At best Eddie took pride in the way he looked: his clothes, his hair, his overall appearance was clean, styled, and put together.

At worst he was a narcissist. There were definite times that Eddie and Anne fought over time in the bathroom and whose routine took precedence over their time at the vanity mirror.

Eddie missed Annie something terrible... and how distant she had been since their mutual firing but one-sided split? The young journalist had been nothing short of gutted. A whole piece of him missing - with no desire it seemed for making its way back.

But ever since Venom came into his life, Annie had stopped being so distant. She stuck by him in a time when he needed her most: from the terrifying whirlwind of the symbiote becoming part of Eddie, literally overtaking his body, all the way through his hospital recovery in the incredible adventure's aftermath.

Eddie loved Annie now more than ever.

What was really odd... he could feel Venom's emotions.

Eddie couldn't read Venom's mind anymore than the symbiote could read his, but they could feel the emotions of one another. And as Eddie was walking along the street away from Anne (and that pleasant old man that made commented to him about her with his dog), Eddie felt the brimming gulf of love that he knew wasn't his alone.

Nothing about Eddie felt alone anymore.