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-Matt

Ok I havn't read since like 2000, I was a huge Spder-Man mark back then and I want to know if they ever gave his daughter back to him?

Who's dead?

Whos NOT dead anymore?

Is Norman Osborne a bigger A-hole than when I left?

Know who would have been an awesome Venom?

Ben Reilly. But I digress..there's actually a good symbiote out there now (Toxin, spawn of Carnage (who is dead, or MIA)).

And there's just this freaking ongoing war over Gwen Stacy..Bendis has decided she's perfect for Peter no matter what happens, ever. JMS decided he was gonna tarnish her name by giving her Goblin spawn (Oh, poor Norman, let me have pity sex with you...wtf is that?). Both ideas are retarded. She's been in the ground for over 20 years out here in the real world. Peter's getting it on with Mary Jane. People need to fucking move on and deal with it.

I mean yeesh Mary Jane FIGURED OUT who he was by paying F'ING attention and being smart. She CHoSe to accept his life and him and tried to make him have some sense of normalcy. Gwen was just blonde. So Carnage is dead but Symbiote dead is evenworse than X-Men dead, is this thing mORE violent than Carnage?

i allways wondered why they didn't make a mature rated title featring Crnage, except it's probably be pretty dangbloody.

Carnage is supposedly dead in that Sentry grabbed him and flew into space with him and ripped him in half. That doesn't mean that he is really dead though. This is the same company that keeps bringing Jean Grey and everyone else that died back.

The symbiote seems to sort of reflect to an extent the mind-set of the person that it joins with. Eddie Brock hated Spider-Man and had a perverse sense of right and wrong, so the Venom symbiote did too. Cletus Cassidy (sp?) was a psycho that killed for the heck of it, so the Carnage symbiote was the same way.

As for the idea of a Carnage title under a mature heading, I really don't think it would work. Venom was (I would say) unarguably more popular than Carnage and his title did not do well. Give Taskmaster his own mature title. Or even someone like Absorbing Man or Ultron. I'd like to see that.

-Matt

i just meant a one shot book. i don't think h could support a series. And the man has survived being encased in cosmic glaze by the Silver surfer so being ripped in half may not to much to dissway him.

No dead beats x-men dead though it is COmPlETElY negotiable.

Toxin wants to be violent (I assume that's who you're asking about) but is restrained by his host, an ex cop, who's trying to teach it right from wrong. It's kind of tempermental about things too, which leads to some hilarity, like turning into an accountant rather than the scary symbiote.

Talk of the Symbiote makes me think a bit. I read the Comics section over at IP, the only part worth reading if you ask me, and I saw in a Marvel Questions column the question of the most powerful weapons in the Marvel Universe. Naturally, the Infinity Gauntlet and The Ultimate Nullifier are the top two, but what are some others that you can think of?

I've got:
Mjolnir
Storm Breaker (Beta Ray Bill is someone I should have put on some team. He's awesome!)
Terrax's axe
Iron Man's armor
Annihilus's Control Rod
The Alien Symbiote
Mandarin's Rings

What are some of your ideas? And what about DC? Aside from Green Lantern and other power rings, what about powerful weapons there?

-Matt

I only go over there for a few things myself..comics being the main one (I write there when I'm not being lazy).

I think Iron Lad's armor is far more powerful than the original, so I'd say that's a pretty good bet. I can't really think of a ton of actual weaponry that people tend to use..most books I read people have powers rather than outside weapons.

Other than power rings in DC..I think at one point the watchtower had a fusion gun..do they still? Was there ever an orbital magnetic rail gun? I can't remember..most of my DC knowledge is fairly recent or from JLU. Does Amazo count? And if he does, I say Nimrod and Ultron for Marvel.

Voltron's blzing sword.


Seriously on major weapon Zero.


I remember him from Deadpool essentially he could destroy ANY weapon with a snap of it's fingers. If YOU were a walking weapon same thing. Id say that something that can rend any weapon null and voind is retty high on the power chart.