CARNAGE #2
TORUNN GRØNBEKK (W) • PERE PÉREZ (A) • COVER BY PAULO SIQUEIRA
NIGHTMARE VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
VARIANT BY SIMONE BIANCHI
FLASH IN THE DARKNESS!
CLETUS KASADY has been reborn! But to truly ascend to absolute power, he needs two things: loyal followers and a worthy nemesis. Meanwhile, FLASH THOMPSON becomes convinced that a series of increasingly horrifying murders are all connected. But who is CARNAGE’S true target?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS: BATTLEWORLD #2 (OF 4)
TOM DEFALCO (W) • PAT OLLIFFE (A) • Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
VARIANT COVER BY LEONARDO ROMERO
VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY LEONARDO ROMERO
ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY TODD NAUCK
SATURDAY MORNING CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY SEAN GALLOWAY
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
BRING ON THE BAD GUYS!
SPIDER-MAN, freshly attired in his new ALIEN COSTUME, is pulled from the SECRET WARS to face a NEW challenge — the might of the HOBGOBLIN, BARON ZEMO, ELECTRO, CONSTRICTOR and more!
Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! But how did THIS set of villains find their way into the BATTLEWORLD of SECRET WARS?! Only this issue holds the answer to this forty-year mystery!
Do not miss Tom DeFalco and Pat Olliffe’s ALL-NEW in-continuity tale featuring SPIDER-MAN, HUMAN TORCH and a slew of surprises!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
VENOM #28
AL EWING (W) • JULIUS OHTA (A) • Cover by CAFU • VARIANT COVER BY TBA
NIGHTMARE VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO • VARIANT COVER BY ARTHUR ADAMS
A SYMBIOTIC FREE-FOR-ALL!
Freshly united and teamed up, VENOM and TOXIN fight like hell to save one of the Marvel Universe’s greatest heroes from the darkness within her, unleashed by an all-new, all-horrifying symbiote! Remember how VENOM used to eat brains but then got over that as it tried to become a hero? Well, THIS symbiote doesn’t share that kind nature!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
CULT OF CARNAGE: MISERY TPB
Written by SABIR PIRZADA
Penciled by FRANCESCO MORTARINO
Cover by SKAN
ON SALE FEBRUARY 2024
The mother of all symbiote stories! Liz Allan is Normie Osborn’s mom and is blissfully unaware that her son is the all-new and all-deadly Red Goblin! But she does know something strange is going on – and after her late husband’s father, Norman Osborn (maybe you’ve heard of him?), gets pulled into the chaos and violence swirls around Normie, Liz has no choice but to use the resources at her disposal as the head of Alchemax to take matters into her own hands and become something the Marvel Universe has never seen before! Meanwhile, Toxin and his fellow Life Foundation symbiotes have been stolen! But by whom? And why?! Regardless, it’s up to Liz to save the symbiotes before they fall into the wrong hands and unleash untold havoc across New York! Collecting CULT OF CARNAGE: MISERY #1-5.
120 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99
RED GOBLIN VOL. 2: NATURE/NURTURE TPB
Written by ALEX PAKNADEL
Penciled by JAN BAZALDUA & CHRIS CAMPANA
Cover by INHYUK LEE
ON SALE FEBRUARY 2024
Nature vs. nurture? CARNAGE REIGNS may be over, but Normie Osborn and the Rascal symbiote’s problems are only just beginning! For weeks, Normie has pacified the symbiote and managed to keep the rabid killing machine inside it under control. He’s been trying to do the right thing and, in the process, has had to face down small-time criminals and lowlifes. But that leaves him poorly prepared when the bloodthirsty and brutal mercenary Crossbones tracks him down, intent on taking both Normie’s symbiote and his life! In a battle for survival, Normie is about to learn that you can’t fight nature – but if he starts losing himself to the corrupting influence of his symbiote, his family and pal Dylan Brock are prepared to mount a final push to save the Red Goblin from himself! Collecting RED GOBLIN #6-10.
112 PGS./Rated T+ …$15.99
VENOM: LETHAL PROTECTOR – LIFE AND DEATHS TPB
Written by DAVID MICHELINIE
Penciled by FARID KARAMI
Cover by PHILLIP TAN
Venom vs. Doctor Doom! Venom co-creator David Michelinie returns with a new story set in the sinister symbiote’s past, back when brains – and Spider-Man – were still on the menu! Prepare for an epic that will take Venom far from the streets of NYC – all the way to the kingdom of Latveria! When Silver Sable and S.H.I.E.L.D. come calling, Venom is recruited into a battle to stop a tech-worshipping cult from getting their hands on a doomsday weapon. Speaking of doom, there’s a certain supreme leader of Latveria who also has his titanium-armored eyes on the same prize – and he’s not the only one! Brock is about to be challenged like never before! What (or who) will Venom need to overcome the fiercest foe in the Marvel Universe? Collecting VENOM: LETHAL PROTECTOR II #1-5.
120 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99
Written by AL EWING & TORUNN GRØNBEKK
Penciled by RAMÓN F. BACHS, KEN LASHLEY, SERGIO DÁVILA, CAFU & JULIUS OHTA
Cover by BRYAN HITCH
For months, Eddie Brock’s consciousness has been displaced in time! You’ve seen what happens when he flung himself into the far future of the Marvel Universe – now see what happens when he tries to traverse its past! When the Golden Age robotic hero known as Flexo returns, the part that symbiotes have played in the Marvel Universe is about to take a surprising and new turn! Then Toxin – offspring of Carnage – returns, more terrifying than ever! Get ready for a symbiote unlike anything you’ve ever seen! And Doctor Doom has something Eddie Brock needs. What could it be?! As two of the most dangerous entities in the world clash, what calamitous circumstance will befall both Eddie and Doom? Collecting VENOM (2021) #22-25.
120 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99