Venom’s new name symbolizes perhaps his biggest update yet

In a ghostly potential future where Dylan Brock, the one and only I
destroyed the world, a dark force demanded something sacred to give the world’s last symbiotes a chance at redemption. However, the price took away something critical from Brock: his name, his memories, and his personality. Now knowing himself only as “The Old Man”, Dylan was imbued with the dark magic of the progenitor of evil Chthon.

Venom #38 – Torunn Grönbeck, CAFU and German Peralta – follows the Old Man nearby

his new ally Doctor Strange
as Strange guides the symbiote hybrid to gain a new power that can end the threat to his future before he can summon it.

As a result of the Poison War, a hive of symbiote-machine hybrids inevitably comes to power. In response, the Old Man launches a nuclear attack on the world, ultimately failing and leaving the Earth a desolate rock. When he’s at his lowest and most desperate, The Elder God Chthon seems to offer the Old Man a way out.

Dylan Brock had to give everything to give everything to Venom

Venom #38 – Author Torunn Grönbeck; Art by CAFU and German Peralta; Color by Frank D’Armata.

As the current Venom War continues, Dylan Brock needs to change his tactics; his father could travel through time, so he needed it too. Even without his identity, the Old Man retains his original purpose: destroy the future. He has no intention of fixing the broken timeline, he wants to prevent it completely. Trying to free his past from his future, the Old Man develops

weapons made from Venom
. Although the characteristics of this weapon are still unknown, it contains various cartridges that have shown explosive potential against symbiote machines.

His way to erasing the future finally landed him at the threshold of Chthon’s fortress, and The Elder God was ready to make a deal. In exchange for giving up every ounce of his human personality and memory, Chthon agrees to imbue the Old Man’s symbiote weapons with terrifying

Darkhold forces
. Now armed with terrifying dark forces and an unwavering purpose, the Old Man and Venom continue to wander aimlessly until their goals are achieved. However, technically these abilities do not belong to the Old Man, but to Venom. Every potential outcome of the Venom War is inevitable depends on Venom.

Venom is the key to the future, not Brockie

A darker threat lies beyond the horizon of the Venom War

Dueling prophecies seen by Broki both end with Venom as a common factor. To truly stop the future apocalypse, Venom must become a hero, not his masters. How the real king in blackVenom has an omniscient connection with all symbiotes from different parts of reality and time, especially with himself. Regardless of time and place, every version of Venom now has access to Chthon’s magic, whether they realize it or not. Infused with the radical powers of the Darkhold, Venom is better able to shape his own destiny.

like Anti-Everything
or become something else altogether.

While Marvel is still approaching the climax of the Venom War and

Introducing the all-new Venom
The Old Man and Future Venom will continue their search, while Present Venom tries to find his new home. The true power of the symbiote’s growing potential is still a mystery, but what is guaranteed must be something powerful enough to stop the growing threat hidden in the chaos of war – the Crimson King. Thanks to Chthon’s dark magic and his destiny of destruction, the fate of the Marvel Universe lies solely in the hands of I.

Venom #39 available now from Marvel Comics.