Warning: Spoilers for Venom #17The metamorphosis of Eddie Brock is still not over in Marvel Comics, as the most famous host of Venom gets killed by the fabled Soulsword only to transcend (or perhaps descend) to another plane of existence, where he will be reborn as a powerful new force, and perhaps gets his chance to oppose the nefarious plans of his future evil self, the King in Black Meridius.

In Venom #17, by Al Ewing, Cafu, and Frank D'Armata, readers learn what happened to Eddie Brock after his involvement with Madelyne Prior and Ben Reilly in the finale of the Dark Web event. Banished into the depths of Limbo by Chasm and the powers of the Scythe of Sorrows, Eddie, currently in his Bedlam persona (which personifies all his rage and aggression) finds himself confronted by Darkoth, a past ruler of Limbo. Not even the might of a King in...