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By Mark Rodriguez Carnage went on a killing spree and Deadpool decided he's crazy enough to take him down. After facing off several times, the battle led both of them to a military base designed to take down symbiotes. Carnage sliced and diced Deadpool into pieces and left him for dead. Unbeknownst to him, several symbiotes have attached themselves to Deadpool and have brought him back....  The issue opens in the Carrington Cottage Psychiatric Hospital as Carnage is questioning several of the doctors there, and killing them when he doesn't like the answers. Deadpool's words of 'following the signs' are getting to him and he hates knowing some force is out there controlling him since he's all about chaos. Just then he gets sniped, as half his face is blown off by a shot coming from the window. Shriek tends to him as they both realize that Deadpool is alivee and still out there.  Deadpool is hiding on a tree branch outside and sends Lasher,...

By Mark Rodriguez Carnage is on a rampage, and Deadpool decided he's crazy enough to stop him. After fighting it out, the killer maniac got away with help from Shriek. After Deadpool got help from a crazy fanboy, he managed to find Carnage and Shriek again in a getaway car, and due to a tractor the Merc with the Mouth was driving, Shriek hit her head on the windshield and is knocked out. Carnage is pissed and it's time for round 2! This comic starts off with Carnage and Deadpool hacking and slashing at each other. Carnage impales Deadpool, but he continues to talk his ear off. The symbiote tosses Deadpool onto a speeding truck. The truck driver stops and a crowd gathers to watch a badly broken and bleeding Deadpool get up and slowly heal back to normal. He looks more signs and sees a 'Mercury' logo on the truck driver and a schoolbus rooting for a team passes by, so he decides to look for a Mercury Team. Carnage has a family hostage in their car a...

By Mark Rodriguez Carnage has escaped and started yet another of his bloody murder sprees. Deadpool considered himself crazy enough to stop him and heads out to find him. The two meet, and Deadpool manages to shove a grenade into the symbiote's mouth. Just as the Merc with the Mouth gloats his victory, his face gets blasted off by Shriek, Carnage's just-as-insane female companion. Let's see what happens. Carnage is lifting Deadpool off the ground, while impaling him, and demands to know how he was found. Deadpool, while regenerating his face back, says he was able to follow his clues and patterns, since they're both the same kinds of crazy. Carnage is all about chaos and gets angry at being accused of having any sort of pattern and wants to finish him off. Carnage impales Deadpool multiple times, and the mercenary asks him if he likes music. Carnage thinks he's gone crazy and Deadpool blasts him with dubstep on his twin speakers. Deadpool e...

By Mark Rodriguez We recently celebrated our 10th year of the Video Game Masters show, which by default was our 10th year on YouTube overall. However YouTube has changed a lot during those 10 years and for many it just isn't fun anymore. Copyright claims have led to many videos being either claimed or taken down making it difficult for people to review certain games or topics. Most of the times these claims come from random people that don't even own whatever they say you're using without their permission. Things that can be considered sensitive topics or what YouTube might consider the wrong side of their political views can lead to channels losing their monetization or being taken down altogether. With YouTube now even announcing its own TV service, many small time creators have had enough of the corporate influence and unfair copyright policies that keep coming up. The issue lies in where are you going to go? There have been other services like blip tv a...

By Mark Rodriguez Deadpool VS Carnage. Just look at that. Deadpool..... VS..... Carnage. If that doesn't say 'shut up and take my money' I don't know what will. Let's check it out. The story starts at a local coffee shop on the Kansas state line. One of the state troopers reads the papers about how Carnage escaped and is starting another murder spree. He complains about how they should just shoot him down instead of always trying to rehabilitate him, just so he could escape again. He mentions if he ever ran into him, he'd shoot first and try to reform him later. The guy sitting next to him get offended.. and suddenly kills him, revealing himself to be Carnage. Three tough guys say they're not gonna put up with his crap, but Carnage slices and dices them to pieces. Everyone else tries to get away, but Carnage seals the exits saying that 'there's plenty of love to go around'. Meanwhile in New York, Deadpool is chilling in hi...

By Mark Rodriguez After an epic battle against the Red Skull that had control over Xavier's mind, all the heroes and villains involved had their personalities changed from good to evil and vice versa. In the final battle to stop the evil X-Men and Avengers, Steve Rogers has a plan to turn things back to normal. Iron Man sends the new Captain America, Sam Wilson, to finish him off and is surprised to find Steve in an armored version of the Captain America outfit holding onto a weakened Red Skull. What will happen now? This issue opens with a flashback of Wolverine trying to talk Sabertooth out of killing someone, and how Xavier can help find the good in him. Creed says there is no good in him and kills his victim. Now in current times, Steve laments how he has to protect his worst enemy, the Red Skull from a kill-crazed Sam Wilson. Steve tries to put up the good fight, but without the super soldier serum, he's aged and Sam is eager to to finish both him and ...

By Mark Rodriguez Due to fighting the Red Skull with the mind of Professor Xavier, all the heroes and villains in the area were mentally affected, their alignment of being either good or evil being changed. The Avengers want to rule the world while the X-Men, now led by Apocalypse, want to eradicate the human race to make room for mutantkind. The X-Gene bomb has been set and it's ticking to its final seconds. What will happen now? The issue opens with Spider-Man trying to defuse the bomb while everyone else is fighting. When trying to crack the code fails, he tries to just rip out the wires instead. Carnage shows up and tells him that brute force won't do any good against a bomb. Spidey suggests they both web it up, but Carnage suggests to cover the entire bomb with himself. Spider-Man tells him this will kill him, but Carnage says the world is better off without him anyway. He makes Spidey promise to make a memorial of him and the webhead leaves before the bo...

By Mark Rodriguez The Marvel universe has gone crazy due to an epic battle against the Red Skull that had taken the form of Onslaught. Most of the heroes and villains involved during this battle had their personalities and alignments switched. Villains like Carnage and Hobgoblin are now heroes, the Avengers want to rule the world and the X-Men want to eradicate the humans to make room for the mutants. Several heroes like Spider-Man and Steve Rogers have gathered together with the reformed villains, and Sabertooth tells the group that the X-Men are developing an Gene bomb that will wipe out humanity if they don't stop it. What's gonna happen? The issue opens with the Summers brothers watching the Wasp, locked up in a cell. Havok talks about how much he loves her and asks Cyclops if the X-Gene bomb could spare at least one human, and Cyclops says 'it doesn't work that way'. Havok asks if he would allow his wife to die and Cyclops said he would if it...

By Mark Rodriguez The Red Skull used Xavier's mind to spread hate across the world. Magneto saw it fit to kill him, but instead of dying he was turned into Onslaught. In the epic battle to take him down, Rogue discovered that Xavier still existed within Red Skull's mind. While trying to make Xavier's personality dominate Red Skull's mind, everyone involved got their basic alignments switched. Now evil, Captain Falcon America is paranoid that someone helped the Red Skull escaped their clutches, and he captured all the Avengers, except Spider-Man and Nova that escaped. Magneto and Steve Rogers tell them that the X-Men are also evil, now bent on wiping out humanity with Apocalypse leading the charge. Meanwhile Kluh, the evil version of the Hulk, is calling out the heroes, and Nova took his challenge. Let's see what happens next. The issue begins with Apocalypse spreading his message, warning humans to leave Manhattan for the mutants or they will be s...

By Mark Rodriguez The Red Skull used Xavier's mind to spread hate across the Marvel Universe. After a huge battle, the Red Skull is defeated, but he showed signs of Xavier's consciousness which led to the X-Men and Avengers to argue over who gets custody of him. The Avengers take him and prepare for retaliation from the X-Men. Captain America (Falcon) decides to flat out kill Red Skull. Seeing the Avengers acting this way made Hulk sad that unleashed a stronger more evil sadistic form called Kluh who escapes. The Avengers also find out that the Red Skull has escaped.... The issue opens with Spider-Man meeting up with the younger newer Nova as they both attend an 'All Avengers get here now!!!' kind of meeting. Nova is excited to be a part of this and Spider-Man shows him around the huge gathering of super heroes. He pokes fun of Hawkeye's costume and he jabs back. Spidey says it's costume envy since his outfit is timeless but Hawkeye changes h...

By Mark Rodriguez The Red Skull has gained the powers of Xavier's mind and is using them to instill hatred upon the Marvel Universe. Magneto opted to flat out kill the Red Skull but this somehow turned him into the Red Onslaught. Avengers and X-Men teamed up in a 3-issue battle until the Red Skull was finally defeated and turned back to normal. The Avengers want to take him into custody.... but now that the possibility exists that Professor Xavier is somehow alive somewhere within the Red Skull's mind, the X-Men want him as well. The teams argue and the Avengers take the Red Skull which sparks another divide between the teams. Now what will happen? The comic starts in one of SHIELD's Helicarriers as the Avengers discuss with Fury on how they defeated Red Skull and stopped World War Hate. Maria Hill says they're here to take Red Skull into custody but Captain America says they have him securely locked down. The Hulk says maybe SHIELD is right, but Cap ...