Him being dangerous doesn't make him any less of a bootleg lol.
Also I don't even like Carnage, so I can't be fanboying, I just prefer to keep what's really happening in mind, and what's happening in this comic is Norman thinking he's Cletus with a symbiote that isn't the original, and one of the tie-ins of Absolute Carnage points out that Cletus and the Carnage symbiote bonded in a perfect way, so, again, it's worth pointing that out because not having the original is a big deal.