What If? Darkish exhibits twisted variations of basic Marvel characters. However what if the character in query is already completely twisted? Nicely, within the case of What If? Darkish: Carnage, meaning doubling up on the sinister symbiote villain.
Within the one-shot by legendary author Larry Hama and fan-favorite artist John McCrae, the Carnage symbiote bonds with the corpse of Cletus Kasady’s lengthy lifeless ancestor Cortland Kasady.
We have an early take a look at some unlettered preview pages which additionally characteristic Carnage going through off with cosmic threats resembling Dormammu and Knull, the King in Black. McCrea and colorist Mike Spicer flip in some completely wild pages with an aesthetic that captures the stability of Carnage’s bloodthirsty nature and the skewed type of the What If? Darkish collection of one-shots.
Listed here are the pages:
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“What if…Cortland Kasady grew to become Carnage? Cletus Kasady, the mad man who bonded to Carnage, wasn’t the one member of the family to have a reference to symbiotes,” reads Marvel’s official description of What If? Darkish: Carnage #1. “Cortland Kasady, his long-dead ancestor, rests beneath the Ravencroft Institute For The Criminally Insane! What would occur if the symbiote reanimated the corpse of Cortland Kasady? Is the world sufficiently big for 2 Kasady Carnages?!”
The Carnage symbiote spawned from the Venom symbiote that is most frequently been worn by Eddie Brock, bonding with Cletus Kasady whereas he was Brock’s cellmate in jail. Not like Venom, who usually straddles the road of being an anti-hero, Carnage is a bloodthirsty serial killer who wreaked havoc in Spider-Man’s life within the basic ’90s story Most Carnage.
What If? Darkish: Carnage goes on sale September 20.
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