Showing posts with label General Zod. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Suicide Squad – Earthlings on Fire | Comics

Following her mad ambitions, Amanda Waller made Kryptonian tyrant General Zod a member of her Task Force X.

Amanda Waller pays a sudden visit to Lex Luthor on a government business and before she can start he offers her a small gift that she refuses. Lex reveals that he knows about her unethical super-secret project involving super-criminals and how she operates it, which surprises Waller.

Meanwhile, the Suicide Squad breaks into LexCorp building with a mission to acquire certain object from the vault. As Enchantress teleports Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn and Rick Flag into the building, Digger Harkness loses an arm.

The witch takes out the security system of the building and they are attacked by security personnel. On top floor, Lex was trying to make Waller honest about her true purpose of coming here and he mentions about her recent encounter with The People and their Annihilation Brigade, which shocks her.

At downstairs, the Suicide Squad is attacked by a Bizarro army that wrecks havoc and Luthor now sees what is going on under his nose. He quickly changes into his warsuit and engages Task Force X right on.

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Suicide Squad – Earthlings on Fire | Comics

Both parties agree to cut the crap and as Waller was about to ask for what she came here for, Luthor again hands her the gift; Kryptonite. With that alien meteorite at her disposal Amanda Waller authorizes her men at Belle Reve to operate and insert a Kryptonite Neural Bomb inside the head of General Zod.

After sending Boomerang for another secret solo mission aside from his team, Waller sends the Suicide Squad to Zimbabwe along with Zod to confront the Annihilation Brigade once again and this time, she only expects victory.

The Kryptonian despot unleashes his mad rage onto them and inside they find hundreds of meta-humans locked up in an attempt to create an International Suicide Squad by The People. General Zod damaged the containment suit of Tunguska.

As he was about to explode, Rick order Enchantress to teleport them all out and grabs Harley at the last moment, saving her. Digger Harkness also carried out Waller's plan of taking out the mole of The People within their ranks as well.

Being hurt in his pride, General Zod decides to remove the Kryptonite Bomb from his brain and eventually does so by using his heat-vision, leaving his skull wide open. He then went on a berserker rampage inside Belle Reve Penitentiary and unleashes an army of Kryptonian wraiths after trapping the prison inside The Black Vault.

As he was tearing the place apart and giving Task Force X one of the toughest times of their lives, Cyborg Superman and The Eradicator arrives out of nowhere to recruit him for their Superman Revenge Squad.

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Zod Breaks Free

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Suicide Squad – Earthlings on Fire

"Earthlings on Fire" is the fourth storyline from the Suicide Squad fifth monthly ongoing volume set in the DC Rebirth era of DC Comics. The story collects issues #16-20 from the series written by Rob Williams (Suicide Squad – Burning Down The House, Suicide Squad – Going Sane).

Artists Tony Daniel (Deathstroke – New 52, Justice League – New 52), Neil Edwards, Sandu Florea, Stjepan Sejic and Le Beau L. Underwood have assisted by collaborating. Aside from these fine pencillers, Otto Schmidt (Green Arrow – Emerald Outlaw, Green Arrow – Island of Scars) and Whilce Portacio (Spawn, Star Wars) provided a few variant covers for the story arc.

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Devastation and Enslavement

Following the previous events that took place with the members of Task Force X, this plotline has taken things with the Squad a bit up with the involvement of General Zod and tying into "The New World" story from Action Comics series by bringing Cyborg Superman and The Eradicator into the mix.

The weird part of the whole storyline seemed like the time when Harley Quinn and Rick Flag got hooked up for no apparent reason. Finally, one of the Squad members is going to bite the dust and another will take the place.
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Action Comics – The New World | Comics

Superman Revenge Squad is formed and deadliest enemies from past comes to take down the Man of Steel with General Zod on the team.

With his wife Lois Lane and son Jon Kent, Superman successfully foiled Mister Mxyzptlk's plan but as a result, it altered history and timelines of reality to some extent. While working at his desk at the Daily Planet, Clark realizes that something is missing from their lives and he heads to his Fortress of Solitude to seek answers.

There, he asks Kelex to show him archive footage to find out what's missing from the life of him and his family. He is then given an extended narration of what his life was all about growing up in a world that adopted him and nurtured him into a guardian of truth. Kelex shows Clark when he first came to Metropolis for his job as a reporter and ended up saving Lois on his first day at Daily Planet.

He recalls how he came to encounter foes like Bizarro, Brainiac, Blanque, Conduit, Darkseid, Doomsday, General Zod, Imperiex, Lex Luthor, Manchester Black, Metallo, Mister Mxyzptlk, Mongul, Parasite, Silver Banshee and Toyman over time. There was the time when world witnessed "The Death of Superman" and then he eventually returned.

There were times he fought side by side with his friends in Justice League and it all started to come back to him piece by piece. Later, with help from his friend Batman and Wonder Woman, Clark and Lois welcomed their little boy Jon Kent in a new world during a critical period (Convergence).

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Action Comics – The New World | Comics

Elsewhere, a shadowy voice approaches Metallo in his disassembled state in a holographic form and offers him revenge in return for his assistance. Then the hologram comes to the villain with psychic abilities and a knack for making art by murdering people known as Blanque with the same proposition.

Disabled and buried on the surface of moon, The Eradicator too is rescued and restored (Son of Superman) before he teleports Blanque and Metallo to one of Batman's secret base to form their very own Superman Revenge Squad.

Their host reveals himself to be former Team 7 member Hank Henshaw and he sends The Eradicator to free Mongul from the Black Mercy flower Superman trapped him into (Better Together). Assisted by Blanque, they head to Superman's Himalayan Refuge to retrieve a part of the Oblivion Stone for Henshaw.

As Mongul defies his leadership and attempts to attack him, Henshaw finally transforms into Cyborg Superman using the stone and forces him into submission before revealing his intent to free Kryptonian despot General Zod from his captivity to recruit him for their team.

With Superman in pursuit, Cyborg Superman and Eradicator go to Belle Reve for rescuing General Zod through "The Black Vault" (Earthlings on Fire). Cyborg leads the Superman Revenge Squad at the doorstep of Superman's Fortress but he is still blinded by the effects of The Black Vault as his enemies assembled for an ambush on him.

Knowing that he cannot win against them all and will probably going to die, the Man of Steel took a last stand against his enemies to buy Lois and Jon a chance to escape. He fought against some his most deadly enemies without his sight, which is equivalent of fighting with one arm tied but help came in at the nick of time to turn the tables.

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Superman Revenge Squad Reformed

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Action Comics – The New World

"The New World" is one of the first storyines at the aftermath of the change created by Mister Mxyzptlk. Taking place on the monthly ongoing volume of Action Comics, the story collects issues #977-984 from the series by writer Dan Jurgens (Metamorpho – Year One, Superman/Doomsday – Hunter/Prey).

Artists Ian Churchill (Deadpool – Sins of The Past, Hulk – Hulk Vs. X-Force), Patrick Zircher (Green Arrow – New 52, Suicide Squad – New 52) and Viktor Bogdanovic (New Super-Man – Coming to America, New Super-Man – Made in China) provided illustration assistance using their finest talent to work.

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Fortress of Chaos

Following the events of "Superman Reborn", not only the status-quo of Superman titles have changed but entire DC Universe is changed as well. This arc took a glance at Pre-Flashpoint events of Birthright, Secret Origin and The Men of Tomorrow from The New 52 era. This subtly suggests that all of those events have taken place in his life or a merging of these timelines.

Not only the plot assembles a large array of Superman enemies but the cavalry of Lex Luthor, Steel, Supergirl, Kong Kenan/Super-Man and Superwoman were also featured too. Plus, a Watchmen crossover with the world of post-DC Rebirth, Doomsday Clock is just waiting on the horizon.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Suicide Squad – Burning Down The House | Comics

In the aftermath of the confrontation between Justice League and Suicide Squad, Rustam from the original formation of the team escaped custody and Amanda Waller is not in charge of the program anymore.

Task Force X goes to Tibet, looking for the Annihilation Brigade to confront but takes out a small army instead and Rick Flag reports this to their current boss Emilia Harcourt, also expressing his doubt that they have a mole among them.

Captain BoomerangDeadshotEnchantressHarley QuinnKatanaKiller Croc and Flag gets a night off from their duty, while Rustam causes a prison outbreak in Belle Reve and Blackgate Penitentiary.

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Suicide Squad – Burning Down The House  | Comics

The Squad is brought back to face him but Rustam and his team Burning World took both Katana and Flag captive. Waller flies to New Orleans where she got shot in an alley by a mysterious shadowy figure.

Harcourt interrogates the entire Squad about that night of Waller's death to judge their motives. Upon looking at Waller's autopsy report, Hack confirms Harley about it was actually and not a decoy, who is killed with a perfect shot.

This leads the point of Harley's suspicion to one person, the deadliest assassin on the planet; Deadshot. In his secret base, Rustam reveals to Katana and Rick Flag about how Waller manipulated them to join Suicide Squad and offers them to join his cause.

Meanwhile at Belle Reve, Harley angrily confronts Floyd Lawton about Waller's death and Croc got involved in the fight too. Djinn breaks into the facility and disables the brain-bombs implanted to Squad members.

Deadshot then shoots Boomerang and walks toward his freedom, betraying the Squad to join Rustam's Burning World. This sudden betrayal of Floyd Lawton may be end of the Squad.

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Harley goes AWOL

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Suicide Squad – Burning Down The House

As the spectacular crossover event of "Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad" came to an end, the Suicide Squad has come to face another crisis that threatened the team from within. The entire storyline collects issues #11-15 from the fifth monthly ongoing volume of Suicide Squad and writer Rob Williams (Martian Manhunter – New 52, Martian Manhunter – The Epiphany) forms a new alliance with master artist John Romita, Jr. (Superman – Before Truth, Superman – The Men of Tomorrow) in this spy-thriller adventure of Task Force X from DC Comics in 2017.

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Assault on Belle Reve

The entire climax of this plot eventually comes to an end after a lot of action, blood-spilling and then finally leads to the next arc of the series "Earthlings on Fire", where the Squad first team-up with and then faces an angry General Zod, backed up by the newly reformed Superman Revenge Squad on Belle Reve.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Suicide Squad – Going Sane | Comics

Despite President Obama's constant warnings, Amanda Waller re-assembles her notorious secret project Task Force X, putting a reluctant Colonel Rick Flag in charge of the team this time. Flag led the team of Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Enchantress, Harley Quinn, Katana and Killer Croc to an undersea prison in Russia to acquire a very powerful cosmic item by fighting their meta-humans of Annihilation Brigade.

It turned out to be a giant Orb called "The Black Vault" and they unexpectedly encounters a very notorious Kryptonian despot; General Zod while doing so. Although Zod is more than capable of holding his own against the Man of Steel, Suicide Squad members actually proved to be slightly overwhelming for him when they fought against him as a team.

They even managed to subdue him after having some causality among their rank and taking quite a beating. Enchantress caused him a lot of trouble with her magic but seeing Katana's soultaker sword having some power over him, Colonel Flag used it to wound and capture him. The entire Squad is then directly teleported to Belle Reve Penitentiary by their newest member Hack.

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Suicide Squad – Going Sane | Comics

The Black Vault is brought into their compound and in accordance with government's Superman Protocols; Director Waller's scientists begin their experiments on Zod by exposing him to artificial red sunlight. Soon as she revealed her plan to use General Zod as a new Suicide Squad member, Rick lost his cool over this and shot at her.

Thanks to Katana, Waller is saved at the nick of time as she deflected the bullet. It appears that, upon pulling out Zod from the Orb, from every other super-villains to guards on duty, everyone in Belle Reve suddenly has got into some sort of blood-lust and trying to kill each other.

Although Waller was never being shot by Flag, he sees her dead and then she knocks him back to sense by head butting him. Amidst all these chaos, nut job extraordinaire Harley Quinn somehow lost her insanity and became sane again.

This probably happened because; she was already full crazy, so maybe effects of the Orb actually worked reverse on her psychology. Now, she made it her won mission to revert back everyone to normal again and clear this madly influence of The Black Vault. Lights went out suddenly and now, Katana goes full berserk on an aggressive crowd.

June Moone gets out of her cell only to get bitten in her neck by Killer Croc and Hack gets a surprise visit from an apparition of Digger Harkness. As the entire facility goes into a frenzy, now Harley is the only one left to save the world, while Deadshot, El Diablo, Katana and Killer Croc is all after taking her life.

The worst case of them all was yet to happen as one of the crazy scientists broke the red sun generator and put it out of commission. Now, General Zod is about to wake up any moment to go out on a killing spree as power is still down and there's nothing to restrain him.

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The Killing Urge

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Suicide Squad – Going Sane

As DC Rebirth has already caught up with DC Universe, Suicide Squad has returned with their second storyline "Going Sane". The plotline is comprised of issues #05-08 from fifth ongoing Suicide Squad monthly series.

Though writer Rob Williams (Martian Manhunter – The Epiphany, Unfollow) mainly collaborated with one of DC's finest artist Jim Lee (Batman – Hush, Divine Right) on the core-story, artists Carlos D'Anda (JLA – Kid Amazo, Outsiders – Wanted), Christian Ward (Iron Man, New Avengers), Giuseppe Camuncoli (Amazing Spider-Man, Superior Spider-Man), Sean Galloway and Stephen Byrne worked on back-up stories of each issues.

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The Looney Squad

Instead of fighting on a secret mission or a band of super-terrorist organization, Task Force X just hassles with their latest capture of a long-time Superman arch-nemesis who got loose on a destructive rampage. Then every other resident of Belle Reve gone nuts after they brought in a cosmic Orb called The Black Vault.

We witness some really unique moments like Harley Quinn regaining her sanity, Rick Flag trying to murder Waller and Amanda Waller fighting back the maddening effects of the Orb. This plot then simply leads to 2017's major crossover event of DC Comics; "Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad".
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Suicide Squad – The Black Vault | Comics

President Obama angrily confronts Amanda Waller about her Task Force X secret project upon learning of its existence. The President is adamant about shutting it down for good but Waller convinces him of let it run covertly under the leadership of Colonel Rick Flag and she talked to Flag in his holding cells into leading the team again.

In the meantime, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot and Harley Quinn were fighting Dogra War; a meta-human army of Mongolia, created by Mark Ljungberg with a gene bomb. As Dogra War tries to take Ljungberg back, Boomerang secures the bomb by cutting his hand, Deadshot put a bullet in his head so that he cannot re-produce another one.

Harley then re-activates the bomb to revert the army to powerless humans again in a desperate attempt to even the odds, which actually worked. Rick Flag joins them in the battlefield to lead them save the world for their oncoming missions.

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Suicide Squad – The Black Vault | Comics

In Belle Reve Penitentiary, Waller re-assembles Suicide Squad by bringing Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, June Moone AKA Enchantress and Killer Croc, with Katana and Rick Flag for a new mission.

They are to steal or destroy an immensely powerful "Cosmic Item" from an undersea prison in Russia but in mid-air Croc got sick all of a sudden and their pod crash lands into ice, while the timely emergence of Enchantress saved them all.

As Amanda Waller and her new accomplice NSA agent Emilia Harcourt watches over, the team breaks into the prison and fell under heavy fire from the enemy. As they were kicking ass and hacking limbs, Harley Quinn tries to bond with Katana to no avail.

The Squad ends up killing all the guards and discovers a girl named Hack who knows about "The Black Vault" they are looking for and she is also a huge fan of Harley Quinn. The Squad re-materialized to another location to find an Orb that has a link to Phantom Zone and Croc gets sick again.

Before Rick could warn any of his teammates, one of them is disintegrated by Kryptonian zealot; General Zod. Now, since this angry Kryptonian was held here against his wishes, he's definitely angry and the fragile humans are all on his way!

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Blitzkrieg Bop Suckers!

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With the Rebirth of the DC Universe, changes were made on a grand-scale and Suicide Squad monthly ongoing also returns with a new team line-up that mostly resembles to their live-action movie-counterparts from Suicide Squad (2016).

Writer Rob Williams (Martian Manhunter – The Epiphany, Unfollow) teamed up with one of DC's most talented asset; artist Jim Lee (Batman – Hush, Divine Right) to the re-launch of Task Force X in an all-new image for new readers.

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Prepping for Duty

Artists Philip Tan (Spawn, Uncanny X-Men), Jason Fabok (Justice League – Darkseid War, Justice League – Injustice League), Ivan Reis (Blackest Night, Infinite Crisis) and Gary Frank (Batman – Earth One, Superman – Secret Origin) were also part of this Rebirth project.

This storyline collects one-shot Suicide Squad: Rebirth issue as well as the first eight issue from the fifth ongoing volume of the series and the aftermath of the arc creates a set-up for the 2017's crossover event "Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad".
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Superman/Wonder Woman – Power Couple | Comics

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Superman/Wonder Woman – Power Couple
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After dealing with the crisis of David Graves (Justice League – The Villain's Journey), Superman and Wonder Woman came to the mutual realization that they are so much alike and is alone. From then, these two super-beings started living together and sharing their everyday super adventures of saving world both solo and alongside Justice League. In response to a news of huge storm in North Atlantic, Superman rushes to the spot to aid in rescue after assuring Diana about their plan for dinner together. While saving world wasn’t enough pressure for him, his friend and partner Cat Grant shows him the necessity of big stories for their journalistic website venture which is losing traffic these days.

As Diana, Wonder Woman was with her sparring partner Hessia earlier and expressing a bit of her frustration over the fact that she had to keep her relationship with the Man of Steel a secret from everyone and Hessia sincerely tries to resolve her issues. Diana decides to teach Clark to be open up than his usual mild-mannered form and starts training him for battle. Back at their rescue scene, Superman is knocked by a powerful unknown force and advised Wonder Woman to stay away but the entity eventually reveals him to them as the dreadful Kryptonian deformity known as Doomsday. Doomsday immediately engaged Wonder Woman in a short but brutal fight, broke her arm with ease and then flees for no actual reason. As the arrival of this monster was trouble enough, the Kryptonian war-criminal General Dru-Zod shows up from his captivity in Phantom Zone prison, along with his devotee Faora Hu-Ul.

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Gods And Monsters
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Phantom Zoners To The Death
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As part of The New 52 rebooted timeline, "Power Couple" is the first storyline from Superman/Wonder Woman monthly ongoing series that hit the stores in 2014 from DC Comics. The story glances on the most-talked about relationship of recent times between the Man of Steel and the Amazon Princess, masterfully plotted out by writer Charles Soule (New Gods – Godhead, Red Lanterns – Atrocities) and artist Tony Daniel (Adrenalynn – Weapon of War, The Tenth – Resurrected), running from issues #01-06 of the first volume of the series. This storyline is directly followed by “Superman – Doomed” crossover event next as their heroic adventure of the Power Couple continues.
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