Showing posts with label Fantastic Four. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantastic Four. Show all posts

Friday, June 1, 2007

Spectacular Spider-Man – The Hunger | Comics

Detective Neil Garrett is investigating a series of incidents that have been reported lately, where the victims' lifeless bodies are found with fang marks. Eddie Brock laments for the sins he did in the past in a church. Peter Parker, Aunt May and Liz Allen visits a nearly comatose Flash Thompson on St. Mark's hospital, who is badly injured by the Green Goblin.

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Spectacular Spider-Man – The Hunger | Comics

Detective Garrett learns from Doctor Phil of St. Jude's hospital that the victims were completely drained of adrenaline and his point only leads to Venom, one of the oldest enemies from Spider-Man's past. Responding to his Spider-Sense, Peter enters a tunnel to and upon confrontation; Spidey learns a horrible fact that, the alien symbiote is deadlier than ever because currently it is roaming without a host!

As the symbiote is still emotionally attached to Spider-Man, it desperately tries to merge with him once again but Spidey deals with him by fighting off. A withered symbiote now crawls back to a very broken Eddie Brock for one last time and takes him for a walk, as it needs some adrenaline. Peter meets Detective Garrett and they both exchange information on Venom and his victims, only to reach to a conclusion that the suit is looking for a new host.

In another face-off, Spider-Man outsmarts Venom in almost every moves and he seemed defeated. Then the Human Torch of Fantastic Four aids Spider-Man while he was fighting off the symbiote again as it tricked him to warp him over. Peter finally meets Eddie in person for a chat only to receive a very shocking revelation.

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Creepy Clinging Symbiote

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Spectacular Spider-Man – The Hunger

It couldn't be better than this, to start off a new Spider-Man series with writer Paul Jenkins (Wolverine – The End, World War Hulk – Front Line) and the talented artist Humberto Ramos (Age of Apocalypse, Superior Spider-Man) in a storyline from Marvel Comics titled "The Hunger" involving one of Spidey's most ruthless and powerful arch-enemies; Venom.

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Venom On The Loose

Jenkins took a very creative approach of setting the Venom symbiote apart from its host and a new reason to seek out Spider-Man to bond with him again. This story took place in the second monthly ongoing volume of Spectacular Spider-Man, running from issues #01-05 and then concluded in the next chapter called "Countdown".
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Saturday, May 5, 2007

Fantastic Four – Unthinkable | Comics

To exact vengeance against Reed Richards and the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom does the unthinkable!

Before he crossed paths with genius inventor Reed Richards, before he had his face violently disfigured by an unfortunate accident at State University in New York or before engaging in years of endless fighting with the popular adventurer team known as Fantastic Four by becoming Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom was a very different man.

Long before he became the tyrant ruler of Latveria, he fell in love with a beautiful young girl named Valeria from the same Romani camp. These two love-birds were having their good days together with heartfelt affection and genuine concern for each other.

She was the only support left for Victor when he lost his parents at an early stage of life and became an orphan. Victor then studied both science and dark sorcery to open gateways to another realm in hopes to free his parents. He eventually became a great inventor and got a chance of scholarship in America through his growing reputation.

When his lover made him chose between her and the newfound opportunity, Victor chose this golden opportunity over Valeria for the pursuit of knowledge that would bring him power. Years after, he is searching for the love of his life again in places with no results even though having accomplishments in the field of science or being a billionaire.

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Fantastic Four – Unthinkable | Comics

Except for Valeria being in his life, he finds it all meaningless after all these years but ever since this couple parted ways before he came to America, they never contacted to each other and Victor doesn't even have the slightest idea of her current whereabouts. So he is currently seeking help from fortune tellers and gypsies everywhere to find her out.

Because, this time he is willing to give up everything he ever achieved, only to have her back in his life and he eventually does find her the first time he came looking for her, pointed out by another fortune teller he came across lately. As she was already waiting for him, Victor approaches an elderly Valeria, asking her to change his life forever.

The day of the lives of Fantastic Four was going just like any other normal one with their regular family misadventures. The Thing asks Johnny Storm to borrow some cash as he is the new Chief Financial Officer of Fantastic Four, Inc. When he stood Ben up for too many times, he decides to play prank on Johnny by hitting him up with a massive water balloon.

Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman went on a tour to a dimension filled with trinary code speaking aliens, looking for photonuclear crystals to fuel his tech for a foreseeable future. Franklin and his sister Valeria were in care of Crystal and Medusa of The Inhumans at New Attilan, Blue Area of the Moon, while their parents were away.

Upon returning, Reed and Sue bring them back through a portal and Susan takes Val to feed her. Reed goes to lab with Franklin to find out an entirely soaked Johnny looking for something to hurt Ben. Knowing it was probably Human Torch who angered Ben in the first place; Reed offers a non-lethal suggestion and tells them to meet him after suiting up.

Susan was talking to Ben in kitchen about how she is worried about a normal future for her daughter. As Val was playing with blocks, Ben tries for her to say his name but unseen to them all, Doctor Doom showed up to her, claiming her to be his goddaughter.

He compels her to say the word "Doom" and when she does, chaos breaks out at lab in form of a weird green energy beam almost immediately. Johnny couldn't stop it with his flames and Mr. Fantastic was forced to quickly transport Franklin to New Attilan for safety but the boy accidentally ended up being dragged out by netherdemons into Hell.

Defense system went down pretty fast and Johnny jumps in to save his nephew, only to get badly burnt by hellfire. When Ben mentioned of what Val said earlier, Reed watches into her eye and through it, Victor assures him to meet very soon. The world's greatest family then head over to Latveria for an unthinkable confrontation of their lives.

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The Conflict Infernal

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Fantastic Four – Unthinkable

A four issue plot with a prologue story on Victor Von Doom from the pages of Fantastic Four, "Unthinkable" is further exploring untold origin of Doom's back-story. The story kick starts from issue #67 of third volume of titular monthly ongoing comic-book series and ended up on issue #500 of original count, which came after 70th issue of this volume.

Veteran comic-book writer Mark Waid (Onslaught Saga, Original Sin) and artist Mike Wieringo (Fantastic Four – Disassembled, Fantastic Four – Rising Storm) tied this story up in 2004 that would have after effects on the heroes in the long run of their lives.

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An Unthinkable Doom

This one is quite a different story-arc for the family as their arch-nemesis now relies on mystical powers beyond their understanding. Yet question remains, why Victor is looking for Valeria after all these years? What cryptic connection does it has with the Fantastic Four? What unthinkable deed he is going to do when he finds out his lost love?

A brief glimpse on New Attilan as well as other known Marvel Comics characters like Crystal, Lockjaw and Medusa making a cameo was very enjoyable. Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange appears in a guest-role as well as beings from Dark Dimension. Though the good doctor didn't hang out for long, he did provide Reed a way to salvation.
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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.

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Ultimate Fantastic Four (Comics) Wikipedia

Ultimate Fantastic Four (Comics) Marvel Wikia

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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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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.

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Onslaught Saga (Comics) Wikipedia


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Heroes and Mutants United

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X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 01


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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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Friday, January 2, 2004

She-Hulk | Comics

Before becoming the sensuous gamma irradiated brute force for The Avengers, Jennifer Walters was a mild mannered lawyer, who was only known as the cousin of renowned scientist Bruce Banner, the alter ego of gamma powered superhero The Incredible Hulk. Following a feud between her father Sheriff Morris Walters and crime boss Nicholas Trask, she was shot by an assailant and injured gravely.

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She-Hulk | Comics

A blood transfusion was needed urgently and in a moment of desperation, Banner stepped on and volunteered with his own irradiated blood. This however, saves her but the presence of the newly gained radioactive blood properties caused a mutation and transformed her skin green, as well as gave her superhuman strength just like the Hulk except for the bulky appearance.

She stayed in a savage state for a while but as she gained control over her powers, she learnt that she cannot transform back to her human self until she accidentally suffers a radiation exposure with her time with the Fantastic Four as a replacement for The Thing. While taking care of the super-heroics, she affiliated herself with team of Mighty Avengers, Incredible Hulks, Heroes for Hire, S.H.I.E.L.D., Defenders and Hulkbusters time to time.

She also has dated Luke Cage and the notorious former X-Men nemesis Juggernaut for a very brief time which did not end up well. She ripped-off The Vision in half, took down Captain America and fought Iron Man during "Avengers Disassembled" out of rage amidst the chaos, projected by a mentally unstable Scarlet Witch.

For more information on She-Hulk comics series, you can check out these links below.

She-Hulk (Comics) Wikipedia

She-Hulk (Comics) Marvel Wikia

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Clash of The Hulks

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Iron Man – The Dragon Seed Saga

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Avengers – Standoff

Avengers – The Search For She-Hulk

She-Hulk Vol 01 – Single Green Female

She-Hulk Vol 02 – Superhuman Law

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Marvel Monsters

She-Hulk Vol 03 – Time Trials

She-Hulk Vol 04 – Laws of Attraction

Civil War – Marvel Universe

She-Hulk Vol 05 – Planet Without A Hulk

Howard The Duck – Media Duckling

She-Hulk Vol 06 – Jaded

Secret Invasion – Who Do You Trust?

She-Hulk Vol 07 – Here Today

She-Hulk Vol 08 – Secret Invasion

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She-Hulk Vol 09 – Lady Liberators

Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil

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Fall of The Hulks – The Savage She-Hulks

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Women of Marvel – Celebrating Seven Decades

Women of Marvel – Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus

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Chaos War – Incredible Hulks

She Hulks – Hunt for The Intelligencia

Incredible Hulks – Planet Savage

Created by Stan Lee (Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil) and John Buscema (Conan the Barbarian, Silver Surfer) in 1980, She-Hulk is a fictional Marvel Comics super heroine with monthly ongoing comic series of her own title. The character is one of the prominent super heroes of the Marvel Universe as well as a valuable team asset to many superhero teams.

Over time comic book creator John Byrne (Alpha Flight, Uncanny X-Men), Steve Gerber, Peter David (Spider-Man – The Other, X-Factor), Dan Slott (Spider-Man – Dying Wish, Superior Spider-Man), Jeph Loeb (Avengers – X-Sanction, Cable) and Charles Soule (Civil War II, Death of Wolverine) has worked on the character’s development process.

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She-Hulk Smash

She also played a role in the major crossovers like Marvel Super Heroes – Secret Wars, Civil War, World War Hulk, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign and Fear Itself. During 2016's "Secret Wars" event, she formed Marvel's all-female super-heroines team; A-Force with including Captain Marvel, Crystal, Elektra, Emma Frost, Loki, Medusa, Phoenix, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, Storm, X-23 and many others.
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