If you, like thousands of other comics fans, are planning on picking up the DVD of Spider-Man 3 when it hits the street on October 29th, but weren’t quite sure where you were going to get it, Brian Bendis has some news that might help you decide.
“A few months ago, Sony hired me and Mark Bagley to do a one-shot comic of all new material that will be in the Spider-Man 3 DVD as a Wal-Mart Exclusive,” Bendis told Newsarama. “It fills in all of the bits about Venom that you didn’t get to see in the movie in a dot-connecting kind of way.”
According to Bendis, while Sony may have approached them, he already had an idea once they told him what they were looking for. “Sony suggested the angle of finding material that ‘happened’ in the movie, but didn’t make it to the screen,” Bendis said. “I had some ideas already of ways to pull things together from the film – like how Venom found Sandman, for instance. I had some ideas in my head, and I was thrilled to put them on paper. It got approved pretty quickly with no bumps in the road or anything – and hey – I’m working with Mark again, so there’s nothing wrong with that at all.”
And speaking of his collaborator, Bendis said that he did have a pang of guilt in writing the project which heavily includes Venom. “Mark can’t avoid the symbiotes anymore, I think,” Bendis said with a laugh. “They’re everywhere he goes – Ultimate Spider-Man had symbiotes just before he left, and then he’s on to Mighty Avengers, with more symbiotes, and this, which went like "Hey Mark want to do this Spider-Man DVD comic?”
“Sure! What’s in it?”
“Venom.”
“Symbiotes. Great. Goddamn symbiotes.”
The comic, written by Bendis, with pencils by Bagley, inks by Scott Hanna and edited by Nicole Boose is an extra included in copies of the DVD that will be sold at Wal-Mart.