Welcome to the conclusion of #AmalgamAgain. This final mash-up is brought to you by Newsarama and returning artist Ty Peterson.
You can check out exactly what Amalgam Again is here,and our first mash-ups, the Mighty Mortal, Recurve, Iron Bat and Panther Queen. Then check out our latest amalgam below.
The Who: Green Venom (and the Green Venom Corps)
The Inspiration: DC’s Green Lantern and Marvel’s Venom
The logline: Hal Brock serves Sector 616, protecting the Earth and its solar system as a member of the intergalactic peacekeepers the Green Venom Corps.
His symbiote partner (who appears as a ring on Hal’s finger out of battle), uses it’s shapeshifting abilities to enhance Hal’s strength and endurance, serve as protective armor, and create any tool or weapon Hal can imagine.
The Meta: Snake and insect venom is green isn’t it?
I mean it seems like it should be…
Of our now completed week’s worth of new DC-Marvel amalgams, Green Venom is most inspired by the power set of the combined characters.
The somewhat sentient Green Lantern rings, and somewhat symbiotic relationship between a Green Lantern and their ring suggested a Marvel equivalent to a ‘cosmic,’ symbiotic dynamic and BOOM!
There it is.
In this version, the Guardian Elders of the Universe warred with the Klyntar for eons, until an eventual truce was formed, and part of the uneasy ceasefire was the mutual creation of a new collaborative intergalactic peacekeeping force – the Green Venom Corps.
Because the Klyntar’s inherent nature is aggressive and violent, the Guardian Elders have to seek out the most strong-willed individuals from each sector to exert enough influence over their symbiote partners to curb their more extreme tendencies.
In this way, we were able to pull in the willpower/emotional spectrum mythology from Green Lantern with the sometimes anti-hero slant of Venom along with the sort-of good/cop-bad cop buddy movie dynamic from the Venom film.
So think ring constructs but inky black and maybe a little more violent in nature… say brass knuckles instead of a boxing glove (or maybe a swarm of Murder Hornets..!) with the full Venom takeover appearing as protective armor in extreme circumstances and/or as a protective space suit.
The Artist: Recent Kubert School graduate Ty Peterson returns for his second Amalgam Again character(s).
You can check out Ty’s work at https://typeterson.pb.online and on Instagram: @typeterson8 and twitter: @TyPetersonArt.