Warning: contains a preview of Avengers Forever #1!
As part of the upcoming Avengers Forever miniseries, Venom is taking on a terrifying new form to kill the Invincible Ant-Man, aka Tony Stark. This variant of the hero otherwise known as Iron Man is the apparent leader of the new Multiversal Avengers – variants from countless alternate realities who are teaming-up to stop the machinations of the Multiversal Masters of Evil.
Fans met the Multiversal Masters of Evil in Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/Hulk #1, where the team – consisting of twisted versions of Thanos, Doctor Doom, Madam Masque, Wolverine, Green Goblin, the Destroyer, and Red Skull – declared their intent to kill the mysterious hero residing within the ramshackle Avengers Tower built beside the God Quarry at the root of creation, as well as every other Avenger they could find. That hero appears to be the Invincible Ant-Man – a variant of Iron Man who has his typical armor-making genius alongside the Ant-Man tech more usually associated with Hank Pym.
A new preview from Marvel.com sees Tony suited up as Ant-Man, pursued by an army of ants with Venom’s characteristic markings. Strangely, these ants don’t appear to be agents of the Multiversal Masters of Evil. While the team does have its own Venom – the symbiote-bonded Black Skull – the villain is patterned in red and black, where the swarm of ants bear Venom’s iconic white eye markings. In a preview of the issue, it’s shown that Tony is in search of a buried hammer (which seems to be Mjolnir, and could turn him into Marvel’s next Thor), so it’s possible that – given the reach of the upcoming series, from Jason Aaron and Aaron Kuder – this Tony is exploring a world where Venom took over completely.
The scene brings to mind the Wastelanders – aka Old Man Logan – reality, in which supervillains banded together to kill off Marvel’s heroes, and the Venom symbiote was left to wander, bonding with a Tyrannosaurus rex and eventually devouring Taskmaster. The idea that the Invincible Ant-Man is exploring that reality – or another that went similarly wrong – perfectly conveys the ambitious scope promised by Avengers Forever, which seems primed to bring back a cavalcade of beloved, deep-cut heroes, as well as revealing new twists on familiar faces.
Fans can find out exactly what’s going on when Avengers Forever #1 hits retailers December 22, but the preview from Marvel promises a cross-reality quest that will reveal heroes and villains in awesome new forms. As Marvel’s new Venom begins his journey and former host Eddie Brock assumes the role of the King in Black, fans might have feared that classic, razor-toothed symbiote action was on Marvel’s backburner. It’s clear that won’t be the case in Avengers Forever, where from the first issue, Tony Stark will have to fight for his life against one of Venom‘s creepiest forms yet.
Source: Marvel.com
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