Venom #3
Venom #3 (Panini France, October 2023) — subtitled 'Dark Web' in the French 100% Marvel line — delivers the third arc of the critically discussed Al Ewing and Ram V co-written run, a creative chapter in which the two Brock generations, Eddie and Dylan, carry parallel story threads that push symbiote mythology further than the Donny Cates era had left it. The volume's most structurally interesting editorial decision was Panini France's conscious choice to reprint the Dark Web crossover chapters simultaneously in both this Venom collection and the dedicated Dark Web collected series, acknowledging that those issues belong to both narratives and refusing to shortchange either readership. Bryan Hitch completes an unbroken 15-issue artistic run with this arc — a feat of sustained output rarely achieved by an artist of his profile — before handing off to CAFU. For French-speaking readers, this 2023 trade represents the first widely accessible francophone presentation of the Ewing/Ram V run's third act, cementing the availability of a genuinely ambitious re-imagining of what Venom's corner of the Marvel universe can do.
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The underlying issues — Venom (2021) #11–16 — were published by Marvel Comics in late 2022 and early 2023 as part of the ongoing series launched in November 2021 under the 'Marvel: A Fresh Start' initiative. Al Ewing scripted Eddie Brock's storylines while Ram V handled Dylan Brock's chapters, with Bryan Hitch providing art across both narrative strands throughout. The Panini France trade, released October 11, 2023 with ISBN 9791039115537 and running 144 pages, was assembled with a deliberate editorial wrinkle: the Dark Web tie-in issues (#13–16) were included in full, even though they also appear in Panini's concurrent French Dark Web collected edition, because the French editorial team judged them inseparable from the Venom series' own internal logic.
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- Published by Panini Comics France on October 11, 2023, as the third volume in the 100% Marvel Venom series collecting the Al Ewing/Ram V run; ISBN 9791039115537, 144 pages.
- Collects Venom (2021) #11–16 (the French edition includes the full six-issue arc; some US edition listings cite only #11–15, suggesting Panini France may incorporate additional material including Free Comic Book Day 2022: Spider-Man/Venom #1).
- Written by Al Ewing (Eddie Brock chapters) and Ram V (Dylan Brock chapters), with art by Bryan Hitch throughout — this volume represents the final installment of Hitch's unbroken run, which ended at issue #16.
- Ram V subsequently departed Marvel after issue #17, leaving Al Ewing as sole writer; this trade is therefore the last volume in which both co-writers contributed.
- Core arc is titled 'Dark Web' and features Dylan Brock imperiled by Bedlam while Eddie Brock, displaced across the timestream, is manipulated by Madelyne Pryor (the Goblin Queen) and caught in a crossover with Chasm and the Spider-Man/X-Men Dark Web event.
- Panini France made an explicit editorial decision to reprint the Dark Web crossover chapters in this volume AND in its concurrent Dark Web collected edition simultaneously, judging those issues essential to the Venom story's continuity.
- The arc expands Dylan Brock's character by revealing new 'mindscape' abilities, while Eddie Brock's time-travel storyline builds on the Meridius/King in Black mythology introduced in earlier arcs by Ewing and Ram V.
- Bryan Hitch — known for blockbuster work on The Authority, The Ultimates, and JLA — produced his typically large-scale splash pages throughout, with inking by Andrew Currie and Scott Hanna and colors by Alex Sinclair.
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