The origin of the poison comic book is also shown dramatic. Legend has it that Marvel Comics fan named Randy Schuller wrote a letter to the company in 1982, pointing out that Spiderman's suit is changing from the classic red-blue color scheme in more minimalist black and white. Marvel liked the closed design and paid $ 220 for the idea. Spider-Man was in black for a few years later.

Later, Johnon BIRN said black clothing was not made of fabric. Instead, it was made up of partial biological alien material, in itself invented to cover the fact that the suit would be torn into one board just to appear miraculously repaired in the next.

Later, it was found that the biological suit was a sensitive foreign entity made of fluid that was mentally binded to a spider-man, making the symbb. After struggling with a foreign entity in the brain, Spiderman will move him away from the body and return to a cloth. Then the living alien suit will wrap around one of Peter Parker's rivals, Eddie Brock, who tied into alien glope and turned into a monstrous poison. Venom was essentially the evil twin of the Spider-Man, sporting a big mouth with evil teeth. Artist Todd McFarlane is credited with one of Venom's co-creators, along with writer David Michini. This was in 1988.

Venom has continued to become one of Spiderman's weaker villains in Spiderman's Rogues gallery, and the character has been heading his books for decades. Since then there are She appeared in Sam Raimi's film in 2007 "Spiderman 3", " And he was treated for the treatment of Ruben Fluisher's "Venom", an unexpected $ 856 million hit for Sony in 2018.

And how does McFarlin feel about the films "Venom"? After all, superhero movies tend to change their comic book colleagues for practical reasons, which can be assumed, will take certain creators. McFarlin, however, is totally in peace with that.

Fluisher's "venom" starred Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, the man who binds to someone else's symbbic, and who, post-binding, can turn into a tar monster with a tar with a face as a shark. Despite the poison habit of biting people's heads, the film landed on the PG-13 and attracted a huge, huge audience. However, iousubopitous, "Venom" films are largely deprived of Spider-Man references, forcing the concept of poison to stand alone. However, the concept was strong enough to guarantee extensions in the forms of "Venom: Let there be a massacre" in 2021 and Kelly Marcel's "The Last Dance" in 2024.

The films "Venom" are not very well considered, but they remain strangely loved, To a great extent because of the dedicated, performance of Hardy, And the subtle themes of Queer's romance between Eddie and the poison.

Talking to CBR At Megakon Orlando in 2025, McFarlin was diplomatic, saying the poison version of the films "Don't Bug Me". He added that he had no creative contribution to the films "Venom", but he loved what Hardy did with the section:

"Tom Hardy, you know, something did a cool job. I had to meet him for the first time, you know, about a month ago or something. And super cool. If you ask the basic question, whether he would have written and directed exactly as they did, everything course, no, right? "

However, it seems that McFarlain's only visible objection to the films "Poisonous" is that Venom himself was too heroic.

It is worth remembering that the poison is created as a villain and is usually drawn with rows and rows of gigantic, sharp teeth. However, sometime in the 1990s, Venom became too popular to maintain as a villain, so Marvel published miniseries called "Venom: Deadly Protector", re -examining the character as a chaotically good anti -hero. The films "Venom" then retained the anti -heroic status for the character, and also added an element of wild humor. This was far from the bitter shade, predicted by McFarlane, who never wanted the idea of ​​poison as a hero to begin with. In his own words:

"I would like ... to see, like the guy who co-created poison, and especially the look of (him), for me, the poison is not a good man. Like, in my brain. Like, they turned the poison into a kind of good man after I left, Marvel. To suddenly ... I was like, 'What are you talking about? I think my tendencies should always go dark and serious. "

He continued to explain that the "poison" should have been violent enough to guarantee a rating, adding that he would not make efforts to make Venom cute or relatively. Instead, he would prefer something closer to a horror movie than a superhero movie.

McFarlin, however, found great success in his post-marvel days with his image Spawn, who invented him for 1992 thumbnails. well received. From this writing, Another movie "Spine" is stuck in the development of hell And he was trying to move forward since at least 2017.