Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Amazing Spider-Man – Absolute Carnage | Comics

Cletus Kasady is back at his scariest as Carnage with Spider-Man standing between him and young Dylan Brock.

Wrapping up some unfinished business with Dr. Curt Connors as Amazing Spider-Man following events of "Hunted" has cost Peter Parker a date with his lover Mary Jane Watson and she now wants to pursue a career in movies once again as she gets an offer from a new film director after her recent encounter with Francine Frye AKA Electro.

He insists that MJ should take this acting job but is also bothered to stay far away from her for two-long months. In between helping out Aunt May to reestablish F.E.A.S.T. Center and dealing with bunch of A.I.M. goons alongside his younger sister Teresa Parker to rescue a captured agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., he missed her seeing off to airport.

Lately, Peter is being haunted by a secret tormentor, who introduces himself as Kindred and is using Mysterio as a pawn for his schemes. More recently, one of his deceased enemies Cletus Kasady AKA Carnage is revived by a cult and bonded him with a dragon-like symbiote called Grendel to summon Knull, God of the Symbiotes.

Things all started back when Spidey along with few other heroes were abducted by Beyonder for his "Secret Wars" and he was looking for an upgrade for his tattered outfit. All he got from that strange device was a black ball that shrouds his body like a costume in black and white, which turned out to be an alien symbiote named Klyntar.

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Amazing Spider-Man – Absolute Carnage | Comics

Though he eventually managed to get rid of it but then it found another host in Eddie Brock and together they became Venom. That was only a beginning as soon his symbiote spawned a deadlier offspring called Carnage and more. Many heroes and people he knew became hosts for them in one occasion or another even for a brief time.

Each time Klyntar bonds with someone, it leaves a genetic footprint known as Codex, which Kasady is currently after. Intending to stop him from doing so, Spidey and Venom team-up to gather former symbiote hosts in an attempt to safely extract those and their rescue starts with Norman Osborn, who is locked up in Ravencroft Institute.

Carnage arrives with a horde of his minions to take Osborn in and overwhelm the heroes into running. They gather all heroes who were former host to Klyntar symbiote to get their codices out using a machine before Kasady could. Yet he showed up with an army, which forced Spidey to move Dylan Brock and Normie Osborn into safety.

He locks down Eddie's son and his godson to safety before symbiote wearing Osborn comes to hunt them down. Bonding with Grendel symbiote and believing him to be Cletus Kasady, Norman becomes much stronger than his Green Goblin persona and savagely beats down Spider-Man with an inch of his life with almost no effort.

However, Osborn was previously visited by Kindred in his cell, who claimed to be a victim of his evil ways when he was a human. Although he desperately wanted to punish Norman but seeing him being consumed by someone else's psyche, Kindred spares him and implanted a demonic centipede in his brain, so he couldn't kill Spidey either.

Too beaten up to get back on his feet and fight Carnage, Peter goes through a flashback of past events seeing how he was unable to save people he cared about like Flash Thompson, Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn from him. When the madman tried to kill him, he gets incapacitated by Kindred's centipede and Pete got a second chance.

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Thrown Into Upheaval

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In wake of "Absolute Carnage" crossover event, Marvel Comics has hired writer Nick Spencer (Ant-Man – Second-Chance Man, Doctor Strange – Damnation) to plot for a tie-in storyline by teaming up with artists Francesco Manna, Pete Woods and Ryan Ottley (Amazing Spider-Man – Back to Basics, Amazing Spider-Man – Friends and Foes).

Spencer has connected his ongoing plotline to an overarching "Absolute Carnage" event through an interaction between Kindred and a vegetative Norman Osborn at Ravencroft Institute, collecting issues #29-31 from fifth monthly volume of Amazing Spider-Man comic-book series and Red Goblin: Read Death one-shot.

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Red Goblin Rides Again

Upon return of a menacing serial killer named Cletus Kasady who is one of the greatest enemies of Spider-Man, heroes of Marvel Comics who has ever been a host to Klyntar symbiote are in complete disarray as he is hunting them all down for a genetic trace called Codex, so he can liberate God of the Symbiotes, Knull from his captivity.

While dealing with Dark Carnage and his minion army, Spidey got a little break from being taunted by Kindred and worrying about his troublesome roommate Boomerang. However, dangers brewing from end of "Behind The Scenes" regarding Spider-Man 2099 will pick up from where it left off and continue in "2099" storyline up next.
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