Carnage has finally joined Marvel’s Venom War, and he is slaughtering his way straight to the top of the corporate ladder.

Venom War: Carnage #1 finds the titular symbiote on the hunt not for new victims but for answers regarding the secretive K-Program that Alchemax has been working on. As it turns out, this dangerous new technology has its roots in Marvel’s symbiotes, and it could prove to be a potent weapon against them. As such, Carnage will go to any lengths to get his hands on whatever the K-Project has produced, even if it means slithering inside those who are employed to keep it running and controlling their bodies around as best it can.

Written by TORUNN GRØNBEKK Art by PERE PÉREZ Colors by ERICK ARCINIEGA Letters by VC’s JOE SABINO Design by STACIE ZUCKER Main cover art by GEOFF SHAW & FRANK MARTIN Variant covers by JAN BAZALDUA & EDGAR DELGADO and SALVADOR LARROCA & GURU-eFX

The spawn of the Venom symbiote, Carnage bonded to Eddie Brock’s former cellmate and convicted serial killer, Cletus Kasady, not long after it was born. Soon enough, the two were embarking on a campaign of horror that reshaped Spider-Man and Venom’s shared corner of the Marvel Universe. In the years since, the two have ended up parting ways under unnervingly violent circumstances, leading Carnage to recreate its former host in its own image before setting out on a mission to become the latest God-Butcher.

Marvel’s Venom War has come about due to the two different visions of the future seen by Eddie and his son Dylan Brock, respectively. In Eddie’s case, he has seen a vision of the future in which the entire globe is engulfed in a singular symbiote, one that has plans to expand its reach across the stars. For Dylan, the vision he saw was of Eddie clad in his King in Black armor decreeing that not just the Marvel Universe, but the entire Multiverse, would be snuffed out with its ninth iteration.

These visions were shown to Eddie and Dylan by the Eventuality, the seventh iteration of Eddie Brock as King in Black. Eddie first met his other selves after being displaced within the Garden of Time created by his sixth iteration, Meridius, who had trapped Eddie and the others within his ethereal realm. Once Eddie escaped the Garden of Time, he traversed through the endless expanse of the Un-Beyond, where he met his seventh and final self. There, the Eventuality revealed not just Eddie’s future, but his true purpose as the King in Black.

Venom War: Carnage #1 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.

Source: Marvel Comics