Sunday, May 15, 2011

Dark Avengers – Assemble | Comics

Norman Osborn now controls a powerful super-hero team as his "Dark Avengers" to do some good or serve his twisted version?

In a surprising turn of events, Norman Osborn ended up saving Earth during peak of a full-scale "Skrull Invasion" by killing their Queen. Tony Stark is removed from his position as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and replaced by Osborn. He made a pact with a secretly formed group called Cabal that has divisive figures like Doctor Doom as its members.

He hired former S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Victoria Hand to help him establish his new organization H.A.M.M.E.R. before firing Maria Hill. Bullseye is called in shortly afterwards to fly with him to New York, Avengers Tower. Norman asks New Avengers member Carol Danvers to join his new team but she straight out refuses and fled off.

He approached Karla Sofen AKA Moonstone at Thunderbolts Mountain to become Ms. Marvel for him. Next up, Osborn goes to see Mac Gargan with a medication that would contain his monstrous form into more presentable state. He then recruited Daken Akihiro from a diner at New Orleans where he came looking for a job.

Norman convinced Kree warrior Noh-Varr at The Cube into joining his cause as Captain Marvel. His next employ is Ghost to unlock a secret stash of armored suits that once belonged to Tony Stark. He builds a suit of armor similar to Captain America's costume for himself called "Iron Patriot" and then went to public with his all-new Avengers.

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Dark Avengers – Assemble | Comics

Dark sorceress Morgana le Fay has been looking all over for Victor von Doom after he betrayed him earlier. When Doom was being escorted back to Latveria by Osborn's men, she attacked them with an army of demons at her side. Report of this attack is received by Osborn and he led his new team of Avengers for their very first mission.

He orders The Sentry to go all-out and he does so by simply tearing her head off, which shocked his teammates. Morgana reappears in a moment, causing Sentry to suddenly explode and she confronted Ares by forcing Venom to violently attack him. She then turned God of War into stone right before being killed again by new Hawkeye.

Though unable to move in his armor, Doom responds to Norman as he proceeds to carry his ally out of battlefield. Despite his unwillingness to share, he eventually shares his armor interface with Osborn to access his time machine. Together, they go back to Morgana's time and Victor sent her to 1,000,000 BC using a spell unknown even to her.

Going back to present time, Doom revives Ares from his state with a reverse spell but Sentry is presumed dead. On their way back to New York, Victoria Hand informs her boss about Clint Barton going on media to expose him as former Green Goblin. To which, he tells her to arrange an interview with the network to nicely sort things out.

All of a sudden, a blinding flash of light hits them all and they all astoundingly look at a very-much alive Sentry coming to them. Norman approaches and asks him about how he is feeling now since they all saw him die in Latveria. Trying to resonate with Bob and calm him down by talking to him, Osborn even removes his helmet to talk.

Later that day, an Atlantean terrorist group leads an attack in Los Angeles and members of Cabal were called to meet up. Prince Namor is asked to denounce those extremists publicly and help Ozman to capture them. They had a disagreement on how to approach this situation and it causes a troubled side of Osborn's persona to slip.

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Back From Dead

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Dark Avengers – Assemble

Running in parallel with "Dark Reign" crossover event, Marvel Comics launched a new monthly ongoing series Dark Avengers in 2009 that has spawned from "Secret Invasion" story arc with writer Brian Michael Bendis (Mighty Avengers – Secret Invasion, Mighty Avengers – The Ultron Initiative) on board to work on its overall plotline.

For its first storyline "Assemble", Bendis has teamed up with artist Mike Deodato Jr. (Amazing Spider-Man – New Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man – Sins Past) that collects first six-issues of the series and focuses on establishment of a team comprised of former Mighty Avengers members and a group of former Thunderbolts operatives.

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Wrath of Morgana le Fay

Norman Osborn dons his brand-new Iron Patriot armor that he built using StarkTech to march alongside his teammates Ares, Bullseye as Hawkeye, Daken as Wolverine, Marvel Boy Noh-Varr as Captain Marvel, Moonstone as Ms. Marvel, The Sentry and Venom as Spider-Man on public to present his newly assembled group of Avengers.

Osborn leads his Dark Avengers team to their first field mission to help Doctor Doom and entangles with Morgana le Fay. Then there is a slightly heated meeting with his Dark Illuminati, where Emma Frost, Namor and Loki had guest appearance. Bendis will return in collaboration with Deodato Jr. on next storyline "Molecule Man".
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

The Walking Dead – What We Become | Comics

As the prison compound got destroyed by the villainous Governor, Rick Grimes and his new found family of other survivors got scattered. Rick eventually met his gang and was successful to regroup with most of the remaining members of the group who survived the destruction of prison. They also tagged along three new survivors; Sergeant Abraham Ford, his girlfriend Rosita Espinosa and scientist Eugene Porter in their road trip for life but only now they have a destination to reach which is Washington, D.C.

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The Walking Dead – What We Become | Comics

Despite picking up the pieces of lost dreams to continue their journey of survival, Rick is still unable to cope with the fact of losing his wife, Lori and daughter Judith. He even sees his zombified wife Lori came back devouring him alive and wakes up in panic. Rick relieves Abraham of his monitor duty as he can’t sleep and starts talking to Lori on the phone again. Maggie Greene is also having a hard time coping with the aftermath of the prison massacre as she lost her whole family during the onslaught. Even Glenn fails to comfort her and she tries to commit suicide by hanging herself.

Her breathing stopped literally even after rescuing her fast and Abraham wants to put her down, on which point he had a brief skirmish with both Rick and Glenn. Following that, the group goes into a supply run where they discover new facts about the Walkers, Rick and Abraham tries to sort out their differences in a trip back Rick’s home and finally, they got chased by an enormous Zombie herd that forced everybody to move.

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The Walking Dead – What We Become (Comics) Wikia

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Into The Herd

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The Walking Dead Vol 10 – What We Become

Creator Robert Kirkman (Image United, Invincible) and Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) continues The Walking Dead saga with “What We Become” storyline in 2009 from Image Comics, which was preceded by “Here We Remain”. The aftermath from “Made to Suffer” storyline is still affecting the remaining survivors of the undead apocalypse and elements from this volume is later adapted in the Season 4 of The Walking Dead TV Series on AMC.

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Converged by Walkers

This book also feature the return of a character that was introduced earlier in the monthly ongoing as he first appeared in “Days Gone Bye”. This is the tenth volume from The Walking Dead comics series which marks the five years run of the popular series through issue #56 and “Fear The Hunters” is the next storyline in queue by the same creative team of Kirkman and Adlard.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Chew | Comics

After 23 million Americans are dead in an outbreak of bird flu, chickens and other bird meats are announced illegal throughout the world. In that world, Tony Chu is a police detective, works for the Philadelphia Police Department and is a Cibopath, a rare food related ability which lets him get the psychic impressions or awareness about what happened of the people and things that are eaten or tasted by him.

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Chew | Comics

He investigates a chicken smuggling case that led him to a black market on FDA (Food and Drug Administration)’s invitation. Upon tasting a bowl of chicken soup he finds out the cook is responsible for murdering people and putting them in the soup but as he gives a chase, the chef puts his partner John Colby out off the commission by hitting on his head with a hatchet.

Not wanting to spill anything, commits suicide outside the restaurant afterwards. Chu gets fired from his duty and was hired by the FDA, where he gets a bulky partner named Mason Savoy, who also happens to be another Cibopath and is secretly looking for the reason that actually caused the catastrophic bird flu resulted the death to masses, including someone very close to him.

They were investigating about a Health Inspector named Evan Pepper, who went missing during duty and ended up on some unexpected ends. Soon, tables are turned and the situation starts getting out of his hand as he is betrayed by the people around and various challenges from many unlikely places came along at work.

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The Chew Universe
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Entirely plotted by writer John Layman (Aliens – Inhuman Condition, Army of Darkness/Xena) and penciled by artist Rob Guillory, Chew is a monthly ongoing comic series from Image Comics publications. The series also is an Eisner Award winner and is greatly appreciated that the first few issues went on several printing process.

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A Weird Romance

Throughout this outstanding series, John Layman creatively introduced a series of food related super powers and most definitely presented a unique story concept that managed to maintain a balance to the core. The series was also in talks for development for a television series adaptation starring Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) in the lead role.
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