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Venom and Carnage crash into Army of the Dead to fight their way through a symbiote infested Vegas in Venom/Carnage #4.
WARNING: This article includes major spoilers for Venom/Carnage Infinity Comic #4, on sale from Marvel now!
After wrecking their way through Vegas in a symbiote kaiju battle, Venom and Carnage’s most recent adventure has them fighting with each other through a symbiote-infested Sin City in a clear homage to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead.
Venom/Carnage Infinity Comic #4 by Karla Pacheco, Scott Hepburn, Ian Herring, VC’s Joe Sabino, Annie Cheng, Tim Smith 3, and Devin Lewis shows that what symbiotes do in Vegas, stays in Vegas. The issue opens with a passed out Cletus Kasady waking up after Venom’s previous attempt to defeat him spread pieces of Carnage throughout the city, infecting everyone in the area. Cletus reconnected with Carnage by grabbing onto people from the symbiote-infected mob chasing Venom then runs after him. Venom rushed through the mob, quickly formulating a plan to use an underground casino vault’s power supply to shock the symbiotes off of the crowd.
Flying through the city, Venom dropped into the casino through the skylight then tore through the room until he got to the elevator and dropped down to the basement. Afterwards, Venom made his way through the symbiote infested hallway leading to the vault and found a group of thieves trying to break into the vault as their final score before they can retire. He kindly asked them to let him pass and they obliged, only to be massacred by the group of symbiotes Venom had just defeated.
Inside the vault, Carnage ambushed Venom. While the duo traded a combination of punches and witty banter, Venom slyly connected the device the thieves were using to break into the vault to the power supply, then used it to shock Carnage. The blast of electricity arced through every person in the city, freeing them of the Carnage symbiote.
While Army of the Dead featured zombies not symbiotes, Venom’s romp through Vegas definitely has some clear similarities to the 2021 zombie film. In the movie, after a zombie outbreak ravaged Vegas, the city was walled off from the rest of the world. A team of mercenaries snuck their way in to break into the Olympus Casino’s vault to steal $200 million before the city is nuked to erase the zombie threat.
The clearest reference between this issue and the film is the group of thieves trying to break into a Vegas casino vault in the middle of symbiote/zombie outbreak. Much like the film, the group of thieves that Venom meets don’t make it out of Vegas with their lives intact. That’s the most striking similarity, but there are a few other bits that allude to the film that are more subtle, like both having one being who infected the rest of the rank and file. For the film, it’s Zeus, the alpha zombie, and the comic has Carnage. Also, both have a character getting trapped inside the vault they were trying to break into. Dieter locks Vanderohe in the vault to protect him from Zeus, while Venom locks Cletus in the vault to make sure he can’t infect anybody else.
While it’s not necessarily a direct homage, both Venom/Carnage and Army of the Dead end on a somber note, hinting that worse things are coming. The film ends with one of the mercenaries, who managed to escape finding that he was infected after making his way out of the city.
Meanwhile, the comic ends with the Carnage symbiote seemingly about to bust Cletus out of jail. From the references found throughout the issue, it’s clear that the writers were at least nodding to Army of the Dead. While it’s far from the first time Marvel’s Vegas has been invaded by the supernatural and superheroes, this one is definitely one of the most fun romps through Sin City.
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