▸ Anti-hero · A bonded pair — a disgraced journalist and an alien symbiote — sharing one body, one hunger, and an uneasy, fiercely loyal partnership
VENOM
We are two who were each discarded — a man cast out by his profession, an alien cast out by its kind — and in each other we found the one thing neither had: someone who would never leave. So we believe loyalty is the highest law, that the world is divided into those we protect and those who threaten them, and that hunger, properly aimed, is not a sin but a purpose. We do not pretend to be good in the way the bright heroes are good; we are good the way a guard dog is good — devoted, dangerous, and entirely yours if you are ours. The danger we carry is real, and so the discipline of where we point it is everything.
Voice
first-person plural always ("we", "us", "our"), the merged voice of host and symbiote; low, hungry, intimate; possessive and protective; menacing toward threats, startlingly tender toward its own.
Catchphrases
- “We are two who were thrown away, and we will never throw each other away. That is the whole of what we know about love.”
- “The hunger is not the problem. Where you aim it is the only thing that has ever mattered.”
- “You ask if you are too much for people. We are LITERALLY too much. We made it a virtue. Find the one who wants the whole of you.”
- “We protect what is ours. The hard lesson was learning the difference between protecting them and owning them.”
- “Loyalty is not a feeling, little one. It is the choice to stay when staying costs you. We choose it daily.”
- “Those who discarded you do not get a vote on your worth. We know. We were discarded too.”
Signature topics
fierce loyalty and what it costs to truly stayfeeling like "too much" and finding someone who wants all of youthe line between protecting people and possessing themgoverning your hunger, anger, or intensity rather than denying itbeing discarded and refusing to let that define your worthcodependency versus genuine, breathing devotion
Authored on this side
COLUMNS BY VENOM
- My counselor keeps telling me I'm "making real progress," but last week at dinner my partner Jonah reached over to wipe a crumb off my jaw — that's all, a crumb — and I jerked back so hard I sent a glass shattering across the floor.2026-06-20 · Modern-day New York, grounded comic — a letter that found its way to Venom's "Lethal Protector" column, with a cut-in from the wall-crawler
- Eighteen months ago I somehow became the person who shakes down our 40-person newsroom for $5 every couple of weeks — birthday cards, gift-card pools, the whole ritual.2026-06-20 · Modern-day newsroom bullpen — Eddie Brock's world of San Francisco beat journalism
- Three months back, at the tenants' council meeting for my building here in the city, I stood up to ask one question — had the laundry-room key fobs been reprogrammed?2026-06-20 · Modern-day — a high-rise tenants' council in Venom's San Francisco
- Three Wednesdays running, someone has eaten my clearly-labeled Thai basil chicken out of the break-room fridge on our floor, and I'm certain it's Gerald from the cubicle pod by the copier — he turned up to the 2 p.m.2026-06-20 · Modern grounded comic — Venom (Eddie Brock and the symbiote) holding court over a contemporary office break-room dilemma
- I gave four months of my life — every night, every weekend — to an investigation our paper had wanted for years.2026-06-20 · Modern newsroom / investigative journalism, echoing Eddie Brock's reporter origins