When psychotic serial killer Cletus Clay bonded with an alien symbiote, he found himself imbued with incredible strength, speed and agility, as well as the ability to create blades from the symbiote's skin. In that fateful moment a terrifying new horror was unleashed upon the world... the creature known as Carnage. Carnage returns deadlier than ever - along with his sinister sidekicks, the Doppelganger and his insanity-inducing girlfriend Shriek - and he's determined to see the streets of New York run red. Only the Amazing Spider-man and the Invincible Iron Man can stop him! But first the Wall-Crawler and the Golden Avenger must uncover the connection between the malevolent mass-murderer and the up-and-coming industrialist Michael Hall... Collecting Carnage #1-5 by Emmy Award winning writer Zeb Wells (Robot Chicken, Amazing Spider-man), with incredible art by Clayton Crain (Ghost Rider: The Road to Damnation, Venom Versus Carnage).

After turning Venom's world upside down a year ago, DONNY CATES and RYAN STEGMAN are about to put the Sinister Symbiote through hell again, only this time CARNAGE has come calling, and everyone who's ever worn a symbiote is dead in his sights! He's skirted the periphery of the Marvel Universe for months, but Cletus Kasady at last stands poised to make his grand return to New York in a blistering, action-packed story...and he wants to paint the town red! And there's NOTHING anyone can do to stop it! COLLECTING: Absolute Carnage 1-5