Marvel Comics Announces EDDIE BROCK: CARNAGE Series As The Anti-Hero Heads Down His Darkest Path Yet

Marvel Comics Announces EDDIE BROCK: CARNAGE Series As The Anti-Hero Heads Down His Darkest Path Yet

Marvel Comics has announced another major status quo shift for Venom as Eddie Brock is going to become the next Carnage host in the pages of Eddie Brock: Carnage. You can find more details right here...

By JoshWilding - Oct 21, 2024 05:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics

At yesterday's "Marvel Comics: Spider-Man and his Venomous Friends" panel at New York Comic Con, Senior Editor Jordan D. White, current Venom scribe Al Ewing, and New York Times best-selling author Charles Soule revealed the future of symbiote storytelling.

All-New Venom was highlighted, as were plans for a future Spider-Verse vs. Venomverse crossover event. However, the biggest news is that a second symbiote ongoing series will spin out of Venom War: Eddie Brock: Carnage

Launching in February, the comic will be written by Soule, known for his acclaimed run on Star Wars and illustrated by Jesus Saiz, following his work on recent titles like Captain America and Punisher. Set in the aftermath of Venom War, the startling saga sees longtime Venom host Eddie Brock operating as the new host of the violent and sadistic Carnage symbiote.

Here's the official description for Eddie Brock: Carnage:

The most Lethal Protector of all! He’s been Venom, he’s been Anti-Venom, he’s been the King in Black...now, Eddie Brock has made his darkest bond yet as he joins with the one-and-only Carnage! Can he control his new other’s endless bloodlust? Or will he give himself over to madness and murder? Join Eddie and Carnage on a journey into the darkest parts of the Marvel Universe with bloody death as their only guide!

"Carnage is someone that has to kill, so Eddie has to feed him deaths. In order for Eddie to be okay with that, the people he feeds Carnage are serial killers," Soule explained. "But Carnage is also an addict, and addicts need bigger and bigger highs..."

"I’m having a blast with this," he continued. "Jesus Saiz wanted to do a horror book. This is his wheelhouse. He loves creepy organic things to draw, and I’m giving him everything he can handle."

So, Venom meets Dexter? It sounds like a blast and this won't be the first time the Carnage Symbiote has found a host outside of Cletus Kasaday; for example, the alien briefly bonded with Norman Osborn for a time. 

It's always a little odd to see Marvel Comics make announcements like this at a time when a new Venom movie, Venom: The Last Dance, is coming out, especially as it's so different from what people will see on screen. 

Check out a first look at Eddie Brock: Carnage below. 

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EDDIE BROCK: CARNAGE #1
Written by CHARLES SOULE
Art by JESUS SAIZ
Cover by IBAN COELLO
Foil Variant Cover by MARK BAGLEY
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Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 10/21/2024, 5:36 AM
disgusting gimmicks
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 10/21/2024, 7:41 AM
@Superheromoviefan - at this rate we'll soon see Professor X with claws, Nightcrawler with Mjolnir and Kingpin riding Ghost Rider's bike.
supermanrex
supermanrex - 10/21/2024, 9:55 AM
@TheFinestSmack - well this isnt too much of a gimmick given that the carnage symbiote originally is a piece of the OG venom symbiote. so basically carnage has come back home.
TheyDont
TheyDont - 10/21/2024, 6:37 AM
So fresh
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 10/21/2024, 7:12 AM
You guys remember that South Park joke about how Family Guy is written by manatees that combine random idea balls?

Idk why I'm thinking of that rn
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 10/21/2024, 7:38 AM
The creative bankruptcy never ends...
MahN166A
MahN166A - 10/21/2024, 9:15 AM
As much as I love the concept, this could have been something that happened a while back when the Carnage symbiote was fresh. Especially after his stint with Kasady in prison.

This just feels like another, "Who can we put which Symbiote on who now??"
supermanrex
supermanrex - 10/21/2024, 9:56 AM
@MahN166A - the carnage symbiote came from eddy brock. its technically his too loaned to cletus.
dragon316
dragon316 - 10/21/2024, 10:11 AM
@MahN166A - that’s pretty much how marvel has been working who has not been avenger we can make team mate, how many clones variants Spider-Man and wolves we have now wolverine daughter was forget it done process , same with X-men , and ghost rider at this point
MahN166A
MahN166A - 10/21/2024, 11:00 AM
@supermanrex -

Yeah that’s obvious. Still doesn’t really mean that the Carnage Symbiote is meant for him to bond to. Especially since both hosts have different perspective in terms of how they carry themselves about life.
MahN166A
MahN166A - 10/21/2024, 11:01 AM
@dragon316 -

Yeah it’s true which is why I have been buying was and less comic books in the last decade. I pretty much stopped at the end of the Spider-Verse and second Secret Wars.
supermanrex
supermanrex - 10/21/2024, 11:47 AM
@MahN166A - thats going to be the fun interesting drama about it is how far eddie has come from the i will eat your brains days till now and mixing with a mass murdering symbiote.
dragon316
dragon316 - 10/21/2024, 10:09 AM
This won’t last long should have Been done when Cassidy was dead and Eddie chose not be with venom
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 10/21/2024, 10:28 AM
Maybe we can just let Eddie be Venom.
Gambito
Gambito - 10/21/2024, 10:47 AM
I do not give a flying [frick] but Mark Bagley drawing Carnage is always fantastic
AC1
AC1 - 10/21/2024, 12:45 PM
Chopping and changing symbiotes and hosts is getting really stale really fast. Having said that, the idea of a fairly heroic character bonding with a symbiote that's as unstable and violent as Carnage is an intriguing idea, but having it be Eddie somehow makes the concept feel even more unoriginal.
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 10/21/2024, 4:51 PM
*YAWN*

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