Friday, December 14, 2012

Nightwing – New 52 | Comics

An acrobatic prodigy from his very childhood, Dick Grayson was a part of the famous Flying Graysons Act alongside his parents John and Mary Grayson in the Haly's Circus. The immense success of their act made Grayson arrogant and brought distance with his friends. When Haly's Circus had arrived in Gotham City, The Riddler culminated the “Zero Year” on the city and Dick managed to return to Haly's camp upon surviving the catastrophe.

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Nightwing – New 52 | Comics

Soon, he lost both of his parents on the day of his mother’s birthday because of gangster Tony Zucco. Witnessing the incident, billionaire Bruce Wayne approaches Dick to take care for him. As he was kept at the Wayne Care Center, he routinely sneaked out of there at night looking for Zucco and the boy’s raw talent drew attention of Batman.

He was drafted to the lifelong crime-fighting path as The Boy Wonder; Robin and is trained by Batman. During his time as Robin he met Batgirl, fought Harley Quinn and The Joker as well as other criminals of Gotham. Years after serving as Batman’s sidekick, he moved from his mentor’s shadow and took the alias of Nightwing.

As Haly's Circus returned to Gotham after many years, it brought an age-old dark secret along with it. Once Batman has discovered the existence of the Court of Owls, he also found a link between them and Dick’s ancestors, who used to train Talon assassins for The Court. Just as the Night of the Owls descends upon Gotham, Nightwing fought them alongside the Bat-Family.

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Known as one of the best superhero sidekick ever, former circus acrobat Dick Grayson AKA Nightwing is a popular fictional protagonist character owned by DC Comics. The character Dick Grayson was originated from the creators of his mentor Batman; Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Dick made his first appearance in issue #38 of Detective Comics and later he outgrown into the character Nightwing on the pages of Tales of the Teen Titans in 1984.

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Following the “Flashpoint” crossover event, the entire DC Comics timeline is rebooted and becomes The New 52. Nightwing also received a solo ongoing series as well, which is written by Kyle Higgins and drawn by artist Eddy Barrows. Aside from his regular appearance in his own series, he was also a part of few Batman related titles and crossovers like Death of the Family and Forever Evil.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Haunt Vol 02 | Comics

Former priest Daniel Kilgore joins The Agency and enters a new life of murder and espionage as Agent Haunt.

Following government agent Kurt Kilgore's death, his brother Daniel and wife Amanda was attacked by hired killers at their home. Kurt's ghost's timely merging with his brother created the ectoplasmic entity called Haunt and saved him from the assailants. Daniel then believes that he can actually see his dead brother who is part of his new form.

Then with help from his dead brother, Daniel calls a cleaner to clean the mess and eventually reaches to The Agency that Kurt used to work for. He faces a hard time convincing agent Beth Tosh and Director Stantz about what's going on until they saw him in action. A crime lord by the name of Mr. Hurg is after Shillinger's diary who orchestrated Kurt's death.

Meanwhile, Kurt's secret lover and a former special agent of the Agency named Mirage try to make a deal with Hurg, who apparently has the notebook everyone is so desperately looking for. However, the deal gets off and a shooting ensues between all parties involved but The Agency eventually gets hold onto the diary in the turn of events.

When a couple of other attempts of retrieving the diary with master assassin Cobra and other henchmen fails, Hurg finally calls in his mole inside the Agency to bring it back to him. Director Morgan Stantz is then shot dead and The Agency compound is blown up. Beth Tosh then takes charge as the new Director and Daniel is recruited as an agent.

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Haunt Vol 02 | Comics

Mirage played everything out just like Kurt has planned from stealing the notebook to upstage the selling and even got the money but now that her lover is dead, all of this suddenly has become meaningless to her. When she decides to opens up to her about everything that took place and pay a sudden visit, Amanda learns about her husband's past.

Kilgore goes to see a girl named Charity outside of their usual "appointment" and when her boyfriend Ronnie was being a real jerk about it, he made a mess of him and his boys by leaving them into pieces. Researchers working for Mr. Hurg were able to crack the formula from Shillinger's diary and Cobra has also recovered in the mean time.

Daniel works his way into The Agency as he intensely trains to prep himself up for dangerous situations. He then tries to push thing further by swinging rooftops with the suit on but then passes out from exhaustion before falling off the ground. Cobra decides to go after his attacker only for Hurg to discipline and remind him who is in charge.

A strike team sent on a location of a secret laboratory goes missing in action and s the deadly secret from the notebook unleashes, Agent Haunt goes in for some bloody smackdown. He quietly entered enemy ground, kills off all the hired guards and discovered a huge pile of body parts of former agents before coming under heavy fire.

He sees them taking off after boarding all the test subjects and was able to latch onto a ledge of the plane at the last minute. When he was looking for a way to get inside, Daniel is caught off guard by Cobra and because of tiring out, he fell off the plane.

The merc followed him down as he fell from above and took him to his boss, where they beat the hell out of him to learn the secrets of his suit. Only Kurt taking over once again made him able to break out of his captivity and even managed to capture Hurg. However, the villain called in reinforcement during the interrogation in form of his war drones.

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From the creative team of Greg Capullo (The Creech, Violator), Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, The Walking Dead), Ryan Ottley (Grizzlyshark, Invincible) and Todd McFarlane (Image United, Spawn) comes the second storyline of the uncanny hero Haunt in his all-new supernatural adventure under the banner of Image Comics.

Even though the origin of the ectoplasmic titular being is completely supernatural, it is very hard to deny resemblance to the character with popular Spider-Man antagonist Venom who is an alien symbiote latching onto its host and grant them superpowers. Probably that has something to do with McFarlane previously working on that character.

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Espionage and Intrigue

Nevertheless, the espionage aspects of the overall setting are what make the ongoing narrative more interesting as it makes progress. Lots of sub-plots working underneath will eventually come to a close and make everything meaningful in time as well.

Collecting issue #06-12 from the first monthly ongoing volume of the series, "Haunt Vol 02" is a successor of its previous arc, "Haunt Vol 01" and is followed by "Haunt Vol 03". Released in 2011, the story takes into an even gory turn than it already was and opens up possibility of more development with Capullo and Kirkman spearheading it.
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Spider-Man – Big Time | Comics

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Spider Man – Big Time | Comics
After battling the villainous Doctor Octopus and his newly formed team of Sinister Six alongside The Avengers, Spider-Man was highly praised by his teammates for his exceptional wit and bravery in the fight. While having trouble with his paychecks and finding a place to live, Peter Parker eventually gets a job at the Horizon Lab on Maria Jameson's recommendation. Kingpin hires Roderick Kingsley; the current Hobgoblin for a task but he is later killed by Phil Urich, who also takes his place as Hobgoblin and proceeds with the task. A sample of a new experimental metal called "Reverbium" is stolen from Horizon Lab by the new Hobgoblin and even after a brief fight; Spider-Man was unable to stop him due to Urich's maniacal sonic scream laugh.

Soon, Spider-Man is aided by former cat-burglar and his old time crime-fighting partner Black Cat to get the stolen metal sample back from Kingpin's tower with quite a struggle against the Hobgoblin. Meanwhile, criminal Mac Gargan recently escapes the prison and is reformed with a new, improved Scorpion suit which was given to him as a means to save his life after removing the Venom Symbiote from his body. Inventor Alistair Smythe; the person who freed him, gathers people who has an issue with J. Jonah Jameson and gives them various cybernetic implants, thus creating an army of his own Spider-Slayers with the power like Spider-Sense for his own cause. The New Avengers soon joins Spidey to fight this latest threat of Smythe's new cyborg army of Spider-Slayers.

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Big Time is a Spider-Man storyline from Marvel Comics that was released on 2010, which ran from issue #648-656 from the first monthly ongoing volume of the Amazing Spider-Man series. This story was developed by writer Dan Slott (Superior Spider-Man, The Thing) with artist Humberto Ramos (Wolverine, X-Men) along with two other pencillers, who helped the latter. Big Time is a major storyline since the longest running tale "Brand New Day" and led to the crossover "Spider Island" and also paved way for the upcoming ground-breaking storyline “Ends of the Earth”.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Batman – Earth One Vol 01 | Comics

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Batman – Earth One Vol 01 | Comics
Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Arkham-Wayne are the concerned citizens of Gotham City and proud parents of their eight years old son Bruce Wayne. When Bruce’s father decides to run for the Mayor of Gotham, he calls up his war-time buddy Alfred Pennyworth. As an experienced soldier, Alfred deduces that Thomas has been receiving threats and he’s been called here to look over the security of Wayne Manor. That night the Wayne’s went out for their weekly movie night in spite of Alfred’s warnings and got murdered by a mugger in a set of events in motion. Now left in his custody, Bruce is raised by him and he served as the butler for the boy. While receiving training from Alfred, Bruce also took inspiration from the bats after being attacked once.

As he grew up as an adult, Bruce decides to investigate his parent’s murder and eventually found involvement of a corrupt former detective named Jacob Weaver working for the current Mayor Oswald Cobblepot. Dressed up in a bat-themed spandex costume, Bruce starts prowling at night but then went for help to Lucius Fox as he failed to catch Weaver when his gadget broke during chase. In the mean time, Detective James Gordon of Gotham City Police Department has been assigned with a new recruitment, Harvey Bullock on a case of mysterious disappearance of young girls. When Bullok unknowingly started digging at the old case of Wayne’s murder, Jim’s daughter Barbara Gordon is abducted by a dangerous serial killer who goes by the name of Birthday Boy.

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Debuted back in 2012, Batman – Earth One is an alternative take of storyline that was published from a set of graphic novels line titled ‘Earth One’. Writer Geoff Johns (Superman – Secret Origin, Justice League – New 52) and artist Gary Frank (Midnight Nation, Supergirl) were behind the wheels of this new ride with The Dark Knight on a new direction which led it to be the number #1 on the list of New York Times' bestselling book. Recently, a new rumor has surfaced that the book is going to be adapted for the live action Batman (2018) movie with writer Johns also reported to be collaborating the script alongside actor Ben Affleck as the lead, who also portrays the character in "Batman V Superman – Dawn of Justice" to be released on 2016. A sequel titled ‘Batman – Earth One Vol 02’ was also released on 2015 following the huge success of the crittically acclaimed first installment.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Batman – The Court of Owls | Comics

Gotham City is taken aback by a series of murders by Court of Owls and Batman begins to unravel their deadly mystery.

Despite many people seeing Gotham City as a lost cause, it sure is home for some dangerous criminal minds and their utmost dread, Batman. On news of a sudden breakout at Arkham Asylum, he enters to contain its deranged inmates and he held himself against the mob with his superior skills until he was thrown out by a window.

As he was preparing to get back, he is found by his arch enemy The Joker and forming a brief alliance, these two rain on them. Later, he meets Commissioner Gordon on the rooftops of GCPD Headquarters to discuss how it went down. When asked about his latest team-up with Clown Prince of Crime, Gordon is reassured before he left.

In Batcave, Joker comes to Bruce, who tells him to take off his mask and it was revealed to be Dick Grayson. They tag along with Damian Wayne and Tim Drake to attend a gala to announce plans for future of Gotham. Bruce is introduced to mayoral candidate Lincoln March by Gotham Gazette reporter Vicki Vale following his speech.

When they were talking, he noticed Gordon taking a work call and makes an excuse out of there to investigate a murder by overhearing his conversation. Detective Harvey Bullock shows him the body of a tortured murder victim and they discovers a hidden message on wall left behind that says, "Bruce Wayne will die tomorrow".

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Batman – The Court of Owls | Comics

Some evidence and found DNA from crime scene led him to suspect his partner Nightwing to be murderer. Shortly afterwards, Batman performed an autopsy on the corpse and Jim Gordon suggests a possible connection to Court of Owls, an urban legend of Gotham but refusing that theory, he states that these are legends that don't exist.

Next day, Bruce is attacked by a deadly Talon assassin during his meeting with Lincoln March at Wayne Manor. In an ensuing fight, they both fall from top but he landed on a gargoyle while his assailant falls onto a car. Although presumed dead, the Talon wakes up later midway and slaughters entire emergency medical team before escaping.

Bruce comes to know of a secret legion of Gotham, which is centuries old called the Court of Owls and with more information from Alfred Pennyworth, he finally discovers a very old connection between them and his great-great-grandfather Alan Wayne, leading him into investigate for their hidden bases throughout Gotham.

When he was looking inside a building funded in recent years by Alan Wayne Trust, it suddenly explodes as a Talon watches. Batman barely made it out back home and begins an autopsy on remains of Alan Wayne to learn that he was killed in same manner like their earlier murder victim who was tortured to death using throwing knives.

He then goes back to sewer, where Alan Wayne was found dead years ago and a Talon caught him by surprise. Waking up, Batman discovers himself into a giant labyrinth. Over there, he spent nearly a week wandering around to find a way out.

Finally, the Court came to a decision of slowly torturing their most worthy enemy to death and a Talon assigned to do that job came stabbing him from behind. He brutally tortured Bruce to a point where he was unable to withstand unbearable pain and even wished to die but then something inside him took over to fight back from his captivity.

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Following a universe-shattering "Flashpoint" crossover event in 2011, writer Scott Snyder (The Wake, Wytches) creates a modern day Batman legacy through "The Court of Owls" by teaming-up with artist Greg Capullo (Haunt, Spawn), which will become a staple in DC Comics history and start off a new chapter in life of The Dark Knight.

Even his journey in Prime Earth kicks-off by fending off a mob of Black Mask, Clayface, El Flamingo, James Gordon, Jr., Killer Croc, Mister Freeze, Phosphorus Rex, Professor Pyg, Scarecrow, Sumo, The Riddler, Two-Face, Ventriloquist and Zsasz from his Rogues' gallery at once to authenticate his lore as Caped Crusader of Gotham.

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Entire DC Universe saw a massive overhaul for many of its renowned heroes and villains in The New 52 wave. Therefore, Batman gets a rebooted origin tale that began long before his parents were killed in Crime Alley. Court of Owls presents him with a new age of threat that he ignored for too long but realized how wrong he was in the end.

Snyder breaks off a very common stereotype of Batman being an undefeated force of night by putting him up against an unstoppable foe like Talon assassin and it sparked a never before seen reaction in him. "The Court of Owls" plot then lead directly to "Night of the Owls" crossover-event and is continued in "City of Owls" storyline.
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