Eddie Brock Can’t Trust His New Symbiote – And the Reason Why Is Terrifying

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Marvel's former King in Black is already losing control of his lethal new symbiote.

Eddie Brock: Carnage #1 opens to find Eddie Brock seated on a passenger plane alongside dozens of others, one of whom he already knows is a serial killer. When things go awry, it takes all of Eddie's might to force his new symbiote into a form capable of rescuing his fellow passengers from the impending crash. Unfortunately for him, whatever happened in the hours between then and when he awoke at home is a complete mystery, and Carnage has no intention of letting Eddie know what he did with that time.

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Eddie Brock: Carnage #1

Written by CHARLES SOULE
Art by JESÚS SAIZ
Colors by MATT HOLLINGSWORTH
Letters by VC's JOE SABINO
Design by CARLOS LAO
Main cover art by IBAN COELLO & FRANK D'ARMATA
Variant covers by MARK BAGLEY & RICHARD ISANOVE, ANDREI BRESSAN & CECI DE LA CRUZ, ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO & MATTIA IACONO, CHRIS GIARRUSSO, TODD NAUCK & RACHELLE ROSENBERG, and HUMBERTO RAMOS & EDGAR DELGADO

Over the course of his comic book career, Eddie Brock has gone through some of the biggest changes of any Marvel character. First seen in the pages of 1986's Web of Spider-Man #18 by David Michelinie and Marc Silvestri, Eddie made his debut as a wildly competitive investigative journalist. Eddie almost had a major breakthrough when he reported on the supposed true identity of the Sin-Eater, yet the fact that he had been running interviews with an absolute fraud while Spider-Man was catching the real Sin-Eater utterly destroyed his career. Not long after, Eddie bonded to the Venom symbiote by chance, with their combined hatred for both Spider-Man and Peter Parker setting them off on a crusade of terror that forever altered the course of Marvel history.

The murderous symbiote known as Carnage made its Marvel Comics debut in the pages of 1991's Amazing Spider-Man #345 by David Michelinie and Mark Bagley. The spawn of Venom, Carnage was born during Eddie Brock's time incarcerated alongside Cletus Kasady, a notorious serial killer. Soon enough, Cletus' penchant for wanton death and destruction was the Carnage symbiote's entire personality, and the two quickly established themselves as one of the most lethal supervillains that the world has ever known. Despite this decades-long bond, the two recently parted ways, forcing the Carnage symbiote to seek out a new host just as Eddie Brock was looking for a lifeline of his own.

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Eddie and Carnage bonded to one another during the climactic events of Marvel Comics' recently concluded Venom War crossover storyline. After being pitted against his own son, Dylan Brock, not to mention the likes of his own villainous future self known as Meridius, Eddie was left beaten, battered, and on the verge of death. Luckily, the Carnage symbiote was close enough to sense Eddie in his time of need, leading to a bond that neither would have ever imagined forming under any other circumstances.

Eddie Brock: Carnage #1 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.

Source: Marvel Comics