 The 2012 story "Minimum Carnage" saw the series cross with "Scarlet Spider" to feature Venom and Scarlet Spider against an escaped Carnage in the Microverse.The story concludes with Carnage defeated and lobotomized by Scarlet Spider, leaving the Carnage symbiote in control of his body and Venom able to sense Carnage's presence.The events of "Monsters of Evil", "Minimum Carnage" and his fear of the symbiote controlling him prompt Thompson to move to Philadelphia in "Venom" #27.1.