Carnage

by Mark Bagley and Brian Michael Bendis

One of the most ruthless villains in the history of the Marvel Universe, Carnage, gets the Ultimate treatment And though young Peter Parker has proven himself time and time again on the field of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785114033
• ISBN13: 9780785114031
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Marvel
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Carnage!

Ultimate spiderman volume 11 is one of the best volumes in the Ultimate Spiderman series. The story line continues from volume 7. Peter Parker is in the battle of his life against a evil killing machine known as Carnage, created from his own blood! I recommend this to any Marvel and Spiderman fan.

r.i.p. gwen stacy

ultimate spider-man by bendis and bagley is one of the best series out there. not as much action and non-stop bad guy fighting, but a good mix of that and a lot of peter parker being a teenager with problems (girls, bullies, being grounded, etc.) along with his spidey life. the series is great great great. only a few minor things that could be better: 1. i don't like how nick fury comes in and tells spider-man he's going to work his whole life for him and shield. the idea of peter being...trapped in a web? haha...well it isn't too cool. superheroes need to fight the good fight because they want to, not because shield will go and take away their superpowers (as fury has threatened) if they don't comply. plus the issues where the ultimates come in aren't that great, the whole series gets hijacked by them and not a lot of spidey. imo, the ultimates are easily the worst part of the ultimate universe. beyond ultimate spider-man and the ultimate fantastic four the ultimate universe isn't too great. 2. bendis needs to cut down on the tuchas talk. seriously if parker grew up in nyc today he'd more likely speak spanglish than yanglish. 3. geldoff.

Maximum Ultimate Carnage

Great story... I was kinda expecting Eddie Brock to pop up out of nowhere and be the one responsible for setting Carnage free.. but it kinda looks like this Ben Reilly guy did it. Oh well. Great story, I'm glad it actually had a pretty good ending unlike the flawed Venom storyline... and plus, Bendis did a pretty good job of not just having elements from ONE classic storyline, not TWO.. try FIVE: 1. Death of Gwen Stacy 2. The Clone Saga 3. Carnage 4. Lifetheft (remember this one? Where Spider-Man fought an evil duplicate of his father?) and... 5. Spider-Man No More No small feat. All in all, a great job by Bendis and Bagley.

The death of Gwen Stacy in the Ultimate Spider-Man universe

Overall, "Ultimate Spider-Man" is my favorite Spider-Man comic book right now. I do a unit on Spider-Man for my Popular Culture class where my students have to read "The Essential Spider-Man, Volume 1" and a current issue. So after many years of not reading Spider-Man (the whole clone bit was too much for me), I am back reading all of the Spider-Man titles. Ultimate Spider-Man has restarted the story of Peter Parker from the beginning, making his younger and more modern. For example, Peter no longer sells photographs of Spider-Man, a wise move since every criminal in New York City would be after him to see what he knows, but instead he designs web pages (ha ha, get it? web pages!) for the "Daily Bugle." In this new universe Peter Parker is no longer interested in Betty Brant, because she is a whole lot older (and clearly a college graduate now). Like the Spider-Man movies, Mary Jane Watson is there from the start as the girl next door. She also finds out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man early on in the game. Having MJ there from the start makes sense for the films, because you are not going to do that many of them (a Rocky number of Spider-Man films would be nice, but it will never make it to the level of the James Bond franchise). But with "Ultimate Spider-Man" it begs the question of where Gwen Stacy fits into this new version of the web-head. You can read these comics and know nothing about the Spider-Man mythos and enjoy them, but for those of us who have read most of the 500+ issues of "The Amazing Spider-Man" published to date it has been interesting to see how writer Brian Michael Bendis, penciler Mark Bagley, and inker Scott Hanna has altered familiar plot lines and characters. So I think veteran Spider-Man fans get to enjoy these stories more than newbies. "Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 11: Carnage" collects issues #60-65, which includes the five part "Carnage" story and its "Detention" epilogue, combines the creation of Carnage with the fate of Gwen Stacy. Already abandoned by her mother, when Captain Stacy dies Gwen moves in with Aunt May and Peter, where the troubled teenage tomboy finds a home. Gwen had recently discovered that Peter was Spider-Man and had come to terms with the fact that it was a thief, dressed as Spider-Man, who was responsible for her father's death. Meanwhile, when Spider-Man gets hurt in a fight he visits Curt Connor (a.k.a. the Lizard) for some doctoring. After Spider-Man leaves, Connor examines the web-head's blood and discovers that its DNA sequencing is amazing and might constitute a real breakthrough in genetics. Connor wants to run some experiments to see if this could lead to curing illness and fighting diseases. Peter gives his permission and two months late Carnage is born. In the original Spider-Man comics, Carnage was created when the alien symbiote that bonded with Eddie Brock (a.k.a. Venom) left behind a "child" to bond with Brock's cellmate Cletus Kasady. But in this storyline Veno