Friday, January 30, 2004

Batman – The Killing Joke | Comics

The Joker is considered as an agent of chaos to everyone who knows him. Batman goes to Arkham Asylum to pay The Joker a casual visit and talk things down to end the ever-going madness between them only to find out that he is facing an imposter who just took the clown place in the prison.

After escaping Arkham Asylum, he decides to capture and torture Police Commissioner James Gordon to an extent that could possibly made him lose grip over his moral beliefs. So, he drags Gordon to street, dragged him to an amusement park to strip naked and locked him up in a cage.

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Batman – The Killing Joke | Comics

Then to add some more, Joker shoots his daughter Barbara and made him watch the naked stills of her. Along way, he also elaborates his own story of a “Rough-Day” that turned him to this. Many years ago in Gotham City, an engineer left his job in a chemical company to pursue the career of a stand-up comedian, which failed badly in every step.

In a desperate attempt to support his pregnant wife, he joins two petty criminals in a robbery but learns of his wife’s sudden death in an accident at the last moment. This made him to give up on the plan but those two forced him to co-operate and made him wear a cylinder-like red mask to become the Red Hood.

Upon entering the chemical plant, the thugs were shot and he accidentally fell into a vat of chemicals when confronted the Batman. This, pretty much ruined his appearance and mixed with his "One Bad Day", he turned into the Joker.

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Birth of the Clown Prince

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Batman – The Killing Joke is a one-shot comics featuring a early encounter between Batman and The Joker from DC Comics released on 1988. This story was written by renowned writer Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) and drawn exclusively by artist Brian Bolland (Animal Man, Judge Dredd). The Killing Joke turns out to be one of the most successful Batman stories of all time as well as a great epic tale of the clown prince of crime.

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An Accidental Visitor

Though set in a non-canonical platform, the story sets quite a line for many future publications from DC, where reference from the issue is made. In 2016, Warner Bros. Pictures has made an animated movie based on the titular story, also titled "The Killing Joke" that is released on direct-to-video.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Suicide Squad | Comics

Before various super-villains with different histories were rallied to form a team to work for the government, Rick Flag formed the original version of the group back in his days during the period of World War II. They were re-assigned as Task Force X when the Justice Society got disbanded but ended up upon Rick Flag’s demise.

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Suicide Squad | Comics

Later, Rick Flag Jr. stepped in his father’s shoes to form the team again and a congressional aide named Amanda Waller found the classified files of the program and Task Force X resurfaced as Suicide Squad. Initially, members with reputation like Bronze Tiger, Deadshot, Blockbuster, Captain Boomerang and Enchantress signed up as expendable agents for the team who will go on life-threatening covert missions assigned by Waller.

In the prison of Belle Reve, Louisiana, the Squad set up its base of operation and they were quite instrumental on the Manhunter invasion during “Millennium” as well as fighting the Female Furies of Darkseid from Apokolips. Batman eventually discovers the existence of the team and threatens Waller to expose the truth in public but she also made him leave by threatening to reveal his identity.

When General Frank Rock run the team, many of the members dies but over time, villains like BaneHarley Quinn, Mindboggler, Plastique, Nemesis, Nightshade, Killer Frost, Slipknot, Heat Wave, Count Vertigo, Doctor Light, Shrike, King Shark, Knockout, Chemo, Plasmus and Shrapnel has joined the ranks of the team with President Luthor and General Lane in charge.

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General Rock's Suicide Squad

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Debuted in 1986 as a monthly ongoing title of from DC Comics, Suicide Squad is an anti-hero team of comic book villains created by Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru which is also known as Task Force X and sometimes it also goes by the name Checkmate. Although receiving its independent series in the eighties, the team actually first appeared on the pages of the 25th issue of The Brave and the Bold ongoing series in 1959. Over the course of its run, the series and its starring characters have been a part of crossover events like Legends, Millennium, Our Worlds at War, 52 and Blackest Night.

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Formation of Task Force X

However, following the “Flashpoint” event, the entire DC Comics titles have shifted to The New 52 timeline with the team of Suicide Squad also with its own altered history and a much harsher scenario. As a part of DC Extended Universe; a cinematic universe of movies based on various DC Comics properties, Suicide Squad got it's first live action adaptation in 2016, directed by David Ayer.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Elektra | Comics

An Olympic level athlete and a master assassin trained by ninja cult The Hand, Elektra Natchios was the daughter of a Greek Ambassador. During her time in college, she started a relationship with the blind lawyer Matt Murdock, who would later become Daredevil. After she lost her father in an accident during a hostage situation, she gave up on law and traveled to Japan.

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Elektra | Comics

Her master Stick; who also trained Matt, trained her up well enough but she later joined the ranks of The Hand. Elektra become their top assassin but eventually left them after sometime to be a bounty hunter. Soon, in New York, she earned the place of Kingpin’s top assassin and encountered her former lover Daredevil again.

One of Kingpin’s former hitman Bullseye impaled her with her own sais in retaliation to get his old position back. She was resurrected and revived by Stone, yet she did not appear to Matt for years. She even tangled with the feral mutant Wolverine several times; especially when he lost his Adamantium and also when he went rogue as “The Enemy of the State” after being re-programmed by Hydra.

She was then captured and replaced by the Skrulls before their “Secret Invasion” on Earth which is revealed after the imposter died in a battle with New Avengers. Norman Osborn's Dark Reign brought her imprisonment to a H.A.M.M.E.R. facility, which she escaped soon. She is offered a place in the ranks of the newly reformed Thunderbolts strike team alongside Agent Venom, Deadpool, Red Hulk, Punisher and The Leader.

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Agent of The Hand

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During his run on the monthly ongoing Daredevil series in 1981, legendary comic book creator Frank Miller (All Star Batman & Robin, Batman – Year One) created the character Elektra. Over time, she appeared on many limited series as well as a couple of her own monthly ongoing and that’s not all; this popular heroine was involved in many of the important crossover events and stories of Marvel Comics.

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Resurrection and Beyond

Actress Jennifer Garner portrayed the character adaptation in both motion picture of Daredevil (2003) and its spin-off, Elektra (2005). Later, when Marvel's Daredevil premiered on Netflix, the character appeared in Season 2 of the show, played by Élodie Yung.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2004

Watchmen | Comics

An assailant broke into the apartment of a man to beat the hell out of him and then murdered him by throwing off the window. The police came investigating about the case of the recently deceased resident named Edward Blake but had almost no progress at all. All they know is that he was doing diplomatic works overseas and found a photograph of him with Vice-President Ford.

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Watchmen | Comics

Even though some money was stolen, this seemed like no ordinary burglary. As the two detectives leave the scene they were discussing about possibilities of the involvement of vigilantes or more specifically about Rorschach, since most of the others are all either in retirement. At midnight, Rorschach reaches the buildings front and finds a yellow smiley face button with blood on it.

He sneaks and found out that Blake was actually a costumed government official named The Comedian. Afterwards, Rorschach visits Dan Dreiberg; the second Nite Owl, Doctor Manhattan and Laurie Juspeczyk AKA Silk Spectre, then finally he warned once the hero Ozymandias and now a publicly renowned businessman Adrian Veidt about it as he believes that the assailant could again come after any of them next.

Soon, Doctor Manhattan is blamed for the cause of cancer among his former friends and colleagues, leading him to take an exile to Mars. An assassination attempt on Adrian fails and Rorschach is framed for the murder of a former villain. Juspeczyk and Dreiberg drew close to each other and returned to vigilantism believing Rorschach’s conspiracy theory.

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The End Is Nigh

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Mostly known for an ageless script and a unique storytelling, Watchmen is a twelve issue limited series from DC Comics that was released on 1987. Writer Alan Moore (Batman – The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta) came up with the concept where the plot was set apart from the regular DC Universe but still had super-heroes in it. Then he collaborated with artist Dave Gibbons into creating this masterpiece which went on to become a New York Times Best Seller!

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Heroes In Costume

The graphic novel has made into a motion picture titled 'Watchmen' by director Zack Snyder in 2009 as well as a video game series titled ‘Watchmen – The End Is Nigh’. Even though the series was sort of one-time story, in 2012, DC Comics launched Before Watchmen, a series of comic-books serving as the prequel for the original Watchmen but this time Moore and Gibbons were not involved.
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