h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In the comic books, Eddie Brock didn't work for the Daily Bugle and was not a rival of Peter Parker's.

Eddie Brock was, in the comics, a reporter for the Daily Globe who were fired after a failed article trying to expose a killer (can't remember who, right now). The article named an innocent man and got him sent to jail, but later on Spider-Man brought in the actual killer, thus proving that Eddie Brock's article was not correct. As a result, Eddie was fired, and since he blamed Spider-Man for the loss of his job, his hatred against the Web-slinger began to grow.

Eddie isn't a bad guy deep down, and his only objective is to kill Peter Parker/Spider-Man. He has a sense of good and has at times also helped save innocent people from various threats.

He certainly did work for the Bugle. He was a journalist and his stories, while accurate, were almost always "disproven" by the pictures Parker later came up with to preserve his identity. Because of this, Eddie was the brunt of many of Jameson's rages and considered suicide before he was joined with the symbiote. He is indeed a very tragic character.

Are you talking about the comics or the animated series now, though?

The original comic boks where Eddie Brock appears, he worked for the Globe, not the Bugle.

For more info about Venom, please read the review at http://www.spiderfan.org/characters/venom.html

Excerpt:

"The other half of this future combo, Eddie Brock, was the star investigative reporter for the Daily Globe. Eddie was a particularly driven man driven to seek the approval of his stone-hearted father. It stands to reason that when his biggest score--a man confessing to be the then-active Sin-Eater--was exposed as a fraud when the real Sin-Eater was captured by Spider-Man, Brock went a little over the edge."

Oh, you know what? Now that I look back at the comic I was thinking of, it turns out it was part of the Spider-man Adventures comic series, a comic adaptation of the animated series. Sorry about that.

No problem.