Friday, May 13, 2016

Guardians of the Galaxy – Emperor Quill | Comics

As Fantastic Four is currently no longer in business, The Thing has nothing better to do and he decided to become a spaceman. So, Benjamin J. Grimm has joined Guardians of the Galaxy alongside Drax the Destroyer, Star-Lord/Kitty Pryde, Flash Thompson's Venom and Groot, led by their brand-new leader Rocket Raccoon. Though, Ben lovies his time in space, he finds the downside of it being always being threatended by a Chitauri Leviathan that is after him and thanks to Kitty Pryde, they took out a entire Chitauri fleet with very little effort and secured a package from them.

Since no one knows what's inside of it and they have no expert on-board to examine it and cannot come to any conclusion whether it's a weapon or a cosmic artifact, The Guardians took a vote and went to see an old friend. On Spartax, Emperor Peter Quill is dying of boredom while ruling the planet and suddenly out of the blue, Rocket and The Guardians arrives at his doorstep with the package acquired from Chitauri.

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Guardians of the Galaxy – Emperor Quill | Comics

On Spartax, Emperor Peter Quill was dying of boredom while ruling the planet alongside Spartax Council as their new king, attending meetings to discuss military expenditures and trade negotiations that are driving him nuts. Peter was trying to resist sexual advancement from an alien being and suddenly out of the blue, Rocket arrives with the rest of Guardians of the Galaxy at his doorstep with the package acquired from Chitauri. Only moments after their arrival, a shiny object falls from the orbit and hits straight to the surface, which is revealed to be a badly-beaten and bloodied Gamora.

She tries to warn her friends about her attacker and it seems that Gamora encountered a Kree, belonging to Accuser Corps, named Hala who has beaten her like this. She fled from the Kree using all her strength to come to Spartax, so she could warn Quill and the Guardians. Hala is the last remaining Accuser, who seeks out retribution for the destruction of Kree Homeworld and her people at the hands of Quill's father and former King J'son while she was away. Now, as the sole survivor of her race, she came to Spartax to kill Emperor Peter Quill.

They all attacked the Kree Accuser one by one but none of them could make an impact except for Ben Grimm landing a few punches on her. Then an attempt from Spartoi Royal Guards to restrain Hala also proved to be as futile. Even the combined might of the Guardians seems not enough to even slow her down a bit and they are all forced to leave while Gamora engages her in duel again. As the rogue Accuser tears apart the heroes and wrecks havoc on Spartax, a doozy alien named Yotat the Destroyer seeks for Drax to settle down some old score.

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Kree Justice on Spartax

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Set up after Marvel's ground-breaking events of "Time Runs Out" and "Secret Wars", Guardians of the Galaxy is taking a new move with "Emperor Quill" storyline which is devised by writer Brian Michael Bendis (Daredevil – End of Days, Daredevil – Ninja) and illustrated by artist Valerio Schiti (Guardians of the Galaxy – Wanted, New Avengers – A Perfect World), as Arthur Adams (Gen¹³/Generation X, Longshot) provided cover arts. "Emperor Quill" does very well connecting the current plot to the previous happenings of the Marvel Universe; like "The Black Vortex" and subtly plants seeds for more in the foreseeable future with more stakes on the line.

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A Gangster from Knowhere

New members Ben Grimm and Flash Thompson are added to the roster to add some new twist to the play and bringing diverse flavor among the space-heroes. This puts Rocket straight on the driving seat of the gang whilst Quill plays the fancy boy-king of Spartax. During Quill's presence, Rocket always argued with him how his plans are better and now with the former out for the time being, he can finally prove his worth as a team-leader. Also, the story hints a major oncoming conspiracy from the depth of Negative Zone by two of the menacing figures; Annihilus and Queen of the Brood which might eventually turn out to be some major catastrophic event in future as the series progresses.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

All-New, All-Different Avengers – The Magnificent Seven | Comics

The Avengers does not exist anymore but a threat from beyond the stars forced Earth's Mightiest Heroes to assemble once again.

There was a time when Avengers member Scarlet Witch and Vision was a couple who eventually married but got separated unfortunately. Years after, they are still friends and helps out each other in times when needed. So, Wanda Maximoff was expecting her ex one evening who wanted to talk about something he needs help with.

He starts seeing several different avatars of her that seems like some haunting apparition for the synthezoid being he is. He opens up about how he is having hallucinating lately about an earlier era when he joined The Avengers and met her, including Black Panther, Captain America, Goliath, Hawkeye and even his creator Ultron.

Though Wanda suspects for him having some memory malfunction, he reveals that he even had such instances with recently deceased people that he failed to save. Vision points out the problem was not within his memory but strong emotions for her deeply rooted within his system that he had to purge, which have her taken aback.

Months after entire universe was restored following "Time Runs Out" and "Secret Wars" event, there was no longer a team of Avengers. Currently acting as All-New Captain America, Sam Wilson saves a family from falling off a bridge and meet Tony Stark by chance who offers him a ride after briefly attending a gathered crowd there.

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All-New, All-Different Avengers – The Magnificent Seven | Comics

Meanwhile, a Chitauri warlord known as Warbringer teleports to former Avengers Tower only to come across its new owner Mister Gryphon of Qeng Enterprises, who claims to be an ally to the alien who came here looking for Nova and offers to guide him to three ancient Chitauri artifact that will guarantee him victory over human race.

While discussing their plan, Spider-Man, Miles Morales is busted eavesdropping on them and thrown out. He stumbles onto Tony, who then heads back to the scene in his Iron Man armor by transforming his car. When trying to gang up on the big angry alien, it charged them with a powerful solar flare attack that took down all three of them.

Miles patched up Cap and Vision arrives to aid Tony out of his armor by completely dismantling it. Gryphon comes to confront them about the mess they made and asks compensation for damage done. In search for the hidden artifact, Warbringer reaches New Jersey and confronts Ms. Marvel before Nova could rush in to charge at him.

These two are soon joined by rest of the heroes after the alien escaped to looks for the second artifact. The Mighty Thor joins in but Gryphon teleported it to destroy the underwater tunnel they all were in and the Chitauri escaped once again. After regrouping, they go after the alien warlord who by then assembled all three pieces together.

Guided by Gryphon, he managed to open a portal to invite an invading army from his homeworld but interrupted shortly by a bolt of lightning from Goddess of Thunder. Seeing them all being overpowered by his superior might, Iron Man sees no way other than they open portal and close it as soon as they send him back.

Gryphon secretly attempts to help Warbringer but he is soon pushed to other side by his nemesis, the Human Rocket. Tony reassembled an All-New Avengers team with a diverse cast of heroes and everyone is happy. However, Vision seems to act out of character now that he has purged his emotions and even blackmails young Nova.

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Chitauri Invading Army

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In a post-Battleworld reality, writer Mark Waid (Captain America – Sentinel of Liberty, Deadpool – Sins of the Past) was brought in to reform The Avengers with new a group of heroes and he attempts to reinvent one of Marvel Comics' most iconic groups of superheroes by pitting them against one of their recurring enemies from past.

Joining Waid in story collaboration process are artists Adam Kubert (Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine, Avengers & X-Men – Axis) and Mahmud Asrar (Indestructible Hulk – Humanity Bomb, Wolverine and the X-Men – Tomorrow Never Learns) with cover arts for related issues provided by legendary illustrator Alex Ross (Kingdom Come, Marvels).

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Assembling All-New Avengers

Collecting issues #1-6 of the newly launched All-New, All-Different Avengers monthly ongoing series with some materials taken from issue #0 of Avengers sixth volume for Vision's story with Wanda as well as Free Comic Book Day 2015 release.

Although most of the original members are not present among current assembly, prominent members like both Iron Man and Vision were there alongside all-new incursions of valiant heroes; Captain America and Thor. Joining them are talented young adventurers Miles "Spider-Man" Morales, Ms. Marvel and Nova from a newer generation.
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Extraordinary X-Men – X-Haven | Comics

Storm assembled an all-new, extraordinary team of X-Men where she wants Old Man Logan and young Jean Grey to join.

When Thanos came to Earth last time, he came looking for his illegitimate son and had a clash with Black Bolt, the King of Inhumans. The latter detonated a Terrigen Bomb that not only destroyed New Attilan but also left Terrigen Mist in the atmosphere. However, it drastically increased their number while also severely affecting the lives of mutants.

Following this event, X-Men leader Cyclops have gone totally nuts and tried to start a mutant "Revolution" for dominance with a few of his radical followers who had the same belief. This irrational act eventually went horribly wrong for everyone and years of working to improve their public image by Professor X is completely ruined within moments.

Now, veteran X-Men member Storm finds herself with a burden on her shoulder to save her own race without the guidance of her mentor and former leader, Professor Charles Xavier. With the worldwide spread of Terrigenesis, humans and mutants are both dying from its exposure that causes what they are calling “M-Pox” or "X-Pox" these days.

As a result, the age old fear of mutants among humans has re-emerged once again. Meanwhile, a time-displaced Jean Grey from Earth-TRN240 was trying to find a plain and simple life on Earth-616 reality, gets approached by Storm to join their team, which she declined given her history of ending up dying every time as Marvel Girl no matter what.

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Extraordinary X-Men – X-Haven | Comics

When Icaman tries to talk to Jean to change her mind and failed, Ororo offered her to take a look into her head using the latter's psychic powers. She realizes that the outbreak of M-Pox caused by Terrigen Mist is not only killing their kind but also sterilizing them from ever to grow in numbers again and it can mean the end of the mutant race.

Mutant sorceress Illyana Rasputin aka Magik took it upon herself to scout throughout the whole world seeking for any mutant refugees in dire situation to save them from angry human mobs triggered by current mutant hysteria and brings them all back to X-Haven, the current headquarters of X-Men situated in magical dimension of Limbo.

Illyana goes to New Delhi, India, to save a family and their young mutant girl affected by Terrigen Mist from a tough crowd. She eventually rescued the family before taking a hit and brought them back to Jean Grey School For Higher Learning for safety.

Magik then heads straight to Lake Baikal, Russia, looking for her elder brother and former X-Man member Colossus to recruit him back to their fold during this crisis while their old pal Nightcrawler was being chased by a newly reformed group of Marauders.

Storm and Iceman were astounded to discover Old Man Logan is walking among them when he mistakenly attacked Cerebra, recently restructured within a Sentinel body by thinking it as an enemy. The old friends catch up quick about their current state of affairs before the young Jean finally meets with Logan to convince and bring him back to action.

Colossus and Magik investigate the disappearance of Nightcrawler only to run into the new team of Marauders and then attacked by someone Sinister. As soon as Illyana Rasputin fell, the magical defenses that she placed to defend X-Haven from Demons of Limbo attacking the sanctuary, collapses and the X-Men got a huge mess on their hand to clean.

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The X-Haven

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The trail of mega crossovers and Universe shattering events like "Schism", Avengers Vs. X-Men and Infinity led to current status-quo of mutantkind in Marvel Universe. The death of Cyclops in Battleworld fighting God Emperor Doom during Secret Wars made it worse as the team is now scattered and disoriented without a leader to follow.

Comic-book writer Jeff Lemire (Thanos – Thanos Returns, Thanos – The God Quarry) and artist Humberto Ramos (Age of Apocalypse, Amazing Spider-Man) has teamed up to draw a new line for the beginning of a brand-new starting point with the story “X-Haven”, collecting issue #01-05 from the newly launched ongoing series.

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A Sinister Nightmare Returns

As a part of the "All-New, All-Different Marvel" event, the new Extraordinary X-Men monthly series offers a fresh spot for new readers while also hinting back to the past events that leads to current affairs. One of the finest aspects of the plot was bringing together an alternate-reality Jean Grey with a time-displaced Logan for a new team.

Then there was trouble in Limbo that needed to taken care of, a new group of Marauders abducting X-Men members, severed tail of Nightcrawler, strange apparition of Professor X and someone from the shadows plans something sinister about their future. The series serves the next arc as a tie-in with "Apocalypse Wars" crossover event.
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