10 Comics You Loved As A Teen (But Should Never Return To)
4. Maximum Carnage
The nineties were a... confusing time for comics. Everything was extreme, edgy or some variation on either word, and while the X-Men were still Marvel's most profitable super-team, its most popular solo hero was still everyone's favourite friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.
Spider-Man's popularity had approached astronomical levels while Todd McFarlane handled art duties, and this just so happened to coincide with the rise of Venom as a key force in Spidey's comics. The two forged a fearsome rivalry, but then Marvel decided Eddie Brock could be better utilised as an anti-hero rather than as a straight up villain.
Enter Carnage, a Symbiote offspring that attached itself to notorious serial killer Cletus Kasady while he and Brock shared a cell. Carnage embarks on his own wave of terror, and so it falls to Spidey and Venom to track him down, and put a stop to him before more innocents are hurt.
And that's basically it. Maximum Carnage features a cool team-up between Spider-Man and Venom that would get any fan excited, but in reality it embodies some of the most dated tropes of that particular decade.