Showing posts with label Doug Mahnke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doug Mahnke. Show all posts

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Green Lantern – Sinestro | Comics

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Green Lantern – Sinestro | Comics
The once fallen bearer of Green Power Ring, Thaal Sinestro recites the Green Lantern Oath in front of the Guardians of the Universe to become a Green Lantern again. When asked about his thoughts of becoming an honorary member of the Corps again, he simply asked them to remove the ring but the Guardians sees the ring choosing him again as a sign of redemption. As Sinestro leaves to protect his respected sector, all of the Guardians attack Ganthet for expressing a different view on their decision. Sinestro observes his home planet of Korugar from the Orbit to find out that his own army of Sinestro Corps has taken over the planet to tyrannically rule over its populace and he is attacked by his Corps member 435, who he kills with almost no effort.

Meanwhile in Coast City, Hal Jordan is faced by his apartment’s landlord for past dues and as soon as he hears a cream for help, he jumps right through his window to the building next door to help a woman, only to find out that a shooting was taking place there and it got him arrested. His ex-girlfriend Carol Ferris bails him out of jail and offers a job, as well as been asked out on a date by Hal. Hal expresses his frustration on the Green Ring over the fact that he is stripped of his Lantern's duty and Sinestro was chosen instead. As his date with Carol was eventually trashed, Hal returns home only to find Sinestro out at his doorstep to offer a team-up. Soon, these two former partner forms an alliance that may be the only hope for planet Korugar.

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The Other Hero

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Following “Flashpoint” crossover event, the regular New Earth’s timeline of DC Comics has been replaced by a rebooted timeline of The New 52. Writer Geoff Johns (Blackest Night, Brightest Day) and artist Doug Mahnke (Batman – The Man Who Laughs, Black Adam – The Dark Age) has returned to work again on Green Lantern monthly ongoing series which has remained mostly unchanged after the time-stream altering events of recent period and the titular “Sinestro” storyline is one of their first work for the new timeline containing issue #01-06. The storyline also sows a few initial hints for the upcoming "Rise of the Third Army" and "Wrath of the First Lantern" crossover event.
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Green Lantern – New 52 | Comics

Hal Jordan finds himself powerless and five years younger in a world that hates and doubts superheroes. Without a job and the Power Ring, Hal’s life becomes quite a mess and his relationship with Carol Ferris is at stress. Then his former enemy Sinestro shows up at his doorstep with an offer to regain his Power Ring.

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Green Lantern – New 52 | Comics

The ring Sinestro gave to Hal Jordan operates only by his will and Sinestro can turn it on or off at any time as a safety measure. To fight the derailed members of his own Corps, Sinestro recruits him to his journey to Korugar that led them to a battle there. This two has teamed up for many other adventures alongside the other members of the Corps.

Hal took part in resistance against Darkseid when he led an invasion on Earth with an army of Parademons seeking Anti-Life Equation along with fellow superhero Aquaman, Batman, Cyborg, Superman, The Flash and Wonder Woman (Justice League – Origin). This magnificent seven would fought as a team and dub themselves as Justice League to public. Hal Jordan faces Indigo Tribe who abducts Sinestro and he also meets sinister villain Black Hand at their homeworld.

Meanwhile, a troubled Lebanese-American Muslim, Simon Baz is appointed as a new Green Lantern by The Guardians, who found Thaal Sinestro's ring in middle of a desperate situation and is aided by B'dg. Baz also get membership to the Justice League of America later by Colonel Steve Trevor and Amanda Waller of Task Force X.

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Hal Jordan Is Back Again

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Following “Flashpoint” crossover event of DC Comics, various monthly ongoing titles featuring popular DC Comics' characters got new back-story as a result of The New 52 re-launch sans Green Lantern. With Flashpoint wave changing every single origin of each and every superhero, Green Lanterns seems to be the ones that aren’t changed much.

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Hal and Sinestro Fights The Sinestro Corps

The series continues in its fifth volume with writer Geoff Johns (Blackest Night, Brightest Day) and artist Doug Mahnke (Batman – The Man Who Laughs, Black Adam – The Dark Age). The series has gone through many crossover issues during Rise of the Third Army, Wrath of the First Lantern and Lights Out crossover events of New 52.
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Final Crisis | Comics

The Fourth World is diminished and "Death of the New Gods" did not stop the eternal war between Apokolips and New Genesis. Darkseid travels to time after his final conflict with New Gods and upon gaining Anti-Life Equation, he reaches Earth. His consciousness takes abode in a human body that starts running "Dark Side Club" in Blüdhaven. He becomes a leader of a criminal gang and going by the name "Boss Dark Side".  While investigating a case of a few missing kids, Detective Dan Turpin finds a dying Orion and sky turns red.

Green Lantern, Hal Jordan and John Stewart go to the docs for inspection of the crime scene and alert Guardians of the Universe about this incident. It is eventually discovered that a radiated bullet was fired backwards from future to kill Orion by an anonymous person. Batman and Green Lantern, Alan Scott gets engaged in an exploration regarding this murder mystery that puts them both out of picture for a while. Doctor Light and Mirror Master attacked the League of Titans to obtain Metron's Mobius Chair for Libra.

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Final Crisis | Comics

Libra, an agent and minion of Darkseid, is sent to escort escaped villains from prison planet "Salvation Run" to re-form Secret Society of Super Villains. He managed to capture and then murder Justice League member Martian Manhunter by burning him alive upon encountering him during his operation. Dan Turpin kept looking for answers, leading him to Boss Dark Side and his consciousness took over Turpin's body. Nix Uotan, the Monitor of Earth-51 is standing a trial and Multiversal race of Monitors sentenced him a human existence on New Earth, while this helps Solomon's own agenda to progress.

To face the fallen Monitor Dax Novu, Superman and his alternate-selves were called in for help. Dax would become Mandrakk the Dark Monitor and he is a threat because he will feed off the Multiverse itself like celestial parasites. Looking for Secret Society's hideout, The Flashes Jay Garrick and Wally West finds Mobius Chair, which opens a Boom Tube. They witness as the Radion Bullet comes through that portal, followed by Barry Allen and Black Racer on his tail. Frankenstein leads a S.H.A.D.E. strike team at Dark Side Club, while the Evil Factory in Blüdhaven was preparing a body for Kalibak.

Wonder Woman ran into Mary Marvel, who turned evil and exposed her to Morticoccus virus. With help of Darkseid's much desired "Anti-Life Equation", a major change happens worldwide when he released it over Internet. Seeing this, The Dark Knight decides to use the radiation bullet to finally take down God of Evil by breaking his Oath against using guns for a greater good. He does so but only mortally wounding the Dark God before being blasted with his powerful Omega Beams that apparently disintegrated him on spot.

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Oblivion Across Multiverse

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"Final Crisis" is a follow-up crossover comic-book event to "Infinite Crisis", concluded from its prequel and seemingly the last of line of Crisis titled events by DC Comics. This event took place in 2008, when writer Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Doom Patrol) came up with the core idea of this story along with artists Carlos Pacheco (Bishop, Inhumans) and Doug Mahnke (Justice League Elite, Major Bummer) to envision the plot. Major characters from DC Universe like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman remained as primary focus of the story as well as threats as great as Darkseid and Mandrakk the Dark Monitor.

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A Dark Demise

Even today, "Final Crisis" is still considered as one of the most important crossover events of DC Comics in modern era that has changed major status-quo of Multiverse timeline with demise of a few popular protagonists and it is the last major event which took place before the biblical "Blackest Night" event. Though these events took place in the New Earth reality, following the reality-altering "Flashpoint" event, "Final Crisis" has been referenced a couple of time in The New 52 continuity. It also suggests that all major events does takes place in all different realities with a slight variation of outcome for each one.
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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Black Adam – The Dark Age | Comics

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Black Adam – The Dark Age | Comics
With the removal of godlike powers that has been taken away from him by Captain Marvel as a last resort after he single handedly decimated an ensemble roster of powerful super-heroes opposing him, with ease (in World War III), Teth Adam seeks to find out the new secret magical word that will re-establish him as Black Adam again and the only thing that always kept his heart from turning entirely black with anger, his now-dead wife, Isis. Some hidden place in Kahndaqi border, Adam is bound to a chair and having one of his loyal followers, Tamir, beat him to face to bruise it to a point when it appears almost unrecognizable. When Teth thinks it is done, he goes to Kahndaq border to enter the country posed as a native named Hassan Bari with his faithful followers.

Adam and his followers broke into the tomb of Isis to collect her charred remains for a resurrection ceremony but quickly attacked by armed guards working for an unknown organization who wants Black Adam dead. During the shootout, Adam manages to escape with help from his followers who sacrificed themselves for him to safely get-away. JSA team is also in search of him while he was on the run. Adam embarks a long and hard journey to find out a Lazarus Pit to resurrect his love once again. But Isis dissolves as soon as she was revived; led Adam to believe that something went wrong in the ceremony that has skipped his sight. The situation will eventually force him to team up with the vile magician Felix Faust to fulfill the rest of his mystical journey to revive his beloved wife back.
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Clash With Wings of Fury
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Fight or Flight

Black Adam – The Dark Age

"Black Adam – The Dark Age" is a 6-issue limited series published from DC Comics, written by Peter J. Tomasi (Batman – Arkham Knight, Forever Evil – Arkham War) with excellent pencil work by artist Doug Mahnke (Justice League Elite, Major Bummer). This mini epic comes for JSA fans is a must-have collectible saga that was released as a weekly limited series 52's follow-up title Countdown. In the course of this entire journey that Black Adam embarked on has led him to face few members of Justice Society of AmericaAtom-Smasher, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Hawkman, Hourman, Martian Manhunter, Power Girl, Red Tornado, Superman and Wonder Woman either in nightmare or only their flashbacks were shown. The limited series has explored the chronicles and the other side of this mighty magical villain of DC, who was one of the prime focus of the 52 crossover event and it's aftermath World War III from DC Comics.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

52 | Comics

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52 | Comics
Following his investigation on the Intergang, The Question came to Gotham City, partnering up with Renée Montoya and their leads took them to a new Batwoman, Kathy Kane. After losing his presidency, Lex Luthor launches a program called the Everyman Project to give superpowers to masses. Steel and his niece Natasha Irons also enlists for the program and Natasha then joins Luthor’s Infinity, Inc. as Starlight. However, Luthor’s program failed to render him superhuman and upon failing badly on public, it brought a catastrophic result on Metropolis, leading to deaths of many. In the aftermath of the Rann/Thanagar War, a Zeta-Beam accident left Adam Strange, Animal Man and Starfire trapped in the outer space, where, with assistance from last Czarnian bounty hunter, Lobo, they faces a few deadly alien foes.

Ralph Dibny gave up his heroic Elongated Man persona after his wife’s death (in Identity Crisis) and eventually met by the Cult of Conner; a mystical group by the followers of Superboy who dies battling Superboy Prime. They intend to resurrect Sue Dibney, which Ralph doubts about but sticks to them anyway. The tyrant ruler of Kahndaq, Black Adam showed a very harsh way of justice to the world but he was tempered down upon meeting Adrianna Tomaz, who would become his wife Isis. He has reformed yet was attacked by the JSA mistakenly. When his wife is killed by the Yurrd the Unknown, one of the Horsemen of Apocalypse, he unleashes World War III in retaliation.

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Published in a weekly comic book ongoing limited series format by DC Comics in 2006, 52 is a major crossover event preceded by Infinite Crisis. Profound writer Geoff Johns (Blackest Night, Flashpoint), Grant Morrison (Final Crisis, Wonder Woman – Earth One), Greg Rucka (The Punisher, Wonder Woman – The Hiketeia), Mark Waid (Fantastic Four, Kingdom Come) and Keith Giffen (Midnighter, Suicide Squad) plotted the entire storyboard of the event where artists like Joe Bennett, Chris Batista, Ruy Jose, Jack Jadson, Darick Robertson, Justiniano and Mike McKone poured up the pages with their drawing talents with covers provided by JG Jones.The event has also spawned a number of tie-in series along with the core series such as; Booster Gold, Black Adam – The Dark Age, Ifinity Inc, 52 Aftermath – The Crime Bible – Five Lessons of Blood, 52 Aftermath – The Four Horsemen, Metal Men, Detective Comics and The Great Ten. Almost devoid of the principal characters of the DC Comics like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, the event was directly followed by the weekly limited series Countdown to Final Crisis.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Batman – Under the Hood | Comics

A buried past from many years ago comes back to haunt The Dark Knight as a brutal vigilante named Red Hood.

Years ago, when his first Robin, Dick Grayson was fired from duty for disobedience to his master (Nightwing – Year One), The Dark Knight started working alone again for some time. Even before when Tim Drake was drafted into this holy war against crime as The Boy Wonder, a brave, young boy from harsh streets of Crime Alley was recruited to a life-long crusade against crime.

That young boy, Jason Todd has eventually become the second Robin because of his unique potential after Batman apprehends him while trying to steal tire of Batmobile and soon Jason have learnt many feats of combat from his new mentor.

Though he was always overseen by Batman whenever they were on patrol, Jason was quite capable of defending himself on his own. However, the boy had a very bad-temper which would always get the best of him. Batman was afraid of this ever-so reckless attitude and often argued with him to rectify his mind-set.

Eventually, Jason got tricked and captured by The Joker in one instance and has nearly beaten him to death with a crowbar before leaving him for dead, rigged with explosives. Jason dies in an explosion before Batman could have ever reached out to rescue him in time (A Death in The Family).

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Batman – Under the Hood | Comics

Years after, a mysterious figure suddenly starts terrorizing Gotham City criminal underworld that is currently dominated by a new crime-lord known as Black Mask, aided by right-hand man Li. This mysterious identity proclaims himself to be Red Hood and not only his actions have changed the tide of criminal underworld, it also drew Batman's attention.

He has been taking money from underworld goons and killing many of the drug-dealers in Gotham on occasion. To stop him for good, Black Mask starts assembling his men from everywhere and even enlists help from reputed super-villain Mister Freeze.

Meanwhile, Nightwing visits Gotham to accompany his mentor and they ended up following Red Hood, who led them to one of Black Mask’s secret shipment that turns out to be Amazo, an android that was originally designed to defeat every members of Justice League and now it has turned against The Dynamic Duo.

Although, this killer-robot is a pretty tough opponent and a force to be reckoned with, by working together, The Knight and his square managed to successfully take down Professor Ivo's amazing android and in the middle of this chaos, Red Hood managed to slip a crate full of Kryptonite to blackmail Black Mask.

Hiring Mister Freeze against Gotham's new vigilante menace proved less than effective. Plus, a timely intervention from The Bat and his second-in command has calmed the situation pretty quick. As Red Hood continues to hinder crime businesses all over the city, his true intentions and alignment still remains unclear to everyone.

In the mean time, the Clown Prince of Crime was sitting in the Fun House of an abandoned carnival, where Red Hood enters and savagely beats him down with a crowbar. When the latter finally removed his mask, it was revealed to be long presumed-dead Jason Todd.

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Released on 2005 from DC Comics, "Under the Hood" is a thirteen part storyline by renowned comic-book writer Judd Winick (Green Arrow, Green Lantern) and artists Doug Mahnke (Final Crisis, Justice League Elite), Eric Battle and Shane Davis, which ran into first monthly ongoing Batman comic series along with an Annual issue.

 Following the release of controversial "A Death in the Family" storyline in 1988, Jason Todd dies in action and after more than a decade in the wake of “Infinite Crisis” crossover event, he is brought to life in "Under the Hood" storyline as a new anti-hero of Gotham. Bringing Jason back in a new avatar really did wonders for his character as people really liked him as Red Hood more than his time as Robin.

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The Joker Gets Payback

Events of this storyline was slightly hinted in previously released “Batman – Hush” and “Batman – As the Crow Flies” story arcs from the same publisher. Those tragic panels from "A Death in the Family" storyline is re-created again in an homage with the characters in reverse roles, serving The Joker as a victim to Jason Todd's vicious torture this time.

Script of this book was later adapted into a DC Universe Animated Original Movie titled, Batman – Under the Red Hood, releasing in 2010 and it was a nice adaptation. Actor Jensen Ackles portrayed Jason Todd's role through his voice-over work and it was impressive.
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