Carnage Slaughters the Fantastic Four In Weirdly Beautiful Marvel Art
Marvel is celebratingCarnage's 30th birthday, and that can't mean anything good for the Fantastic Four. Accordingly, Marvel Comics has launched a company-wide promotion that sees the mass-murdering scarlet symbiote popping up on variant covers for numerous current titles, including this diabolical design by Mike and Laura Allred wherein he seems to be making a birthday cake out of the Fantastic Four! The implications of such an encounter are horrific, but the Allreds’ pens make the macabre scene somewhat alluring.
Lately, the Fantastic Four have been kind of busythese days, what with the impending cataclysm that is the Reckoning War keeping them in a constant state of existential panic. The last thing they would need is a face-off with an enemy like Carnage—who, despite his mania, presents a legitimate threat to more than just Spider-Man. Since his debut in 1992, Carnage has faced a litany of super teams. When the Raft was hijacked in 2004's New Avengers #2 by Brian Michael Bendis and David Finsh, Carnage was among the dozens of supervillains released against an unprepared gathering of heroes including Jessica Drew, Luke Cage, and Matt Murdock. He would have overwhelmed them if not for the sudden intervention of the Sentry, who rocketed Carnage into the outer atmosphere. Though Cletus rarely has much to do with the Fantastic Four themselves, this new cover proves he'd be a nightmare for them to face.
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The Allreds splay Cletus Kasady’s symbiote form out like a crimson web, entangling the first family and even appearing to morph onto them. Mister Fantastic’s face is almost entirely covered, and one shudders to imagine the havoc Carnage could wreak with a
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