Marvel to Introduce Samurai Venom From Afro Samurai Creator Takashi Okazaki | Comic-Con 2025

Marvel Comics has revealed the star-studded originative lineup for Venom: Black, White & Blood #3. Among different things, this contented is notable for introducing a marque caller Samurai Venom quality created by Afro Samurai's Takashi Okazaki.

Check retired Okazaki's variant screen to contented #3 beneath for an exclusive archetypal look astatine Samurai Venom:

Art by Takashi Okazaki. (Image Credit: Marvel)

Similar to 2020's Wolverine: Black, White & Blood, Venom: Black, White & Blood is an anthology miniseries wherever each communicative is rendered lone successful black, white, and reddish tones. This contented not lone features the debut of Samurai Venom, but besides a caller communicative written by histrion David Dastmalchian and drawn by Philip Tan that's acceptable successful the earliest days of Eddie Brock's venom career. The contented adjacent boasts a main screen by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, which you tin spot below:

Art by Kevin Eastman. (Image Credit: Marvel)

Here's the afloat solicitation for Venom: Black, White & Blood #3:

VENOM: BLACK, WHITE & BLOOD #3 (OF 4)

Written by DAVID DASTMALCHIAN, CARL POTTS & TAKASHI OKAZAKI

Art by PHILIP TAN, DAMIAN COUCEIRO & TAKASHI OKAZAKI

Cover by KEVIN EASTMAN

Variant screen by TAKASHI OKAZAKI

WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME SYMBIOTE STORIES UNLIKE ANY OTHER!

David Dastmalchian joins the fray, arsenic helium and Philip Tan uncover the earliest exploits of VENOM arsenic helium stalked SPIDER-MAN done New York subways and rooftops, immune to Peter’s Spider-Sense, earlier AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #299!

From the satellite of the sleeper deed WHAT IF PETER PARKER BECAME THE PUNISHER? Carl Potts weaves a web with Damian Couceiro to amusement what happens if a Peter prone to convulsive solutions for his enemies became VENOM– and it’s conscionable arsenic shocking arsenic you’d imagine!

Takashi Okazaki imagines a never-before-seen Venom successful past Japan, arsenic this SAMURAI SYMBIOTE goes up against a CRIMSON CARNAGE!

On Sale 10/29

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