WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Venom #34 by Donny Cates, Iban Coello, Jesus Aburtov, and VC's Clayton Cowles, on sale now.
King in Black has torn the Marvel Universe wide open with his armada of symbiote dragons, leaving almost nothing but death and destruction in their wake. While Eddie Brock was an early victim of the symbiote god's conquest, death isn't the end for those who have bonded to the living darkness. And from the inside of the Hive one of Eddie's oldest rivals has emerged to help in any way they can.
While Flash Thompson has been helping Venom and Eddie out for a few issues, Venom #34 takes thins to a whole new level by giving him a whole new lease on life in the most spectacular way possible.
After diving headfirst and guns blazing into the middle of an endless sea of symbiotes in the Hive, Flash Thompson emerged as something greater than he had ever been before, a symbiote dragon clad in Anti-Venom's colors. Although Eddie and Flash have both been reduced to a Codex in death, that doesn't mean they are cut off from the real world. After breaking though into the real Marvel Universe. Flash is happy to provide cover for Venom, but the elder symbiote hero instead directs him to take a page out of Carnage's playbook and visit his own grave. While Flash doesn't know exactly what he's in for, Venom effectively tells Flash how to use the symbiote dragon to resurrect himself.
During 2018's Web of Venom: Carnage Born #1 by Donny Cates and Danilo Beyruth, the then-deceased Cletus Kasady was forcefully bonded to the Grendel symbiote, one of Knull's original and most powerful dragons. This not only continued the path towards Knull's eventual invasion of Earth, but brought the sadistic serial killer back to life to gruesome effect, something that Eddie Brock remembers all too well.
Since he died fighting the Red Goblin in a Dan Slott and Stuart Immonen story in 2018's Amazing Spider-Man #800, Flash has no idea that any of this has happened. Still, Flash trusts Eddie more than anyone else he has left and flies to the now-oozing Arlington National Cemetery where he was laid to rest. From high above his own grave, Flash dives into the Earth, smashing into the ground before disappearing within it. Only a moment later, a hand emerges, officially bringing Flash Thompson back to the land of the living.
From the looks of it, Flash may still be more symbiote than man, as his flesh exhibits signs of having twisted itself back into place over his former physical form. Still., this doesn't take away from the fact that one of the most accomplished heroes in recent Marvel history has been revived, and it leaves the door open for Flash to become a stronger, more capable Agent Anti-Venom in the Marvel Universe.