Carnage: Black, White & Blood

Black, White & Blood

by Tini Howard (Writer), Ken Lashley (Artist), Juan Fernández (Color Artist)

Carnage is back, carving a path of chaos in his wake — one crafted by some of the greatest creators at Marvel! But beware, True Believers: true to their titular character’s namesake, these spine-chilling tales are not for the faint of heart — and they are presented in brutally beautiful black, white…and blood! Featuring the serial-killing super villain in savage battle with Spider-Man like you’ve never seen before; a horrifying tale set against the backdrop of the classic Maximum Carnage event; and much, much more! And now the symbiotic slaughterfest is bigger and badder than ever, collected in the oversized glory of a Treasury Edition! You’d better hope the printer has enough red ink…because there will be blood!

COLLECTING: Carnage: Black, White & Blood (2021) 1-4

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Spider Man, Superheroes, Bande Dessinée

136 pages, Paperback

First published November 2, 2021

Reviews

[marina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this from a comic book swap with a friend let’s see what I think:

Part One:
-OMG so many characters!!
-Ahaha look at Carnage cracking those jokes
-Blood.

Part Two:
-Dude in the Wild West
-More blood. I mean this is a Carnage comic…
-Um this is confusing

Part Three:
-Flash Thomas?!
-Carnage don’t you dare eat those babies
-Oh look here comes a crime fighting giraffe and their elephant partner

Part Four:
-Cletus in a tube
-Wow that’s a lot of blood-
-Carnage for President ig

Solid 🪱🪱🪱.8 worms. I LOVED the beginning, and the art was amazing, but the plot got a teeny bit confusing towards the end.

[Garrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of the most gorgeous comic books I’ve ever read but some of these stories are so poorly written that I wonder how they were even published. Thankfully there were at least a few good standouts. Gotta say I’ve never cared for anthology comic books!

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super great art, so/so story.

Most of these stories are kind of one dimensional or flat. Mostly carnage killing and nothing really exciting. Few try more like Dan Slott's sinister plotting of Carnage driving a man to kill himself, or Donny Cates farewell to his carnage, or even one of carnage keeping Spidy tied up. All good stuff but the rest were kind of forgettable.

Amazing art though in the Library edition, well worth it for that alone.

A 3 out of 5.

[Harper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome short story collection with some really effective horror in it. Changed my perspective of Carnage from being an edgelord murder character to being a terrifying force of nature like the Thing

[Quill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easily the worst of the ‘Black, White, and Blood’ series, although I’ll concede that might be due to my lack of familiarity with the symbiote mythos. Still some great stories, especially the Comic Con one and the post-apocalyptic world. The one with the boy on the farm was good till Spider Man was there. What the hell is Spider Man doing on a farm?

[Alex Sarll]

On the one hand, Carnage is probably Marvel's worst character, a checklist of all that was worst about nineties comics; I sometimes think back to the guy I saw in the noughties with a massive tattoo of the twat (is it still a sleeve if it's on your calf?) and wonder whether he's embarrassed yet. On the other, the art in these three-colour anthologies is often gorgeous, especially in the oversized editions, and this does have Al Ewing reprising his choose your own adventure schtick, with John McCrea on art. And yes, if you take the right path, there is one brilliantly tortured joke which singlehandedly renders that story worthwhile. But as for the rest of the torturing and rendering here: oh dear. Apparently at some point after I abandoned Donny Cates' Venom run, Carnage ceased to be the child of Venom, born on Earth relatively recently, and became some knock-off ancient bogeyman who's been with humanity for centuries. So we get various stories through history, which prove only that Carnage is such a one-note character (ooh, serial killer who says edgy things) that he can be tedious in absolutely any era, or even as a shark. At one point he even gets the classic dialogue "HAHA HAHAHA HAHA! YES!!!", and if you gave him the SICKOS t-shirt to match the scene would actually become slightly more subtle. And the various time periods really show up the shoddy editing, whether it's a pirate ballad which thinks 'whomst' is olden days for 'who', or the story which concludes with two captions reading "The West was won, after all..." "...are written in blood." Something having very obviously gone missing in the middle. Even the art isn't that exciting, despite contributors like Greg Smallwood, Sara Pichelli and Joe Bennett, because it always comes back to the same oogly boogly tentacled dickhead. Avoid unless you really like Carnage, in which case avoid me.

[Chris M · Rating 3 out of 5]

As usual for Carnage, great art with mostly boring stories. The best story was the shark Carnage or maybe Carnage during the Pirate era.

I get anthologies are mostly for lesser-known or new artists and writers to get their feet wet, but that doesn't excuse the fact that most, like this one, are essentially filler.

I love Carnage, but Marvel never seems to quite know what to do with him, and he's totally at odds with the PG-13 type of film/books they push the most. As such, he generally gets third-tier writers at best, and it shows.

If art alone can carry it for you, get this, but you'll forget most of the stories as soon as you finish them.

But hey, CARNAGE SHARK.

[Rumi Bossche · Rating 2 out of 5]

Carnage Black, White & Blood. Marvel has a simple concept with the Black White & Blood series. Short stories highlighting a character with here 90s goodness (or badness) with the Spidey villain Carnage. I think the character could be perfect for this, and with Donny Cates, Chip Zdarsky, all ewing, Dan Slott and more this could have been good, sadly it wasn't. The stories are very mediocre to he honest, the art is good, but in the end is the stories that matter. My least favorite if this series so far.

[Keef Davidson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really cool set of stories with really good art. It would be a good coffee table book.

[Andre vieira · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uma antologia de historias originais do Carnificina, adorei, penso que este é daqueles personagens que são sempre secundários a uma história, pouco desenvolvidas ou são simplesmente os vilões, mas que são perfeitos para este tipo de livros, onde os criadores podem fazer basicamente o que quiserem, e foi mesmo isso que fizeram, desde historias de piratas a um western, passando quando o carnificina apoderou-se de um tubarão, mas sem duvida a mais original é a aventura RPG onde precisamos de um dado para escolher o próximo painel, sem duvida bastante original.

A minha favorita foi a historia "sem sobreviventes", onde um sobrevivente de um ataque do Carnificina é levado à loucura, tem um excelente final.

É de salientar a magnifica edição da G floy studios, mais barato que a edição em ingles em paperback, e em capa dura e versão "alargada". Comics são caros, mais caros que livros, mas estas edições valem a pena, são lindíssimas.

[Scott E · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best carnage I’ve read. Was expecting a five part story but really enjoyed the anthology, particularly the choose your own adventure style issue

[Ant Tellez · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.3/5.0

A barrage of gory and horrifying stories that feel way, and I mean WAAAAY too quick to adequately provide any plot for Cletus Kasady.

[Nuno Ferreira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pela G Floy Studio li Carnificina: Preto, Branco & Sangue, um álbum gráfico antológico com participações de autores como Sara Pichelli ou Donny Cates. Em linha com o que já tinha visto em Wolverine: Preto, Branco & Sangue, as imagens sucedem-se de forma violenta, visualmente gratificante, destacando a cores apenas as imagens de maior destaque, o vermelho e o Carnificina. Ainda que o argumento seja interessante, é mesmo o trabalho gráfico a mais-valia do álbum.

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[Adam Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

This mini-series of short stories focuses on Carnage, and really makes a statement for the character by having everything colored either black, white, or red throughout the whole book. The oversized copy really allowed the details to shine as well. There was one issue that had a "choose your own adventure" style story, which had me go through it about 3 times, and was very fun.
While we do get to see Carnage's thoughts in a post-King in Black world, I'm not sure how much of this is canon. Totally fun and easy read though.
Recommend.

[Zak Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

With more than a handful of talented artists depicting tales of spectacular bloody splendor, this is an anthology of symbiote slaughter sure to entertain almost any fan of the titular character.

Whilst the writing can be found somewhat lacking in a few places, the impressive roulette of art styles and striking black, white and ‘blood’ color scheme spread over an array of settings made this an engaging read.

3 / 5
Worth picking up if you dig Carnage and his menagerie of hellish hosts. Shark Carnage may just be my favorite iteration of the character.

[Ross · Rating 2 out of 5]

An anthology series featuring the most murderous character in the Marvel Universe. Wow, what could go wrong?

Well, the fact that this pops up just as DC does something similar with Batman and Wonder Woman titles. I'd argue that they're doing it several steps better AND with two of their main characters.

If this was listed as a horror anthology...mayyyyyybe this could survive, but this is just random stories (guess it IS on brand for Carnage, but still)

[Urbon Adamsson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the Wolverine book much more to be honest.

The art is still fabulous, just like it was in Wolverine, but the stories here are much weaker.

One of the stories is one of those reading games that makes you jump between pages. The idea is cute but it doesn't work very well.

It is worth it for the art. That's it.

[Dkaysup · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am giving this book a 4 star rating mostly due to the art. Although their isn’t really a plot but instead, carnage doing carnage things in different dimensions. I recommend this book for readers who enjoy looking at the pictures before reading the dialogue. You could flip through this book solely as a gallery of greatness.

[Davide Saladino · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disegni stupendi, molto suggestivi (quelli di Checchetto sono uno spettacolo).
Le storie sono abbastanza brevi ma alcune sono molto interessanti.
Il punto forte è sicuramente il formato (grande quanto un absolute) che rende al meglio le tavole.

[JP · Rating 2 out of 5]

Art was great, but the stories were uninteresting. Was kind of hoping for more of a look at carnage and the relationship between symbionts and victim. Maybe some interesting backstory and exposition, but sadly just carnage and victims.

[Pat · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know much about this character and after reading this I still don't.
The brutality became tedious after a time and on the whole it was a dull read.
The art was varied and in some cases quite good which worked well with the larger format.

[Jaime Guzman · Rating 2 out of 5]

A book with short tales about Carnage. Most of these stories were "meh" with the art work being just above that.
There were a couple of stories that stood out a bit but not good enough to remember them.
Pass this one up.

[Nico · Rating 4 out of 5]

as with most anthology titles, its pretty hit or miss, but if you're a carnage fan, you'll be glad to hear its got some solid stuff, with not many actually weak short stories. a couple have weak endings or just dont do enough with their concept, but for the most part this is a pretty solid title

[Beelzefuzz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the pirate one and the one where he was basically the Joker in Arkham. The comic con one was silly but okay.
Mostly these were forgettable and the art was never too stand out compared to other BWB books.

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Even though carnage is a character I care little about, these stories were surprisingly bad given the writers on at least half the stories are top notch. Some are in continuity, some are Elseworlds type stories, pretty much all of them stink.

[47Time · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whiile the stories aren't related in any way, they offer so much variety that surely you can find something good. They are all full of violence and spilled blood, so I guess that might be a commonality.

[Central Comics · Rating 3 out of 5]

O livro vale mais pela arte que é deslumbrante, do que pelo argumento.

[Jiro Dreams of Suchy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Carnage in black white and red. Lots of killing, but still boring

[Jason Werner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love the art style.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent mix of stories. The End of the Trail story had the greatest art and story.