Venom #254-255 - "Death Spiral, Part 3"

[laughing_tree]

There was a video game for Maximum Carnage way back in the day, and I was a Production Assistant on the commercial for it. My job was to drive the truck full of camera equipment from Long Island to Manhattan, pick up my producer, get breakfast and bring it all to set… but I didn’t realize that I left the key to the lock on the truck at home until we got the breakfast. My producer sat on giant coffee urns and held bagels in his lap as I drove to set – but I was so frazzled that I drove the wrong way down the West Side Highway and was pulled over by a cop!!! -- Joe Kelly

Maximum Carnage! I have to say, it’s been a minute, and I was a Clone Saga do-or-die back around when it landed – but I remember a whole pile of villains infighting and yelling at each other and hating each other as much as (or more than) they hated the comics. Can’t beat that! -- Charles Soule

During the 90s, I was off reading Proper Comics like Hate, Eightball, and Love & Rockets, so Maximum Carnage passed me by a little bit – I hear Carnage is pretty Maximum in it, but that’s about all I know. -- Al Ewing

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Comments

[blues32]

...seriously? She's copying Otto's look more and more. Goggles, the haircut, the outfit... Try being original, Trainer!

[huntleyhaverstock]

This feels like Good Spider-Man to me. Fun, funny, character-driven, with heroes and villains portrayed as complicated human beings with messy relationships, and firing on all cylinders.

Bless Ewing for being unable to resist bringing back HIMBO FRANKENSTEIN.