#Trevor Cole ~ Riot

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Eddie uses an aging ray to turn all the symbiotes to dust... but hey... the people inside are still alive at least?

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Digital Painting of Marvel Comics Riot who is the main villain in the Venom movie. So why 4 arms? When his 1st action figure came out in the 90s, his toy had 4 arms and was also the 1st time the character was named Riot. Made him look different from the other symbiotes.

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Here’s a fun idea I had. What if someone bonded to Phage and Riot? A bit like 50% of Hybrid. Orange on top, Black on bottom. It would make a fun character twist. Wouldn’t say call it Hybrid, and Rage is already taken.

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From Venom #164, “The Nativity: Part One”

Art by Mark Bagley, Scott Hanna and Dono Sánchez-Almara

Written by Mike Costa

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28) Leslie Gesneria - Agony - Leslie była wolontariuszką/najemnikiem dla złowrogiej Life Foundation, organizacji, która przygotowywała się do M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) i starali się zapewnić swoim bogatym klientom wygodne życie po nadchodzącym nuklearnym holokauście. Leslie została wybrana z sił bezpieczeństwa organizacji składających się z gliniarzy, żołnierzy i najemników, aby wziąć udział w eksperymencie. Venom przeszedł procedurę, w której powstało z niego wiele "potomstwa" - w ten sposób Agony, produkt potomstwa symbionta i Leslie stają się jednym. Podczas gdy Venom był Lethal Protector of San Francisco (Zabójczym Obrońcą San Francisco), Riot i jej „rodzeństwo” zostali pokonani dzięki połączonym wysiłkom Venoma i Spider-Mana. Symbiont Leslie został sztucznie postarzany, a jego ciało zostało złapane w ogromnej eksplozji. Później ujawniono, że Agony i inne symbionty przeżyły dzięki wysiłkom Life Foundation. Wyrwali Eddiego Brocka z więzienia i porwali go w ostatniej próbie porozumiewania się ze swoimi obcymi „innymi”. Niestety Eddie odmówił im pomocy, ze względu na przykład Carnage'a, że jego „dzieci” stały się psychopatycznymi zabójcami. Patrząc w lustro w hotelu, w którym przebywała wraz z innymi, Leslie ujawniła swoją twarz i okazała wyrzuty sumienia za swoje czyny jako Agony. Była pierwszą, która została zabita przez Scream, gdy nie była czujna, ta ostatnia wyrwała się ze swojej schizofrenii i wpływu jej symbionta, wierząc, że symbionty i wszyscy, którzy ich gościli, byli źli. Śmierć Leslie pomogła Donnie wprowadzić innych w błąd, myśląc, że Eddie Brock ich wybiera. Symbiont Leslie (Agony) przetrwał i został uwięziony/eksperymentowany w The Vault wraz z rodzeństwem (z wyjątkiem Carnage’a i Scream).

Moce:

Purple Symbiotic Costume: Agoniy posiadała wszystkie moce oryginalnego symbionta Venoma, w tym zdolność, której nawet jej „ojciec” nie posiadał. Niestety, ponieważ Leslie nie mogła właściwie kontrolować swojego „innego” i fakt, że zmarła na początku swojej kariery, Agony wykazała tylko pewne moce przyznane przez symbionta. Jej pełen zakres uprawnień składałby się z:       

Superhuman Strength       

Superhuman Durability     

Superhuman Stamina       

Accelerated Healing Factor        

Wall-Crawling        

ESP (Spider-Sense)       

Immunity to Spider-man's Spider Sense     

Webbing Generation        

Camouflage Capabilities       

Constituent-Matter Generation        

Metabolic Acid Generation: Agony może również wykorzystać swój metabolizm do wyplucia kwasu, który może przepalić większość substancji, jednak pełny zakres lub zasięg jej pocisków kwasowych jest nieznany           

Metabolic Chemical Absorption: Agony może nawet wchłonąć chemikalia (takie jak sztuczna pajęczyna Spider-Mana). Ta zdolność nie została wykazana w żadnym z innych symbiontów LF

Security Training: jako ochroniarz, Leslie prawdopodobnie przeszła szkolenie w zakresie walki wręcz, broni palnej, różnych rodzajów broni ręcznej i taktyki   

Intense Sound: Symbiont jest niezwykle wrażliwy na wysokie częstotliwości dźwięku i ataki dźwiękowe. Najlepiej było to pokazane, gdy Trevor został natychmiast zabity przez Donnę przy użyciu noża Sonic   

Intense Heat: Symbiont jest również podatny na intensywne poziomy ciepła

Transportation: Web-Slinging 

Drobnostki: Imiona (Agony, Screech i Shriek) to imiona fanów Leslie i jej symbionta. Nazwa fanów Agony została wymyślona jako imię odpowiednie dla symbionta, który wydaje się być żeńską wersją Carnage’a, ze względu na jej wygląd i ubarwienie 

Symbiont (i jego gospodarze) nie został oficjalnie nazwany Agony, aż do Carnage, USA #2, z Jamesem Murphym jako gospodarzem   

Agony jest jednym z sześciu bossów symbiontów w grze wideo Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety.

Pierwszym gospodarzem Agony była Leslie Gesneria, najemnik zatrudniona przez Life Foundation Carltona Drake'a w San Francisco. Gesneria związała się z symbiontem Agony w połączeniu ze Scream (Donna Diego), Phage (Carl Mach), Riot (Trevor Cole) i Lasherem (Ramon Hernandez), ale zostają pokonani przez Spider-Mana i Venoma. „Rodzeństwo” symbiontów porywa później Eddiego Brocka, próbując skomunikować się z symbiontami kosmitów w Chicago. Kiedy Brock odmówił im pomocy, Gesneria, Cole i Mach zostają zabici, podczas gdy pozostali są początkowo wprowadzani w błąd, by uwierzyć, że Brock wybiera grupę, nieświadomi, że prawdziwym mordercą był schizofreniczny Diego, który wyrwał się spod wpływu Scream. Symbiont Agony później łączy się z Phage, Lasherem i Riotem, tworząc symbionta Hybrid, dopóki grupa wojskowa nie rozdzieli ich później dla rządu USA.

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Venom: Riot and the Life Foundation Symbiotes Explained

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With Riot showing up in the Venom film, we look at the life of the obscure symbiote and his siblings Scream, Phage, Lasher, and Agony.

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We’re only months away from the Venom movie and San Diego Comic-Con confirmed that we’re definitely getting the symbiote Riot as at least one of the villains. In fact, there’s a good chance we might be getting more, if not all, of the Life Foundation symbiotes. Michelle Lee, for example, has been on the IMDB cast page as Donna Diego (the symbiote known as Scream) for about a year. 

Who are all of these symbiotes? They certainly aren’t as well-known as Venom’s go-to symbiote rival, Carnage.

To explain the likes of Riot, Scream, Lasher, Phage, and Agony, you have to go back to the early '90s when Venom was starting to get a little too popular. He was a big seller as a Spider-Man villain, and Marvel was starting to flirt with the idea of doing more with him. A couple What If issues suggested the idea of using him as a violent anti-hero. He also teamed up with Spider-Man when Carnage first showed up, and there was even a backup story at some point that showed that in-between getting the symbiote and deciding to go kill Spider-Man, Eddie Brock actually used his powers to help save someone.

David Michelinie, Venom’s co-creator, was writing Amazing Spider-Man at the time and did a two-parter based on 1) making Eddie Brock more sympathetic, and 2) getting him to ease off Spider-Man and accept that maybe Peter Parker isn’t the worst person ever. After all, other than being ultra-violent, Venom’s only real villainous MO was trying to kill Spider-Man. Without that vendetta, he wasn’t going to go rob banks or try to take over the world.

In 1993, we got the six-issue miniseries Venom: Lethal Protector by Michelinie, Mark Bagley, and Ron Lim. It turned out to be the first arc in a five-year run of Venom stories. Michelinie was either too busy to write the series regularly or just wasn’t interested. He still did Lethal Protector as a fantastic starting point, introducing ideas that were, unfortunately, mostly dropped and quickly phased out. He had Eddie Brock move to San Francisco and find a new role as the protector of a secret, underground society of homeless people. He introduced Eddie’s vindictive millionaire father. He even introduced the Jury, a team of armored former Vault guards who were out to get revenge on Venom for killing their friend.

While Venom’s main villain in the story was Roland Treece (who will be played by Scott Haze in the movie), he took a detour when he was captured by the Life Foundation. An interesting idea from Michelinie’s Spider-Man run that only lasted a few years, the Life Foundation was a shadow organization that used mad science to evolve mankind in order to endure an apocalyptic event. The perfect combination of low ethics, high resources, and lots of potential for science gone wrong.

The Life Foundation was run by Carlton Drake (played by Riz Ahmed in the movie) and his bright idea was to forcibly remove the seeds in the Venom costume to create five more symbiotes. Those symbiotes would be bonded to five Life Foundation grunts and the organization would be one step closer to success. While they were mostly cool designs, these symbiotes were little more than that. They didn’t get codenames or host names until well after the fact and the hosts didn’t even get any identifiable traits.

Hell, only two of them even got lines. Scream (female, red and yellow), the most iconic of the group, got to fight Spider-Man one-on-one. Phage (male, brownish yellow) battled with Venom briefly. They got to talk during those fights, but otherwise, the Life Foundation goons kept it quiet while they took on our heroes five-on-two.

Finally, Venom used a big ass sonic ray on them, which turned the symbiotes into compost and revealed that the Life Foundation, unlike Eddie, had the budget for underwear. Seriously, if your pants are made of liquid and are sentient enough that they can leave at a moment’s notice, invest in some briefs. Seeing Venom’s tongue flapping around is enough as is.

Anyway, Drake escaped and blew up the headquarters, seemingly meaning the whole Symbiote 5 threat was permanently off the table. That turned out to not be the case. As for Drake, he appeared in one more story before falling into complete obscurity.

From the end of 1994 into the beginning of 1995, Howard Mackie and Rod Randall did a four-part Venom story called Venom: Separation Anxiety. It followed a storyline in the main Spider-Man books where the Scarlet Spider first showed up. The idea was that since Spider-Man was always shown to be physically inferior to Venom in a straight-up fight – usually surviving due to luck or thinking outside the box – Marvel would establish Scarlet Spider as a big deal by having him straight-up kick Venom’s ass. Meanwhile, Scream showed up a couple times to plead for Venom’s help, only to get into their share of brawls because nobody in comics can have a civil conversation.

After the scrap with Scarlet Spider, Eddie was in custody and was separated from the symbiote. No longer influenced/controlled, he had time to reflect and realized that the symbiote made him a monster. He was then kidnapped by the Life Foundation symbiotes. The five not only survived and retained their symbiotes from the previous adventure, but they also left the Life Foundation behind.

Yes, that's exactly the state of dress you want to be in with shards of glass flying around. Now I know why they call this story Separation Anxiety.

This comic started gave the hosts first names, but the creative team couldn’t keep things straight and it became confusing since Phage was referred to as both Carl and Ramon. In a world where D-list comic characters are given profiles in who’s who Marvel books, the following names were established:

- Scream: Donna Diego - Phage: Carl Mach - Lasher (male, green with tentacles): Ramon Hernandez - Agony (female, purple and black): Leslie Gesneria - Riot (male, grayish black): Trevor Cole

The hosts wanted Eddie’s help in communicating with their symbiotes. Since Eddie was on a very anti-symbiote kick at the time, he outright refused. Then one-by-one, the captors started getting picked off via a sonic knife. Eddie was the red herring, but it turned out to be Scream’s doing. She'd been insane for years and having the symbiote made the voices in her head even worse.

Venom survived, of course, but Carl, Ramon, Leslie, and Trevor weren’t so lucky.

In late 1995, Acclaim released a video game for SNES and Genesis called Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety. Despite its title, it was actually based on the Lethal Protector storyline, as it not only featured the new symbiotes, but also the Jury and some giant demolition robots from that arc. It was also an inferior sequel to the game Maximum Carnage, which was pretty funny since Lethal Protector’s storyline happened first.

The funniest part of the whole game was that even though it was Lethal Protector, the final boss was Carnage for absolutely no reason other than the fact that Acclaim still had the sprite assets around from the previous game. There was no setup for his appearance in the game (not counting his appearance on the box cover) and even the ending was nothing more than a still of Carnage with “GAME COMPLETE” over it followed by the credits. Fingers crossed that the movie does better than that.

Even though the comics killed off the Life Foundation hosts, the symbiotes were survived and became prisoners of the government. That led to the creation of Hybrid, an obscure hero who mostly existed in backup stories in Venom’s '90s comics. The idea was that Scott Washington, an established Vault prison guard who first appeared in New Warriors, saw the symbiotes being tortured and felt bad for them. He helped them escape and got fired for it. Then he was crippled due to unrelated gang violence. The symbiotes tracked him down and bonded with him, fixing his spine.

The hook was that Scott was super pissed and wanted bloody vengeance while the four symbiotes were all, “What? No! We come in peace!” He eventually chilled out and dedicated himself to wiping out crime in his neighborhood. After two backup arcs, he wouldn’t show up in comics for another 15 years or so.

As for Scream, she made her return in 1996’s Venom: The Hunted by Larry Hama and Duncan Rouleau. The three-issue story was amazing and ridiculous and featured Eddie Brock earning money by using his powers to succeed at extreme skateboarding under the name Rad Eddie. This took place after Planet of the Symbiotes, in which Venom, Spider-Man, and Scarlet Spider teamed up to stop a full-on invasion of Venom’s kind. As Hunted revealed, some symbiotes remained on Earth and Scream was helping the hosts deal.

Unfortunately for her, there was an alien creature called the Xenophage going around that fed on symbiotes. So Scream’s new friends didn’t last so long. This whole mess concluded with Venom and Scream fighting the Xenophage on a subway train and blowing its head up. Scream came off as more heroic in this story and popped up again shortly after in the incomprehensible Venom/Wolverine team-up Venom: Tooth and Claw. Last seen, Scream was trying to use the Xenophage’s ship to search for other symbiote hosts. Like with Hybrid, that would be her last appearance for about 15 years.

Not her last appearance in general, though. In 1999, the theme park Universal Islands of Adventure opened up with the Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man. This ride, which takes your usual theme park dark ride and merges it with 3D technology and other tricks to make an incredibly immersive comic book adventure, features a story where Spider-Man has to save the riders from the Sinister Syndicate. Led by Doctor Octopus, the team has stolen the Statue of Liberty via an anti-gravity gun. Ock’s team includes Hydroman, Electro, Hobgoblin, and Scream.

I guess they were really, really hard-pressed to come up with a Spider-Man villainess. Scream remains part of that ride to this day, meaning Univeral’s been playing the long game on relevancy. Meanwhile, Venom has absolutely zero representation in any of Universal’s rides, but damn if his merch isn't all over that gift shop.

In 2012, we finally got some follow-up to the Venom spawn. Over the years, Eddie had lost the Venom symbiote, became powered by some kind of nega-cancer symbiote-like organism under the name Anti-Venom, then gave up those powers to save New York City. Powerless, Eddie became erratic and obsessed with wiping out the entire symbiote species, all while Flash Thompson wore his black-and-white hand-me-downs as an agent of the government.

In Venom #11 by Rick Remender and Lan Medina, Eddie went full-on Punisher, hunting down and killing Hybrid despite admitting that he was doing a good job as a vigilante. In the same issue, he got Scream to go after him. He proceeded to ambush her and stab her to death with a blazing hot knife. Eddie’s campaign took a turn when he was forced to bond with the Carnage spawn Toxin, but that’s a story for another day.

That's the last we’ve heard of Scream’s symbiote, but the government was able to recover the four that made up Hybrid. 2012’s Carnage USA by Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain introduced the Mercury Team. Four special forces soldiers were armed with the symbiotes: Chief Petty Officer Marcus Simms controlled Lasher like a gooey attack dog on a leash; Lieutenant James Murphy used Agony as a means to carry heavy munitions, using rail guns like handguns; as Phage, Lieutenant Rico Axelson could snipe with pinpoint accuracy from a mile and a half away; Petty Officer Howard Ogden, who specialized in stealth and invisibility, was bonded with Riot.

The team did all right for themselves as they helped liberate a small town from Carnage’s control, but they weren’t long for this world. In 2014’s Deadpool vs. Carnage by Cullen Bunn and Salva Espin, Carnage went on another rampage and Deadpool decided to go hunt him down. Carnage went after the Mercury Team before they could assemble against him and killed off the entire team except for Simms’ dog.

The dog helped Deadpool bond with the Hybrid symbiotes and he proceeded to outfight Carnage before messing with his head so badly that Carnage gave up and allowed himself to be incarcerated again. Having succeeded, Deadpool gave the four symbiotes back to the dog and told him to run off to its government handlers.

And that’s where we are with Venom’s non-Carnage kin. A whole, big pile of dead hosts, a red and yellow symbiote unaccounted for, and a dog running around as a host to four creatures. Maybe with Venom hitting theaters, we’ll see something new come out of this plot thread. Who knows? Maybe Carlton Drake is finally here to stay after 25 years of silence.

Gavin Jasper is impressed to see that all five Life Foundation guys have been remade in Capcom style for MUGEN. Follow Gavin on Twitter!

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Student, Faculty, and Staff Accomplishments - August 2017

Judith Beale

Judith Beale presented two two-hour sessions at a Preschool Training Conference on August 4th in Marietta.

Edward Eanes

Edward Eanes was selected as the COTA representative to the KSU Faculty workshop on sustainability in Otzenhausen, Germany.

Kayleen Justus

Played tenor pan on Pan Rocks! album and documentary film project recorded at Ocean Studios, in Burbank, California in May 2017. This most recent Pan Rocks! project was produced by Tracy Thornton and Matt Starr (Mr. Big) and featured drummer Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction, Porno for Pyros, The Panic Chanel), guitarist Tracii Guns (Guns N’ Roses, L.A. Guns, Quiet Riot, Brides of Destruction), and bassist Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, UFO, The Winery Dogs), as well as two dozen pan players and steel band directors from around the US and Canada. The album and documentary, both of which feature several covers/arrangements of heavy metal classics as well as original tunes by Thornton, are set to release in early 2018.

Traveled to Laborie, St. Lucia from July 8 – 16th to rehearse and compete with the Laborie Steel Band for the 2017 St. Lucia Panorama Competition. Kayleen joined more than 20 other foreign players from throughout the Caribbean and North America who were personally invited to compete with the band. The Laborie Steel Band is directed by Quill Barthelmy, band captain Joshua Mathurin, and arranger Andrius Edwide and is comprised of several dozen Lucian players. The band earned second place in the 2017 Panorama competition on July 14th after performing an arrangement of the 2003 Invader soca tune, “Beh Le Lesh.”

Brian Hecht

Featured Artist at the 2017 Jinbao International Music Festival in Tianjin, China.

Douglas Lindsey

Led the KSU Summer Music Intensive

Attended the International Festival of Collaborators, Composers, and Conductors (IFC3) at Indiana University, PA

Participated in the first annual World Adult Wind Orchestra Project at the Mid-Europe Festival in Schladming, Austria.

Worked as a trumpet tech at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp - Session 3

Ran two well attended KSU Trumpet camps. 

Laurence Sherr

Sherr was the featured composer on the July 7 Performance Today national radio program. Host Fred Child profiled Sherr’s work, the performance of Sherr’s cello sonata from the Red Lodge Music Festival was broadcast, and Sherr is the pictured musician at the PT website for that show.

Forfest Festival, Kromeriz, Czech Republic

June 18: European premiere of Nocturne for piano

June 19: World premiere of new work for bassoon and cello

June 20 lecture: "International Engagement Through Holocaust Remembrance Events"

Hudební rozhledy, the Czech national music magazine, highlighted Sherr’s participation, and features a photo of him with Czech pianist Sare Medková

July: a dozen broadcasts and YouTube posting of the hour-long AIB TV program produced from Sherr's 2017 KSU concert "Songs Not Silenced: Music Forbidden in the Holocaust.” Featured KSU performers are soprano Jana Young, bass-baritone Oral Moses, and pianist Judy Cole, with commentary by Sherr and David Green, grandson of forbidden composer Ignatz Waghalter.

Late June-July: music research at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and at Auschwitz camp locations, Poland

Paula Thomas-Lee

Paula Thomas-Lee completed the ORFF Post Level III Masterclass for Orff-Schulwerk Training this summer. 

Debra Traficante

Taught at 4 international Yamaha conferences (1 month) and conducted 2 concerts in Germany, France, and Italy with Yamaha Bläsorchester

Taught 320 high school and college students at Smith Walbridge Drum Major Clinic for 8 days in Charleston, Illinois

Nominated for and won National Outstanding Collegiate Band Director Award, in the name of Paula Crider, for Tau Beta Sigma at the Biennium National Conference

Ben Wadsworth

Presented at the Pedagogy into Practice conference at Lee University in Cleveland, TN on June 2.

Article “Schenkerian Analysis for the Beginner” was accepted for the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and should be in print by September. The article covers the steps toward making an analytical graph, as well as special consideration for teaching Schenker to undergraduates. It originated in my teaching at KSU. I'm appreciative of Stephen's support in helping defray the costs of getting permissions from publishers.

Music Theory Online gave the go-ahead to review an upcoming textbook on Schenker by David Damschroder. This review will still need to pass peer review.

The conference paper, “Perceiving the Mosaic: Form in the Mashups of DJ Earworm,” has been accepted at the Popular Music Interest Group meeting at the Society for Music Theory (Jeff Yunek is the principal author; Simon Needle, a BA Theory major, is the third author). 

The South-Central Society for Music Theory now has a new and improved website (http://www.scsmt.org/conferences/scsmt_2018/2018_cfp/) thanks to the efforts of Trevor Declercq, who teaches at Middle Tennessee State.  

Had a fun time teaching at the SAI. I taught high schoolers how to create their own variations on a tune and harmonic skeleton. Some of them then performed the variations. 

Form and Analysis was offered this summer for the first time. Everyone in the course made it through with at least a B and admitted that they enjoy summer classes.

Spent a lot of time in May (and now in August) substituting for different organists and choir directors. An especially enjoyable church to play at was St. Luke’s Presbyterian church in Dunwoody.

Jeff Yunek

This summer, Jeff spent three weeks in Moscow studying Scriabin’s manuscripts and compositional notebooks at the Glinka Museum of Music’s archives and teaching a summer abroad course on Russian music.

In conjunction with Ben Wadsworth and Simon Needle (KSU student), my research on form in the mashups of DJ Earworm was accepted to both a national and international conference (Society for Music Theory and Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie respectively).

A separate, musicology-focused paper on mashups was accepted for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music. 

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Amazing first interaction between Eddie and the kids...

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Remember saying a problem in the 90s is that EVERYTHING has to be a group... well we don't just get Scream but a whole Symboite squad...

Also, they pulled Venom of Eddie, and they want us to think it killed him, but I won't fall for that trick again.

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From Venom #161

Art by Javier Garrón, Dono Sánchez-Almara and Erick Arciniega

Written by Mike Costa