Every week your Local Comic Book shop gets in the weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond. Now some of these goodies sell our fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need more. […]
The Absolute Carnage trade paperback by Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman was solicited as collecting Absolute Carnage #1-5 and at 176 pages, would cost $24.99. However, retailers have just been told by Marvel that it will now collect Absolute Carnage #1-5 and the Free Comic Book Day Venom/Spider-Man comic that set it up back in […]
It's a weirder week for Absolute Carnage this week… we have Silver Surfer Black with Norrin Radd pitched against Knull, the god of the symbiotes… and in doing so, becoming am origin story for himself. And setting a new Silver Surfer upon the causeways of space. Will he be pitching into Absolute Carnage to […]
Man, I feel dirty. Is this how Jude Terror feels all the time? I don't know. But anyway, Donny Cates has been talking up Venom #20 scheduled for the end of November, and the final Venom tie-in with Absolute Carnage. VENOM #20 AC (W) Donny Cates (A) Iban Coello (CA) Kyle Hotz • It's the final […]
This is the Mike Del Mundo 'Classified' cover to today's Absolute Carnage #4. I will say this, that this Anti0Symbiote costume does not appear in this comic. It does not even appear in Absolute Carnage Vs Deadpool #3 also out today where a) it would have fit the tone and b) could have come in […]
No more Frankensteining. Here are Marvel Comics final solicitations for 2019, all lined up for December… it begins with Incoming, kicks off with Annihilation Scourge, and ends Tony Stark: Iron Man in time for Iron Man 2020… INCOMING #1 AL EWING. DAN SLOTT, CHIP ZDARSKY, KELLY THOMPSON, GREG PAK, EVE L. EWING, MATT ROSENBERG, ED […]
Cletus Kasady, created by David Michelinie and Erik Larsen, first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #344 and became the first and most well-known host of the Carnage symbiote, spawn of Venom. Portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the Venom movie, Kasady's origin story has been getting some updates of late, and today's Absolute Carnage #3 takes that […]
The appearance of the Sleeper symbiote in Venom #17 and #18, with a connection to Dylan, Eddie's son suggested that the two would hook up in #18. And create a new symbiote relationship. A living codex with its own powerful symbiote. And that's certainly what writer Donny Cates seemed to back up earlier in the […]
There are lots of Absolute Carnage-related comic books out today. Not Absolute Carnage of course, that's not out till October. But when has that stopped an event comic book? And it does seem to be stretching far and wide… but does that include Powers Of X #4? Possibly. You be the judge. We begin with […]
Marvel Comics sends out the PR dubbed 'ALAS POOR VENOM…' with the following image. Announcing Venom Island as a new storyline by Donny Cates and Mark Bagley launching in December in Venom #21 We've already discovered that Venom is better than Watchmen. Is Donny Cates' upcoming literary attempt aimed at beating the Bard as well? […]
In Absolute Carnage #2 and Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #1, Miles Morales went up against the horde of Carnage alongside the Scorpion. It didn't end well for Mac Gargan. But it also wasn't peachy for Miles Morales either. In Absolute Carnage #2 looking like this… …and in Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #1 looking like this. […]
Today sees the publication of Absolute Carnage #2, Venom #17 and spin-offs Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #1 and Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors #1. But which order should you read them in. Donny Cates knows. Read Absolute Carnage #2 first, guys. https://t.co/WOYXahgyFs — DONNY CATES (@Doncates) August 25, 2019 But I'm not sure he's right. Okay, […]
All it took was a tweet enquiry to the writer of Absolute Carnage, Donny Cates. Don't forget about our beloved avocado baby!@Doncates @RyanStegman#AbsoluteCarnage #sleeper #Venom pic.twitter.com/lGdEGmJvZG — Daniel ERM🥑 (@derm_art89) August 19, 2019 And a response. I haven't. (Dozens of Tumblr users scream) https://t.co/MAEgpBcZmC — DONNY CATES (@Doncates) August 19, 2019 And suddenly the first […]
Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool reported on four of the Mark Bagley Absolute Carnage #1 inside cover sketches. Well, someone is trying to sell theirs on eBay with an opening bid of $4000, a fifth revealed inside cover sketch number 5. And here is a sixth, number 18, bought from Alter Ego Comics in […]
Last week saw the publication of Absolute Carnage #1. While it was a very pretty comic, and as we all know Ryan Stegman could be a great comic book artist if he but tried to drawn panels, I felt a little bit let down by the story. I felt that, after reading all the Carnage […]
Jude already ran a preview for Absolute Carnage #1 by Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman, out this Wednesday. But we've heard some people making the complaint that Jonathan Hickman is getting all the Marvel love at the moment, and Absolute Carnage is slipping between that and Marvel Comics #1000 when it comes to publicity. Well, […]
House Of X #1 is published on the 24th of July. Powers Of X #1 is published on the 31st of July. But already Marvel Comics has sent them back for second printings, for the 7th of August and the 14th of August respectively, both reusing internal art as second printing covers. And they are […]
Today's Black Cat #2 continues the back-page Absolute Carnage teasers from Marvel, dubbed Everyone's A Target. And it looks like we may be getting more vermin, with Carnage infecting rats and pigeons. Here's the page from Black Cat #2 with or without the Carnage-affected cover logo… We've seen rats being infected before in Venom #15. […]
This is insane. In August last year, Marvel Comics collected one of their stranger comic books, the animal cyborg hybrids Brute Force. billed as "Protectors of the Environment" who are all walking, flying, or swimming weapons. The kind of thing that decades later, Grant Morrison would look at and go "hrm" and create We3 with Frank Quitely […]
You can read Bleeding Cool's preview of tomorrow's Venom #16 here, courtesy of Jude Terror. But the double page splash page may be missing a thing or two. Tomorrow I'm back on VENOM with issue 16! So happy to return to this insane story. One thing, we had a printing error that dropped a few […]
