The Latest Marvel Comics Stunt Choice Makes Mary Jane Your Newest Venom

In Marvel Comics’ latest Spider-swing, Al Ewing and Carlos Gómez are giving Mary Jane Watson a new venomous lease on life. This comes on the heels of a second Gwenpool variant in the form of Gwen Stacy in her recent run. It’s almost as if they really want to have Peter Parker’s Spider-Man have some sort of romantic panic by having his love interests be consumed by some of his most passionate antagonists. Which if anyone is into that, sure… we guess.

The reveal finally happened after a few months of speculation over who Venom’s new host would be: Luke Cage, Rick James, Madame Mask, Robbie Robertson? Many fans speculated that Paul Rabin might be the new Venom—he’s a controversial figure introduced during Zeb Wells’ run on Amazing Spider-Man that played a fundamental part in the book’s separation of Mary Jane and Peter Parker, so soon after the duo had been allowed to be a romantic couple in mainline continuity for the first time since their marriage was demonically erased in 2007.

The cover drop from Marvel, however, makes things perfectly clear with Mary Jane embracing the symbiote skin.

Take a look below at the covers and the description of the run!

From Marvel Comics’ release: “From strutting down runways as a high fashion model to fighting supervillains as the super hero Jackpot, Mary Jane’s life has taken some unpredictable turns—but never like this! Now that she’s been unmasked, the REAL mystery begins—how and why did she become ALL-NEW VENOM?! Stay tuned for answers in next month’s ALL-NEW VENOM #6 where symbiote and host have a tense confrontation as MJ’s adventures as a symbiote hero continues!”

Check out the run starting April 2.

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