CARNAGE’s Comic History

Later this year we’ll see Cletus Kasady aka Carnage make his way to the big screen for the first time in Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

The villain is an obvious choice for the Venom sequel as he has been a fan-favourite for decades after his debut in the comics and subsequent appearances in Spider-Man: The Animated Series (someone should do a podcast about that, huh), Spider-Man Unlimited, Ultimate Spider-Man & Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as 15 or so video game appearances.

We recently talked about Carnage’s comic book history on our podcast, which you can find below:

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So what’s the deal with the ‘red slayer’? Read on…

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X-Men: Days of Future Past retrospective

Bryan Singer’s Love Letter To Bryan Singer

In this edition of our deep dive into the mutant saga, we’re talking about one of the more beloved recent X-men movies… which everyone is wrong about. 

Days of Future Past from 2014 gets a lot of love and has things that feel like they’re part of a good movie but… is sort of terrible. From the series’ needless obsession with Hugh Jackman and the onset of Jennifer Lawrence’s intense apathy for this series to the revelation that magneto killed JFK (who’s a mutant by the way), stick with us as we open your eyes to the cinematic polished turd that is Days of Future Past.

Ah, well. At least Bryan singer was having fun! We’re glad somebody was. – H

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S3E11 – Carnage à Trois

This week we’re covering season 3, episode 11 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – ‘Carnage’.

It’s the Carnage episode! Even though last week was basically a Carnage episode and this one is more of a Venom one! It’s a bit of a Rambo: First Blood Part 2 situation.

This episode is a non-stop train to crazytown, so after a quick foray into a gameshow of Jack’s invention, we’re talking hipster demon lairs, cosmic sibling rivalries, symbiote peer pressure and psychic exposition

This episode closes off the Carnage two-parter as Cletus racks up 6 stars in GTA, while Jack make up for their own confusion with plenty of references to The Simpsons, Book of Henry, Zardoz and Wishmaster. Just to make it even. Then we have a quick chat about that new trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage… and a moment of silence for Woody Harrelson’s wig.

 

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S3E10 – Mama Venom: Here We Go Again

This week we’re covering season 3, episode 10 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – ‘Venom Returns’.

It’s the one where, yes, Venom returns.

Venom is back with a bang, and before you can say “aw s***, he we go again” Eddie’s trolling is has led to a far worse kind of extremely online crazy: Carnage the slack-jawed yokel.

Ol’ Cletus is Chucky meets the Joker meets one of the chans, but luckily pessimistic Peter is here with some back-up from a George Foreman-powered War Machine. But behind the scenes, cheery Dormammu and SEO-seeking Baron Mordo are back to pull some Lawnmower Man CGI shenanigans and talk about… uh… replicating.

After that, Jack discusses the return of Venom in the comics and the first appearance of Cletus Kasady in The Amazing Spider-Man #344.

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Tombstone’s Comic Origins

We recently talked about Tombstone’s relationship with Robbie Robertson in our recent episode! But you want to see a little of what we were talking about, you can check out his origins below:

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S3E9 – Uncle Tombstone’s Lethal Love Grudge

This week we’re covering season 3, episode 9 of That 90s Spider-Man cartoon – known by most sane people as Spider-Man: The Animated Series – ‘Tombstone’.

Tombstone is back and this time ol’ Robbie Robertson is being brought along for the ride. We’ve got AI podcast titles, superhero symbologists, dungeons, basketball factories, monstars and Fornite-owned human beings! Beware: there may be one too many impressions.

Then Jack does his best to discuss the comic book history of Tombstone, starting in 1988 and ranging from surprise injections, helicopter dives, undercover Amish, pitchfork stabbings, jailbreaks backbreaks and spirit breakers!

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X-Men Movie Retrospective

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We’ve recently been using our Patreon feed as an excuse to give each entry in the X-Men film series its own full discussion, wherein we dive deep into what works, what doesn’t, and all kinds of other nonsense.

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Drunk Hot Takes: VENOM… Is Good Now?

Riot’s coming home! And he’s bringing some computer-generated bullshit with him! Yay! Henry and Jack take their third stab at this cinematic turd in the wind, and to be honest it was probably a mistake… or was it? Who knows at this point!

We talk a lot about Venom as a character, the symbiotes across the comics and – of course – the 2018 Venom movie feat. Eminem. It’s mostly movie talk, let’s be honest. Our opinions may surprise you!

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WandaVision Spoiler Review

So, after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Disney’s finally found a way to reel us back in for some more comic book stuff.

If you were looking for something new and different after the increasingly cookie-cutter nature of the MCU, then you found it… as long as you only watched the first eight episodes. 

Join Henry and Jack as they talk about Disney’s abusive relationship with comic book fans, Star Wars nerds and more, and revel in the race discourse around Vision and Wanda – sorry, I mean ViShawn and Wanda. 

We hope you enjoy, and as always, thanks for tuning in. We promise we did actually enjoy the show.

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The Wolverine retrospective

On this edition of That 90s Spider-Man Show’s slightly regrettable journey through the X-Men cinematic universe, we’re finally coming out the other end of the bad phase!

Just kidding, there are tons more awful movies to talk about in the Mutant-verse, but here instead is a break from that. It’s James Mangold’s The Wolverine. It’s good, and there’s not really much more you can say about it than that. 

So why’s this episode an hour long, you ask? That’s… uh, that’s… That’s a good question.

Anyway, as always, thank you for your continued support, and if you’re into it, tell your friends so they can share your shame about paying a non-zero amount to hear nerds offer lukewarm takes on superhero movies!

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