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Warning : SPOILERS forWeb of Venom : Cult of Carnage # 1
Carnagehas take plenty of heroes and villains throughout the Marvel Universe , but he may have just transformed his coolheaded founding yet . Marvel fans , it ’s time to meetthe Carnage Werewolf .
The symbiote bonded to Cletus Kasady is unquestionably most notable as a supervillain to Spider - Man , turning evenVenom into a superheroby comparison . And considering that slaughter is a walk , slice , cackling , cannibalistic nightmare , the categorisation makes good sense . But if told from his perspective , the story of Carnage is one of conquest , sacrifice , Christ’s Resurrection , and now , godhood . There ’s also a fair bit of rabidity fly the coop throughout … a point made perfectly clear in Carnage ’s late recruit to his symbiote army : Marvel ’s most well known werewolf . butchery - ized , of course .
If fans of Spider - Man , Venom , or Carnage have been sleeping on the ongoing story of Cletus Kasady ’s death , Christ’s Resurrection , and rise to divinity , the narrative is n’t really too far along to hop on panel . concisely after Eddie Brock go to warwith Knull , the Symbiote Godin the Thomas Nelson Page of hisVenomseries , it was revealed that the god ’s cry had been take heed throughout all symbiotes he had create , along with their horde .
When a furor of believer in the new Dark God ( which , to be honest , Knullactually is ) brought Carnage back to life history using a sample of symbiote from Knull himself , the psychopath acquire out for ascendency of their massive body . It was then that the bombshell was dropped : every symbiote host carries a ghost of the hive nous , connected all the style back to Knull ’s providential power . Carnage being Carnage , his mission was straight off decipherable : kill every Marvel character ever bring together with a symbiote . Which is whereWeb of Venom : Cult of Carnagecomes in .
Carnage Wants a Werewolf in His Symbiote Army
If you ’re Carnage , in motive of symbiote specimen rest in the spinal columns of former hosts , there ’s no safe place than Doverton , Colorado . As ground zero for theCarnage , U.S.A.series back in 2011 , almost all life story in the township was infect and ascertain by Carnage . That mean twelve , possibly century of symbiote pieces to suffer now that butchery knowsthey’re tiny bit of Knull . And in hindsight , it was n’t the smartest musical theme for the F.B.I. to send John Jameson to look into . Not only does the Logos of The Daily Bugle ’s J. Jonah Jameson have a history with Carnage and the Doverton transmission , guaranteed to make him a target , but he ’s also … a loup-garou .
Yes , it ’s a little complicated to explicate . But stick with us because it all pay off with the birth of a Carnage - infected werewolf , which is almost as satisfying to see as it is to record . gratuitous to say , SPOILERSforCult of Carnageincoming …
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The Marvel Man-Wolf Gets Carnage-ized
The chronicle of John Jameson is both lengthy and unknown , beginning with his encounter with a strange mystical gemstone on a mission to the Moon ( not as a superhero , just a standard astronaut ) . The moon crystal caused him to transmute into a wight love as the Man - Wolf , Marvel ’s own interpretation of a loup-garou . In the modern age of comics , Jameson would fall in up with Union police force enforcement , and with his inborn experience as both a human and superhuman , ended up crossing path with Carnage and other symbiote suspect more often than most .
The problems begin in Cult of Carnage right away , when John Jameson is find unconscious , naked , and blather about the approach shot of God . bad ? He ’s the only living person left in Doverton . John recounts his investigating upon being discovered , which started thanks to the only other citizen of the town seemingly aware that things are getting … weird . And by ' weird , ' we mean followers of Carnage are harvest spinal symbiote specimens from animal and corpses . Things go from spoilt to worse when the cultists come for this last survivor , whom John find screaming for help in the town ’s church – on a sacrificial Lord’s table before Carnage and his new cult recruits .
The joke is on John Jameson , since it come out to have been a plan lay in motion to add him into the clutches of Carnage . As John begin to transform into his werewolf form and save an innocent man , the Carnage symbiotes get through out to take over his body . They want the Man - Wolf , and with nobody to back Jameson up … they get it .
The image of the Man - Wolf being traverse and infected with symbiote direct from the Carnage sacrifice is n’t one easy forgotten . As the follower of Carnage ( or Knull , of which they now see him as a reflection ) proclaim that their glum god does n’t have a werewolf yet , the retentivity terminate for John Jameson … and for a terrible rationality that is only explained in the final Page . gratefully , the readers get to feel out exactly what happened next .
To cut to the chase on that plot beat , Carnage ’s ' son ' the Spider - Man Doppelganger starts ripping out spines , and offering them up to Carnage immediately . So why did Carnage and his top police lieutenant decide to infect John Jameson rather than down him too ? It seems he may have a far worse fate in computer storage .
The Carnage Werewolf is Waiting For ‘God’
Fans have n’t seen the last of the Carnage Werewolf , Carnage - Wolf , Were - Carnage - Wolf , or whatever name he eventually gets . The last memory John Jameson has of the terrible night – before waking up naked in a townsfolk of thornless following – is the crowd ’s chants of " God is come . God is Coming . " But what John does n’t remember is that he also chanted the mantra in his Man - Wolf phase before losing consciousness .
And as John leaves the town of Doverton behind , a glimpse of the turbinate insignia of a Knull - unite symbiote radiate in his pupil . Which means when theAbsolute Carnagecomic event get this summer , the Carnage - ized Werewolf may be able to hit by total surprise . We ca n’t wait .
Web of Venom : fad of Carnage # 1is available now from your local comic book of account storehouse , or direct fromMarvel Comics .
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