Every Marvel fan knows thatCarnageis ten times worse than Venom, especially when he’s paired with his classic host, Cletus Kasady. He’s a bloodthirsty, rage-filled maniac bent on the destruction of all life. That’s only in American comics though - in a manga style, Carnage’s personality can only be heightened into something so terrifying that it will disturb Marvel fans for years to come.
Out ofall the symbiotes in Marvel’s history, Carnage is still the deadliest, if not the most villainous too. Now, in a new preview,he’s getting a manga-like redesign forKid Venom#3by Taigami, Hatano, Mattia Iacono, Joe Sabino, and Aki Yanagi. Gracing the cover of this new issue, a very different Carnage is coming to Marvel, looking just as bone-chilling as the original.
Never before has Carnage’s host been so lacking in red, ashe instead dons a white outfit with a white hairstyle, as well as looking as calm as can be - while Carnage emerges with multiple heads like some otherworldly beast.
Carnage Has a Surprising New Manga Look in Marvel Comic Debut
Carnage Is No Stranger to Gruesome Surprises
Carnage is a psychopath of the Klyntar race. Debuting in 1992’sThe Amazing Spider-Man#361 by David Michelinie and Mark Bagley,Carnage has been shedding blood ever since. He’s gone all the way from an alien bonding with a serial killer toMarvel’s own symbiote Satanin the events ofVenom War. Now, he’s ready for a new look that is chilling in its subtlety.
Everything Carnage does comes with shock and awe.
Carnage is no stranger to terrifying powers, as he has evolved to be able tobreak down his physical form and enter his victims through every orifice in their body.This broken-down form seems to be teased in the manga-style cover ofKid Venom#3,where Carnage looks to be a force instead of a single person. Everything Carnage does comes with shock and awe - so it would only make sense that the blood-red symbiote would have another surprise for fans in his newest reinvention: he would bond with a host that has a completely unexpected personality.
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Who Is the New Host If Not Cletus Kasady?
The calm implicit in the cover’s scene - by the brilliant Taigaimi - speaks to the animalistic nature of Carnage. Whilehis ultimate form may be the King in Crimson,there’s something unsettling about the juxtaposition of the wildness of Carnage and the focused new host. Cletus Kasady is one to fear, but he and Carnage exacerbate their impulses together.Kid Venommight debut a Carnage worthy of fear due to his being bonded with a host that uses Carnage like a weapon, thanks to a sharp, calm mind that cannot be destroyed or corrupted by Carnage.
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Whoever this new Carnage host is, he might just be Marvel’s most disturbing version of the symbiote yet. Shonen manga does a good job at presenting heightened realities while western superhero comics, perhaps paradoxically, stay down to earth, but this newest villain seems to be balancing the two states.ThisCarnagewill undoubtedly get all the disturbing aspects of the main continuity correct and only add to the iconic symbiote’s grim legacy.
