You’ll want to read this event as much of the run has been building up to it. Note: Venom #31-34 tie into King In Black event, which like Absolute Carnage, is a major event spinning out of the events of Venom. Note: Web of Venom: Emypre’s End bridges the gap between Avengers/Fantastic Four: Empyre and King In Black events. Note: You can read Free Comic Book Day 2020 (Spider-Man/Venom) for free here. This story references Amazing Spider-Man #347.įree Comic Book Day 2020 (Spider-Man/Venom) Note: Venom #21-25 are part of the Venom Island storyline. Find out how these issues tie into it with the Absolute Carnage Reading Order. Note: Venom #17-20 is part of the Absolute Carnage, a big Venom-centric event. Note: You can read Free Comic Book Day 2019 (Spider-Man/Venom) for free here. Find out how these issues tie into the larger story in the War of the Realms Reading Order.įree Comic Book Day 2019 (Spider-Man/Venom) Note: Venom #13-15 tie into the War of the Realms event. Check that out if you want to know more about what has happened to Carnage. Note: Web of Venom: Carnage Born references Venomized. This features the main Venom series as well as the Web of Venom one-shots, annuals, and Venom-centric events. Donny Cates’ Venom Reading Orderīelow is the recommended order for the Donny Cates era of Venom. Venom (2018 series) #1 cover by Ryan Stegman.

It has the recommended reading order for the regular series, specials, and Venom-centric events with plenty of notes along the way. If you’re looking to see what all the fuss is about or to do some background reading before diving into the King in Black event, then this guide is what you need. As a result, Venom has become one of Marvel’s top-selling comics yet again.

It’s all due to giving fans a bit of the old along with plenty of new, while also making sure there is interesting character beats mixed in with the symbiote action. But thanks to Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and other collaborators, Venom is in a renascence period. But interest cooled as readers’ tastes changed and beyond the Flash Thompson era Venom was seen as a bit of a relic of its time. With a design by Todd McFarlane, which was then taken to the next level by Erik Larsen, he was so hot with readers that he outgrew the status of Spider-Man villain and was able to sustain his own comics as an anti-hero.

Venom, Vol. 2 by Donny Cates