Venomverse Reborn #1

History

Venomverse Reborn is a four-issue limited series that launched June 19, 2024, edited by Jordan D. White with C.B. Cebulski as Editor-in-Chief; it serves as a direct successor to the 2023 Extreme Venomverse series and is set in the aftermath of Carnage's near-destruction of the Venomverse. Al Ewing, who was simultaneously writing the ongoing Venom title, contributed the framing-sequence 'Five Questions' with artist Danilo S. Beyruth, and noted in pre-release comments that writing the framing device gave him early visibility into every other creative team's contributions before anyone outside editorial. Benjamin Percy and Brian Level handled the Avengers horror segment, while Christos Gage and Greg Land brought the Insomniac Venom story; Tony S. Daniel provided the primary cover.

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• First appearance of the Eventuality (Edward Brock, Multiverse) — defined as the apotheosized amalgam of every Eddie Brock across all realities who bonded with the Venom symbiote and became King in Black; he appears visually as a hand wreathed in flames and serves as framing narrator for the entire series.
• First in-comics appearance of Harry Osborn as Venom from Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Earth-1048), written by Christos Gage with art by Greg Land — making this a crossover between a major console video game property and print Marvel continuity.
• Three creative teams in one issue: Al Ewing & Danilo S. Beyruth ('Five Questions' framing sequence); Benjamin Percy & Brian Level (the Avengers horror story 'Host'); Christos Gage & Greg Land (the Insomniac Venom vs. Knull story).
• In the Percy/Level story 'Host,' set on Earth-24801, a rogue Venom symbiote — with no bonded host — crash-lands on Earth and serially consumes Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and Black Widow before finding a 'compatible' host in Bruce Banner's Hulk form, who narrates the mystery.
• The Eventuality's framing device structures the entire four-issue series around five questions posed by an unnamed Earth-616 visitor; issue #1 addresses the first question — 'What if Eddie Brock wasn't Venom?' — using Earth-1048 and Earth-24801 as illustrative answers.
• The series is set explicitly in the continuity of Al Ewing's ongoing Venom run and was designed to seed storylines feeding back into that title, with Ewing's framing sequence building toward the eventual introduction of the King in Crimson (Carnage's ultimate apotheosis) as the overarching threat.
• The series was followed by a sequel crossover, Spider-Verse vs. Venomverse, in 2025, confirming the Eventuality and the Venomverse infrastructure introduced here had ongoing narrative legs.
• Cover date is August 2024; release date was June 19, 2024; rated T+ (13 and up); the issue shipped with multiple variant covers by artists including Derrick Chew, Salvador Larroca, Paco Medina, Leinil Francis Yu, and others, including exclusive convention variants.

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