Absolute Carnage: Avengers #1

Avengers: One-Shots

by Leah Williams, Zac Thompson, Clayton Crain (Cover Art)

CAPTAIN AMERICA! HAWKEYE! THE THING! WOLVERINE! Years ago, Cletus Kasady used the Carnage symbiote to take over a small town called Doverton, Colorado, as well as the team of Avengers who arrived to stop him! Barely able to free themselves from his control during their first meeting, this small band of heroes will have no choice but to assemble once more after they discover that Doverton’s entire population has recently fallen victim to Carnage’s more lethal designs…

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Horror

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2019

About the author

Leah Williams is an American writer originally from Oxford, Mississippi. She has written comics for Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Vault Comics, and is working on more. Her debut novel was a YA Fantasy book titled The Alchemy of Being Fourteen and she is currently writing its sequel, The Divinity of Hitting Fifteen. Leah has nonfiction articles and essays published in The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, and Salon.

Reviews

[Tiag⊗ the Mutant · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is how you do a one-shot tie-in, managed to tell a lot more with a couple of stories than many limited series did in the past with full five-issue runs.

[The Wintermute System · Rating 3 out of 5]

A more necessary tie-in than Deadpool Vs. Carnage, but not as much fun, and it didn't add enough to feel essential, either.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Going into this for some reason I felt like it wouldn’t be good. But I was wrong. This was a good tie in. Cap, Spidey, Thing and wolverine working together on the east coast and Hawkeye on a solo run on the west coast. Both seemed to accomplish their mission and will all meet up in Venom #19. I liked how they pulled small elements from the Hawkeye Matt Fraction run. Like how they showed the different arrows he was using and some of the things he would say.

[Nino · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a disappointing read. I was excited to read this companion to the Absolute Carnage series but there just wasn’t a good enough plot in this one-shot that wasn’t already covered by AC. Everything felt forced in NYC and Hawkeye’s solo adventure in SF was lacklustre as well.

You can miss this one unless you want to see how 4 experienced heroes team-up in a predictable way and if you’re a diehard Hawkeye fan.

[Rachel Green · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a tie-in, it did a really good job of addressing where Hawkeye came in and everything that happened off screen with him and the Avengers during the build up to the last issues of Absolute Carnage.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 1 out of 5]

#Unnecessary

[B!!! · Rating 5 out of 5]

All my faves in one story! Exciting!!!!