Showing posts with label Adam Kubert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adam Kubert. Show all posts

Friday, October 13, 2006

Ultimate Fantastic Four | Comics

Under the observation of the U.S. military's General Thaddeus Ross and scientist Franklin Storm, a secret government program is running a classified project that recruited youngsters around the world with very unique potentials to train them and make them better with their abilities in a laboratory facility of Manhattan in the Baxter Building with government’s authority.

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Ultimate Fantastic Four | Comics

They have discovered a parallel dimensional space with energy resources and vast knowledge called the N-Zone. A young science prodigy named Reed Richards was enlisted in the program with Victor Van Damme, Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and Sue Storm. A teleportation gate for the N-Zone is build to run a teleportation test that was meant to teleport an apple to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

What they did not knew then was that, Victor Van Damme had already modified the machine’s setting coordinates that results the device to send them all in five separate locations and all of their "phase-space condition" is completely altered forever. A former Baxter Building instructor Arthur Molekevic, kidnaps Sue Storm and the rest of the group led an attack on his underground lab.

With Victor soon becoming their enemy, the remaining four labeled them as “Fantastic Four” and started exploring further with their amazing gifts. When they again entered the N-Zone, they found and battled its ruler the insectoid tyrant Nihil, eventually allied themselves up with The Ultimates, met the race of Inhumans and crossed paths with a reformed and demented Victor as Doctor Doom.

For more information on Ultimate Fantastic Four comics series, you can check out those links below.

Ultimate Fantastic Four (Comics) Wikipedia

Ultimate Fantastic Four (Comics) Marvel Wikia

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Ultimate Fantastic Four – The Fantastic

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Doom

Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (Softcover)

Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (Hardcover)

Ultimate Fantastic Four – N-Zone

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Inhuman

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Crossover

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Frightful

Ultimate X-Men/Fantastic Four

Ultimate Fantastic Four – God War

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Devils

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Silver Surfer

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Ghosts

Ultimate Fantastic Four – Salem’s Seven

Ultimatum

Ultimatum – Requiem

Ultimate Fantastic Four
is a monthly ongoing series by Brian Michael Bendis (Age of Ultron, Avengers Disassembled), Mark Miller (Kick-Ass, Reborn) and Adam Kubert (Amazing Spider-Man – Renew Your Vows, Avengers & X-Men – Axis), that was intended to re-discover the origin of the famous team of Marvel Comics in their Earth-1610 reality. The series start publishing in 2004 from the Ultimate Marvel imprint alongside Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates ongoing titles.

The series ran for sixty issues and even won the “Scream Awards” for the best comics category. However, despite being the alternate reality counterpart of the original Fantastic Four of the Earth-616, the team has a lot of differences of their own that gives them a unique platform to stand among the crowd.
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Saturday, April 29, 2006

X-Men – The Hunt for Xavier | Comics

At Cape Citadel, Florida, a public controversy is forming regarding the launch of a rocket that is secretly programmed to track and terminate all mutants of the world. The location of the launch also stirs controversy as it was the place where the world known about the existence of mutants as Professor X's original X-Men were fighting against Magneto for the first time. Operating from the shadows, Xavier is seen recruiting Chaos, Crux, Grey King, Landslide, Mercury and Rapture to re-form his dream team of X-Men.

Along with Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Colossus were resting by the pool abroad the cruise ship Titania after the Excalibur team has been disbanded most recently. Calling themselves the X-Men, Xavier's new recruits attacks on board Titania. While Kurt and Peter were busy on crowd-control, these newly assembled mutants abduct Kitty Pryde and take her to their so-called savior.

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X-Men – The Hunt for Xavier | Comics

The X-Men team at the X-Mansion is re grouping again after the devastating events of "Operation – Zero Tolerance" and Storm is in charge of the current team. She leads fellow teammates Marrow, Rogue and Wolverine through the tunnels of Washington, D.C., through a series of defensive machines and hidden traps. After their brief meeting with X-Factor liaison Valerie Cooper about the recent developments regarding the missile launch, the X-Men are attacked by their impostors in mid-air, ensuing a battle but Nightcrawler and Colossus came to the rescue.

Afterwards, all of them goes to rescue Shadowcat and breaks her out of there after battling it out with their fake counterparts. Kitty Pryde was brought here in the first place as Xavier explained that during the time Bastion kept him, he was infected with a computer virus that now only she can cure him off. The X-Men flies back home in Blackbird and Xavier seemingly absorbed his fake recruits to take a robotic form, now calling himself Cerebro.

They soon are summoned by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. to deal with one of their former villain Pyro. The mutant Pyro has good nuts and is flaming out intensely in Nebraska. Not only that, he's been shouting out the name of Professor Charles Xavier all the time. Storm splits the team in two groups, sending Wolverine, Colossus and Gambit after Pyro and led her own team of Marrow, Nightcrawler, Rogue and Shadowcat for crowd control.

As Storm engage to control the situation, Marrow confronts her about Xavier's action on the infamous "Mutant Massacre" event. Since Pyro is infected with the lethal Legacy Virus that is reaching to its ultimate stage, his powers are way out of their regular scale. Even Colossus felt the heat Pyro emitted in his armor mode. The X-Men were finally successful to take him down, but they are still riddled with the question that, why Pyro was frequently calling out for Xavier, when they don't share even a short history together.

After returning to the X-Mansion, they ran a search for Xavier via Cerebro but surprisingly found that currently there are two Xavier around the world! Meanwhile, the real Professor Charles Xavier was forming a new Brotherhood of Mutants consisting Blob, Post, Mimic and Toad to oppose an oncoming foe that he fears he cannot face and win alone against.

For more information on "The Hunt for Xavier" crossover, you can check out the link below.

The Hunt for Xavier (Comics) Wikipedia


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Meltdown Madness

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01. Uncanny X-Men 362


02. X-Men V2 82


03. Uncanny X-Men 363


04. X-Men V2 83

05. Uncanny X-Men 364

06. X-Men V2 84

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X-Men – The Hunt for Professor X

Followed from the "Operation - Zero Tolerance" crossover, "The Hunt for Xavier" is a six part crossover take that ran in the two major X-Men titles. With writer Steve Seagle teaming up with artist Chris Bachalo (Captain America – Homeland, Dark Reign – The Sinister Spider-Man) in the issues of Uncanny X-Men. Joe Kelly (Emperor Joker, Justice League Elite) and Adam Kubert (Amazing Spider-Man – Renew Your Vows, Avengers & X-Men – Axis) also filled the story in the pages of the second volume of X-Men comic series by Marvel Comics in 1998.

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Cerebro Ascendant

Since this was a six-issue crossover arc, penciller Leinil Francis Yu (New Avengers, Secret Invasion) and Pasqual Ferry (Adam Strange – Planet Heist, Superman – Ending Battle) also appeared as guest artist. Late artist Mike Wieringo (Fantastic Four, The Flash) also contributed to the X-Men issue #1/2 that is also part of the book as well. The entire concept has build upon the idea of what if Professor Xavier's long-time trusty mutant-detecting program goes rogue and how will he manage to put an end to it's menace then.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Onslaught Saga | Comics

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of X-Men have previously faced Magneto in his space station Avalon to stop his reign of terror (Fatal Attraction) and during the battle against the master of magnetism and his Acolytes, Magneto extracted the Adamantium from Wolverine's body after being stabbed by him, which left the latter in a withered and dying state. Seeing this, an enraged Xavier immediately attacks Magneto and wiped out his mind, left him in a catatonic state.

Unknowingly, Charles also absorbed the dark essence of Magneto's mind while attacking him, which subconsciously merged with Xavier's consciousness and creates a very powerful psionic entity called Onslaught. Xavier's decades of frustration over the events with mutants made Onslaught take an attempt to forcibly establish his year-old dream of mutant/human peaceful co-existence.

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Onslaught Saga | Comics

At first, Onslaught wanted to establish Xavier's dreams through the means that Magneto used. However, he later decided to destroy all humans too anyway. He approached X-Men's former nemesis, Juggernaut but upon denial, he tore out the crimson Gem of Cyttorak from Cain Marko and left him beaten. Then Jean Grey was approached by the being to join his cause but she refused the offer too.

Onslaught also tried to recruit Xavier's X-Men to fight against humans but upon denial, he attacked them all and both parties engaged in a fight. It was when Wolverine noted that he looked more like Magneto after Onslaught pretends to be Xavier himself, the monster loose his cool and attacked the team. Onslaught now reveals his true form to the X-Men and claims that he and Xavier are one.

During their fight, Bishop absorbs a huge blast of psionic energy thrown at the X-Men from Onslaught to save his friends, while Cannonball, Cyclops, Gambit, Iceman, Phoenix, Storm and Wolverine continues the fight. Onslaught then abducts the powerful mutant child Franklin Richards of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman by posing as a little boy named Charles. Cable's time-displaced brother Nate Grey AKA X-Man was also taken down to have more psionic power from him for himself.

Amidst this chaos, Ozymandias awakens his master Apocalypse who joins Uatu the Watcher in witnessing the end of the "Age of Wonders". The team of Fantastic Four, Avengers, an enraged Hulk and even the villainous Doctor Doom came forward to oppose Onslaught's threat to existence. Together, The Avengers and X-Men formed an alliance against the greatest threat which the world has ever seen but probably all of them will not be able to see the end of it.

For more information on Onslaught Saga crossover event, you can check out these links below.

Onslaught Saga (Comics) Wikipedia


Onslaught Saga (Comics) Marvel Wikia


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Heroes and Mutants United

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X-Men – Prelude to Onslaught


X-Men – The Road to Onslaught Volume 01


X-Men – The Road to Onslaught Volume 02


X-Men – The Road to Onslaught Volume 03


X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 01


X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 02

X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 03

X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 04

X-Men/Avengers – Onslaught Omnibus

"Onslaught Saga" is a major comic-book crossover event that took place in 1996, published by Marvel Comics and this event was centered on a psionic being of pure evil of the same name. The character, Onslaught was co-created by writer Scott Lobdell (Alpha Flight, Generation X) and Mark Waid (Captain America – Sentinel of Liberty, Deadpool – Sins of the Past), along with artist Andy Kubert (Damian – Son of Batman, Dark Knight III – The Master Race).

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To Survive an Onslaught

Various other writers and artists have contributed in this historical Marvel event. Among them, Mark Waid's plot was something that actually stayed faithful to the core event that nearly shattered the entire Marvel universe. The drawings of Andy Kubert in the second ongoing volume of X-Men and Joe Madureira (Avenging Spider-Man – My Friends Can Beat Up Your Friends, Deadpool – The Circle Chase)'s work in Uncanny X-Men are most magnificent.
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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Age of Apocalypse | Comics

The mentally unstable mutant son of Professor Charles Xavier named David Haller A.K.A. Legion time travels to the past with an intention to kill the mutant master of magnetism; Magneto once and for all. Legion reached to the past and he actually appeared in a time when Charles Xavier and Magneto were still friends. When Legion attacked to take Magneto's life, Charles helped save his friend's life and died instead of Eric.

Legion got vanished from scene and a shocked Magneto was left with the corpse of his friend, who died trying to protect him. For the first time in his life, Magneto realizes the dream that Charles had of human-mutant co-existence and starts believing in it. Following this shocking event, a new alternate timeline was created from right that point. The time-travelling mutant from the future; Bishop was aware of the change of reality as he came following Legion through time.

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Age of Apocalypse | Comics

The eternal evil mutant En Sabah Nur AKA Apocalypse has always been watching over the world to conquer it when the time to strike is right and as he observes this unexpected incident, he deems it as a perfect moment to start his agenda of ruling the world by conquering it all. Alongside his wife Rogue, Magneto assembles the team of Astonishing X-Men, his rebellion mutant army against the tyrant's genocidal campaign "culling", where many were slain.

Instead of all the effort, Apocalypse has conquered entire North America and hunted down all mutants with potent telepathic or chronal abilities, as well as other super-heroes to assure the durability of his evil reign. It's a timeline that is full of chaos, abnormalities and madness all over it, as it is ruled by the one who is the malevolent mutant Apocalypse himself.

While Nightcrawler was leding the X-Calibre team to locate Destiny, he came across Callisto, Juggernaut, his mother Mystique and Thunderbird of this reality. To retrieve a piece of M'Kraan Crystal that controls over time and dimensions, Gambit and the X-Ternals travels to space. Colossus and Shadowcat are a married couple who trains a group of young mutants from the original Generation X, who call themselves Generation Next.

Blink, Morph, Sabretooth, Sunfire and Wild Child fought Apocalypse's son Holocaust under Magneto's command to stop the "cullings". Logan carries out his own missions as Weapon X, along with his lover Jean Grey for the Human High Council. Allegedly born from Cyclops' and Jean Grey's DNA, a new and powerful mutant Nate Gray AKA X-Man makes his presence known as the world's most powerful telekinetic.

For more information on Age of Apocalypse crossover event, you can check out the link below.

Age of Apocalypse (Comics) Wikipedia



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Survivors of The Culling

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X-Men – Age of Apocalypse Prelude


X-Men – The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 01


X-Men – The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 02


X-Men – The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 03


X-Men – The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 04

X-Men – The Age of Apocalypse Omnibus


X-Men – Age of Apocalypse Omnibus Companion


"Age of Apocalypse" is a major crossover comic event of 1995 from Marvel Comics, when all of the then ongoing series were temporarily replaced by their counter series set in a different timeline. A wide array of creative writers as Scott Lobdell (Alpha Flight, The Darkness), Mark Waid (Captain America, Fantastic Four), Jeph Loeb (Daredevil – Yellow, Hulk – Gray), Fabian Nicieza (New Warriors, Thunderbolts), Larry Hama (Venom – Along Came A Spider, Venom – Carnage Unleashed) and Howard Mackie wrote various limited series that built up the entire saga.

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Apocalyptic Arc of Tragedy

Industry legends like Joe Madureira (Inhuman – Genesis, Savage Wolverine – Hands on a Dead Body), Adam Kubert (Amazing Spider-Man – Renew Your Vows, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine), Chris Bachalo (Captain America – Homeland, Dark Reign – The Sinister Spider-Man), Salvador Larroca (Heroes Reborn – The Return, Spider-Man – House of M), Andy Kubert (The Avengers, Origin) and Roger Cruz provided their drawing talents for the crossover. "Age of Apocalypse" is one of the greatest comic-book event by Marvel Comics and this event led to the legendary "Onslaught Saga".
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Friday, October 14, 2005

Blink | Comics

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Blink | Comics
A mutant with purple skin and the power of teleportation, Clarice Ferguson was orphaned as a child by evil geneticist Mister Sinister and is saved later by feral mutant Sabretooth. Clarice adopts Blink as her code name and joined the ranks of X-Men in the Age of Apocalypse reality. This young mutant was berated by leader of the X-Men; Magneto for her carelessness and disobedient attitude after she put Impossible Man out of his misery in Dark Beast's lab. She reached the place where Holocaust; Horseman of Apocalypse and Blastaar; ruler of Negative Zone were battling. Having an idea to convince Blastaar to help them fight against the eternal mutant Apocalypse, She easily escaped from patrolling probes and slipped through Blastaar's portal to the zone.

Blink reached to Negative Zone but also lost most of her memories as her journey through the portal to this dimension wiped it out. On Negative Zone, she met a brave rebel freedom fighter named Ahmyor, who plans to usurp Blastaar from his throne and restore Annihilus as the rightful ruler. But these two are soon captured by Blastaar’s army in one of their failed escape attempt. At some point, it is revealed to Blink by Blastaar that Blink's newly found love interest Ahmyor is not what he seems and he is none other than a de-evolved version of the malicious being known as Annihilus and what deadly threats he poses in the future for the people on Earth and cosmos as well. Of all people, Ahmyor doesn't even know what scale of destruction he's about to bring upon the galaxy.

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Blink (Comics) Wikipedia

Blink (Comics) Marvel Wikia
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Twilight of Angels
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Blink 01

Blink 02
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Through The Negative Zone

Blink 03

Blink 04

"Blink" is a four issue limited series from Marvel Comics released on 2001 by writer Scott Lobdell (Alpha Flight, Generation X) and artist Trevor McCarthy (Batman – Gates of Gotham, Nightwing). The story took place during "Age of Apocalypse" but this series was released after several years of the event simply as a tie-in book to take place during the main crossover. Writer Scott Lobdell created the character Blink along with artist Joe Madureira (Inhuman – Genesis, Savage Wolverine – Hands on a Dead Body), who would later appear in the ongoing monthly series of Exiles along with other heroes. In a brief flashback moment the team of Fantastic Four from regular Marvel Universe also appeared throughout the story. Covers of this limited series are done exclusively by artist Adam Kubert (Amazing Spider-Man – Renew Your Vows, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine).
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