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Bunn Sandoval Arizmendi Arciniega RATED RATED 0 0 2 1 1 $3.99 ARIZMENDI ARCINIEGA SANDOVAL BUNN US T+ 7 5 9 6 0 6 0 9 5 1 8 6 2 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! YEARS AGO, THE LIFE FOUNDATION--A DANGEROUS CONGLOMERATE THAT, FOR A TIME, FOCUSED ITS EFFORTS ON DESTROYING SPIDER- MAN--CAPTURED THE VENOM SYMBIOTE AND FORCED IT TO SPAWN FIVE OFFSPRING: SCREAM, LASHER, RIOT, AGONY AND PHAGE. DONNA DIEGO WAS THE ORIGINAL HOST TO THE SCREAM SYMBIOTE BEFORE HER MURDER AT THE HANDS OF EDDIE BROCK. THE CALL OF KNULL—THE SYMBIOTE GOD—WAS TOO STRONG TO KEEP THE SCREAM SYMBIOTE BURIED, AS IT AROSE FROM ITS SHALLOW GRAVE WITH THE BODY OF DONNA DIEGO TO FOLLOW KNULL’S BIDDING. PATRICIA ROBERTSON, THE FORMER HOST TO THE MANIA SYMBIOTE, HAS BEEN BIDING HER TIME FOR THIS EXACT MOMENT, BUT ALL OF HER TRAINING COULDN’T STOP THE INEVITABLE, AS THE SCREAM SYMBIOTE ABANDONED DIEGO’S CORPSE AND BONDED TO PATRICIA! BEING CONTROLLED BY THE SPIRAL OF KNULL, SCREAM IS NOW HUNTING ANOTHER PREVIOUS MANIA SYMBIOTE HOST—ANDI BENTON! CULLEN BUNN WRITER GERARDO SANDOVAL WITH ALEX ARIZMENDI PENCILERS GERARDO SANDOVAL, ALEX ARIZMENDI & VICTOR NAVA INKERS ERICK ARCINIEGA COLOR ARTIST VC’s CORY PETIT LETTERER GERARDO SANDOVAL & JASON KEITH COVER ARTISTS DECLAN SHALVEY [CODEX]; MARK BAGLEY, JOHN DELL & MORRY HOLLOWELL [CONNECTING] VARIANT COVER ARTISTS ADAM DEL RE DANNY KHAZEM DEVIN LEWIS NICK LOWE LOGO DESIGN ASSISTANT EDITOR EDITOR EXECUTIVE EDITOR C.B. CEBULSKI JOE QUESADA DAN BUCKLEY ALAN FINE EDITOR IN CHIEF CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ABSOLUTE CARNAGE: SCREAM No. 2, November 2019. Published Monthly by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. BULK MAIL POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, NY AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES. © 2019 MARVEL No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. $3.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. Subscription rate (U.S. dollars) for 12 issues: U.S. $26.99; Canada $42.99; Foreign $42.99. POSTMASTER: SEND ALL ADDRESS CHANGES TO ABSOLUTE CARNAGE: SCREAM, C/O MARVEL SUBSCRIPTIONS P.O. BOX 727 NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040. TELEPHONE # (888) 511-5480. FAX # (347) 537-2649. [email protected]. DAN BUCKLEY, President, Marvel Entertainment; JOHN NEE, Publisher; JOE QUESADA, Chief Creative Officer; DAVID BOGART, Associate Publisher & SVP of Talent Affairs; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of Publishing; DAVID GABRIEL, SVP of Sales & Marketing, Publishing; JEFF YOUNGQUIST, VP of Production & Special Projects; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; DAN EDINGTON, Managing Editor; SUSAN CRESPI, Production Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in Marvel Comics or on Marvel.com, please contact Vit DeBellis, Custom Solutions & Integrated Advertising Manager, at [email protected]. For Marvel subscription inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. Manufactured between 08/09/2019 and 08/19/2019 by CENVEO, RICHMOND, VA, USA. .
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