The
end is near!! This issue should just about wrap this story up. The
heroes have rallied, while the villains have fought among themselves
and weakened their numbers. I'd guess Carnage's crew gets defeated
here, leaving Carnage to battle the heroes in the 14th
and final part of this event. Why I'd want to read that considering
Carnage would have to beat like 10 heroes, I don't know, but maybe
this issue will do a great job on selling me on the final part.
Maximum
Carnage part 13: Spectacular Spider-Man #203:
Summary:
This issue opens with Dagger telling the heroes how she returned to
life. She became a being of pure light and lived in Cloak's... um,
cloak, blah, blah, blah. Shriek is uber pissed to see Dagger alive,
and challenges her. Both sides stand by and allow Shriek and Dagger
to go at it in what I guess is the co-main event of the evening.
Dagger ends up downing Shriek, and tries to pacify Shriek's madness,
but is unable to reach through. That leads to Shriek almost blasting
Dagger to death(again...), if not for a timely save by Spider-Man.
Carnage's team regroups and quickly realize that all of the heroes
save for Spidey had turned tail and run off. Spidey tells the
villains that the others may be afraid of Carnage and company, but
the he wasn't and would defeat them alone if he had to. The villains
then batter Spidey to near unconscious, which is kind of hilarious
after his speech. Before Spidey can get hit by the killing blow,
swerve!, the rest of the heroes return with a really big gun, and
blast the bad guys.
The gun forces the bad guys to... be good? I
guess that works. So yeah, the gun makes the villains feel good
thoughts instead of evil, which freaks Carnage out, causing him to
strain against the blast, which leads to an explosion. When the dust
clears, Carnage is dead, although his symbiote is conveniently
covering his face... Dun dun dun!! A bit later on, Venom confronts
Spidey alone and yells at him for stealing the glory of killing
Carnage. Luckily for Venom, Carnage emerges from a nearby pond,
giving Venom his shot at revenge.
Giant robot-looking dude shooting a massive gun? Yep, it's the 90's alright.
This event... Must continue!!!
Thoughts:
This issue was kinda on the dumb side. Let's start with Spidey's
plan first. So Spidey was the one who came up with the concept of
the “good gun” to counter Shriek's evil psychic energy. The gun
was put together at Rand Industries, which is Iron Fist's company.
So far so good, although I do take issue at the whole “good gun”
thing. Now here's where it gets dumb. Why did ALL of the heroes
have to go to get the gun, especially since it was Deathlok who was
going to fire it. Couldn't Deathlok and maybe two other people go to
get the gun while the others remained behind to battle Carnage,
instead of Spidey playing the martyr? As usual. No wonder MJ was
always mad at him back then... So the good gun leads to an explosion
due to Carnage fighting the good waves that were coming from it.
Just that last sentence tells you how dumb this issue was. Anyway,
the gun explodes and the heroes find “Carnage” dead. “Carnage's”
body has barely any symbiote on it, except for the face, which has a
totally intact Carnage mask on...
And the heroes brought that this
was Carnage?! Ugh... And so this entire event ends up as a threeway
fight between Spidey, Venom and Carnage, exactly how the first
Carnage story ended... This was a whole lot of story just to get us
to where we were the last time Carnage fought Spidey and Venom...
Clearly that's Carnage, and clearly he's dead.
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