10 Criminally Underrated Marvel Comics You Must Read

Venom is one of Marvel’s most iconic characters, rivalling that of Spider-man himself. Rick Remender is one of comics’ most iconic creators, becoming a community-known name with both indie hits and solid runs in the mainstream. Combining the two, then, could only lead to good things.

Flash Thompson, yes that Flash Thompson, is an injured war hero who chooses to wear the alien symbiote to become a super-powered wetwork operative for the US government. Agent Venom, as this pairing is known, is as action-packed as the premise would dictate, even bringing in some old school Spidey villains like Jack O’Lantern and the Crime Master for good measure.

The real heart of this series isn’t the entertaining black ops bit, however. No, the real strength that comes from this book is Flash Thompson as Agent Venom. Flash is a Spidey fanboy, with that influence leading to heroic acts during the Iraq War that would eventually leave him a legless, and the symbiote is the same long-tongued, brain-eating Spider-hater which meshes onto this odd couple feeling.

The military industrial complex, Flash Thompson getting a spotlight, and even the symbiote having some special moments - all come together to create one of the most underrated Marvel stories of the last decade.