Comics
Carnage Will Be the ‘Venom’ Villain; Sinister Six Could Assemble!
The best thing about comic books is that writers/publishers have years, decades, shit, centuries to spend time on character development. This is why many heroes spend time as villains and vice versa. To comic fans, the idea of a Venom feature film makes a whole ton of sense, but to the average viewer, it’s confusing as all hell. How can one of Spider-Man’s arch nemeses be the hero of his own film? This was the biggest question mark surrounding Columbia Pictures’ Venom (in theaters Oct. 5, 2018), an offshoot of their Spider-Man films that will feature Tom Hardy as the title character, also known as Eddie Brock. If Venom is the protagonist, who will be the antagonist? The obvious answer has been confirmed in an article over at THR: Cletus Kasady… aka CARNAGE!
This is just the tip of the iceberg as Sony is spinning a web around a new Spider-Man universe. With Spider-Man Homecoming‘s villain being Vulture (Michael Keaton), the studio is focusing on several spinoffs including Kraven the Hunter and Mysterio, not to mention the already announced Silver & Black, featuring characters Silver Sable and Black Cat.
The idea, says a studio source, is to build out a world gradually rather than launch one immediately, as they had been trying with Spider-Man villain ensemble Sinister Six, which has been shelved. Yes, Sony has gone back to the drawing board and is slowly revisiting their intentions to create the Sinister Six!
Carnage was created by writer David Michelinie and artists Erik Larsen and Mark Bagley, based on elements of the precursor character Venom, explains Wiki. Along with Venom, the character belongs to a race of amorphous extraterrestrial parasites known as the Symbiotes. “Cletus Kasady is a psychopath and a homicidal sadist. He is a deeply disturbed individual with a dark past: as a child, he killed his grandmother by pushing her down a flight of stairs, tried to murder his mother by throwing a hair dryer into her bathtub, and tortured and killed his mother’s dog, with a drill. After the latter, his mother then tried to kill Cletus and was apparently beaten to the brink of death by Kasady’s father, who received no defense from Kasady during the trial.
“Cletus Kasady became a serial killer. He was then captured and sent to Ryker’s Island prison for 11 murders—though he bragged about killing a dozen more—where he shared a cell with Eddie Brock, the host of the alien symbiote that turns into the supervillain Venom. When Brock’s symbiote soon returned to be bonded again, allowing Venom to escape prison, the symbiote unknowingly left its offspring in the cell; due to its alien mindset, the symbiote felt no emotional attachment to its offspring, regarding it as insignificant, and thus never communicated its existence to Brock via their telepathic link. The new symbiote then bonded with Kasady, transforming him into Carnage.”
Spider-Man was forced to offer a truce to Venom in order to stop Carnage. While Spider-Man doesn’t appear to be part of the feature film adaptaton, it’s likely this is the same staging for the film’s arc. More soon.
Zombieland‘s Ruben Fleischer is directing Venom, which shoots this fall for release in October of 2018.
Comics
‘Witchblade’ is Getting Resurrected This Summer in New Comic Series from Top Cow and Image Comics
Witchblade, the popular comic series that initially ran from 1995 to 2015 and launched a TV series, is getting resurrected in a new comic series from Top Cow and Image Comics. It’s set to unleash heavy metal, black magic and blood this summer.
Look for the new Witchblade series to launch on July 17, 2024.
In Witchblade #1, “New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini’s life was forever fractured by her father’s murder. Cold, cunning, and hellbent on revenge, Sara now stalks a vicious criminal cabal beneath the city, where an ancient power collides and transforms her into something wild, magnificent, and beyond her darkest imaginings. How will Sara use this ancient power, or will she be consumed by it?”
The series is penned by NYT Best-Selling writer Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, Batwoman, DC Bombshells) and visualized by artist Giuseppe Cafaro (Suicide Squad, Power Rangers, Red Sonja). The creative duo is working with original co-creator Marc Silvestri, who is the CEO of Top Cow Productions Inc. and one of the founders of Image Comics. They are set to reintroduce the series to Witchblade’s enduring fans with “a reimagined origin with contemporary takes on familiar characters and new story arcs that will hook new readers and rekindle the energy and excitement that fueled the 90’s Image Revolution that shaped generations of top creators.”
Bennett said in a statement, “The ability to tell a ferocious story full of monsters, sexuality, vision, and history was irresistible.” She adds, “Our saga is sleek, vicious, ferocious, and has a lot to say about power in the 21st century and will be the first time that we are stopping the roller coaster to let more people on. I’ve loved Witchblade since I was a child, and there is truly no other heroine like Sara with such an iconic legacy and such a rich, brutal relationship to her own body.”
“The Witchblade universe is being modernized to reflect how Marguerite beautifully explores the extreme sides of Sara through memories, her personal thoughts, like desire and hunger, in her solitude and when she is possessed by the Witchblade. So, I had to visually intersect a noir True Detective-like world with a supernatural, horror world that is a fantastic mix between Berserk and Zodiac,” Cafaro stated.
Marc Silvestri notes, “This is brand new mythology around Sara, and I can’t wait for you to fall in love with her and all the twists and turns. Discover Witchblade reimagined this summer, and join us as we bring all the fun of the 90s to the modern age and see how exciting comics can be. I can’t wait for you to read this new series.”
Witchblade#1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 17th, for $4.99 for 48 pages. And it’ll come with multiple cover variants.
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Cover A: Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto (Full Color)
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Cover B: Giuseppe Cafaro and Arif Prianto (Full Color)
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Cover C: Blank Sketch Cover
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Cover D (1/10): Dani and Brad Simpson (Full Color)
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Cover E (1/25): Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto, Virgin Cover (Full Color)
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Cover F (1/50): J.Scott Campbell (Full Color)
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Cover G (1/100): Bill Sienkiewicz. (Full Color)
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Cover H (1/250): Line art by Marc. Virgin Cover, Inks (B/W)
Witchblade #1 will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
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