Showing posts with label Art Thibert. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Action Comics – Men of Steel | Comics

Lex Luthor is being hunted down by an alien assassin named Godslayer while the Man of Steel struggles to save his former enemy.

In a distant future, Earth will be engulfed in flames and toxic fumes with the fall of Justice League. Aquaman, Batman, Cyborg, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, The Flash and Wonder Woman will fall as army of Parademons from the hellish world of Apokolips will take over Earth on behalf of their master, The Annihilator.

In present, Earth just witnessed Death of Superman on Prime Earth lately and another one from the reality of New Earth has stepped into his shoes to protect mankind and honor his legacy. At that time, former super-villain Lex Luthor has proclaimed himself as new Man of Steel of Metropolis in absence of the original one.

Despite new Superman's disapproval of his work, Luthor continues his work by fighting to protect Metropolis wearing the iconic red cape of the original one. Eventually, they both set aside their past differences when an ultimate killing machine from Krypton named Doomsday got loose on streets of Metropolis (Path of Doom).

Another Clark Kent then showed up mysteriously out of the blue and Lois Lane took place as a reporter of her counterpart from this world. Lois and Lex both came under attack at Daily Planet during one of their interview session.

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Action Comics – Men of Steel | Comics

Superman and Superboy were investigating on Amazon Rainforest where they found the missing Geneticron building that previously vanished from Metropolis during the recent Doomsday incident earlier. Suddenly, at a call of emergency from Lois, he immediately heads back to Metropolis with Jon.

He saw that Lex was already engaged in a fight wearing his suit with an unknown alien who calls himself L'Call, the Godslayer. Out of nowhere, Superman is suddenly punched down by L'Call's accomplice, Zade before he could even react.

Godslayer states, he is an alien assassin who kills future-criminals for generations, guided by elder Ch'Arr and now he is here for Lex Luthor, who will take Darkseid's place in a near future and his army will decimate many worlds including this one.

L'Call believes that Lex should be slayed to prevent that dystopian future from ever to happen. He came from future seeing this and he knows how great of a threat Lex would become because, he was once forced to serve the dreaded Darkseid after his family was slayed by the tyrant himself.

In spite of his dad's order, Jon came helping by pummeling a truck over Zade but Godslayer and Zade overpowered Superman and made a mess throughout Metropolis before forcibly taking Luthor with them for execution.

To save a would-be galactic mass murderer believed by two assassins from future, the Man of Tomorrow must journey to distant planet of Nideesi following Godslayer's unique form of energy trail. An intense face-off awaits between Godslayer and Superman on Nideesi to decide Luthor's uncertain fate of becoming Annihilator of Worlds.

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Trial of Lex Luthor

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Action Comics – Men of Steel

As part of the DC Rebirth era, Action Comics continues its run with "Men of Steel" story arc, plotted by writer Dan Jurgens (Metamorpho – Year One, Superman/Doomsday – Hunter/Prey) teamed up with the team of artists Art Thibert (Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men), Patrick Zircher (Green Arrow – New 52, Suicide Squad – New 52), Stephen Segovia (Green Lantern – New Guardians – Gods and Monsters, Poison Ivy – Cycle of Life and Death) and Tyler Kirkham (The Darkness, Tomb Raider).

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The Last Battlefield

Penciller Clay Mann (Dark Reign – ElektraMagneto – Not a Hero) and Gary Frank (Batman – Earth OneSuperman – Secret Origin) has provided variant covers for the issues involved. The storyline collects issues #967-972 from Action Comics monthly ongoing and features an unlikely team-up of Superman and Lex Luthor, to save the latter from an alien bounty-hunter who is hell-bent on capturing and execute him to save millions of lives in future.

Given the fact that Lex Luthor has always been evil sinnce the very beginning, L'Call, the Godslayer and elder Ch'Arr was probably right. Even if he doesn't become a re-incarnation of the dreaded Darkseid, he can still take over on Earth using his warsuit of Apokolips. The series will explore a crossover storyline "Superman Reborn" from DC Comics next which will answer questions to many mysteries.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Action Comics – Welcome to the Planet | Comics

The day Doomsday got loose and wrecked Metropolis was also the day when Lex Luthor decided to become the new Man of Steel but met with a Superman from another world. The world saw that Clark Kent and Superman are two different individual whereas they used to think them both are the same.

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Action Comics – Welcome to the Planet | Comics

As Kal-El of Prime Earth died, Wonder Woman also discovered that a counterpart from an alternate reality has taken the mantle of his love. However, the world still remains dubious with the existence of this new Clark Kent who is not Superman.

Even Jimmy Olsen and Perry White are having a hard time believing what Clark is claiming. So, Lex Luthor, now president and publisher of Daily Planet calls for a press conference to clear out everything in front of the public.

As the people present in the conference didn't buy that Clark and Superman being two different person and a whack job ended up shooting at the former, they had to call it quits. Clark even undergoes a lie-detector test and passes.

He decides to investigate Geneticron, who were responsible for the release of Doomsday and he is rescued by Superman when he is thrown out of the roof, who takes Clark to his Fortress of Solitude to determine who Clark really is.

Meanwhile, Lois Lane of Pre-Flashpoint era decides to show up in Daily Planet and everyone is surprised to see her. Superwoman decides to pay a visit to her as she is yet not convinced of this new Lois. As they sorted out these mysteries around them, an enemy from the future secretly watches over them.

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Superman Meets Clark Kent

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Action Comics – Welcome to the Planet

With the wave of change hits the DC Universe after DC Rebirth, Superman of New Earth reality finally took his own mantle again in "Path of Doom". In a continuation of that story, writer Dan Jurgens (Metamorpho – Year One, Superman/Doomsday – Hunter/Prey) has pitched the post-Doomday incident with artists Art Thibert (Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men), Clay Mann (Dark Reign – Elektra, Magneto – Not a Hero), Patrick Zircher (Green Arrow – New 52, Suicide Squad – New 52), Stephen Segovia (Green Lantern – New Guardians – Gods and Monsters, Poison Ivy – Cycle of Life and Death) and Tom Grummett (Robin, Superboy) in "Welcome to the Planet".


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Back at Daily Planet

Superman is having the trouble of his life in Prime Earth with the appearance of Super-Lex and a Human Clark, with whom he just could not cope-up. Comprising of issues #963-966 from Action Comics monthly ongoing series and issue #52 of Justice League series from The New 52, the story builds up onto two mini-stories. This story leads to the next arc titled "Men of Steel" that will feature a threat from the future called Godslayer.
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