A NEW SYMBIOTE SUIT EMERGES ON BATTLEWORLD!: “In Superb Spider-Man #252 by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, Spider-Man returned from Secret Wars with a brand new black costume that was later revealed to be the alien symbiote VENOM! Now, over 40 years later, a brand new comedian e-book legend begins with the debut of a symbiote costume in BATTLEWORLD #3 this November that may return the next month in VENOM #252.
BATTLEWORLD, a brand new restricted collection by Christos Gage and Marcus To, kicks off in September. The collection follows the custom of each the groundbreaking unique Secret Wars and the 2015 Secret Wars occasion by bringing numerous heroes from the multiverse collectively on a patchwork planet for an epic battle! Final week at San Diego Comedian-Con, retailers realized that In BATTLEWORLD #3, a kind of chosen heroes is revealed to be an all-new alternate Venom donning a Pink and Blue Spidey swimsuit! Created by author Jordan Morris, who made his Marvel Comics debut earlier this 12 months in Net of Spider-Verse: New Blood #1, and Marvel’s Stormbreaker elite artist and celebrity Spider-Verse designer Luciano Vecchio, this mysterious new character will headline his personal backup story by Morris and Jesús Saíz in VENOM #252, a part of Al Ewing and Paco Medina’s present run. VENOM #252 will even reunite DeFalco and Frenz for a narrative that ties again to their traditional Superb Spider-Man challenge.
Along with Luciano Vecchio’s design sheet for the brand new costume, try the primary cowl for BATTLEWORLD #3 by Leinil Francis Yu and a Venom Variant Cowl by Phillip Tan. Plus, see new variant covers for VENOM #252 by R.B. Silva and Cory Smith that homage the unique covers of Secret Wars #7 and Superb Spider-Man #252. Don’t miss probably the most surprising costume reveal in 40 years by preordering each points at your native comedian store as we speak!”
BATTLEWORLD #3 (OF 5)
- Written by CHRISTOS GAGE
- Artwork by MARCUS TO
- Cowl by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
- Venom Variant Cowl by PHILLIP TAN
- On Sale 11/26
VENOM #252
- Written by AL EWING, JORDAN MORRIS & TOM DEFALCO
- Artwork by PACO MEDINA, JESÚS SAÍZ & RON FRENZ
- Homage Variant Cowl by R.B. SILVA
- Homage Variant by CORY SMITH
- On Sale 12/3
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VINEGAR SYNDROME RELAUNCHES PUBLISHING DIVISION AS VS PRESS: “Boutique dwelling video label Vinegar Syndrome has relaunched its publishing division following the shuttering of Vinegar Syndrome Publishing in 2024. VS Press takes the already established identify of Vinegar Syndrome’s in home display printing studio to construct a bigger ecosystem of print primarily based media which can embody display printed posters, numerous model associated zines and an elevated deal with books.
VS Press’s publishing initiative launched its first zine in Could with VINEGAR ZINE-DROME #1, a perfect-bound zine providing new writing and art work, and its first e-book initiatives with Rambo: First Blood Half II and Rambo III novelizations, republished with the cooperation of their unique creator David Morrell.
The re-branding will embody a number of new movie associated texts, beginning with the August debut of The Basement Tapes, a lavishly printed, photograph crammed tome of VHS associated ephemera curated by San Francisco collective Basement VHS. Mitsu Okubu and Luca Antonucci of Basement VHS had the next to say about their e-book with VS Press:
The Basement Tapes is a glimpse into our assortment of VHS tapes. Born out of our obsession with b-budget horror, science fiction oddities, weird particular curiosity tapes, and exploitation movies, this publication is a love letter to those forgotten slabs. Along with highlighting a few of our favourite tapes, we have requested a number of associates to jot down about why they love VHS, and we have included a number of snaps of our subterranean studio house, the place we host screenings each Wednesday night time. It is an absolute dream to have labored with VS Press on The Basement Tapes. We won’t wait to share our assortment with you.
August will even see the discharge of the second periodical from VS Press, This Is Cinématographe: A Journal of American Cinema, which will probably be a quarterly publication of movie writing about American cinema with a curatorial focus much like that of the Cinématographe sub-label of dwelling video releases. Cinématographe co-founder and curator Justin LaLiberty states that “The addition of printed publications makes excellent sense for a corporation as dedicated to bodily media as ours is. Not solely is it a method to champion the artwork of publishing however it permits us at Vinegar Syndrome the chance to shine a light-weight on individuals and movies we admire that we might not in any other case get an opportunity to.”
The way forward for VS Press will embody the launch of one other periodical in This autumn of 2025 and quite a few e-book initiatives to be launched in 2026 and past.
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