 At around 9 minutes, Ann reminds Eddie of his firing from the Daily Globe and is being forced to leave New York. In the Spider-Man comics, Eddie was a reporter for the Daily Globe, a rival newspaper of the Daily Bugle. In the comic, a serial killer known as the Sin-Eater was going around and murdering people. Eddie interviewed a man who claimed to be the Sin-Eater, but eventually Spider-Man caught the real Sin-Eater, and it was discovered that the man Eddie interviewed was a compulsive confessor. Eddie was subsequently fired from his job because of this, and shortly after becoming Venom, moved to San Francisco. Ann Wang works for a law firm called Michelini and McFarlane. These are the names of Venom's creators, David Michelini and Todd McFarlane. The name of Brock's apartment building, Shuler, after Randy Shuler, a Marvel comics fan who in 1982 suggested the idea of giving Spider-Man a black costume. The costume would debut in 1984 and would later evolve into the concept of a Sentient alien being, and later into a symbiote.