While not as good as the sequel, Wells and Crain still tell a creepy Carnage tale. I once again think Wells stretches Carnage's powers too but the idea of him possibly putting together demented Maximum Carnage family is very interesting. Crain does a fantastic job with the creepy aspects of Carnage and others. The corporate Iron Man ripoffs are depressingly mundane. Overall, decent but a few missing elements.

First the good: the artwork is quite good. I liked the almost painted quality of the art. Now the bad: the pedestrian and oft-confusing story.So some corporate retard has decided to get the Carnage symbiote back from outer space and use it for research. Spiderman and Iron Man have to deal with the fallout. That isn't a terrible idea, per se, and could have been the basis for a solid story. However, the execution of the story falls rather flat.One of the complaints is the unnecessary "extra" char...

The art was good, the story quite interesting. I am very interested to see where this goes from here, and hope more symboytes will show up later. I am liking the addition of Scorn, and wonder how that will turn out as well...

Having enjoyed Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain’s Carnage USA, I hoped their other Carnage book might also rock - and it didn’t. Carnage is a meandering, weak story ostensibly about just putting Cletus Kasady and the Carnage symbiote back together again. Shakily built around that is some crap about an evil CEO who has illegally and immorally used the Carnage DNA to make next-gen prosthetics that Spider-Man and Iron Man get tangled up into fighting. The characters are bland and unremarkable: there’s S...

Overall, there just wasn't a lot of depth to this book. Sure, the art is good, it introduces some new characters, but overall, it was a bit of a sleeper.

Carnage: Family FeudSecond Carnage book I've read and it even better. Carnage and Venom are the only reason I read Spider-Man books now. The artwork looks alive, coming off the pages. Loved that part of the book. Can't wait to read the next book.

This comic looks amazingly visceral. The level of violence here is impressive and is the thing that stands out the most. One of Spider-Man's greatest enemies, if not THE greatest, returns to take revenge on the guy who thought he can use the symbiote as a source of technology to be used in prosthetic limbs and armor. He is going to be defeated by an unlikely character, since the good guys are pretty much out of their league. The pace of the story is beautiful, building up to a battle that is as

This is a great read not only was this the return of carnage after being ripped in half by the sentry and than thrown into orbit in the new avengers but he somehow survived it ( I know right? That's comic book logic for you ) carnage family feud is a great read all the same witness the return of the sadistic Cletus kasady and let the murdering begin

Love the artwork in this one.

Iron Man and Spider-Man handle the reappearance of Cletus Kasady. Sleazy business mogul Michael Hall manages to get Carnage out of space imprisonment. The purpose: business exploitation. There is also an appearance by Shreik, evidently Kasady’s gf, as well as Dr. Nieves’ transformation into Scorn, just in time to prevent Iron Man and Spider-Man from getting Spanked.

The art style is great and fits the eerie and gory tone of Carnage perfectly. The plot, unfortunately, is not that interesting and the characters are flat, which lets me assume the writer and illustrator were only there for the gore.

Carnage I wasn’t expecting a character to be half robot because he or she is was considered dead. I’m trying to not have spoilers written down. But, the violence and story was pretty good.

The rating and review isn’t necessarily a reflection of the author or artist’s abilities. They’re both fine. Art is awesome, in fact.I have suspected for some time now that I just am not ready for superhero comics again yet. I stopped teaching my Comic Books as Lit course at college, in part because I dread covering Civil War, and haven’t had time to develop new lessons around a new book. Superhero books are what students expect when they get in the class, and I always tried to throw them a bone...

Carnage has left the building! Quality, but poor doctor Nieves 😢

Meh.. great artwork, mediocre plot with nothing to write home about.

Symbiotes go wild in this crazy power house of supervillains!This. Was. Amazing.Some of the best artwork I've seen yet in comic books and graphic novels. I am a huge Carnage fan and to see Carnage as a woman for the first time really made me cheer for the bad guy!The storyline was a little complicated but still simplistic enough to where it made it fun. Loved the introduction of the new symbiote character. And I loved the twist in the plot at the end.All in all very well done. BRAVO!!! 👏👏👏

Yooooo! I needed that!What a book. It’s perfect. Zero negative criticisms. Every page is awesome.But that art though... holy hannah... this Clayton Crain guy is a magician. There’s a panel early in this collection where it’s just a closeup of this guy’s hand while he holds this computer chip thingie, and even that simple panel is breathtakingly detailed. This is easily some of the best art I’ve ever seen. As soon as I finished reading, I felt compelled to spend another few moments just flipping

Second reading performed as part of the self-imposed penance trek I’m on to prep for reading Absolute Carnage. I remember reading this book years ago, but didn’t have the “benefit” of knowing the Maximum Carnage story on which this is founded. Shame on me - would’ve been much more satisfying to see how much less irritating this one was than it’d predecessor (especially with most of the same players, sans irritating writing).Fantastically under-written, a decent lock on the psychology of the char...

I'm not a comic book connisour but when I saw the artwork in this book, I had to read it. It turned out to be a good gamble because I loved the story as well! Dark, funny, and surprising!

How can you go through the comic section of the bookstore, see this cover, and not want to read it? I'm not a huge Spiderman fan (well, I wasn't, but I'm becoming more of one the more I learn about the universe) and have very little idea of what is going on other than Carnage is a symbiote that joined with Cletus Clay to go around and be generally evil. The jacket mentions who the important characters are in this go round and I didn't feel lost at all with my little background information.This s...