Marvel announces “Extreme Carnage: Phage #1” coming this July

Marvel had announced the start of a new saga spinning out from King in Black with Extreme Carnage. We have now been given our first look at one of the symbiote offspring being spotlighted — Extreme Carnage: Phage #1.

Cover by Skan

Cover by Skan

What’s Happening:

  • Extreme Carnage, a series spinning out of King in Black is starting this July with Extreme Carnage: Alpha #1.
  • The event will take place over a series of one-shots, each spotlighting a different symbiote offspring — Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Agony.
  • We previously reported about Extreme Carnage: Scream you can read about here.
  • Marvel has also announced that Phage will get placed in the spotlight in Extreme Carnage: Phage #1 by writer Steve Orlando and artist Gerardo Sandoval.
  • Extreme Carnage: Phage #1 will come out on July 21.

What They’re Saying:

  • Steve Orlando, Writer: "As a young reader in the 90s, no event was bigger and more blockbuster for me than Maximum Carnage – between the console games and the comic stories, it was an entire chapter of my life! So to be part of Extreme Carnage, and work with the Life Foundation Symbiotes (who also popped into my life early thanks to SNES) is beyond exciting! Carnage's new plan is about to upend our world from its bedrock, and being able to explore how Phage fits into that world has been a great moment. He'll come out of our issue with a power and charisma even more terrifying than before – and trust me, he'll live up to his name in the first five pages alone!"

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