Carnage Archive

As we enter this period “Reign of the Super Blog Team-Up,” I’ve found myself pondering over all of the fits and starts my quest to collect every issue of Amazing Spider-Man experienced. Collecting nearly 800 issues of one comic book series was never a truly linear quest. It probably

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While I don’t think the Axis: Carnage miniseries features a premise that gives it a shelf life beyond the three issues it has been planned for (in contrast to the Axis: Hobgoblin mini, which I would love to read as an ongoing) Rick Spears and German Peralta have unquestionably

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For the second time in a little more than a year, I have found myself pleasantly surprised and quite intrigued by a creative team that is looking to take one of my all-time least favorite characters in Carnage, in a brand new direction. Axis: Carnage #1, which is written

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You might have noticed that a new Carnage story came out yesterday (with my thoughts to be posted tomorrow). Anyway, followers of my site know I have a complicated relationship with that sociopathic symbiote. So pardon me for poking fun at some of the recurring tropes and themes in

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If I had any kind of a takeaway after reading Superior Carnage Annual #1, it’s that I now know that the upcoming Carnage vs. Deadpool miniseries will not be required reading for my overall enjoyment of the greater Spider-Man comic universe, and that I can save my $20 and

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I’m at the point where I’m running out of interesting things to say about Matt Kindt and Marco Rudy’s Marvel Knights Spider-Man mini-series. Three issues in and the title remains the most visually unique and interesting thing we’ve seen from a Spider-Man comic … maybe EVER, while Kindt’s script

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The penultimate issue of the Superior Carnage mini-series gives readers what might end up being the Superior Spider-Man’s most engaging confrontation since this new status quo began in January – Spider Ock vs. the Wizard. (And I’ll take “sentences I never thought I would write,” for $1,000, Alex). In

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As part of Chasing Amazing’s X-Men/Avengers 50th anniversary celebration in September, the site is reposting older posts that relate to these great franchises. This post is originally from July 1, 2013. With the Raft supervillain prison being such a focal point in the current Superior Spider-Man arc, I thought

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I’ve spent so many years being unhappy with the characterization of Carnage, I haven’t really stopped to think about what I would actually want to see in the character that would make me happy. Going back to the days of the overly-long, ridiculously shallow “Maximum Carnage” crossover, I’ve thought

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Iconic comic book artist Mark Bagley, who provided pencils during prolific runs on Amazing Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man sat down with Dan Gvozden and I at the Connecticut ComicCONN event in Trumbull, CT, last weekend. The interview has just been released as an episode of the Superior Spider-Talk and our Amazing

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