I like the added length of Absolute Carnage #1 if you get the digital Director’s Cut, you wind up with about 300 pages of content! That includes Stegman’s pencils and Cates’ script.
The hardest thing about the single-issue format these days, in my opinion, is that, just when a story is really getting going, it cuts off and you have to wait a few weeks to a month. The issue is also triple-sized, at about 80 pages or so of story, and that length absolutely has you engaged immediately. I also think Cates’ voice is quite strong he gives Venom and Spider-Man in their interactions the reluctant teammate vibe, and it works. But Stegman’s artwork is horrifically appealing it feels like the closest thing Marvel has right now to a grim and gruesome story, and the creators are putting it all out there. I was genuinely surprised at how much I enjoyed Absolute Carnage, based on both my lack of symbiote history and a genuine disinterest in the characters (Spidey excepted, of course). The story quickly shifts into high gear, with Eddie Brock on the run with his teenage son (what?) and a seemingly unkillable Cletus Kasady on a murderous rampage that forces Venom and Spider-Man to team-up. Cates (alongside artist Ryan Stegman) have made the first issue of this five-issue limited series (plus myriad tie-ins) accessible to newcomers, with the first few pages giving a quick run-down of the symbiote universe (it includes an evil god that, should it be raised from its slumber, will wreak havoc on the world). Under the stewardship of Donny Cates, one of comicdom’s current golden boys, Absolute Carnage is not only easy to jump into, but it’s gripping from the word go. There’s a hell of a lot that’s happened to all these characters before now, and the chances of feeling lost are pretty high. You’d think that might not be the best way to go into reading the new Spider-crossover, Absolute Carnage. But that’s where most of my knowledge ends.Īs for Carnage – I know his host was a serial killer named Cletus Kasady and that Woody Harrelson played him at the end of the Venom film. I know the main points of Eddie Brock and how Peter Parker’s old black costume was actually an alien creature he picked up during the Marvel Super Heroes Secret War back in the 80s, and that a few others have been its host, including Flash Thompson. I never bought a book with either of them toplining it, and my expertise on either character is pretty nil.
Spider-Man is my favourite character, but I’ve never been down with the symbiotes. Here’s a bit of a confession for the comic book lovers out there (assuming you’re one of them since this is clearly a comic book column):
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