Saturday, September 25, 2010

Hulk – Red Hulk | Comics

In the aftermath from destructive World War Hulk event occurred previously, a new chapter on Hulk's life has begun as Bruce Banner is now taken to custody and locked into Gamma Base. As some unusual activities are detected on the Canadian wilderness recently, a mysterious figure is detected approaching pretty fast and is attacked by Wendigo, who is viciously killed in battle and a major seismic activity is then detected on ground. What follows next is that, one of Hulk's strongest and most deadly arch-nemesis for years; The Abomination is mysteriously killed.

Everyone is shocked at the brutality of this murder after finding Emil Blonsky's deceased corpse in a village near Russia. Banner's close friend Doc Samson and cousin She-Hulk are sent to investigate the situation along with Maria Hill, General Ross and Iron Man; the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. There, they faced Russian superhero team Winter Guard on scene during their investigation. Both parties argued and in the heat of the situation, Samson hits Red Guardian, which prompts an instant hostility between She-Hulk and Ursa Major.

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Hulk – Red Hulk | Comics

Seeing everyone else fighting each other, Crimson Dynamo feels cocky and starts shooting at Iron Man but Tony knocked him down with a repulsor blast. Fight escalates and argument arises while Ross decides to be a voice of reason. They apparently found a little girl who survived among the few other villagers and only said a word which means "Red". Ross and Samson head back to Gamma Base finding no other possible explanation for these bizarre happenings, to get an expert opinion from none other than Bruce Banner.

Meanwhile, Banner's long-time ally Rick Jones suddenly wakes up and finds himself on the Alaskan Frontier without a memory of what happened with him. Then the new Helicarrier of S.H.I.E.L.D. is suddenly attacked and destroyed by some unforeseen force, while all classified files on Hulk are also erased by a virus. It grabbed She-Hulk before she could even move and then easily knocked her out cold. This mysterious entity is revealed itself to be a Hulk but only in "Red" and he is headed straight to Gamma Base. Looking for Banner, Rick Jones arrives at Gamma Base only to be confronted by Red-Hulk.

Rick then transforms into a Hulk-like creature as well but his appearance is more resembled to Abomination, calling himself A-Bomb. A clash between him and Red Hulk shook the place to its core and caused Bruce Banner to turn into Hulk as his containment unit tries to force sleep by using gas. Finally, actual green Hulk decides to face "Red" and it's time for some major collateral damage on the face of Earth. Even Uatu the Watcher showed up to witness this fight and got punched on his face by the Red Menace. Also, The Mighty Thor returns to Midgard for stopping the rampage of both Hulks.

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Red Hulk vs A-Bomb

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Renowned comic-book writer Jeph Loeb (Cable, Daredevil – Yellow) and artist Ed McGuinness (Avengers – X-Sanction, Deadpool) are long time collaborator who did some famous work together and teamed up again to create the next level storyline for the green goliath on 2008 and the storyline is published by Marvel Comics during the post World War Hulk event. The storyline titled “Hulk – Red Hulk” ran in the second volume of Hulk from issues #01-06 and introduced a new character named Red Hulk who made his first appearance in the first issue of the story.

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Rolling Thunder

We see the demise of long-time S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Clay Quartermain and heroes of the likes of Ares, Human Torch, Sub-Mariner and The Thing assembled for a final showdown against the Red Hulk. A recently reborn Thor (Thor – Rebirth) has also made a short-appearance to go against the dreadful menace that has been taking every other Joe who could make a muscle. The identity of this new character is still kept under wraps as it looks like Marvel is going to use his incognito status in a few more stories to build around the character.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Ultimates 3 – Who Killed The Scarlet Witch? | Comics

On Tony Stark's mansion at Fifth Avenue, members of superhero team The Ultimates have gathered as a video tape of Tony having an intercourse with their former traitorous teammate Black Widow was playing. Hawkeye was making remarks on the sex tape, which is out now on ABC and CNN as well, while Wasp was unsuccessfully trying to comfort Stark about Natasha's betrayal and an eventual death. Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver gets up to tend some of their personal matters but Clint reminds them that their meeting is yet not over only to have Pietro lash out at him.

Janet is still trying to talk about a possible security breach that led to this unfortunate triple-X disaster and trying to find answer to that, Tony pour another drink. Suddenly, the mansion wall broke with The Mighty Thor came crushing followed by symbiotic nightmare known as Venom. He came looking for some woman no one had any clue about but Black Panther and Hawkeye took him outside for Wasp to join them shortly. Moments later, Valkyrie jumps off from a black winged Pegasus straight to battle and sliced Venom in half.

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Ultimates 3 – Who Killed The Scarlet Witch | Comics

The villain quickly overpowers her and proceeds to slay her with her sword when he is struck by a powerful lightning blast and perishes. Thor arrives to reunite with his lover and these two started to make out. Firing a few more shot at Venom's corpse, Clint Barton went looking for T'Challa. Before leaving, Pietro and Wanda came across Captain America, who suggests her to wear something less revealing, which irked Quicksilver. Janet explains to him that even though they are brothers and sisters, they are in love with each other.

Wasp then goes to see her ex, Hank Pym who was formerly Giant Man and is currently under house arrest. Though she thought that Hank has probably fallen asleep but it appears he is overdosed with drugs and now unconscious. Pietro and Wanda were out in public when they hear a "BANG!" and the former ran after the speeding bullet. Telling her to stay down, he kept running but it turns and even after seemingly catching it, the bullet hit Scarlet Witch through one of her hexes. A doctor from crowd comes forward to check on her condition and after performing CPR on her, he declares her dead.

Clint attacks on Spider-Man thinking that he has something to do with Venom attacking them recently and in the meantime, Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy broke into mansion. Tony was having nightmares of Natasha Romanova, which turned out to be Mystique in disguise. Lorelei takes over Thor and made him attack Valkyrie, Blob went after Wasp but Iron Man came to her rescue, Cap takes on Sabretooth while Hawkeye shots down Jamie Madrox' Multiple Man. To make matters worse, Magneto decided to show up at their doorstep, followed by a feral X-Men member, Wolverine.

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Perils of Savage Land

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Ultimates 3 is a five issue limited series monthly comic-book published by Marvel Comics in 2009. The story is plotted by writer Jeph Loeb (Daredevil – Yellow, Hulk – Gray) and illustrated by the extraordinarily talented artist Joe Madureira (Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men). When first released, it was named "Sex, Lies, and DVD" but that sounded too corny even for a graphic novel and so it was later changed into "Who Killed The Scarlet Witch?" to be more appropriate. Some critics loved it and some criticized it for not having any serious depth of story from an Eisner winner nominee.

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Wrath of Thunder God

There is a trip to Savage Land, where we meet Ka-Zar and Shanna along with a few other recurring characters from Ultimate Marvel Universe. Some grim foreshadowing of the upcoming "Ultimatum" event was there considering the entire setup for this story seems a lot darker than usual Ultimate Universe books in general. The writing have some serious downsides that people hated but it can still be overlooked in exchange for some fantabulous artwork from the one and only artist Joe Mad. Joe's amazing art style took The Ultimates to a higher level and gave us a whole new point of view to look at it!
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