Carnage Writer Teases New Marvel Series

Cletus Kasady and the Carnage symbiote are a match made in hell — and their reunion promises to unleash maximum carnage. To recap: after his apparent death in Venomized, the Cult of Knull spawned the Carnage Hive when Kasady’s reanimated corpse was intended to be used as a vessel for the symbiote god. Becoming the god-butchering Dark Carnage, the resurrected serial killer again battled his archenemy — Eddie Brock, host of the Venom symbiote — who ended Kasady’s killing spree when he slayed the villain with the Necrosword in Absolute Carnage. But with Kasady and Carnage back among the living, the deadly duo will have a killer reunion in November’s Carnage (Vol. 4) #1. 

Spinning out of the pages of Death of the Venomverse — which sends the blood-thirsty symbiote on a mission to become the new King in Black, purging its weaknesses by slaughtering Venoms across the multiverse — the new Carnage series will lay the groundwork for the next Venom epic. Featuring a standard cover by Paulo Siqueira (Venom: Lethal Protector II), Carnage #1 will get a ’90s-style foil variant cover by acclaimed artist Gabriele Dell’Otto (Amazing Spider-Man). See it below.

Written by Torunn Grønbekk (Thor, Realm of X) and illustrated by Pere Pérez (Star Wars: Sana Starros), the series “will reveal new levels of depravity and savagery from Marvel’smost terrifying villain as he continues his dark ascent to power.”

“What are powers without purpose? Having hunted down and triumphedover his greatest weaknesses, Carnage’s powers are unrivaled,” Grønbekk said when announcing the series. “However, apiece is still missing—the symbiote needs a host with the ambition tomatch its own. And for Carnage, there was only ever one. (And you knowwho!)”

 Grønbekk continued: “I knew writing Carnage would be an opportunity to explore somepretty dark themes, but I am surprised and delighted to find that thedarkness is coming from some unexpected places. It is mykind of horror—overwhelmingly gruesome but still rooted firmly inhumanity. Expect big symbiote action, mysteries, myth, and murder. Thisis gospel, according to Cletus Kasady, and he is the end of the world aswe know it.”

CARNAGE #1
Written by TORUNN GRØNBEKK
Art by PERE PÉREZ Cover by PAULO SIQUIERA
Foil Variant Cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO
On Sale 11/15

ABSOLUTE KASADY! Every symbiote needs a host. And for CARNAGE, there has only everbeen one host who has made it feel whole, and it’s time for a reunion… DON’T MISS this shocking and unexpected start to the next chapter of CARNAGE’s story. 

Carnage #1 is on sale November 15th.