Cletus Kasady

I don't think- Checks out.

What happens in this movie, which is, uh, Cletus, which is Woody Harrelson's character, he bites Eddie and then gets some symbiote in his mouth.

I think he bites Venom as well.

Yeah, and Venom.

in the- That is- Yes.

So, I'm reading here- I think I have read this comic, actually, because it does sound familiar.

So, Eddie was in prison, and his cellmate was Cletus in the comics.

Then Venom breaks Eddie out of prison- Because he's like, Eddie, we must go be the lethal protector.

And, you know, it's, it's the Mangaverse, so they're going for a lot, as many Japanese cultural kind of gestures as they can.

But in this story, she fights the Marvel Mangaverse version of Cletus Kasady, Carnage, uh, and he's held a bunch of yokai, or, like, minor gods, specters, fairies.

He's, he's holding these things hostage for power.

So it's basically Psylocke versus Carnage plus Japan.

So if that sounds like fun to you, check it out.

It looks really cool.

Absolutely.

Next up, using the same sculpt, we have the secret common Cletus Kasady.

He is in the raft, and he's trying to escape and become Carnage here, a 0-0-4-B.

Maximum Carnage, Symbiote, the Monster.

And now I have like a whole template in my brain.

Yeah, one of the One of the things that keeps coming back to me with Sabretooth anytime I pick up a Sabretooth title or a Sabretooth arc is that he is very much like Carnage or the Joker in that the unpredictability factor, I think, might be appealing to many people.

You just never know when he's going to, like you said, clear a path all of a sudden.

You never know when his motivation is going to wildly shift.

and that lack of compunction and that unpredictability i think is exciting for some readers especially if maybe you don't have that spontaneity in your uh in your day-to-day um and so just following saber-tooth feels like a rush or a roller coaster in the same way that carnage does but i just think that we get a little bit more into the psychology of carnage in those titles

Yeah, Carnage and Sabretooth are comparable.

If you remember Marvel versus DC back in the 90s, at the end of that, they did an amalgam universe where they mixed all the characters together.

Sabretooth and the Joker were mixed together.

out.

This is an honest question, because like I said, I always go back to like Cletus Kasady.

I always pronounce that my head Celius for like no legitimate reason other than I was a kid and I didn't spend any time trying to pronounce it correctly.

So so I believe you that you're not calling me out.

To that end, the first pick for the book would be Amazing Spider-Man issue 361, published in early 1992 and written by David Michelini with art by Mark Bagley.

This is the story that introduced Carnage, real name Cletus Kasady, a serial killer who is infected by the alien symbiote, who then, thanks to his fractured mind, becomes the ultimate killing machine.

With Peter Parker unable to deal with Carnage alone, he is forced to call Venom in for help.

Carnage, for some inexplicable reason, became incredibly popular in the 90s, but to me summed up everything bad about the decade.

I just don't care for him.

The idea of like a serial killer, and it's not even Cletus Kasady anymore.

But I just don't see the point that if I feel so against something that I would use this platform to try to persuade people into thinking that.

And I'm trying to think.