Venom: Sinner Takes All #3 (1995)

After she was wounded by the Sin-Eater, Anne Weying was taken to a long-abandoned bomb shelter by her ex-husband Eddie Brock. In order to save her life, Eddie made his symbiote bond with her in order to heal her wounds. That's when their hideaway was interrupted by two squatters who claim the shelter for their own. They attack Eddie, who tries to defend himself, but without the added strength from the symbiote, he is easily overpowered. However, that's when Anne wakes up and fully bonded with the symbiote becomes She-Venom. She savagely attacks them and is about to kill the two homeless men when she is stopped by Eddie, who points out that she is not acting like herself. Unfortunately, Anne doesn't listen and tosses Eddie aside and then slaughters their would-be killers. Meanwhile, on the surface, a police task force surrounds the Chapel of the Good Sheppard. They are searching for Michael Engleschwert, the new Sin-Eater, whose identity they discovered only after they arrested the wrong man earlier that evening. Heading this squad is Chief Eamon Reilly, who warns his men to be careful because Engleschwert is a mentally disturbed individual who was discharged from the military due to his illness. officers surround who they think is Steve Engleschwert, asleep in a cot provided by the homeless shelter. However, when they pull back the sheets, they discover a pile of explosives and Bibles stacked in the vague shape of a human being. With three seconds left on the timer, the officers fail to get out before the bombs go off, killing everyone inside. While back underground, Eddie pulls Anne off her victims and forces the Venom to bond with him again. Weying is horrified by what she had done while bonded to the symbiote, feeling as though she was seduced by something of pure evil. Venom tries to explain that he had no other choice as he needed to heal her wounds and the symbiote was the only way he could do it. This does little to comfort Anne, who tells Eddie that she will hate him forever for allowing his alien other to violate her in such a way. While in Midtown Manhattan, a woman claiming to be Anne Weying's sister convinces explains to the doorman that she had come as soon as she heard her sister was shot. Feeling sympathy for the crying woman, the doorman agrees to help her get into Anne's apartment with an emergency key. While on Staten Island, Michael Engleschwert pays a visit to Acme Aegis Alarm Systems. After providing the password, he is allowed inside where a secret meeting of the Staten Island Citizen's Militia is underway. His friend, a man named Forrest, excitedly tells the other militia members about Steve's time in the military. However, things take a turn when Steve puts on his Sin-Eater costume and guns down all the militia members regardless of if they are armed or not, quoting Bible verse as he slaughters the gathering of men. Going into the back room, the Sin-Eater gathers up all of the weapon stockpiles and loads them into the back of a transport van. As he drives away, the spree killer tosses some grenades back into the building to blow up all traces of his presence there. Elsewhere in the city, Anne Weying flees to the surface, not wanting anything to do with Eddie Brock. Brock follows after her and tries to convince her to return to the shelter with him as it is not safe for her on the surface. Their struggle attracts some police officers who order Eddie to put his hands in the air. Instead, he turns into Venom to face the officers. With his attention off Anne, the woman runs to a nearby taxi cab and tells the driver to head for the east side of the city. When Venom tries to stop her, the police officers open fire, earning his attention again. However, Brock pauses when he overhears a police bulleting about the Sin-Eater being sighted in Times Square. Fearing for the safety of the people gathered there, Venom swings off to confront the murderer. At Times Square, the police have the area surrounded. However, Sin-Eater is unphased from his improvised sniper's nest. When a police sniper tries to take a shot at him, he sets off an explosive that Steve rigged on that rooftop. Meanwhile, Anne Weying arrives home. Before the doorman can tell her about the woman claiming to be her sister, she is confronted by two plainclothes police officers who want to put her into protective custody. However, she refuses to go until she can change into some clothes as she has been running around in a hospital gown ever since Venom abducted her from the hospital. When they enter Anne's apartment, the two officers are shot dead by the woman waiting at the front door. Weying wants to know what this mystery woman wants. She explains that she is taking Anne hostage as she wants to get revenge against Venom. Explaining that Eddie Brock did something horrible to her daughter Kristin recently, and she intends to settle the score. While in Times Square, Venom ambushes who he thinks is Sin-Eater but discover that it is only a dummy rigged with a recorded message, leaving the symbiote to wonder where the Sin-Eater went. At that same moment, Engelschwert arrives outside of the New York Stock Exchange.