YMMV / Carnage (2023)

• Complete Monster: "Cletus Kasady" is a clone of the original created by the Carnage symbiote to help it answer the question "What is a god?" and establish a religion to worship it. Acting as the Carnage symbiote's apostle, "Cletus"—inspired by the mystery of true-crime podcasts—began murdering people with the same names as the 12 Apostles of Christ, trapping one man in a glass box covered in ciphers to be boiled to death. Hunting down the original Cletus Kasady and scornfully eating his brain to absorb his consciousness, "Cletus" poisoned the elderly Rose Thompson with Polonium-210 to force her son Flash Thompson to weaken the Anti-Venom symbiote healing her, attempting to assimilate it before trapping him in the Darkforce dimension. Hunting down and tormenting Dylan Brock and the Venom symbiote in an attempt to draw out Eddie Brock, "Cletus" tortured Dylan by revealing the full extent of the Venom symbiote's dark past before impaling him through the heart. While superficially charming, "Cletus" is every bit the nihilistic and sadistic sociopath the original was, boasting that the act of murder makes him feel like a god.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The cover for the third issue set up a fight between Extreme Carnage and "God Butcher" Carnage—following through with the ending of Carnage Reigns showing a piece of the Extrembiote survived and was starting to regenerate—with the implication that it would end in a partial return to status quo through "God Butcher" Carnage absorbing the Extrembiote and the original Cletus' consciousness. Instead, the issue features the original Cletus Kasady somehow back from the dead in an enfeebled human body and without any symbiote at all, resulting in a Curb Stomp Cushion fight that ends with the Cletus clone and Carnage symbiote cutting off the top of the original Cletus' skull and eating his brains to absorb his consciousness. There's also no explanation as to how the original Cletus regained a human body or what happened to the surviving piece of the Extrembiote, an especially egregious Aborted Arc since the events of Carnage Reigns were mentioned in the previous issue.