I'm giving Maximum Carnage five stars not for the same reasons I gave Kraven's Last Hunt or Death of Jean DeWolff five stars, since those two stories were better written and more nuanced than Maximum Carnage. Rather, this graphic novel deserves five stars for being one of the most fun and exciting stories in Spider-Man's catalog. And as an added bonus, Venom makes one of his greatest appearance across all mediums; he plays bad-cop to Spider-Man's much maligned good-cop, and I often found myself

Classic cheesy 90s crossover with Spidey, Venom, Black Cat, Morbius, Cloak & Dagger, Firestar, Iron Fist, Deathlok, Captain America and Spawn... Nightwatch vs Carnage, Shriek, Demogoblin, Spidey's Doppleganger and Carrion. Spawn... that's you? Maybe not best Spider-Man's story ever but I had a lot of fun re-reading it after years... it was like watching a WWE Royal Rumble event on tv while drinking a cold beer.

3.5 rounded up. Graphic novel is definitely the way to go with this story since it ranges over 5 different titles. I docked it half a star because I really feel it could have been told more succinctly. There was a LOT of repetition (probably at least partially to allow for people who didn't buy all 14 issues).I've had a fascination with Carnage for quite awhile but I think this story cured me of it. It really showed him as the wanton killer that he is and chooses to be. There were occasions wher...

I'm treating myself to a little Carnage. I kept seeing it around in bookstores back in the day and more recently here on GR and I even though I was insanely curious, I can't believe I never got around to it.The good: Most of it! I really enjoyed how bats**t insane Carnage is and how he polarized past villains into helping out as heroes to stop the pure chaos he represented... or gathering them together to get the blood flowing. And it was pretty over-the-top. Shriek pulled in the insane from Car...

This is one of my faverite Spider-Man story arcs. It action packed from beginning to end and securely places Spider-Man as one of the big heroes in the Marvel universe. WHERE HE SHOULD BE!!!As good as the action is there is also a good storyline between Mary Jane Parker and Peter. How he balances his life as Spider-Man and his personal life has to take a back seat in this time of crisis. I think there is a very powerful part in the of the book where Peter is out being the hero, but MJ is home wo...

So this is the classic Carnage everyone seems to rave about, huh? It’s alright.What’s it about?Carnage breaks out of jail and he’s ready to fuck shit up! He teams up with some other villains to cause absolute mayhem and well... carnage. Spider-Man can’t just let this happen so he teams up with some other heroes and even some... not so heroic characters to stop these villains.Pros:The story is interesting. Not necessarily anything particularly deep but a fun superhero adventure for sure.The art i...

Masochistically read as part of my exhaustive prep for Absolute Carnage.wow did I miss a lot when I stopped reading comics for all the 90’s! They start it off in the most completely unsubtlest of 90’s ways - Kasady proclaiming, “I am the ultimate insanity! I am CARNAGE!” (complete with blood-soaked lettering).Peter Parker’s parents? Total big hair and mullets on the females? MJ smoking? A six-armed Spider-monster just aimlessly swinging across the city, like no one’s trying to eradicate it? Harr...

Maximum Carnage bleeds 90s with its artwork and writing. It boasts an impressive premise, some amazing battles, but suffers from stretched plotline.

"Peter, I felt the way May did once, before I was locked away in the Soviet prison for nearly twenty years. Before I met the devil--face to face. Strip away the veneer of society and civilization and you'll find a devil inside all men. We try to hide it, push it down. But the truth is, it's closer to the surface than any of us would dare admit. That prison was overrun with devils, Peter. Sadistic, evil men who'd do anything--no matter how twisted, how immoral--to break a man down, destroy his so...

Let’s get something out of the way before we dive too deeply into this massive story: How many of you out there heard the music from the video game adaptation of this story in your heads while reading this book? I swear, as soon as I got to the first panel of Cletus Kasaday being wheeled through a prison Hannibal Lector-style I was hearing those Green Jelly sound bites like my old SNES was right next to me. Don’t worry though; you’re only in real trouble when you see the images on the page move

What to say. HmmmSo... listen. You have to really like cornball Marvel shit to like this. Here are some excerpts;Black Cat: “It aint over till the cat lady springs!”Carnage: “You know what they say... no pain, no reign... of terror, that is”🤦🏻‍♂️ The story is fast paced and fun. The combat is constant. The emotional beats are sometimes powerful, and sometimes they fall very, very flat.The end is a little too koombiyah for my tastes. Seriously... it’s one of those “the greatest power is love” kin...

Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage Review:Maximum Carnage is a Spider-Man event back in the 90's. It is a 14 issue across different Spider-Man titles. The plot is very simple as Spider-Man and some D-list heroes battles Carnage and other D-list villains across Manhattan. It is an event that is purely nostalgia imo, but I didn't read as a kid so I have no connection to it. Although, I've always wanted to read it and now I do and it's not good. I think that this one felt way too long. This could have bee...

This was a big and bombastic read!Its mostly about Carnage getting free and terrorizing NYC and well its upto Spider-man to stop his crimson foe and he teams up with Black Cat, Venom, Deathlok, Morbius and even Cap and Iron fist to stop this guy and his other enemies like: Shriek, Demogoblin, Doppelganger and Carrion.Its an epic story with so many twists and turns and well a lot of it is filler and it could have been done in 7 issues instead of 14 but then again its still pretty solid read and h...

I would have gave it four stars but Shriek was just a really annoying character for me.

This series is the equivalent of a youngster gathering all of his action figures together and making up a story while he's banging them all together. "Maximum Carnage" isn't bad by any means but suffers from a number of problems that continually plague crossover events such as this. The series is significantly padded, as evident by the first seven issues barely moving the plot forward. It's almost as if the series was proposed and then the head honcho said I need you to make it twice as long. Th...

One of my all-time favorites, along with the Infinity Gauntlet, ranks among the best of the 90s.

"If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature. That's all it needs.""But why would it do that?""Because it honestly believes they should die."There's a Doctor Who episode from the first series of the 2005 relaunch - back when Christopher Eccleston had his big shot as the Doctor - called "Dalek". In it, they find a single Dalek; they were popular Doctor Who foes, introduced in the 60s. Without any orders - a soldier without command - the Dalek reverts to a prime directive (or previou...

It's true what they say: you can never go back home. Yet it is also true that an honest feeling endures past anything else.This is not a great comic for a thinking adult. There is no real story, except "Carnage and Co. massacre everything in their way, endless improbable fisticuffs ensue, good guys come out triumphant". The art, although occasionally toeing the strained line of Euclidian geometry, is still so compelling, so cool just because all these legends gave it their all while playing to t...

I was ten when the Maximum Carnage story arc began. It was also first story arc I was ever introduced in the world of graphic novels - ahem! comic books. (The second taking place a few years after with the Age of Apocalypse.) Looking at it now, I can remember what I loved about the arc. However, it's not the same feeling I got when I was ten - go figure. It seems that the story gets too wordy - for instance, Spider-Man's internal monologue gives us the information rather than letting us come up

The introduction explains the idea of this crossover - contrasting the crazy baddies (likely including characters like Venom) with the idealistic heroes, and showing that the latter were in the right. (To be honest, I don't think they completely succeed in making that point, but it helps to know that they had a plan.) Otherwise, this comes off as a mostly random grouping of Spider-Man villains (and new villain Shriek) repeatedly fighting a mostly random grouping of street-level heroes and antihe...