While breaking its' host out of prison, a spawn of the sinister Venom symbiote bonded with another human being--Eddie Brock's prison cell mate Cletus Kassady. A dangerous criminal, Kassady's psychopathic tendencies were amplified a thousand-fold when the bonding process transformed him into the nightmarish Carnage! Able to morph his limbs into as many deadly shapes as his twisted mind can conjure, Carnage is living chaos--and certain doom for the amazing Spider-Man!