Marvel Comics’ latest trip through the Venomverse has just unleashed a whole new team of twisted symbiote superheroes.

“Nighthawk v. Hyperion” by writer Dan Slott and artist Stephen Byrne brings readers to the world of Earth-1938, where newspaper cartoonist Marcus Milton is hard at work before his secret superhuman sense of hearing picks up a cry that he can only answer in the form of his alter-ego – Hyperion. Unfortunately, this call for help was all part of a trap set by Hyperion’s fellow Squadron Supreme member Kyle Richmond, better known as Nighthawk, who has gone to desperate measures in order to keep up with his superpowered compatriots. To that end, Nighthawk has bonded to a particularly ambitoius strain of Venom, and it isn’t willing to stop at just one heroic host when it could have an entire army of them.

Written by AL EWING, RYAN NORTH, JUSTINA IRELAND, and DAN SLOTT Art by DANILO S. BEYRUTH, MATTHEW WAITE, KEN LASHLEY, and STEPHEN BYRNE Colors by CECI DE LA CRUZ, MATTHEW WAITE, FOMULO FAJARDO JR., and STEPHEN BYRNE Letters by VC’s TRAVIS LANHAM Design by CARLOS LAO Main cover art by TONY DANIEL & MARCELO MAIOLO Variant covers by DERRICK CHEW, LEINIL FRANCIS YU & ROMULO FAJARDO JR., and KEN LASHLEY & JUAN FERNANDEZ

Marvel Comics’ original Squadron Supreme first appeared in the pages of 1971’s Avengers #85 by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema. Hailing from a parallel reality known as that of Earth-S, the Squadron Supreme was comprised of their world’s mightiest heroes, including Nighthawk, Hyperion, American Eagle, Doctor Spectrum, Lady Lark, Tom Thumb, Hawkeye, and the Whizzer. This early Squadron quickly came into conflict with the Avengers when the latter were displaced to the former’s home dimension.

In the years since, the Squadron Supreme and its members have been reimagined several times. Most recently, the modern day Squadron Supreme made their debut as purported heroes who were in fact the manifestations of the demonic Mephisto. This particular Squadron Supreme lorded over the Earth after reality was remade in Mephisto’s image during the events of 2021’s Heroes Reborn. Though things were ultimately set right, the Nighthawk created by Mephisto remained in the primary Marvel Universe and has since sought ways to return things to how he believes they should be by any means necessary.

Marvel Comics’ latest trip into the Venomverse comes alongside the events of the ongoing Venom War crossover which has engulfed the pages of Venom and associated titles. The story finds Eddie and Dylan Brock facing off against one another with opposing armies of symbiotes of their own, all to prevent very different calamitous futures from coming about. Venom War has also marked the return of the black-suited Spider-Man by bonding Peter Parker and the Venom symbiote together once more to offer both Brocks an entirely different course of action.

Venomverse Reborn #4 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.

Source: Marvel Comics