@tparks: like Dondave said, hes Earths representive and hes there long term at least.
Maybe, I would be very surprised if he's there for more then another 4 or 5 issues though. Bendis even said that the idea of Agent Venom tagging along was not because he would have any significant relevance to the plot, but just because he is a cool character and would be fun to see in space. With the future story lines of Nova, Thanos, Drax, and Star-Lord from the Cancer-Verse coming up, it doesn't sound like he will be much of a factor on the team.
They will probably continue this trend with characters that are losing popularity, or just need a boost in popularity.
Look at who they have had on the team so far.
Iron Man, whose book was not doing so hot. He had no contributions to the story really, and he left after a brief stint, but got a bit more people to read his book because of it.
Angela, who needed some recognition as a new character being brought from Image. The Trade was even called Angela, but she didn't really have much to do with what was going on in the Guardians story. She was just kind of there.
Captain Marvel, who had a new ongoing series come out, and needed the popularity boost to drive sales up on her book by implying there would be several cross-overs with the Guardians, when the cross-overs have been pretty much just filler on a few pages. She has barely even been in the issues, but she's been on 3 covers and is advertised as the newest member of the team.
Now Venom, who had sales on his book drop so they had to cancel it. He still had fans who loved him, so they put him on a book that would draw readers who have never read Venom, to get them interested in the Guardians. So far though, all he has done is get captured and separated from the Guardians, but not anything to make his presence there memorable or necessary. I'm sure he will leave soon and be replaced with another character that is on the outskirts of being popular, and needs a slight boost to their reputation, before he goes somewhere else with Marvel hoping that readers will pick up another book because of this.
It's a pretty smart system for boosting sales and promoting the book around the height of their popularity. This happens all the time in other big name books, we just aren't used to seeing this happen, because the Guardians haven't been big names until recently.
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