Every single character who has ever worn a symbiote is a target in Marvel’s upcoming Absolute Carnage story arc.
Marvel has revealed a huge event kicking off this August with Donny Gates and Ryan Stegman’s Absolute Carnage #1, which sees Cletus Cassidy return to hunt down “every single human being who has worn a symbiote.”
To celebrate the “epic summer event,” Marvel is releasing “Carnage-ized” variant covers that re-imagine your favourite heroes taken over by the titular symbiote.
The “massive storyline” will “blow the entire Marvel [Universe] apart,” says Gates in the announcement video. It beings in Gates’ and Stegman’s Free Comic Book Day Spider-Man story, and Gates explains that the “entire Venom run has…been leading to this moment.”
Gates explains that the story has “been in the works for a long time” and Cassidy’s list of targets really will include everyone who has worn the symbiote over the past 30 years.
The “Carnage-ized” variants will stretch to 25 covers in total, that includes:
- AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 by TODD NAUCK #25 by Todd Nauck
- AVENGERS #22 by JUNGGEUN YOON
- BLACK CAT #2 by MARK BROOKS
- BLACK PANTHER #14 by RYAN BROWN
- CAPTAIN AMERICA #13 by BUTCH GUICE
- CAPTAIN MARVEL #8 by INHYUK LEE
- DAREDEVIL #8 by LEE GARBETT
- DEADPOOL #15 SKOTTIE YOUNG
- DOCTOR STRANGE #17 by EMA LUPACCHINO
- FANTASTIC FOUR #12 PATCH ZIRCHER
- FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #9 by WOO DAE SHIM
- GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #7 by GUISEPPE CAMUNCOLI
- IMMORTAL HULK #20 by NICK BRADSHAW
- SAVAGE AVENGERS #3 by LEINIL YU
- SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER #10 IBAN COELLO
- THOR #15 by MIKE MCKONE
- TONY STARK: IRON MAN #14 PASQUAL FERRY
- UNCANNY X-MEN #21 by DECLAN SHALVEY
- VENOM #16 by RON LIM