Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Superman – Emperor Joker | Comics

In a world where Superman is the most dangerous criminal, Bizarro  is the greatest hero and that means the world has gone crazy!

Superman wakes up discovering himself imprisoned in a cell of Arkham Asylum wearing his black and silver Kryptonian battle costume, having no idea of how and when he got here. After breaking his chains he escapes from his cell, which prompts an emergency call to the J.L.A. by Warden Solomon Grundy.

He learns from a poster on street that he is here for murdering Lex Luthor and that doesn’t make any sense to him because Superman doesn't kill. His old enemy Mr. Mxyzptlk shouts to him for hearing him out but is interrupted when the imp is hit by a train before the Man of Steel could even hear him.

As he was wandering around Meflopolis, Bizarro appears to apprehend him on behalf of Joker League of Anarchy. A fist fight breaks in between them where the hero was repeatedly pummeled by the impish being and ended up crashing through Lane Corp building when his enemy unleashed his heat breath on him.

Superman begs for help to take down Bizarro and look up to see a megalomaniac Lois Lane standing beside him. She does help him . . . getting caught by her fierce pet hounds until he is taken away.

Jimmy Olsen is Bizarro's pal Gravedigger Lad, who takes care of his Graveyard of Solitude, where Huntress, Nightwing and Robin are buried. The grey goliath attempted to drown Big Blue but a fish-headed Aquaman with an axe for an arm interrupts them, only to be freezed by ice vision.

Bizarro drops Superman at Arkham on care of Warden Grundy and while he was leaving, someone from not afar screams in pain. Through the streets of Meflopolis, Mxyzptlk was hurriedly running before getting squashed by an iron safe.

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Superman – Emperor Joker | Comics

In a religious temple around town, Niece Matrix receives a vision of Superman that prompts her to scream and priest Perry White came in to see her hovering with flaming wings. It's not a secret anymore that this is a warped version of reality they are dwelling in and the Man of Steel is routinely escaping from Arkham every night now.

This time, he promises himself to not get caught and came across Lois in a helicopter. She took him to a hidden bunker of her for doctors to examine him and locked up behind electric fields.

In Watchtower, Poison Ivy was ranting on Bizarro about how stupid he is and then her tune changes when he arrives. Big "B" goes out seeking the escapee along with Scorch right away. Seeing him coming to them, Lois frees Clark and told him to leave but right before that they share a kiss. On his way, he is confronted by Mr. B and his fiery partner, giving him a hard time.

Supes managed to get free and Matrix appears to him as Earth Angel moments before he is caught and swallowed by Jimmy Olsen, who has become a giant Turtle Boy after getting bit by The Turtle during his fight with The Flab.

He wakes up in S.S. Arkham under the care of a superhuman telepath Skizm; a member of J.L.A. Big Blue stumbles onto John Henry Irons, who started to make sense and they two eventually broke out of the joint. While Irons try to work out his suit, cowboy gunslinger Bounty from Joker League of Anarchy arrives to take them in but is taken care of by Superman.

Bizarro too joined the party soon for Steel and Superman to beat him in wits. Lois then came to their rescue and picked the heroes up to help, after a powerless Mxyzptlk gave them hints to find out the anomaly of this weird reality and regain control.

Throughout a series of more bizarre events and a face-off with living weapon Ignition, Superman finally remembers the abnormality of this reality, which is The Joker, who has tricked Mr. Mxyzptlk into giving his power and has re-shaped entire reality in his own maniacal image, now claiming himself as Emperor Joker!

Apart from spreading chaos, the Clown Prince of Crime also had another sinister agenda of keep torturing his arch-nemesis; The Dark Knight to death and have him experience that over and over for an eternity.

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He Who Laughs Last!

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Superman – Emperor Joker

A nine-part crossover story titled "Emperor Joker" is featuring Superman that was started publishing in 2000 mostly throughout the second volume of Superman alongside The Adventures of Superman, Superman – The Man of Steel and Action Comics monthly ongoing comic-book series from DC Comics.

A one-shot titled "Emperor Joker" was also released to highlight the main theme of the story. Many new characters were created for an entire new depiction of reality and many of the existing ones got a twist of their roles to fit in this quirked universe. Ignition and Scorch were one of those who debuted during the event and they made it to New Earth reality after everything was reverted back.

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The Dark Knight Lives Again

Various renowned writers like Joe Kelly (Justice League Elite, Our Worlds at War), Mark Schultz (Aliens – Apocalypse, Aliens – Havoc) and Jeph Loeb (Batman – Dark Victory, Batman – Hush) has came up forging a bizarre story of The Joker ruling the universe.

Also on board were artists Carlo Barberi (Deadpool – Suicide Kings, Ororo – Before the Storm), Doug Mahnke (Batman – The Man Who Laughs, Black Adam – The Dark Age), Duncan Rouleau (Superman – Ending Battle, Metal Men), Ed McGuinness (Superman/Batman – Public Enemies, Superman/Batman – With a Vengeance), Scott McDaniel (Batman – Dead to Rights, Batman – Impostors) and Todd Nauck (Legion of Superheroes, Teen Titans) to create this remarkable tale.

One of the biggest aspects of "Emperor Joker" event was how the Justice League of America turned into a team of maniacs called Joker League of Anarchy. Advertisement of Wonder Woman starring in porn "Amazon Women Behind Bars" was a bit subtle pun that could easily go unnoticed. Replacement of Superman's arch-rival Lex Luthor with his love of life, Lois Lane as a ruthless businesswoman was also interesting.

Revelation of what really is going on with Steel, Supergirl and Superboy had unique takes that had the touch of fun. Special appearance from Darkseid, Harley Quinn and Spectre was also quite noteworthy.
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Saturday, December 11, 2004

JLA – Tower of Babel | Comics

In Gotham, Batman arrives at his parent’s graves to pay a visit as billionaire Bruce Wayne to find it empty, leading him on hunt of it around the globe. Meanwhile in Europe, Martian Manhunter is ambushed with nanites and his skin is turned into magnesium that caused him to burn in flame bursts, which soon made him loose contact with the JLA.

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JLA – Tower of Babel | Comics

Aquaman and Plastic Man are under attack by assassins, who dosed Arthur with Scarecrow’s fear toxin that developed aqua-phobia in him and broke Plastic Man into pieces after freezing him solid. Superman calls Batman for help the Leaguers but he ignored his call to resume his search. The Flash and Wonder Woman goes to check into Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, who just lost his sight that morning.

Suddenly all of them are ambush attacked and taken down with ruthless efficiency. As Superman arrives at the scene to help, he too is instantly taken down with help from a chunk of Red Kryptonite, a modified version of the green Kryptonian rock that is lethal to him and is devised by The Dark Knight himself. All these operations are led by Talia al Ghul, daughter of the global terrorist Ra's al Ghul, simply indicating his involvement in this recent take-down operation.

All those plans to eliminate the powerful League members were designed by Batman as contingency for emergency situations, which Ra's have utilized against the JLA to succeed in his latest scheme of the reduction of the global population and it’s up to Batman to save the day and the rest of the Justice League.

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A Dangerous New Direction

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"JLA – Tower of Babel" is a storyline featuring the fictional DC Comics superhero team JLA, released by DC Comics on 2000 in the first monthly ongoing comic book series of JLA. It ran through the issues #43-46 of JLA monthly series. This story line was written by popular writer Mark Waid (JLA – Year One, Kingdom Come), with the strokes delivered by regular series artist Howard Porter (Underworld Unleashed, Trials of Shazam) and Steve Scott.

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A League on Strings

The storyline itself is an acclaimed one in chronological importance on New Earth reality and its success led the story to be adapted in an animation feature; Justice League – Doom in 2012 as the 13th release in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line of direct-to-video projects.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Gambit | Comics

Due to his “Red Eyes” at childhood, Remy LeBeau was abandoned as an infant but later adopted by the Thieves’ Guild who dubbed him “The White Devil”. The boy grew up learning the art of thievery and soon met the patriarch of the guild Jean-Luc LeBeau. Later he left the guild and learned to use his kinetic mutant energy through various objects; mostly playing cards.

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Gambit | Comics

Even after years of practice Remy still had trouble controlling his vast powers and he sought the aid of the geneticist Mister Sinister to help him up. With Gambit in the lead, Sinister formed The Marauders and orchestrated the “Mutant Massacre” on the Morlocks. His attempt to stop them proved fruitless and he barely survived from the feral mutant Sabretooth, along with a young Marrow.

Gambit joined the ranks of X-Men with the help of the then powerless Storm. There he met fellow mutant Rogue and they both fell in love. Later, Magneto held him on a mock-trial for his role in the infamous Morlock Massacre and soon Remy is met by his counterpart New Sun from another dimension, who came to destroy him.

When X-Man Bishop traveled to present from the future, he recognized Gambit as the fabled witness of the “Onslaught” event. Remy was tricked by the eternal mutant Apocalypse and become his Horseman of Death. Eventually he battled his former teammates and moved to Sinister’s Marauders with Sunfire. During Messiah CompleX, Wolverine stabbed him to learn Cable’s location and Remy left Sinister to retrieve Xavier’s recently deceased body.

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Gambit is a fictional mutant superhero of Marvel Comics who happens to be an honorary member of the mutant adventurer team of X-Men. The character was created by the creator duo of writer Chris Claremont (Captain Britain, Contest of Champions II) and artist Jim Lee (All-Star Batman and Robin, Divine Right) in 1990 and he appeared on the Uncanny X-Men Annual issue #14.


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As Horseman of Death

Gambit soon became a very famous character from Marvel Universe and appeared in a few limited series of his own, a couple of monthly ongoing and many other comic book appearances. The character of Gambit was portrayed in a live action film by Taylor Kitsch in the 2009 film X-Men Origins – Wolverine.
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Friday, December 3, 2004

JLA – Earth 2 | Comics

A runaway spacecraft lands on a field of New Earth, from which comes out Alexander Luthor of the antimatter Earth; a world parallel to ours but with a completely different reality. Luthor came looking for Super-People of this Earth when a plane from antimatter Earth accidentally crash lands into our atmosphere and the situation is immediately checked by Justice League of America.

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JLA – Earth 2 | Comics

They found the people are all dead from the stress of their dimensional transport and after some investigation, found them to be from another reality. Suspecting Luthor’s involvement in this matter, they confronted him only to find out a reverse version of him, who is here to seek help from Justice League to defeat their own evil counterpart; the Crime Syndicate of Amerika.

On the antimatter Earth, Alexander Luthor is a superhero who keeps tangling with the Crime Syndicate frequently and it’s leader Ultraman. There, Owlman is the maniacal son of Thomas Wayne, who is secretly in a relation with Ultraman’s wife Lois Lane AKA Super-Woman. Johnny Quick and Power Ring are two evil counterpart of The Flash and Green lantern.

Though hesitant at first and Batman’s initial refusal, the Justice League travels to antimatter Earth after a vote. There, on Luthor's depurture, Ultraman calls a meeting to discuss about their counterparts from positive matter and soon discovers that they are trapped by the JLA in their moon base but quickly gets out with help from Owlman only to visit the positive matter Earth for conquering it.

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Following the previous encounter between Justice League and the Crime Syndicate of Amerika after the events of “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, DC Comics has re-invented the antimatter Earth through the newly developed "JLA – Earth 2" one-shot graphic novel. Writer Grant Morrison (Animal ManAztek, the Ultimate Man) and artist Frank Quitely (All-Star Superman) has worked on this one-shot comic-book that was released back on 2000.

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Alexander Luthor of Antimatter Universe

The story has served as a re-telling of the origin of the infamous Crime Syndicate team, consisting the reversed version of the Justice League as well as their experience of the alternate reality, where Law and Order is consider as Chaos and Anarchy and facing their counterparts on a negative settlement, which is later explored further in other stories of DC Comics.
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