Venom: Separation Anxiety

In the mid-1990s, Marvel’s Venom: Separation Anxiety spun a four-issue miniseries from writer Howard Mackie and artist Ron Randall, probing the chaotic aftermath of the original symbiote’s fragmentation. As Eddie Brock struggles with his own identity, new, feral symbiotes—Lasher and Phage—emerge alongside human antagonists Carl Mach and Donna Diego, while reporter Ken Ellis pursues the story. This series deepens the Venom mythos by exploring how the alien’s offspring splinter into distinct, deadly entities, setting the stage for the broader symbiote wars to come.