All-New Venom #2
All-New Venom Tome 2 (Panini France, 2026) collects the second half of Al Ewing and Carlos Gómez's boundary-pushing run in which Mary Jane Watson — one of the most familiar faces in Spider-Man history — is revealed as an unwilling host of the Venom symbiote, a creative pivot that repositions her from a supporting character into a fully powered protagonist. The pairing carries real dramatic weight because the symbiote and MJ share a long, antagonistic history rooted in her relationship with Peter Parker, making their forced bond a natural crucible for soap-opera tension rather than a stunt. The arc also introduces S.C.A.R., a new institutional anti-symbiote antagonist, and weaves in Doctor Octopus and the Sleeper symbiote in ways that meaningfully expand the street-level corner of Marvel's symbiote mythology. Panini's collected format brought this pivotal chapter — including the in-continuity origin of the MJ/Venom bond and her break-up with Paul Rabin — to French-speaking readers in a single volume.
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The US material collected here (All-New Venom #6–10, cover-dated mid-2025) was conceived as the second act of a deliberately structured two-part story: Ewing designed the opening five issues as a whodunit to hook readers, then pivoted to exploring the symbiote relationship in depth once MJ's identity was confirmed. In an interview with Marvel.com, Ewing explained that the team 'kept circling back to Mary Jane' because of her story potential, and that granting themselves permission to pursue that idea generated increasing excitement about narrative possibilities. Panini France had already committed to the series with Tome 1 (September 2025, collecting issues #1–5); Tome 2 followed in early 2026 as part of the publisher's sustained 100% Marvel line, completing the All-New Venom run before the title reverted to legacy Venom numbering with issue #250.
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- Publisher and format: Panini Comics France, 100% Marvel trade paperback series, Tome 2 of 2 for the All-New Venom run; released February 2026.
- US source material: Collects All-New Venom (2024) #6–10, written by Al Ewing with art by Carlos Gómez, colors by Frank D'Armata, and lettering by Clayton Cowles.
- Central character development: Issues #6–10 reveal HOW Mary Jane Watson bonded with the Venom symbiote during the Venom War event — the symbiote hacked her Jackpot gauntlet to save her life, leaving a sliver of itself behind and creating a bond neither party chose.
- Narrative stakes: MJ and the symbiote are established as biologically interdependent — they cannot safely separate, raising the personal and physical stakes for the entire subsequent Venom series.
- New antagonist introduced: S.C.A.R. (an anti-symbiote government agency) makes its first significant on-page appearance in this arc, with Ripcord (Jill Carson) debuting as an agent character.
- Death-Throws villain group: All-New Venom #2 (US issue) introduces several new 'would-be members' of the Death-Throws — Heave-Ho, Chuck Stuff, and The Tosser — marking minor but verifiable first appearances within the run.
- Relationship resolution: Mary Jane ends her relationship with Paul Rabin in this volume, a storyline that had been building across the entire Ewing run and drew significant fan reaction.
- Series continuity: After All-New Venom #10 (the final issue collected here), the title reverted to legacy numbering as simply Venom, beginning with issue #250 — marking Knull's return as the King in Black and serving as the direct narrative sequel to this volume.
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