-creator David Michelinie returning to the character he helped define, continuing a line of retro-era Venom miniseries that deliberately situate themselves within Eddie Brock's formative years as the symbiote's host. The issue is notable for staging a full-scale clash at the Fantastic Four's Four Freedoms Plaza, pulling in an unusually large ensemble — including Purple Man using stolen symbiote-like powers against Venom — a conceptual pairing that had not been explored in this fashion before. Its placement within the ongoing 'King in Purple' arc, which gradually strips Venom of his bond with the symbiote issue by issue, gives the story a sustained tension more akin to a slow-burn horror thriller than a conventional super-hero slugfest, demonstrating the continued flexibility of Michelinie's original character concept three decades after his debut.

writer David Michelinie · artist Gerardo Sandoval · inker Víctor Nava · colorist Romulo Fajardo Jr. · letterer VC's Travis Lanham · cover Paulo Siqueira

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History

Following two well-received Venom: Lethal Protector miniseries, Michelinie returned once more — this time paired with artist Gerardo Sandoval, who had previously drawn Death of the Venomverse — to produce this five-issue limited series for Marvel Comics, with Thomas Groneman editing and Romulo Fajardo Jr. providing colors. The series was announced in February 2024 and launched in May of that year, explicitly framed as a continuation of Michelinie's own retro-Venom sandbox, set during Eddie Brock's earliest days as the character. Paulo Siqueira served as cover artist throughout the run, with the first issue's cover functioning as a homage to Charles Vess's Web of Spider-Man #1.

Trivia · 8 facts

Story title: 'The King in Purple: Part Two – Even a Single Hair Casts its Shadow' — released June 19, 2024, with an August 2024 cover date.
Written by David Michelinie (Venom co-creator), pencils and inks by Gerardo Sandoval, colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr., letters by VC Clayton Cowles, edited by Thomas Groneman.
Central conflict: Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave) has acquired symbiote-like web-slinging powers and is incrementally stealing the Venom symbiote from Eddie Brock, growing stronger as Venom grows weaker across the five-issue arc.
The action is set at the Fantastic Four's Four Freedoms Plaza, drawing in a large cast of Marvel heroes — including the Thing, Iron Man, Captain America, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Crystal, and Sunturion — most plausibly as targets or tools of Purple Man's reality-altering mind-control abilities.
Part of a five-issue limited series titled 'Venom: Separation Anxiety' (Vol. 2), which completed its run through November 2024 and was subsequently collected in a trade paperback edition.
The series is set during Eddie Brock's earliest days as Venom, making it a deliberate period piece consistent with Michelinie's previous retro Venom work rather than a tie-in to then-current Marvel continuity.
Joy Mercado — Eddie Brock's Daily Bugle colleague and a supporting figure throughout the series — continues to appear in this issue, maintaining the journalistic subplot threaded through the miniseries.
Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich) was established as an antagonist from the series' first issue, with his role escalating toward the arc's conclusion in issue #4.