First Look: CARNAGE U.S.A. #1

Hot off the heels of this week's AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #1 and the recent CARNAGE mini-series, Zeb Wells and Carnage are back in CARNAGE U.S.A. #1. Also returning is Clayton Crain on art. Things are about to get really messy and no one is safe.

Prepare for a whole new brand of terror as the critically acclaimed creative team of Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain let Cletus Kasady loose on America’s heartland in Carnage U.S.A. #1! Leaving a wake of bloodshed, no one is safe from Carnage’s lunacy – even the Avengers! Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man and more of Earth’s Mightiest must go on a brutal hunt to capture Cletus Kasady before the American heartland falls under his mass-murdering spell. Buckle in for the most mind-blowing cross country tour fans have ever taken in Carnage U.S.A. #1, this December!

Check out this first look courtesy of Marvel. Who else might we expect to show up?

CARNAGE U.S.A. #1 (OCT110632)

CARNAGE U.S.A. #1 RAMOS VARIANT (OCT110633)

Written by ZEB WELLS

Pencils and Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN

Variant Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS

FOC – 11/14/11, ON SALE – 12/7/11

wow

Huh...Clayton Crain illustrates a really different looking Ben Grimm.

Carnage is a bad-@$$ villain. Who doesn't get enough of him?

Had this on pre order sicne the first teaser appeared in Crains Carnage isues , Its looking great as usual.

imma get this sh!t, son.

Carnage was such a phenomenal miniseries, I can't WAIT for this to begin

zeb wells did a great job in the first series of taking a villian that just seems to be mayhem and not much story, and making it into something horrifyingly awesome and actually substantiel. stoked about this.

this looks so awesome, I am going to have to pick this up

@longbowhunter: yeah but he looks amazing.....I've never really given the Thing much thought because everybody draws him almost the exact same way but that is one hell of an awesome look

I thought Sentry ripped him and checked Carnage into the Sun?

@MutenRoshi:

Repeat with me, 'No One Stays Dead Except Bucky, Jason Todd, and Uncle Ben'.

The art looks phenomenal but I wish Marvel would give it a rest with the team-ups.

Man I love the way that looks!

wow this looks really awesome!! I love the Thing with his sonic blaster

This artwork is spectacular, his one of Doppelganger and also that one with Carnage holding webs and iron man, exceptional.

I liked Carnage ever since the Maximum Carnage video game!

Awesome this looks sweet, hopefully it's not the next Marvel title to get the axe :P I was just wondering what the current status of Carnage was. I'd personally like to this mini resolved by the Avengers defeating Cassidy and pulling the symbiote off him, only to have it select Eddie Brock as its next host.

This looks like it will be incredible and graphic. Carnage looks like he's getting a strength boost or become more deadly somehow. He's taking on everyone now. Looks personal too. The art is spectacular.

@MutenRoshi: He only got ripped in half, not thrown into the sun. As for how he got back to Earth, read the first "CARNAGE" mini by Zeb wells.

"Huh...Clayton Crain illustrates a really different looking Ben Grimm." I like it. He has more of a muscular and toned linebacker look versus his usual massive girth of an offensive lineman look.

Love Crain's art style. Glad to see him getting more mainstream stuff as he's mostly done the darker stuff. But then again Carnage fits into that. They should let him do a run on Defenders next.

So this is nothing like.....
 Spider Island?
 Web of Shadows?
 Mighty Avengers (when everyone becomes a symbiote)?
 
Laaaaaame

@longbowhunter said:

Huh...Clayton Crain illustrates a really different looking Ben Grimm.

Yeah i noticed that too. He almost looks like Strong Guy with those arms and legs. Ben has a lot more muscle definition in these scans than rocky bulkiness.

Clayton Art work is the truth! wow..

Whatever happened to soldier Venom?

The art looks phenomenal but I wish Marvel would give it a rest with the team-ups.

@spiderbat87 said:

@Nasar7 said:

The art looks phenomenal but I wish Marvel would give it a rest with the team-ups.

Same, wish it was just the spiderman family dealing with this.

Is this an ongoing or a mini? The more I think about it, the more it seems this should just be a story arc in New Avengers or something. But of course, money.

@Golden Cod: Didn't uncle ben come back in Friendly Neighborhood spider-man?... so who are we left with that is still dead..... I've got nothing....

This looks pretty cool.

@Larkin1388 said:

This looks pretty cool.

QFT

@jordama said:

Whatever happened to soldier Venom?

He still has his own series and just took a big role in Spider-Island....?

@InnerVenom123 said:

@jordama said:

Whatever happened to soldier Venom?

He still has his own series and just took a big role in Spider-Island....?

Venom is a soldier and Carnage USA. Since when are symbiotes patriotic?

I love the last panel on the last page. "So, Spidey... What ya think o' your pals new duds? Pretty SPIFFY, huh?"

That's how Ben Grim should look in movies!!!!

Crain's art is perfection for this.

@jordama said:

@InnerVenom123 said:

@jordama said:

Whatever happened to soldier Venom?

He still has his own series and just took a big role in Spider-Island....?

Venom is a soldier and Carnage USA. Since when are symbiotes patriotic?

You're kidding, right...? Venom's going rogue around #12 of his series, and the "USA" in "Carnage: USA" is just to signify what he'll be rampaging, the American heartland.

Yea, that art looks awesome. I may check this out.

Oh Boy oh boy can't wait!

Hate the art.

Intriguing.

The art looks really great for this series.

@zombiejesusii said:

@Golden Cod: Didn't uncle ben come back in Friendly Neighborhood spider-man?... so who are we left with that is still dead..... I've got nothing....

I just googled "uncle ben friendly neighborhood spider-man" and the Wikipedia entry for Uncle Ben claims he was from a different corner of the multiverse. I'm inclined to believe it because Uncle Ben's CV gallery would otherwise be exploding with new pictures. Nor would Marvel revive him without milking an event out of his return.

Nice see carnage is back

the art is just silly.

Crane finally touched up his art. much better and it doesn't look like dark scribbles anymore like his x-force drawings.

alot of people hate team ups but i love sayin super heros work together epic!!

I think I'm looking forward to the return of Toxin in this series more than anything else!

F**k yeah, Clayton Crain!!

it looks pretty damn good!