11 Essential Storylines To Read If You Love Spider-Man

Carnage, the spawn of Venom and alter-ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady, is probably the most iconic Spider-Man villain to originate in the 1990s. After all, it's one thing when a symbiote attaches to someone mentally strong, like Peter Parker or Eddie Brock, but it's something entirely different when one attaches to an absolute psychopath.

Carnage made a big splash following his original debut, and was given his own fourteen-part mini-series entitled Maximum Carnage shortly thereafter, which spread across five different Spider-Man comics series.

After recruiting Shriek, Doppelganger, Demogoblin, and Carrion, Carnage begins to cause widespread destruction. In response, Spider-Man had to team up with Venom, as well as the likes of Captain America and Iron Fist to try and take Carnage and his faction own.

It's a prime example of Spider-Man characters becoming bigger than themselves and essentially overtaking the Marvel Universe at large. Hence, why checking it out is so important for fans.