 The story began the character's transition from unambiguous villain to anti-hero and introduced the symbiote offspring (Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher and Agony), who would recur in Marvel comics until the 2011 "Carnage, U.S.A." limited series.Seventeen other series were printed between August 1993 and January 1998, including 1994's "" (which continued the story of Venom's offspring and spawned the 1995 "Planet of the Symbiotes" cross-series story arc), 1996's "Along Came a Spider" (which introduced symbiote anti-hero Hybrid) and 1997's "Venom