UPDATE

: The poll is closed, but you can check out our round-up of what the IGN community thought of Venom's costume

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Today's "The Planet of the Symbiotes" finale in Guardians of the Galaxy #23 saw Venom get a new look that returns him to his bulkier roots. We'll avoid the spoiler of what led to this new appearance, but we wanted to show it off to hear what you think.One of Spider-Man's most iconic foes, the original Venom host was Eddie Brock, created by Mike Zeck and Todd McFarlane.But for the past several years, Flash Thompson has been the sleeker, militarized Agent Venom.Artist Valerio Schiti, who created the new design, told Marvel.com that the idea for a new look came from Guardians writer Brian Michael Bendis."I suppose that the main reason for this change is the new readers—at least that’s what Brian Bendis said!" Schiti said. "The new generations of readers have a totally different idea of Venom; most of them don’t even know that once he was a bad guy. In this moment nobody perceives him like a monster, everybody knows that he’s a hero, a good guy with a super cool costume that can do amazing things so why don’t we concentrate on them? Brian noticed that new way of thinking about the character and imagined this totally different version."Bendis was a writer on the Marvel storylines for the Disney Infinity video game, so it'll be no surprise to hear that the Venom from that game was the inspiration for the new design."They wanted a modern version of the character: he should be strong and sleek and powerful; a perfect version of the character, with a new set of super powers. Brian showed me a picture of the version of Venom [from Disney Infinity] and said: 'Something like this. Cool. Sleek. Big,'" Schiti said.It should be noted that while the look is new, Thompson is still wearing the original Venom symbiote.So what do you think of Venom's new look? Vote in our poll!Thanks to Newsarama for the heads up.

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