February 24 - Venom

Fun Fact:
In Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #3, it is revealed that Deadpool wore the Symbiote costume before Spider-Man put it on in the original Secret Wars event, and it's hinted that the Symbiote's aggressive behavior may be a result of its bonding with Deadpool driving it insane.

~ Venom Wiki

The original design that Scott Lanham taught when showing us this beefcake form was a Spiderman - so I figured it would be appropriate to build a Venom.

Venom is not a person, but an alien symbiote surrounding a person.  The simplified version of the story is:

In the Secret Wars series, Spiderman's suit is damaged and he is directed to a machine which can read his thoughts and manufacture any type of clothing he imagined. Choosing the machine he *thinks* is the correct one, a black sphere appears and covers his entire body. Much to the joy of Spiderman this suit can take on the form of street clothes and has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of webbing. The creature would cover Peter's body at night and go fight crime, leaving him to wonder why he was so exhausted in the morning.

Reed Richards discovered that the alien was trying to permanently bond to Peter, and because it was vulnerable to sonic waves, he used a church bell to shatter it's attachment and repel it. The alien symbiote was furious with Peter and bonded with someone who shared that hate and desire for revenge against Peter, Eddie Brock. Who became the first Venom.

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