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Venom (the symbiote) is literally driving Eddie (the host) crazy by compulsively hunting all night, so that Brock can’t ever sleep.
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Over the course of issue #1, we see Venom becoming increasingly savage. Brock tries to soothe him with a twinkie.
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Yeah, that doesn’t work.
During earlier minis, Venom has been talking about eating brains. In issue #1 he finally really does it. Brock is horrified by what they’ve done, and resists turning into Venom again–so the Symbiote leaves him.
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The story reveals that the symbiote has an alien hormone structure, and drains its host of a particular biochemical. Once that chemical is depleted, it must eat brains.
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Brock goes nuts, escapes from an asylum, dons military gear, and goes Venom hunting.
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Brock has identified a synthetic source of the hormone, which enables him to reunite with the symbiote–now that they both need each other to be whole, they can’t be separated again without going nuts.
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I don’t know if this was intended to be an allegory for addiction, but it works well when you read it that way.
It’s also nice to have a Venom series that’s just him–no other symbiotes. Much more of a character-based interlude before they all come back, along with Wolverine, in the next mini.