Wednesday, May 24, 2017

The Unworthy Thor | Comics

For ages, The Mighty Thor has been master of lightning and bearer of his mighty uru hammer Mjolnir, until Nick Fury whispered something to his ears (during Original Sin), which was a long-kept secret by Uatu The Watcher that rendered him unworthy and he became unable to lift the mystic hammer.

Since then, he has been tirelessly seeking means of wielding his trusted weapon once again by redeeming his worthiness. It dropped on surface of the moon and unsuccessful at reclaiming his right to wield Mjolnir, he is now going by the name Odinson these days.

In quest for redemption, his new weapon of choice is a battle axe called Jarnbjorn and Odinson also starts using arm prosthesis made of Black Uru after it was chopped off in a fight against Malekith. A new female Thor started wielding the enchanted hammer while it rejected him again and again.

Then Multiverse started collapsing and he aided The Avengers in their mission to save all but Odinson dies with Hyperion trying to oppose a wave of Beyonders (Time Runs Out). Realities clashed, Universe died and restored back as Odinson came to find Mjolnir again (Secret Wars).

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The Unworthy Thor | Comics

After dozens of satellites were damaged by some unknown forces, Odinson receives a call from Alpha Flight about this matter. He goes to investigate on moon and engages in a fight with a group of Trolls led by their leader King Ulik.

Though he had his battle axe Jarnbjorn at hand, it isn't as effective in battle as Mjolnir was and after some struggle, he was able to force the Trolls retreat with a little help from his mystical pet goat Toothgnasher. Then The Unseen approached him on surface of moon, who informed Odinson about another hammer of a dead Thor of another world.

Back at old Asgard, Odinson rushed there on Toothgnasher only to find it disappeared from its place. While he was wondering who could have done this, legendary Korbinite warrior and an old friend, Beta Ray Bill came looking for him.

Seeing Odinson without his mighty Mjolnir, Bill offers his very own Stormbreaker to Odinson but the latter gently rejects this offer. As Bill was about to disclose the identity of the one who has taken over eternal Norse realm into his possession, the Brothers in Thunder came under attack.

These two engages their attacking party and when Thor heads toward their transport ship, a powerful bomb from a lost civilization is dropped on him. When woke up, Odinson discovers himself in chains and the person behind his capture and Asgard's disappearance is revealed to be an elder of universe named Taneleer Tivan; The Collector.

He wants Ultimate Mjolnir for himself and unsuccessfully tries to force Odinson into revealing way of lifting it. Soon, along with a mysterious hooded figure, Black Swan and Proxima Midnight of Thanos's Black Order sneaks into Collector's ship looking for the hammer.

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The Unworthy Thor

A five-part limited series, which is the brainchild of writer Jason Aaron (Southern Bastards, Thanos Rising) and artist Olivier Coipel (House of M, Siege), "The Unworthy Thor" centers around event that are highlights from Original Sin to AXIS to Thors – Battleworld, a tie-in story from Secret Wars crossover event.

A journey of Odinson that has began from regaining his grace and reclaiming his title of being worthy to wield his legendary uru hammer Mjolnir once again is focus of entire plot. Long after, The Thunder Brothers of Asgard are reunited once again against a common foe and fought valiantly side by side for a common goal, which was very satisfying.

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War of The Unworthy

This story features a wide array of Marvel characters like Beta Ray Bill, Black Swan, Hela, Nick Fury, Proxima Midnight, Thanos, The Collector, Thori, Toothgnasher and Ulik, each of whom played their own respective parts for the story to advance forward to a direction where all of these will finally make sense.

Surprisingly, Taneleer Tivan AKA The Collector in this book resembles a lot like Benicio del Toro's version of the character portrayed in live-action Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) movie. The story also hinted at a couple of point that might relate to Marvel Cinematic Universe live-action film Thor – Ragnarok (2017) and upcoming Avengers – Infinity War (2018).
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Detective Comics – The Victim Syndicate | Comics

On the entrance of Wayne Tower, Batwoman stands aside with Renee Montoya inspecting a security footage showing an unknown group of people appear and kills the approaching guards by apparently exposing them to various poisons. The man leading the group comes forward and states that they are here to file a complaint.

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Detective Comics – The Victim Syndicate | Comics

Batman goes to meet Jacob Kane in the Belfry holding cells but he refuses to give up any information about his mission. He talks to Kate about the current condition of Stephanie, who was hanging out at Thompkins Clinic with Harper Row and Jean-Paul Valley. Orphan and Clayface was training in the Mud Room, when Basil Karlo realized that he is the biggest bad-guy in Batcomputer's database before Cassandra finally shuts down the program.

Bruce and Kate walks into policemen's ball as the former is here to recruit Luke Fox in his fold as Batwing. Suddenly, an explosion goes off and the group who earlier broke into Wayne Tower arrives, introducing them as The Victim Syndicate. Soon, Bat-Family arrives in scene but are easily taken down by Victim Syndicate.

Their leader; the First Victim explains that he and his companions; Madame Crow, Mister Noxious, Mudface and Mute are all results of Batman's failure. Batwoman's investigation revealed that all members of Victim Syndicate were victim of The Joker, Poison Ivy and Scarecrow during their fight with Batman. Meanwhile, a poisoned Spoiler starts acting all rational and out of character. Plus, A.R.G.U.S. has been keeping a secret called Monstertown!

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War In Gotham

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Detective Comics – The Victim Syndicate

The "DC Rebirth" mania successfully kicks off with "Rise of the Batmen", DC Comics brings the second storyline of Detective Comics in order again in 2017. The story is comprised of issues #943-949 of the Detective Comics monthly ongoing featuring works of writers James Tynion IV (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Red Hood and the Outlaws) and Marguerite Bennett, who are also assisted by artists Alvaro Martinez, Ben Oliver and Eddy Barrows (Superman, Teen Titans) as well.

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See The Devil

Taking place right after the crossover event "Night of the Monster Men", the plot of the book takes a flashback at "Zero Year – Secret City", when The Dark Knight debuted his crime-fighting career by start fighting against the gang Red Hood One used to run. The story will continue in the next arc "League of Shadows" and stakes will go higher.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Champions – Change The World | Comics

In New Jersey, at Khan Family residence, Kamala Khan was having breakfast with her family and was thinking about prior events that took place three days ago while her father Yusuf Khan asks her why is she not out much lately.

She recalls her last mission with The Avengers at Queens, when she was busy balancing a derailed train as Giant Girl in the middle of a fight against Wrecking Crew. She managed to save hundreds of passengers of that train while Sam Wilson and Jane Foster smites Thunderball and Piledriver of the gang down as Captain America and Thor.

As her teammates wrapped things up after taking down the bad guys, she asks them about their agenda on battle damage nearby and how their fight is constantly disrupting civilian lives. Vision agrees with her and points out how people are angry at them because of their recent internal skirmish.

They needs to earn that trust back. Her argument on the topic with Captain America has proved his points invalid to her as Ms. Marvel leaves the team while Jane Foster's Thor shockingly watched an Avenger quit again. Being bored sitting in home, she called her friends Miles Morales and Sam Alexander to meet her.

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Champions – Change The World | Comics

At George Washington Bridge, when Miles and Sam showed up as Spider-Man and Nova, they thought Ms. Marvel was about to request them to re-join The Avengers but she reveals that she already quit. Kamala explains to them that they should be forming a team who actually cares about super-heroics and can make an actual difference.

Miles suggests enlisting extraordinary young hero Amadeus Cho AKA Totally Awesome Hulk to their team. Cho was inside a Kentucky hills coal mine at that time for a rescue mission, where Ms. Marvel, Nova and Spidey showed up to lend their hands.

With some coordinated plan, there four successfully rescued the miners trapped inside and Cho then vouched for his gaming partner Viv Vision to be included as well. Riding in Cho's Meat Wagon, they all reached at Vision's house and Amadeus explains to the three ex-Avengers how they need to tap into worldwide events to get involved.

He suggested making Viv as their personal trouble-alert because of her built in Wi-Fi multiprocessors. To demonstrate her ability of filtering urgent problems from web, Viv picked up footage of captive girls in a cargo seeking help.

They all quickly rushed to the source of that video transmission to confront a demented clown called Pagliacci with his crews to stop them from deporting those captive girls. After they successfully foiled his attempt of human trafficking, Kamala announces themselves on behalf of her friends as The Champions by handing Pagliacci over to authorities.

However, while they celebrate their first victory and there is more to come, there is one more member to add to their ranks who is none other than a time displaced young X-Men leader Cyclops.

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Heroes of Tomorrow

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Champions – Change The World

Plotted by veteran writer Mark Waid (Spider-Man – Clone Saga, Spider-Man – House of M) and illustrated by artist Humberto Ramos (Crimson, Revelations), "Change The World" is the first story arc of second monthly ongoing volume of Champions comic-book series, collecting issues #01-05 from Marvel Comics.

Part of 2016's Marvel NOW! event, this ongoing series is a re-launch of former incarnation of the super-hero team of same name, previously formed by Angel, Black Widow, Ghost Rider, Hercules and IcemanMarvel was aiming at a soft-toned series formed with ambitious young heroes of next generations and Champions was their solution.

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Unknown Threats and Beyond

The new roster of team Champions includes a young Cyclops, Giant Girl, Nova, Miles Morales as Spider-ManTotally Awesome Hulk and Viv Vision, who embarks on a couple of mission that delivers some strong messages for their young audience. Set in aftermath of Civil War II, this story also features cameo appearance of Gwenpool, Joaquin Torres' Falcon, Redwing, Riri Wiliams, Nadia Pym's Wasp, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

A lot of groundwork was laid out to re-start this team and unlike their early predecessor, these young heroes are showing exceptional promise to shine and prosper before Marvel decides to cancel the series in foreseeable future.
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Green Lanterns – Phantom Lantern | Comics

Jessica Cruz is invited by Simon Baz to spend family time with him in Halloween and help him bake Ma'amoul cookies. Always a loner and suffering from social anxiety, Jessica Cruz decides to run away but Simon convinces her to stay. One of the Guardians of the Universe named Rami takes shelter in their residence to safeguard The Phantom Ring and meditate about the most obvious threat.

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Green Lanterns – Phantom Lantern | Comics

Sensing the presence of the alien race of Dominators, Rami goes rogue with the ring. Jessica and Simon eventually locates Rami and then two Dominators in pursuit attacks them, only to be taken down by the rookie Lanterns. However, a whack-job name Frank Laminski starts chasing Jessica and Simon in search for The Phantom Ring as he wants to have its power for himself.

In the flashback, it is shown that Frank was always hanging to the second string for his entire life and when his career in Air Force as a test pilot failed him to rise above, he was saved by Hal Jordan. Ever since then, he is fascinated by the power-ring and has been obsessed to gain one for him. While, he had no lack of dedication in his goal, his motives was outright selfish and that is why the ring never picked him.

However, help came from the most unexpected source to him as Volthoom, The First Lantern arrives at his doorstep to help him get The Phantom Ring. By distracting Jessica and Simon, Frank steals the ring and becomes Phantom Lantern with help from Volthoom but without any training of experience of wielding a power ring, he sure will doom everyone.

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The Dominating Spectrum

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Green Lanterns – Phantom Lantern

Following "Rage Planet", Green Lanterns monthly ongoing series continues from DC Comics with writer Sam Humphries (Fanboys vs. Zombies – Wrecking Crew 4 Lyfe, Fanboys vs. Zombies – Appetite for Destruction), assisted by the team of artists Ed Benes (Artemis – Requiem, Blackest Night – Titans), Eduardo Pansica, Jack Herbert, Robson Rocha and Ronan Cliquet.

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Phantom Ring Wielder

The second storyline from the series on the dawn of DC Rebirth, the arc collects issues #07-14 of the monthly volume. An old adversary of the Corps, Volthoom, The First Lantern returns with his newest schemes to exact his vengeance on the Guardians of the Universe and secretly employs his plan in action.
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Red Hood and the Outlaws – Dark Trinity | Comics

Establishing his new status as a villain, Red Hood decides to  take down Gotham's underworld while joined by a fallen Amazon and a faulty Superman clone.

Years before, Jason Todd was a street rat in Crime Alley who was stealing to survive and he was visited by Batman when he was trying to steal tires off the Batmobile. Never really found his comfort zone by working as Robin alongside The Dark Knight, Jason Todd eventually became an outlaw named Red Hood after he came back from dead.

While recalling these past events from his life, Jason came in his motorbike and shot the mayor on street before being confronted by his former mentor. These two fought a very brief yet intense battle and Red Hood then cheated his way out of the fight early on.

As he was having a drink in a bad-guy bar and got lost in thoughts from old days, a member of Black Mask's False Face Society approaches him to inform about their boss's invitation to join his cause. Jason then came saving life of a woman named Ma Gunn, whom he and Batman used to know from years before.

He stopped her from running criminal activities behind the cover of a Boarding School for Wayward Boys, which she used to run. Ma Gunn believes that it surely was Black Mask who gave the order to kill her for not joining in his recent mad schemes.

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Red Hood and the Outlaws– Dark Trinity | Comics

After catching up on old times, Jason learns from her that her place was about to open weeks ago and that means, the villain had planned for a mass-murder when he blew up her house. Still not giving in to his rage because of his promise to Batman, Red Hood decides to face crime-boss Black Mask about his offer.

The way he made an entrance by shooting at his guys and broke into his personal convoy impressed the villain. He actually opens up to him about his intention being different for Gotham City from the likes of Bane, Catwoman, The Joker, Killer Croc or The Penguin.

Jason has become a discussing topic among the bad guys of Gotham City these days for showing his raw boldness by publicly attempting an assassination on Mayor and a clash with The Dark Knight. All of these were what made the villain appreciate his raw talent and even offered Red Hood to be his heir since he has no kids of his own.

Before moving towards their next objective on expanding operation in Gotham City, Black Mask made an example out of his henchmen, who failed to kill Ma Gunn by blowing up their heads with pre-installed neuro-implants in front of Jason.

In order to secure a cargo for his new boss, Jason encounters fierce warrior Artemis of Amazons, who was here looking for an ancient artifact known as Bow of Ra, a weapon of immense power she has always longed for. After their initial encounter, she deduces that Jason is definitely onto something.

Also, Black Mask is not really after the artifact as these two have previously thought but he was eyeing for a more threatening specimen. It was Bizarro, a failed clone of Superman created by former villain Lex Luthor that he wants for his own. In quest of figuring out Black Mask's real plan, Jason feels lost in the midst of Artemis and Bizarro.

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Trinity of Outlaws

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Red Hood and the Outlaws – Dark Trinity

With first monthly series of Red Hood & the Outlaws debuting back on 2011, just as The New 52 wave started taking over DC Universe, the team comprised of anti-heroes and outlaws have changed their line-up recently. When Starfire left this trio, Red Hood and Arsenal quickly formed a new duo of bad-asses but that too has lived for a brief time.

It has come to an end because of circumstances and both of their conflicting nature to each other. However, we are in for an entirely different and all-new alliance up ahead of us where Jason Todd bands together with a fallen Amazon warrior Artemis and one of the many imperfect Superman clones; Bizarro.

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A Rampaging Bizarro

So, with DC Rebirth launching a new wave of change, comic-book writer Scott Lobdell (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Darkness) and artist Dexter Soy (Army of Two, Batman – Arkham Knight – Genesis) has band together to came up with some great alliance of beloved outlaws which they brought up in "Dark Trinity" storyline.

With issues #01-06 of second monthly ongoing volume of Red Hood & the Outlaws and the one-shot "Rebirth" issue, this storyline is a fresh-start for Jason Todd and his new allies in crime. Each three of them are given a fair share of flashbacks at how they ended up together for a same goal, which serves as an origin for the new incarnation of Outlaws.
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