So he was happy to see a big Venom onscreen even if the character didn’t have his traditional chest logo.
As he told Heroic Hollywood, Todd McFarlane likes to watch other people take a character he helped create and see what they do with him.
Of course, Todd McFarlane has his preferences and he liked Venom’s depiction of the character more than in Spider-Man 3 because the character was big like he designed him, but he’s still fine with sitting back and letting others have a turn.