![]() Grønbekk uses eloquent and serious language throughout the captions and Carnage's dialogue, starkly contrasting with the surrounding cast's more naturalistic and informal speech, mainly comprised of civilians. With its coldly poetic tone, the omniscience effectively lends a sense of hopelessness and helplessness, giving weight to the gravity of Carnage and Cletus' reunion and new reign of terror. Grønbekk's use of narration is crucial to establishing the bleak tone of this issue. This occurs as an omniscient voice narrates, via frame device, the innermost thoughts and motives of the characters, especially those of Carnage itself - a film noir narrative device rendered in a tone akin to scripture or moral parable. Grønbekk's writing style brings to mind the hardboiled, bloodied, and ice-cold Scandinavian crime dramas, putting front and center the worst of humanity's impulses and dark obsessions.Ĭarnage and Cletus fuse as one being, united by a relentless and almost religious drive to kill and "convert," spreading their version of a twisted, misanthropic gospel, committing a series of ritualistic murders, dismemberment, and torture. Many of the classic trappings are there - a morally bankrupt villain protagonist, a down-on-his-luck hero, gloomy city skies, grimy diners and bars, cryptic conversations, and a killer on the run. Carnage # has a distinct film noir feel, intermingling with cosmic and slasher horror and thriller. Carnage and Cletus Kasady are some of the most infamously violent and psychologically twisted characters in the Marvel continuity, their depravity standing out even in the tangled mass of the multiverse. Of course, from the get-go, writer Torunn Grønbekk makes it clear that this story is different than usual, even for the Symbiote-serial killer pairing. ![]() After the chaos of the Death of the Venomverse, Carnage's reunion with Cletus would seem like a return to some sense of normalcy. Carnage #1 picks up after the events of the Carnage Reignsand Summer of Symbiotesarcs, where Cletus Kasady separated from Carnage, merged with the Extrembiot,e and waged war with Miles Morales' Spider-Man, leaving the Symbiote free to traverse the multiverse, leading a trail of gore and devastation in its wake - and building up its powers to terrifying, near-godlike degrees.
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