WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Web of Venom: Empyre's End #1 by Clay McLeod Chapman, Guiu Villanova, Frank D'Armata, and VC's Clayton Cowles, on sale now.

Some of the inhabitants of the Marvel universe are already aware that Knull is not someone to take lightly. The rest of the universe is horribly unaware of what is coming their way. Hopping from planet to planet, taking their inhabitants and turning them into his servants, and even flanked by a hoard of dragons, there are a lot of things about Knull and his conquests that bear a striking resemblance to the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Several small, relatively unimportant outposts among the Skrull/Kree Alliance have gone silent with no warning. There is little reason to expect anything other than some technical issues, but Emperor Hulkling wants it investigated in any case, so he sends a small crew headed up by Skrull warrior Talos to check things out. When they arrive at one of the planets, they find dozens of escape pods floating around in the nearby space. After bringing one aboard, the crew is set upon by the symbiotes inhabiting it. Talos and only one of his crewmates are able to make their own escape while the rest are devoured and turned into host bodies for the living darkness. Talos even gets to stare evil in the face on his way out when Knull himself showed up and made Talos his unwitting harbinger. As he retells the story to the Skrull General who picked up his own escape pod, Talos knows that it is too late. The symbiotes are already upon them.

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Knull hasn't just been taking small worlds as his own and harvesting their inhabitants as hosts for his symbiote army, though. He's been turning the planets themselves and setting the celestial bodies on a new trajectory of his choosing through the cosmos. It's an incredible, almost unfathomable way to expand his literally abysmal territory, by enveloping anything existing within it with the void itself. The exact methodology might be radically more science fiction than what is found in Game of Thrones, but it's still eerily similar to the Night King and his White Walkers. Nothing more is required of the Night King than his touch to turn a perfectly normal child into one of his frozen, zombie like minions. Even the ground beneath the Night King and his army's feet would change into something more reminiscent of their frozen wasteland of a home.

The similarities don't end there, though. Knull and the Night King have both shown the ability to use corpses as their minions, although necromancy is a bit different than a symbiote piloting its former hosts' dead body. The Night King's ability to psychically mark and track someone isn't too far removed from Knull being able to sense those that have lent themselves to or absorbed pieces of the symbiote Codex. This has led to Knull being able to take control of a number of alien dragons.

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The Game of Thrones series ended on a note that was largely considered unsatisfactory. After so much time spent mulling over political intrigue and obsessing over potential outcomes, the series ended with more of a whimper than a bang.

It's unlikely that sharing a few things in common with the HBO series is any indication of how King in Black is going to go, especially when the story has been well-received so far. Winter may not be coming, but something wicked is, and it's dressed to kill.

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