Collects Venom vs Carnage (2004) #1-4. What?s worse than one mayhem-producing symbiote? Two. What?s worse than that? Three. That?s Venom?s offspring, Carnage, is about to have a baby itself?
Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.
Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).
First time in years that I have read a graphic novel and as I do like Marvel's Venom I decided to give this one a go.
The story itself was one that I enjoyed, a series of four stories in the one edition that features Vemon, Carnage and Toxic, it also features Black Cat and Spiderman. Toxin is the off-spring.
The graphics are good, and the artist is talented but some of the images didn't work for me. I am glad I read this as it has been years since I did. I would be happy to recommend it.