First Look: AXIS: CARNAGE #1 & AXIS: HOBGOBLIN #1

I love that hobgoblin cover. What is Axis exactly? I think it's odd how Carnage isn't part of real spider man stories anymore. He just gets a mini event every 7 or so months.

@rainja: Villains banding together? Villain one shots?

Eh. Tired of Carnage. I can only take so many mini-series with him in them before it feels like all the same stuff. Hobgoblin is cool, in theory, but I don't like the original Hobgoblin's actions and his decoys.

@iaconpoint: How so? I dont see the comparison being made.

So this is marvelnow!'s version of forever evil? And so soon...

Axis sounds good... As I won't read it, it will give time to read other stuff !

"NYC will never look at Carnage the same way again!"
"One that will bring out a side of the Hobgoblin you’ve never seen before!"

I don't like the sound of that at all.

@flameboy298: Carnage USA is definitely the best Carnage story out there. Zeb Wells with Clayton Crain equals for a mean machine of Carnage.

I don't care very much about those mini-series but the covers are really nice.

Carnage looks awesome

I'm just picturing Carnage singing on that cover:

"And I'm proud to be an American! Where I can kill so freely! With a symbiote, in my blood! It just feels good to me! And I'll gladly tear out! Your organs! And mount them where all can see! 'Cause there ain't no doubt, I'll kill you all! Today just ain't your day!"

Is it me or is the only symbiote I'm normally interested in is Venom? Carnage isn't that big to me. Hobgoblin is good and all but idk if he should get his own series. I'll read it for the hell of it.

Mine too, and he's absolutely my favorite Spider-man villain.

Probally gonna buy carnage just for the cover in hopes to get it signed and hang on the wall. But with my budget these days I can only buy like five books a month so I have to make them count. I can always find out what's going on in a series but to buy a book I gotta love the art. (I hate myself for saying that)

One of my all time favorite villains

Carnage cover is sick. i'm down.

Rick Freaking Spears!! Very cool & exciting; I'm not even a fan of Carnage at all usually, but if you've been reading The Auteur (and you SHOULD), he seems like a great fit.

carnage is cool. I just don't think he's being written that well anymore.

@comedy_brosusa: Carnage not interesting...? Wut...@mje360: Carnage USA was great!!! Minimum Carnage on the other hand...

That Carnage cover makes me think of Carnage USA.

Those are cool covers.

The decoys are stupid, but I will say it IS good strategy, like you said. I've thought that it was for a little while but I just think there should be a limit. The whole fight between hobby and Norman in ssm 26 didn't seem possible because the decoy reacted to Norman as though he was literally Kingsley, which I know Kingsley brainwashed people to believe them to be him, but that just seemed downright impossible. And the organization thing is good, but again, is a little annoying, in my opinion, when Slott writes in random villains from the 70s we've only seen once or twice, and make them new villains with new Alter egos like we are supposed to know who they are.

and yeah, Carnage(the 1st mini series) was great. Same with USA. everything after that was crap. superior carnage made no sense, as he has never made an appearance in Superior Spider-Man.

haha, yeah. I just can't understand why carnage won't return to ASM instead of other books where he has no relevance. Slott will never do it when he's on the book(amazing spider-man), as he has barely even touched venom, and instead highlights no-name villains. But yeah, Kassidy has to do something big to make me change my opinion on him. I mean he IS a psycho in a symbiotic suit, which is a cool concept, but I would've liked seeing him in 'Amazing' before this whole AXIS thing so I could at least get the opinion of him being one of the nastiest villians from his roots, rather than a few mini series.

I might read Carnage, but I'm not feeling Hobgoblin.

Can someone fill me in on this upcoming Axis event? Haven't been following comic book news for a while. Also is Original Sin any good?

The description for these two makes it sound like they are going to be good guys in these minis and that has me worried

@comedy_brosusa: I agree to an extent. That decoy crap and always behind the scenes is annoying to an extent. The flipside to that in my opinion is it shows how intelligent he is and he aint just a "dumb" character. I like the idea of him building his own organization of sorts.

Now as for carnage, Superior Carnage was good, so was Carnage Usa, and the story with him and Iron man. This recent deadpool crap was garbage. I mean, to me its like a fodder episode of naruto which is horrible. Hopefully, this new book redeems that somehow.

Roderick Kingsley is the freaking Man! I am all over this.

I'm glad deadpool mind f*cked him hard. Like you said it was getting boring, it was good to see him finally visibly upset.

I like Carnage but...I'm not feeling it for some reason. I'll see what the reviews are like when it comes out, I could be swayed.

I've got a real soft spot for the Hobgoblin and I really like Javier Rodriguez.

I love the Hobgoblin cover.

I may consider picking it up.

nice covers. Is this Marvel's villain's month?

Sure. I'm in.

yeah.....I might have to agree. Kingsley is really getting on my nerves right now because he never faces things himself. he always gets a hobgoblin decoy to do his dirty work. Carnage is just not...interesting anymore.

Don't care about these but nice looking covers

I'll probably skip both of these.