Marvel’s Original Lethal Protector Is Helping Carnage Hunt Down a New Host

Eddie Brock has a brand-new mission, and it could mean handing the most dangerous symbiote of all time more powerful than ever before.

Eddie Brock: Carnage #1 kicks off the former King in Black's new career in absolutely horrifying fashion, and with some truly gut-wrenching implications. Despite commanding Carnage throughout the hunt for a brazen serial killer, Eddie couldn't keep his new symbiote other from taking control of their body and potentially slaughtering an entire passenger jet's worth of innocent victims. To make matters worse, the only way out of this relationship for Eddie is finding Carnage a new host, and the serial killer symbiote's top picks are all among the most powerful heroes and villains the world has to offer.

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

The Carnage symbiote was first glimpsed in the pages of 1991's Amazing Spider-Man #345 by David Michelinie and Mark Bagley. Born from the Venom symbiote while Eddie Brock was incarcerated in prison alongside the serial killer Cletus Kasady, Carnage quickly latched onto the murderer in whom it found a twisted kindred spirit. Before long, Cletus and his newfound ally had established themselves as the deadliest serial killer the Marvel Universe has ever seen, not to mention one of the most dangerous supervillains of all time.

In the decades since, Carnage and Cletus have been at the center of a myriad of iconic storylines. In the aftermath of King in Black, the pair split up, with Carnage embarking on a bid for political power, all while Cletus came to gruesome terms with his then newfound existence as a symbiote being unto himself. Although the two would eventually bond with each other once more, the events of Marvel Comics' Venom War drove Carnage and Cletus apart all over again, leaving the former in dire need of a new host.

Like Carnage, the events of Venom War left Eddie Brock in a dangerous situation of his own. Stripped of the immense power he wielded as the King in Black and without a symbiote to help him heal his wounds, Eddie had no choice but to bond with Carnage when it came calling. While Eddie has been growing accustomed to his new symbiote from the shadows, Venom has been enjoying its time with a mysterious new host in about as public a fashion as possible. So far, two of the four major suspected hosts behind the All-New Venom have been cleared, although neither Rick Jones nor Robbie Robertson have proven that they aren't hiding a whole new set of symbiote superpowers.

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

Source: Marvel Comics