Serial killer, Cletus Kasady + piece of Venom, alien symbiote = CarnageJerk face Eddie Brock – Venom, alien symbiote = ToxinJohn Jameson, astronaut and son of J. Jonah Jameson + Moon trip + cursed Godstone = Man-WolfCarnage + Toxin + Man-Wolf = Good times!WTF! Nobody said anything about Math!!Carnage is on the loose and the FBI want to capture him, using one of his almost-victims as bait.Team Carnage includes John Jameson, who knows how to use some new sonic device, and Eddie Brock, who can be t...

Cletus Kasady/Carnage discovers there was a sole survivor to his first mass murder so he decides to finish the job - except she’s posing as a mine supervisor in West Virginia as bait for the FBI lying in wait. Will the Feds finally capture Carnage? Of course not but Marvel would like to pretend there’s some tension to this pap!About the only thing I like about this forgettable load of tosh is the concept of soldiers hunting Carnage in a disused, crumbly old mine - it’s very Alien. That and the c...

One of the best Spider-Man writers comes in to pen Carnage. This isn't so much a Carnage book as it is about the supporting cast of characters trying to catch him. The story take place in a collapsed mine and gives off an Aliens vibe. Mike Perkins art sets the mood perfectly. Throw in the Marvel version of Cthullu, (The Darkhold) and you've got yourself a winner.

Carnage is one of my fave Marvel characters, and i always look forward to a new Carnage series/trade and it has been a while since we heard from Cletus. The story is basically Carnage trapped in a mine and Brock going in to try and kill him or at least bury him in the mine. The plot is really stretched thin, but it manages to cover the full volume, so i'll give it credit for that. However for it being a Carnage trade there isn't that much Carnage in it, it's mostly Brock and his gang figuring ou...

Gerry Conway for the win!This is badass. Imagine crazy Lovecraftian lore mixed with Alien, mixed with all the past Carnage shit. It’s awesome.Mike Perkins’ art is perfect for this book. The story is action packed, scary and dark.I pretty much always enjoy these Carnage centric books. This one is no different. It’s a horror comic through and through. Definitely worth reading.

4.5 StarsI enjoyed this one a little better than most readers it seems. This was a pretty cool horror story that reminded me a lot of the film ALIENS, but instead of aliens we had Carnage, and instead of outer space the story was set underground. One victim survived Kletus Casady's first ever massacre, and he wants to change that. So that victim is used as bait in order to capture Carnage, but we find out there's other things going on as well.We also have a cult that worships the Darkhold (prett...

A little better than i expected but not much. Carnage is Cletus Kasady a deranged killer has the symbiote Carnage now. He is lured to a mine with the attempt to capture him but some old friends show up including Eddie Brock (old venom now toxin). It starts off great, it has a serious tone and almost doesn't feel like a marvel book at all. mid way it slows down a bit and the end just doesn't live up to the start really for me. The art is pretty good it has a grit to it with lots of darker colors

The story doesn't excel at anything, really. It also makes the mistake of feeling like an Aliens story, so the author doesn't take advantage of the originality of the main character. Kasady is a serial killer and a proper madman, but he almost feels tame compared to other instances. Typical of an Aliens story, most of the focus is on the secondary characters, with Carnage getting a lot less screen time if you don't count the battles.Manuela Calderon is the only survivor of Kasady's first massacr...

Carnage is one of those weirder results of the 90s efforts to escalate things in the Spider titles, and he'll always feel like an artifact of that time period. This book was a weird effort to kick off a continuing series and I'm not quite sure what the goal was. Conway had a vision, clearly, and he assembled an unusual crew to try to take Carnage down - one that included Eddie Brock (Toxin at the time) and the Jameson that sometimes turns into a "Man Wolf", which is the alien version of a werewo...

Interesting story. First off, I would have figured that this series would be deemed Parental Advisory due to the fact that Carnage is pretty violent. It was not but that did not stop the story from being more violent than one would have expected. Me personally, I do not know how long the Darkholm book has been around in the Marvel Universe but it was interesting to see it in play during this story. I am just ashamed that I am only now just reading this series compared to when I should have over

Storyline: 3 starsArtwork: 5 starsRead as single issues (rent by a friend)Re-read in hardback volume (purchased :D)Not Gerry Conway's best storyline, but artworks and covers are really awesome!(view spoiler)[And for the joy of we old marvel zombies the Darkhold is back and...John Jameson is Man-Wolf again!!!! Woohooooohhhh!!!! (hide spoiler)]["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

This one was OK. I quite enjoyed the horror movie vibe and the story wasn't awful or anything. It was nothing special, though.The artwork was competent but lacking any real flair... and I know Gerry Conway can do better than this. By the last issue I was almost hoping for a gratuitous Spider-Man cameo to liven things up.

I gotta hand it to Gerry Conway, the dude still has a knack for taking characters beyond the 2nd dimension they usually inhabit with mediocre writers. I actually find Eddie Brock intriguing here - he’s self-aware, manipulative, motivated, and do-I-trust-him-or-don’t-I is all over the pages.And damn but I actually don’t hate Kletus Casady in this one - “Bunch of guys in robes ‘round an altar - of course there’s a prophecy.” That like alone is better than all the lines written for Kasady in the pa...

Getting a bit tired of Marvel's symbiotes lately, but had this on my TBR pile from the public library, so I read it anyway. The art isn't bad and the story has potential, but unfortunately, it's largely unrealized potential.

Ah, how I've missed Carny! It's good, starts interesting and creepy and all around how Carnage is supposed to be. Real dark at first and it really reminds you of a horror/mystery scifi film along the Alien lines, but instead for an Alien it's Carnage!Artwork is also great.Part of my Carnage reading order and my road to King in Black reading order.

Carnage does his best imitation of a Xenomorph in this series, as he stalks a team in an abandoned coal mine. The first few issues are actually really enjoyable just based on that premise. The "Alien" vibe works and Carnage's outbursts and speech are a good juxtaposition. It almost makes it more unnerving that this guy can be a silent killer like a Xenomorph, but instead tends to loudly and obnoxiously taunt you once you are caught. However the book goes a bit off the rails for me in the final f...

I am hit-or-miss when it comes to Carnage stories. He can be an excuse for writers to play in the somewhat rarified sandbox of extreme violence in the Marvel world outside of the Max imprint, so it can be easy to let that be the center of the story. Conway doesn't shy away from that at all here, but there's a definite classic horror/gothic horror vibe that I'm really enjoying (which is definitely helped by Jameson's inclusion in the story). I love the abandoned mine setting (again, classic horro...

Cletus Kasady discovers there was a sole-survivor from his first killing spree, and seeks to rectify that. Little does he know this is bait from the FBI, who want to capture the symbiotic serial-killer with the help of Colonel John Jameson as Man-Wolf and Eddie Brock as Toxin. There's great potential here for an atmospheric tale in a confined location, as the characters try to take down this villain, although it throws in some big-swings involving a third-party working for cultists. Less is more...

This was terrible, almost a book version of the worst aspects of a Micheal Bay movie. There is absolutely no plot, everytime you think something deeper is going to happen, or character development will happen, you will be disappointed. Random characters, events, and happenings occur, seemingly just to create more absurd action sequences. The cover of this drew me in, I thought maybe it would be a cool horror style volume focused on Carnage. Instead its a mish mash of bad action with no consequen...

Interesting book. It has good characters, but does little to nothing with them. There is so dimensions to any of them, just one note characteristics. Oh Brock is the then villain now hero, carnage is crazy, werewolf dude is a werewolf. The story arc in the book was at least interesting and complete, no crossovers are my favorite part. Hope we can see more of carnage where he is not just the crazy super-villain. So far its interesting enough, but the book to me has a character problem.