Having enjoyed Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain’s Carnage USA, I hoped their other Carnage book might also rock - and it didn’t.
Carnage is a meandering, weak story ostensibly about just putting Cletus Kasady and the Carnage symbiote back together again. Shakily built around that is some crap about an evil CEO who has illegally and immorally used the Carnage DNA to make next-gen prosthetics that Spider-Man and Iron Man get tangled up into fighting.
The characters are bland and unremarkable: there’s Shriek, Carnage’s on-again, off-again girlfriend, and her psychologist, whose name escapes me, that’s how memorable she was, and a six-armed Spider-Man clone/imposter swinging around for some reason. There are some new corporate superheroes introduced that are pure cheese and there just for Spidey and Iron Man to hit until Carnage appears.
While the art is overly dark throughout, Clayton Crain’s painted artwork is very impressive and beautiful in a horror/Aliens-esque way. The visuals are the only thing going for this one - Carnage is an instantly-forgettable bore that’s not worth the effort. I recommend Carnage USA for a more entertaining read instead.
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