Following the trend of comic-related topics posted lately, I just wanted to know if anyone ever read the 14-part Spider-Man story, “Maximum Carnage”, back in the day. It’s probably the only comic storyline I ever followed, to be honest. I thought it was good, but I wanted to hear you guys’ thoughts.
I never read it, but I used to own the SNES game based on it. Man, that game was great. And hard. Really, really hard.
It kinda went overboard with the LOVE AND PEACE part but then again, it went a bit overboard with the civil disorder due to evil in the hearts of men bit. Carnage and his dysfunctional family were colorful enough to be Spidey villains, maybe could’ve needed a few more of those guys to appear later.
Yeah, I have the game too. And…well, yeah, it is kind of hard, but I’ve beaten it a few times, so it’s not impossible. I wish it’d come out on the Virtual Console…
I don’t think it went overboard with the civil disorder thing, because it made it pretty clear that it was Shriek who was controlling their actions, more or less. And as for the villains, yeah, I agree with you. I always wondered why they picked such obscure villains, though. Actually, I think that Shriek is the only one of those villains that still poses a threat, including even Carnage (at least Wikipedia tells me as much).
Too bad, really. I was fond of Demogoblin. Shriek is supposed to be in the Spider-Man 3 game, though.
The way in which Captain America shows up and presents himself is wonderful.
Sarcasm??
No. I thought it was a beautiful spread, considering the events it follows.
Maximum Carnage is amazing. Carnage kills like 30 people within the first 10 pages of the comic (from what I infer that was less then an hour or so from his escape) and Doppelganger breaks Spiderman’s ribs before the end of the first issue. It can only go uphill from there!
I only played the videogame too. I was always going WTF at the amount of heroes and villains randomly popping out of nowhere into the storyline.
Nice to learn that there are comics to it, I’ll go after these and maybe now I’ll understand things a little bit better.
I too only played the great Final Fight rip off. I may download the comic series someday.
So far the best Spidey stories I read was the Boy Who Collected Spiderman and The Evil That Men Do.
Never read Maximum Carnage. My personal favorite of all Spiderman stories must be that one about the Great Game, where Joystick (One of my favorite characters ever!) shows up.
Should really try finding Maximum Carnage. It sounds great.
Like I said, I personally enjoyed it greatly…although it fails on the realistic side of things. I heard Marvel re-released it as a trade paperback a couple years ago, maybe try looking for that.
Realistic Side? Are you looking for realism in a fucking comic book?
Well, not probably what you’re thinking, but if Carnage had really murdered as many people as the comic said he did, they’d be calling the flippin’ national guard on him, and there would be more heroes than Spider-Man, Captain America, and a bunch of other guys no one’s ever heard of.
It’s actually over 50 within the first 10 pages (I checked), Peter overhears the estimated death count on a radio, and the killing spree certainly doesn’t end there.
Maximum Carnage sucked. It was a cool idea, Venom and Carnage are awesome characters, but the writing was horrid. Spiderman = OMG IM SO TORN SHOULD I KILL HIM NO WAIT ILL LET THEM SLAUGHTER MORE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF MY INABILITY TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE LOL. Venom had his head in the right place, while spidey was just being a huge bitch.
Does this mean Maximum Carnage was Hamlet-influenced?
Ever heard of suspension of disbelief? You need it to enjoy any work of fiction, since you know from the start they’re NOT true. Of course different stories require you ignore different things. In most superhero stories, you’re supposed to ignore that superpowers aren’t real, but the way people react is supposed to be. And there’s been plenty of realistic comic book stories. Realistic doesn’t always equal good, though.
Ren: Maximum Carnage never had much of a story. Just that Carnage set up this bunch of equally crazy criminals as his “family” and they went on a murderous rampage in New York city, and several street-level heroes, led by Spider-Man, tried to take them down. At least it made Demogoblin and Carrion into more interesting characters, and allowed the lesser heroes to shine for once (I guess the really mighty heroes were all out of town saving the World or something.)
No, there were all out on a mission in space. Duh. :hahaha;