Comics What did you think of the Maximum Carnage Arc???

[Green Goblin 1964]

Well, what did you think of the Maximum Carnage Arc from the 90's I believe....??????

Post your opinion here....

 

[SalaciousVC]

it was cool,i kinda liked doppleganger

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

I thought it was cool. It had alot of great battles, etc.

 

[Venom 1988]

It was crap

Just a 14 issue 90s slugfest with no story. Just to boost sales of off characters like Venom and Carnage cause the look "KEWL"

It was much better as a video game

 

[VICTORVONDOOMX]

When I hear "Maximum Carnage" I think..."stoopid."

 

[The Lizard]

It was crap

Just a 14 issue 90s slugfest with no story. Just to boost sales of off characters like Venom and Carnage cause the look "KEWL"

I pretty much have to agree. At the time the story started, it seemed cool to have Venom, Carnage, Doppelganger and various other "savage killer" characters together, but the story went nowhere and had no real writing to speak of.

A perfect example of 1990's mindless overkill in comics.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Bloated, over-the-top 90's crap. Everything that was wrong with that era of Spidey. Actually one could argue that's REALLY when Spider-Man starting jumping the shark. But it didn't do any lasting damage like Sins Past or the Other so it's easy to ignore.

Loved the Sega videogame though. t:

 

[Doc_OCK_4MUGEN]

It's cool but a bit too hard... I had to use a game genie to beat the game... There I've said it... I haven't beated the game without cheating... oh wait you guys were talking about the comic book arc... it started ok but it ended up meh... and they killed doppelganger...

 

[imdaly]

I absolutely loved it.

I was literally about 2 months into collecting and learning about Spider-Man, so "Maximum Carnage" was a great way to quickly get to know a good handful of Spidey's friends and foes. Sure it wasn't a very deep story, but it was a blast and a great way to really get a good feel about the world that Spidey lives in and how his morals define him and such.

So say what you will, but this will always be a classic in my eyes.

 

[ragingdemon155]

I absolutely loved it.

I was literally about 2 months into collecting and learning about Spider-Man, so "Maximum Carnage" was a great way to quickly get to know a good handful of Spidey's friends and foes. Sure it wasn't a very deep story, but it was a blast and a great way to really get a good feel about the world that Spidey lives in and how his morals define him and such.

So say what you will, but this will always be a classic in my eyes.

I'd have to agree with you.

This was around the time that I started collecting Spider-man comics. I understand the argument that many have with the story. Most say that it wasn't "deep" and that it was a "slugfest". I don't think the story intended to be deep. From start to finish though, I had a blast reading it. Still to this day, its one of my favorite Spider-man stories that I've read.

I really wish the character of Carnage would have stayed dead after this storyline though. Could have been a satisfying ending to his character imo.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

I loved it.

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

i bought it on ebay for 15 bucks...to find out one of the writers signed it...(they said a special gift goes out to whoever bought it)....i was excited when i was about to read it....i took it on my trip to florida...sat back in the sand and read like heck....was it worth the read...of course! its spidey!...was it good?....no it was rotten...sold it for $25 on ebay 2 weeks later

 

[Uber Venom]

13 or 14 parts...too much.

 

[Arcturus]

I loved it.

Me too.

 

[wolvie2020]

It was crap

Just a 14 issue 90s slugfest with no story. Just to boost sales of off characters like Venom and Carnage cause the look "KEWL"

It was much better as a video game

Totally agree.

I was getting to about 13-14 at the time, and I was becoming a proper musician and getting into girls, so my funds for comics were dramatically dropping.

Not so long after this arc, was my real decision to drop Spidey comics for the 1st time. It really started out as a financial thing, but then after reading those stories, even as a kid, I really lost interest.

Don't get me wrong, every now and then I got a hankering for Spidey, but I kept coming in on bits of the Clone Saga. So as you guessed, I ended up losing interest pretty much up until the start of JMS' run.

Basically, I feel Maximum Carnage was the start of the end for me, (at the time.) I really felt I was getting a better, (although watered down,) Spidey fix from the animated sereis at the time.

 

[Galactus]

Before the clone-mess arrived this was probably the story I hated the most.

 

[shinlyle]

Personally, I hated it. It started out as "okay", and quickly turned into a "how many heroes and villians can we cram into this story" type of disaster.

I mean, how many hundreds of peopel have to die before the X-Men, Avengers, Fantastic Four, and Ghost Rider (who responds to the death of innocents) show up to visciously dispatch the motley crue of b-listers that followed Carnage around?! Ugh.

Also, this arc was the beginning of the "nothing can stop Carnage because we're going to make him as incredibly powerful as possible so that even the SILVER FREAKIN' SURFER can't dispose of him" (see later arcs). Sorry. I was a Carnage fan through the first arc, but I thought they should have left it there. After this, I never cared to see him again. I mean, we went from one month having Spectacular Spider-man #200 (GREAT STORY), to the next month, having the beginning of this crap-fest. It was the starkest of contrasts.

 

[Flint Marko]

I thought it was alright, but the ending was awful....

 

[Dangerous]

I think I would have to say that Maximum Carnage sucked s-hit.