Knull’s creators didn’t know the infamous supervillain would feature in Venom: The Last Dance until everybody else did

There’s an action-packed new Venom: The Last Dance trailer in the wild and with it comes the revelation that infamous supervillain Knull will be making his big screen debut. Fans are excited to see this big bad – a relatively new addition to the canon, having only debuted in 2018 – but it seems like nobody thought to give his creators an advance warning…

Shortly after the trailer went live, artist Ryan Stegman tweeted: “Yes, I did co-create knull. No, I didn’t know until today that he was gonna be in Venom: The Last Dance. Yes, I do expect to finally be able to afford that lazy river moat around my house”

The character’s other co-creator, Donny Cates, meanwhile, shared an image, also on Twitter, that simply read “MONEY” in a familar, Venom-style font.

Those posts could be read in a number of ways. Certainly, there’s a long and unfortunate history of comics creators being poorly recompensed for their work when characters make it to the big screen, with both Ed Brubaker and Jim Starlin having previously spoken out about how little they were paid when Marvel Studios made use of the Winter Soldier and Thanos, to pick a couple of high profile examples.