| Title | : | Carnage, Vol. 1: The One That Got Away |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 078519634X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780785196341 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 |
| Publication | : | First published May 10, 2016 |
| Awards | : | Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers) (for Mike Del Mundo) (2017) |
Collecting: Carnage 1-5, material from All-New, All-Different Point One.1
Carnage, Vol. 1: The One That Got Away Reviews
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Serial killer, Cletus Kasady + piece of Venom, alien symbiote = Carnage
Jerk face Eddie Brock – Venom, alien symbiote = Toxin
John Jameson, astronaut and son of J. Jonah Jameson + Moon trip + cursed Godstone = Man-Wolf
Carnage + Toxin + Man-Wolf = Good times!
WTF! Nobody said anything about Math!!
Carnage is on the loose and the FBI want to capture him, using one of his almost-victims as bait.
Team Carnage includes John Jameson, who knows how to use some new sonic device, and Eddie Brock, who can be transformed into Toxin. Brock has been known for his violent tendencies and Jameson has that werewolf curse going for him. A stable team, no?
Plus some FBI guys.
The FBI sets up the trap for Carnage near some abandoned mine somewhere in West Virginia, mountain mama, so nothing bad will happen, yet, something goes horribly wrong; otherwise, it would be of very little entertainment value. Throw in the Darkhold book and some sort of Satanic thing and it’s game on, True Believers!
Satanic worshiping dudes + Carnage = Man Wolf/Toxin
The FBI guys?
Holy crap, you need some more.
24 FBI guys – 22 FBI guys = 2 FBI guys
Bottom Line: This could have been terrible, but Gerry Conway, who’s been around for decades and who literally killed Gwen Stacy, summons up the chops to make this one a fun, fast-paced tale. Evocatively creepy artwork helps sell this one. Turn off your sociopathic leaning brain (or better yet leave it on) and enjoy.
Three and a half stars.
I’ll have what he’s having. -
Storyline: 3 stars
Artwork: 5 stars
Read as single issues (rent by a friend)
Re-read in hardback volume (purchased :D)
Not Gerry Conway's best storyline, but artworks and covers are really awesome! -
Cletus Kasady/Carnage discovers there was a sole survivor to his first mass murder so he decides to finish the job - except she’s posing as a mine supervisor in West Virginia as bait for the FBI lying in wait. Will the Feds finally capture Carnage? Of course not but Marvel would like to pretend there’s some tension to this pap!
About the only thing I like about this forgettable load of tosh is the concept of soldiers hunting Carnage in a disused, crumbly old mine - it’s very Alien. That and the covers were awesome. But Gerry Conway doesn’t do anything fun with the setup and the comic is a total snoozefest. Carnage fights the unimaginatively-named Man-Wolf (J. Jonah Jameson’s astronaut son) and Toxin, Eddie Brock’s latest symbiote incarnation.
It’s like the Itchy and Scratchy theme song: they fight, they bite, they bite and fight and bite, bite, bite, bite, fight, fight, fight, the Stupid Symbiote Show! Boring, uninteresting, and a total waste of time, I wouldn’t recommend this comic to anyone. Check out Carnage USA and even Deadpool Vs Carnage for better Carnage reads instead. -
This one was OK. I quite enjoyed the horror movie vibe and the story wasn't awful or anything. It was nothing special, though.
The artwork was competent but lacking any real flair... and I know Gerry Conway can do better than this. By the last issue I was almost hoping for a gratuitous Spider-Man cameo to liven things up. -
One of the best Spider-Man writers comes in to pen Carnage. This isn't so much a Carnage book as it is about the supporting cast of characters trying to catch him. The story take place in a collapsed mine and gives off an Aliens vibe. Mike Perkins art sets the mood perfectly. Throw in the Marvel version of Cthullu, (The Darkhold) and you've got yourself a winner.
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Carnage is one of my fave Marvel characters, and i always look forward to a new Carnage series/trade and it has been a while since we heard from Cletus.
The story is basically Carnage trapped in a mine and Brock going in to try and kill him or at least bury him in the mine. The plot is really stretched thin, but it manages to cover the full volume, so i'll give it credit for that. However for it being a Carnage trade there isn't that much Carnage in it, it's mostly Brock and his gang figuring out how to stop Carnage, well that shit is boring, and it makes the story drag, and just gimme Carnage.
Giving it a three is probably generous, but when it does focus on Carnage it's a good read. Overall if you're not a fan then this won't convince you and if you're new to Carnage i don't think you'd like it, so yeah, really just one for the carnage fans. -
Gerry Conway for the win!
This is badass. Imagine crazy Lovecraftian lore mixed with Alien, mixed with all the past Carnage shit. It’s awesome.
Mike Perkins’ art is perfect for this book. The story is action packed, scary and dark.
I pretty much always enjoy these Carnage centric books. This one is no different. It’s a horror comic through and through.
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4.5 Stars
I enjoyed this one a little better than most readers it seems. This was a pretty cool horror story that reminded me a lot of the film ALIENS, but instead of aliens we had Carnage, and instead of outer space the story was set underground. One victim survived Kletus Casady's first ever massacre, and he wants to change that. So that victim is used as bait in order to capture Carnage, but we find out there's other things going on as well.
We also have a cult that worships the Darkhold (pretty much the Necronomicon of the Marvel Universe) that thinks Carnage is the fabled "Red Slayer" that will bring back the elder god Chthon. Throw in Eddie Brock with the Toxin symbiote,the Man-Wolf (yes, we get Carnage vs. Man-Wolf!) and some really nice artwork and things come together nicely.
Comics with villains as the lead never seem to really catch on, but this was a good start. -
A little better than i expected but not much. Carnage is Cletus Kasady a deranged killer has the symbiote Carnage now. He is lured to a mine with the attempt to capture him but some old friends show up including Eddie Brock (old venom now toxin). It starts off great, it has a serious tone and almost doesn't feel like a marvel book at all. mid way it slows down a bit and the end just doesn't live up to the start really for me. The art is pretty good it has a grit to it with lots of darker colors used. I will check out volume 2 but not hoping for much
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Ah, how I've missed Carny!
It's good, starts interesting and creepy and all around how Carnage is supposed to be. Real dark at first and it really reminds you of a horror/mystery scifi film along the Alien lines, but instead for an Alien it's Carnage!
Artwork is also great.
Part of my Carnage reading order and my road to King in Black reading order. -
I gotta hand it to Gerry Conway, the dude still has a knack for taking characters beyond the 2nd dimension they usually inhabit with mediocre writers. I actually find Eddie Brock intriguing here - he’s self-aware, manipulative, motivated, and do-I-trust-him-or-don’t-I is all over the pages.
And damn but I actually don’t hate Kletus Casady in this one - “Bunch of guys in robes ‘round an altar - of course there’s a prophecy.” That like alone is better than all the lines written for Kasady in the past put together!
The continued escalation of symbiote mythology is not completely unwelcome - now we learn they’re prophesied in some ancient texts - but at some point this is going to be too much. Like, what happens when we learn they created the multiverse, are the material from which each universe is composed, and every law of physics is actually the result of symbiotes ducking? What then? -
Getting a bit tired of Marvel's symbiotes lately, but had this on my TBR pile from the public library, so I read it anyway. The art isn't bad and the story has potential, but unfortunately, it's largely unrealized potential.
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The story doesn't excel at anything, really. It also makes the mistake of feeling like an Aliens story, so the author doesn't take advantage of the originality of the main character. Kasady is a serial killer and a proper madman, but he almost feels tame compared to other instances. Typical of an Aliens story, most of the focus is on the secondary characters, with Carnage getting a lot less screen time if you don't count the battles.
Manuela Calderon is the only survivor of Kasady's first massacre. She offers to help the FBI capture him. They intend to use army-grade sonic cannons to separate the symbiote from its host. They also have John Jameson, secretly Man-Wolf, on the team and Eddie Brock, the former host for Venom and the current one for Toxin.
Plan A is a bust when the ground under Kasady collapses under him because of the sonic cannon blast, plunging him into the deeper tunnels. Calderon's team must follow him down. Unknown to them is Gleason's obession with a prophecy that involves Carnage. -
An F.B.I. task force has been formed to hunt the alien serial killer Carnage. Using one of his escaped victims as bait, they intend to trap Carnage in an abandoned mine and kill him with sonic weapons. In case things go wrong, they have brought along two monsters of their own: John Jameson, the Man-Wolf, and Eddie Brock, bearer of the muzzled symbiote Toxin.
Unfortunately, things are going to go wrong. This mine was not chosen by accident. Down at the bottom of it, there is an ancient ornate door, that leads to a dark forgotten temple, the resting place of the Darkhold. This blasphemous tome speaks of a red slayer whose blood will wake the old god Chthon from his slumber. The cultists of Chthon have infiltrated the F.B.I. task force. They believe Carnage is this red slayer.
This started really good. It does the horror thing pretty well, landing somewhere between Aliens and Joe Hill's
Locke & Key. Unfortunately, it doesn't know how to carry this into its climax and it ends with a big stupid brawl between Carnage and Toxin. Disappointing. -
Carnage does his best imitation of a Xenomorph in this series, as he stalks a team in an abandoned coal mine.
The first few issues are actually really enjoyable just based on that premise. The "Alien" vibe works and Carnage's outbursts and speech are a good juxtaposition. It almost makes it more unnerving that this guy can be a silent killer like a Xenomorph, but instead tends to loudly and obnoxiously taunt you once you are caught.
However the book goes a bit off the rails for me in the final few issues as the pace gets really fragmented by a "ancient cult" sub plot that forces its way into the narrative. This book was doing great on its own without adding the extra twist, and whenever its "ancient cult" stuff.. its one of those things where, its been done so much, so if you are going to do it, make sure its something different and worth tossing the first half of the story out for.
But it isn't. Instead it kind of takes over the book and takes it in a different direction.
Hopefully the next volume can stay on course a bit more. -
Carnage is one of those weirder results of the 90s efforts to escalate things in the Spider titles, and he'll always feel like an artifact of that time period. This book was a weird effort to kick off a continuing series and I'm not quite sure what the goal was.
Conway had a vision, clearly, and he assembled an unusual crew to try to take Carnage down - one that included Eddie Brock (Toxin at the time) and the Jameson that sometimes turns into a "Man Wolf", which is the alien version of a werewolf.
The story had a bit more of a horror tone to it, including the oppressive nature of fighting the likes of Carnage in an underground mine system. There were times that maybe it wanted to become the Descent but couldn't quite go that far, but it still sorta worked.
It wasn't the worst Carnage story I've ever read but one that still felt rather narratively messy and impulsive at the same time. -
I am hit-or-miss when it comes to Carnage stories. He can be an excuse for writers to play in the somewhat rarified sandbox of extreme violence in the Marvel world outside of the Max imprint, so it can be easy to let that be the center of the story. Conway doesn't shy away from that at all here, but there's a definite classic horror/gothic horror vibe that I'm really enjoying (which is definitely helped by Jameson's inclusion in the story). I love the abandoned mine setting (again, classic horror) and what they discover at the bottom and its implications for the character as well as the humor of Brock constantly chomping at the bit to get into the fight. Conway does a good job of releasing Toxin at just the right time in the story, after a decent buildup of anticipation for the reader.
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Interesting story. First off, I would have figured that this series would be deemed Parental Advisory due to the fact that Carnage is pretty violent. It was not but that did not stop the story from being more violent than one would have expected. Me personally, I do not know how long the Darkholm book has been around in the Marvel Universe but it was interesting to see it in play during this story. I am just ashamed that I am only now just reading this series compared to when I should have over one year ago. Carnage is definitely one insane and violent character and I am glad that this series start was able to reflect that.
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Cletus Kasady discovers there was a sole-survivor from his first killing spree, and seeks to rectify that. Little does he know this is bait from the FBI, who want to capture the symbiotic serial-killer with the help of Colonel John Jameson as Man-Wolf and Eddie Brock as Toxin. There's great potential here for an atmospheric tale in a confined location, as the characters try to take down this villain, although it throws in some big-swings involving a third-party working for cultists. Less is more, and I think a more focused tale on people trying to bring down this monster would've been more effective.
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This was terrible, almost a book version of the worst aspects of a Micheal Bay movie.
There is absolutely no plot, everytime you think something deeper is going to happen, or character development will happen, you will be disappointed.
Random characters, events, and happenings occur, seemingly just to create more absurd action sequences.
The cover of this drew me in, I thought maybe it would be a cool horror style volume focused on Carnage. Instead its a mish mash of bad action with no consequences because you care about literally no one in the story.
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Interesting book. It has good characters, but does little to nothing with them. There is so dimensions to any of them, just one note characteristics. Oh Brock is the then villain now hero, carnage is crazy, werewolf dude is a werewolf. The story arc in the book was at least interesting and complete, no crossovers are my favorite part. Hope we can see more of carnage where he is not just the crazy super-villain. So far its interesting enough, but the book to me has a character problem.
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Do people still care about Carnage? He seems very much like a one-note character. The supporting cast includes John “Man-Wolf” Jameson and Eddie “Venom-no-wait-I-mean-Toxin” Brock, as well as FBI Special Agent Claire Dixon and private security expert Manuela Calderon, all of whom are trying to capture Carnage. But then there’s some cult stuff with the Darkhold and everything gets a little supernatural. But it was all pretty ho-hum, and I’m not really sure why I’m supposed to care.
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It was okay. Not Gerry Conway’s best work, but the comic had its moments. I really enjoyed the covers in this series. They remind me of 60s and 70s Italian horror movies or covers to pulp magazines. I also enjoyed the appearance made by man-wolf, that was fun. Overall though, this story lacked depth and failed to resonate with me. Don’t buy it, but if your library has it give it a try. Don’t have high expectations though.
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Starts as ye olde villain book which is really about the people trying to catch the villain. The FBI are trying to catch Carnage and they use a survivor from one of Cletus Kasady's early murder sprees as bait. But, through a bit of questionable logic and coincidence, it turns out the foreman of the mining site where they set their trap has other plans for Carnage. Guest starring John Jameson and Eddie Brock.
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Carnage is a fairly polarizing villain, seen as either truly terrifying and a match for both Spider-Man and/or Venom or a reject born of the Extreme-addled '90s. Either way, this comic does have its fun moments and its coal mine setting does help evoke an atmosphere similar to Alien where the cannon fodder gun-toting soldiers are walking into the creature's lair.
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"You boys are nuts! I love it!" -Carnage in this story
That quote perfectly sums up my thoughts on this story. The story starts out normally and halfway through it goes batshit crazy by bringing in Man-Wolf, cultist, Lovecraftian horror and many other crazy aspects and I actually like it a lot.
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This time Carnage story is filled with some nice plot twist for someone who's basically a noob in marvel comic like me. And then the hunt feels like a combo element of Xenomorph story and Dead Space cultism. Enjoying this arc a lot.
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I was wondering if this was going to be more of an 'anti-hero' kind of story, but nope. Straight up crazy bad guy here. And it's kind of refreshing. Nothing against redemption story arcs, I actually really like them, but every now and then it's nice to see an unabashedly evil villain.
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Apparently the goal was a horror book, but I just don’t think Carnage is that scary. He’s a serial killer. That’s bad but it’s not nightmarish. He just murders people cause he likes it.
Not a terrible book, the art was good and I was interested, but the core idea doesn’t quite work. -
I think reading the individual issue covers would provide the maximum in enjoyment vs time spent. Anything more is downhill. Forgettable with too many characters one doesn't care about.
