WARNING! Potential spoilers ahead for Venom War: Fantastic Four #1
Kang the Conqueror as the MCU’s new big bad, but an comic will feature the two in a dramatic face-off, as part of Marvel's Venom War crossover. The preview for Venom War: Fantastic Four details the war between the two villains, as each chooses their own symbiote to fight on their behalf.
A preview released by CBR for Venom War: Fantastic Four #1 – written by Adam Warren, with art by Joey Vasquez – offers readers their first glimpse of the proxy war between Kang and Doom, which offers a sort of blueprint for their unavoidable showdown in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The villains' battle for supremacy finds them enlisting the symbiotes Flexo and Rascal, respectively, to fight for them, as part of the larger ongoing Venom War event. While the preview for the issue omits dialogue and narration, the images go a long way in setting readers' expectations for the story.
Doctor Doom & Kang The Conqueror Both Try To Use Marvel's Venom War To Their Advantage
A Proxy War Using Deadly Symbiotes
Venom War: Fantastic Four #1 (2024) |
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October 30, 2024 |
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Adam Warren |
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Joey Vasquez |
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David Baldeón |
The Fantastic Four may not have much history with Venom - beyond helping Spider-Man capture the symbiote way back when - but when both Doctor Doom and Kang the Conqueror start getting involved in the war... now we've got the FF's attention! It's a wild battle of mad geniuses that spans thousands of years and also the space of a breath - with stakes that only the Fantastic Four could fathom! |
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Doom and Kang waging a secret war over thousands of years should make for an interesting one-shot, as the two villains using the symbiotes Flexo and Rascal in a kind of chess game through the ages. Flexo was a Golden Age hero who has been retconned into being a symbiote, found by the brothers Joel and Joshua Williams, who sculpted it into a crime-fighting robot. Conversely, Rascal spawned from the symbiote Bedlam, who was sent to the early 21st century by Kang. Once there, he bonded with Norman Osborn’s grandson Normie, becoming the latest version of the Red Goblin.
The concept of the two villains waging a war in secret across the timeline would be very fitting for the MCU.
This is a great way Doom will take Kang’s place as the big bad of the MCU ahead of Avengers’ sequels Doomsday and Secret Wars. Even without symbiotes involved, the concept of the two villains waging a war in secret across the timeline would be very fitting for the MCU. It could make for an exciting plot to follow in a movie, especially if Doom and Kang were using MCU characters throughout history to wage their own proxy war.
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Venom War: Fantastic Four #1 – Available October 30 From Marvel Comics
However things play out in Venom War: Fantastic Four #1, the conflict of Doom and Kang is a tantalizing story thread to follow. Further, the Fantastic Four's entry into the Venom War should continue their renaissance, as they continue a highly-acclaimed comic run in the current Fantastic Four ongoing, and with their very high-profile MCU debut . Whether or not it provides a look into how the MCU will deal with Doctor Doom and Kang the Conqueror, Venom War: Fantastic Four #1 will be a must-read for Marvel Comics fans looking to keep up with the symbiotes.
Source: CBR
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Venom War: Fantastic Four #1 will be available October 30, 2024 from Marvel Comics.
Fantastic Four (2022)
- Writer
- Ryan North
- Penciler
- Ivan Fiorelli, Carlos Gómez, Iban Coello
- Colorist
- Jesus Aburtov
- Letterer
- Joe Caramagna
- Publisher(s)
- Marvel Comics
"WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE FANTASTIC FOUR?" It's the start of a new era for the Fantastic Four...and they're already in a ton of trouble. Something has gone terribly wrong in New York, and the Thing and Alicia are traveling across America to escape it! But when they stop in a small town for the night and wake up the morning before they arrived, they find themselves caught in a time loop that's been going on since before they were born... That's been going on since before they were born...
