Marvel’s new Kid Venom series brings a manga style to its young symbiote hero

Manga creator Taigami made his Marvel debut with last year’s “Summer of Symbiotes” initiative and a series of backup stories in the Death of the Venomverse limited series. That comic introduced Kintaro to the Marvel universe – a young boy from 10th century Japan who bonded with the symbiote Clinter in order to protect his people from attack.

Now Kintaro is getting his own four-issue series, written and drawn once again by Taigami. As Marvel’s synopsis for the first issue reveals, Kid Venom #1 begins in Japan, in the year 977, but the publisher has also revealed that it won’t be long before Kintaro finds himself in the present day.