Comic Summary II (Maximum Carnage ''Part6'')

I don't like the beginning of this. We immediately introduce another character. And this guy is the most pathetic of a lot, he's some lame little vampire who feels really out of place in a Spider-Man world. He feels like he belongs in that Spawn comic.
Morbius!!

Are you kidding me? It was bad enough that we had Demo-goblin and that loser named Cloak. Those two were always kind of pathetic but the introduction of this lame vampire really doesn't help things. And for some reason he's going to help out Venom and Black-cat?
I get the two are desperate to take down Carnage and his posse of more interesting villains, but come on guys. You can do better than this lame-o. Can't you get Dr. Robotnik*, Mysterio? Heck even the vulture is cooler than this guy.

Now we head over to Spider-Man who is patching himself up again. I swear he's turning into Wolverine from the animated X-Men series. He's constantly getting beaten down and having to heal himself. 

I guess it's not really a bad thing, Spider-Man really is out of his element. There's a bunch of costume freaks out of there trying to attack one another. The city is falling apart and his girlfriend wants little to nothing to do with him. Even his own sentimentalises are falling apart as his ideas of virtue and value have fallen to the wayside. To take on a more pragmatic Punisher ideology. Something that doesn't really work with Spider-Man given that he's a boy scout sentimentality.

Peter Parker even remarks to himself that Spider-Man would be able to deal with the stresses better if only Mary Jane were here at his side. But she's gone and unknown to Spider-Man.

We do eventually figure out where Mary Jane is. She's at some hip nightclub dancing with a bunch of random strangers and acting a little bit ridiculous. 

I Get It Mary! Your upset, Peters being a jerk and a little self-centred (despite the fact that you know his secret identity and the stress that he's under.) But at the end of the day dancing with random Men and possibly breaking up your relationship with Peter is a bit of a stretch. 

If you want to go and see other people that's all well and good but maybe break up with Peter first . Otherwise it just makes you a bit of a cheating whore. And no! Being upset at your significant other does not give you the excuse to cheat on them. I wouldn't expect you to put up with that when it comes to Peter. And it's not like he hasn't been tempted. Black-cats always trying to get under his mask (in more ways than one.) And he for the most part has resisted. And if one day he did fail I would expect Mary Jane to chew him out.

But more important than Mary Jane and Peter's relationship is the very unique personalities that are about to come crashing through the doors at the local nightclub. Why it's Carnage, shriek, The Doppelganger and that other guy. All here to crash the party and cause more general mayhem.

Still I'm far more interested in Carnage and his friends than I am in the main Heroes. As it is there just running around and doing what they wish to do with little to no consequence, while our superheroes are completely under minding their own personalities trying to stop them. Admittedly we don't get a lot of Carnage personality in this comic. He's medicated to the basic antagonist role and all we really get out of him as a halfway decent fight. In fact that's really all this comic is, just a giant fight. The whole thing's a little too busy for my liking and would look a lot more at home if it was a black and white comic.

And unfortunately the character Cloak is still alive still blabbering on about the death of his friend and still being a general nuisance. I keep hoping that something will happen to him. I really don't like this Cloak guy.
There's a weird part in the comic where Venom saves Mary Jane from Carnage's death claw. He then proceeds to lick Mary Jane on the face. Claiming that they're even for Spider-Man saving his ex-fiance some years ago.

The comic ends with Carnage and his crew retreating away, leaving the club in desolation with Spider-Man and his friends having to rescue and take care of the survivors. It's here that we see Peter Parker finally be-friend Mary Jane and the two of them are a little closer to ending their argument. You know the fight isn't over but at least they aren't at each others throats anymore**. Sadly the same cannot be said for Carnage. Who are main gang of Heroes are still trying to hunt down. This comic doesn't end with a cliffhanger like the other ones. It's a little bit more subdued and perhaps that's a good thing. Given that the last 3 comics all had Fairly heavy Cliffhangers.
Also that whole subplot with Spider-Man losing his morality doesn't really go anywhere. He's not running around hurting people and he still a bit of a goody-two-shoes at least by the standards of everybody else.

*I said Doctor Robotnik last I checked that was a sonic character. What I meant to say was Dr. Otto Octavius.

**That's not entirely true. MJ still sees that Peter can't really look her in the eye and that he's still avoiding her. He's still more preoccupied with capturing Carnage and possibly dealing with the friend of his former friend Harry Osborn who was the second Green Goblin. When you really get down to it Spider-Man's life is a never-ending torment to misery drama and crippling self-loathing.