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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Superman – Ending Battle | Comics

Clark Kent and his childhood friend Pete Ross were watching actions from a game of Smallville football. Pete is joined by his wife Lana Lang and they head to the Capitol building with Clark following behind. As the two enters the building, cables from all around the building starts to grow and corner up the whole structure.

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Superman – Ending Battle | Comics

It's the super villain Master Jailer who comes attacking everyone of the building but he is not here for Pete Ross, all he wants is Superman. As the Man of Steel shows up, Neutron also appears and Superman successfully takes both down, before they implicit any serious harm. Next up, Automic Skull attacks on the Kent farm on Smallville, Kansas but Superman saved the day in time.

Soon, all the people related to Clark Kent starts falling under attack by various super criminals. After Lois is attacked at the Daily Planet by Evil Star along with others, it seems like everyone who is somehow linked to Clark Kent are placed in Steelworks. Superman went on to investigate about the mystery behind all these weird happenings.

When he met Lex Luthor in person about these incidents, they both were under attack by The Elite and they reveal that Manchester Black, the super powered psychic and former nemesis of Superman is orchestrating the whole attack schemes on his friends, which Cyborg Superman confirms later. After a while, a remotely mind-controlled Bizarro, Master Jailer, Metallo, Mongul and Silver Banshee face Superman in the ending battle.

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The Achilles Agenda

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Superman – Ending Battle

Ending Battle is a 2002 crossover comic-book story arc from DC Comics that ran through the four major monthly ongoing Superman titles. Creator/writer Geoff Johns (Blackest Night, Flash – Rebirth) and Joe Kelly (Emperor Joker, Justice League Elite) were the ones responsible to create this arc, where Superman has a great battle with the super-powered psychic villain Manchester Black and a whole bunch of mind controlled villains like Bizarro, Master Jailer, Metallo, Mongul and Silver Banshee.

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The Boiling Point

Artist Brandon Badeaux, Derec Aucoin, Duncan Rouleau (M. Rex, Metal Men) and Pasqual Ferry (Adam Strange – Planet Heist, Mister Miracle) did the notable artworks of the story arc revolving around the issues that cross-over in different series.
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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.

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Meltdown Madness

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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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Saturday, January 1, 2005

Deadpool | Comics

Deadpool was a Merc with a Mouth, subjected to a rogue experiment at Weapon X that gives him accelerated healing powers and insanity.

Most of his early life is unknown and when it comes to remember his own past he also cannot recall almost any of it. Whatever memories he still has are all very conflicting. At one instance it is what he recalls to be raised by a single mother who was very abusive to him and then in another, he remembers losing her when he was only five.

That is what he believes to be one of the primary reason why he grew up to be a criminal later in life but it turns out that, he left home in a very early age and his parents were still living in the same house they had in Canada. When he came back to that place years later, Wade Wilson could not recognize his room which his parents kept the same.

He joined U.S. Army Special Forces but had a hard time following orders, so he was kicked out soon. He is rolled into a CIA-sponsored group of mercenary assassins to kill certain targets that need not to live. These are the events that all took place before he was taken to Department K, meet Wolverine or even becoming the anti-hero Deadpool.

Whatever weird stuff Wade did back then is relatively less known but he traveled to Morocco and then Japan to be hired by a Yakuza crime boss. He was sent to get into a rival sumo-wrestling ring of his boss but ended up falling for Sazae, the young daughter of Oyakata, who was training him in wrestling for three years.

As the time came when his employer told him to kill his expert sumo wrestler mentor, Wilson backed out of this assignment that he claims to be the first time in his life. Sazae was left heartbroken after this and Wade relocated to U.S. he came to meet a mutant teenage prostitute Vanessa Carlysle, whom he would fall in love with soon.

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Deadpool | Comics

Then he was hired to kill a British Government operative named Blind Al, who escaped before he could kill her. To get to him, Vanessa was targeted by his new employer but was saved by Zoe Culloden of Landau, Luckman, & Lake. They believed Wade was some sort of messiah who is going to prevent an oncoming cosmic threat.

Weapon X
Wade Wilson found out that he has been diagnosed with cancer and then broke up with Vanessa, so she could live a normal life instead of pinned with him. He even gave up on chemo treatments as he did not wished to prolong the inevitable. Then Department K contacted him with an offer to become a test subject for one of their projects.

He volunteered for the project and is given former Weapon X operative, Wolverine’s rapid healing factor to survive their experiments. Wade found himself in a field mission alongside other operatives Kane, Sluggo and Slayback. At one point, even Vanessa joined the team as mutant shape-shifter Copycat when her abilities started manifesting.

Later Wilson realized that his healing power is failing, thus the cancer came back and horribly deformed his flesh. Considering him a failure, Weapon X rejected him and sent him to one of their secret facility Hospice. There, every patient ends up being experimental test-subjects for Doctor Killebrew and his sadistic assistant Ajax.

Killebrew and Ajax are primarily responsible for turning Wade Wilson into psychotic super-merceneray Deadpool he'd become later. In Hospice, patients used to bet in a "deadpool" for how long they each going to last there. While suffering at the hands of evil geneticist Killebrew, he eventually met cosmic entity Death and formed a romantic relation.

He keeps on taunting Ajax by calling his real name Francis, earning him the respect of fellow patients but angered the sadistic assistant. To teach him a lesson, Ajax lobotomized his friend Worm, whom he had to kill to end his suffering. Killebrew had a rule that if any of his patients kill another should be executed and so, Francis tore Wilson's heart out.

His thirst for vengeance was so strong that it eventually jump-started his healing factor once again to save his life by regenerating his heart but unfortunately couldn't cure his scars. Nevertheless, Wade quickly rushed out to find Ajax after beating up all the guards in his way and he finally got to and shot his enemy before leaving him to die.

Merc with a Mouth
Upon leaving Hospice, Deadpool became an enforcer for Hammerhead before going back to being a freelance mercenary. He was hired by Kingpin and then tangled with his old pal Logan, when he was a spy for the Canadian government. Wade eventually found Blind Al and keep her captive but he killed anyone who ever tried to help her escape.

Years later, he returns to Hospice looking for a way to get to Killebrew and Doctor Walter Langkowski was assigned to treat him this time, who also happens to be Canada's super-team Alpha Flight member Sasquatch but then abandons this venture as well. Around this time, he got his hands on a teleportation device to aid in his misadventures.

Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars
What many doesn't know is that when the Beyonder picked up many superheroes and villains from Earth to his Battleworld to take part in original Secret Wars, Deadpool was one of the selected few. He met an alien woman named Zsaji there, who removed the scars on his face using her power and they both fell in love with each other.

He meddled with a machine to get a new costume after seeing Thor get one but got one in black-and-white that was alive and interacted with his psyche as it was an alien symbiote Klyntar. He left it back to where he found it before Spider-Man arriving to repair his own costume and became bonded to it without knowing its true nature.

Before the event of Doctor Doom stealing Beyonder's power, he briefly started an affair with The Wasp after Zsaji moved on with Colossus. He sacrificed his own life to resurrect Mister Fantastic to save the day and his scars would return for doing so. Wasp was horrified to see his face and wished to Beyonder that he erase this from everyone's memory.

Back in Black
When Spider-Man has removed his symbiotic costume in the bell tower of Our Lady of Saints Church, it felt abandoned and after being chased by a group of alien bounty hunter, it quickly ran from there. It founds a blinded Deadpool in a nearby club fighting Machine Man and bonded to him as he was about to be mind-controlled by Dansen Macabre.

Turning into Venompool, he kicked off all of his attackers and even killed some of them. Aside from having tentacles, Wade discovers that he can now shoot webbing like Spidey. Wilson recalls their time from Battleworld and decides to keep the suit this time. Soon the dup will be persuaded by extraterrestrial bounty hunter Killer Thrill, Guzz and Coldwar.

After defeating Dansen Macabre, he briefly teamed up with Power Pack to fight Zn'rx soldiers, took down White Rabbit alongside Black Cat, devoured Coldwar when engaged, gotten into beef with Kraven the Hunter for mistaking it as Spider-Man and finally saved the latter's life by forcing Killer Thrill to leave him alone before letting go off the suit.

Secret Invasion
Wade Wilson was also operational during the invasion of the alien Skrulls and took a covert assignment from Nick Fury of S.H.I.LE.D. So, he goes to a baseball stadium where an armada ship showed up posing as a mascot and gunned down a few of them. When they deployed the Super-Skrull to catch him, he surrenders and wishes to join them.

Despite his history in killing business and a shady past as a Weapon X operative, the Skrulls were not interested about him but when they discover his rapid healing ability, they decide to develop a new batch of super weapon using his DNA. The new bunch showed potential by taking out an entire fleet of Super-Skrulls with ease.

Although impervious to death, they all now posses Wade's incurable insanity and when he made them blew each other brains out, his intentions became clear to the enemy. The remaining few were killed off by cell overgrowth from his healing factor. Before leaving with the data he came looking for, Wade beats the lead geneticist to death.

Dark Reign
Earlier, Wade went through a lot of crap to infiltrate among the ranks of Skrulls during "Secret Invasion" to get information on behalf of Nick Fury but his transmission was intercepted by Norman Osborn, which he used to kill the Skrull Queen and became director of H.A.M.M.E.R. while Wilson got scammed out of a payday he worked for.

After a botched up job off-shore, he was returning back to America and his ship was sunk by Tiger Shark. He wakes up at a Mexico beach, missing an arm but as he goes out seeking the enemy, it came to him with a huge machete. His friend Hydra agent Bob came to help him fight Shark too but was actually sent here to kill him.

DP clears the wind between them by revealing that he knows Bob was sent to whack him down but then they team-up and defeat Tiger Shark before shooting him in the hand for trying to sell him out. He forced Bob to reveal the identity of his secret employer, who was Osborn and learned that he is the one responsible for Wade missing his paycheck.

So, Deadpool sends an invoice to him next day for a hundred million and he then assembles his Thunderbolts team to confront the merc. DP ran straight to the trap set for him on Avengers Tower but still managed to take down all of his attackers except Yelena Belova, the other Black Widow and even started flirting with her instead of fighting.

With help from Taskmaster, he tries to woo her some more by swapping places and got his head cut off by Headsman, which Yelena put back on. Osborn thought he has seen the last of him but saw him alive and sent master assassin Bullseye dressed as Hawkeye to take care of business but he had to pay Wade to stop him from keep coming back.

Uncanny Avengers
Deadpool has been taking covert assignments from an elderly person that doesn't even pay him. He is worried that if word gets out about him doing charity works, it may ruin his reputation. Though he decided not to take orders from anyone a while ago, the tables have turned and he is not even allowed to kill anyone during these missions.

He breaks into a secret facility to collect a canister before arriving on Avengers Mansion and his handler is revealed to be none other than Steve Rogers, formerly known as Captain America. Turns out what he bust out are Terrigen Mist samples, now will be used to find a cure for M-Pox to save Rogue and he became a member of Rogers' Unity Squad.

Lost Future
So, alongside a team of Doctor Voodoo, Human Torch, Quicksilver, Rogue, Spider-Man and Synapse, Deadpool officially begin his career as an Avenger with Commander Steve Rogers in charge. In their first adventure, they go up against the Super-Adaptoid that was being a challenged to them that neither Synapse nor Torch could handle.

Wade takes him down with an unorthodox method that could've been dangerous and this angers Spidey so much that he quits the team. A villain mutated by Terrigen Cloud called Shredded Man unleashes a dystopian landscape on Boston that required time-travelling mutant Cable to come back from future and join forces to stop him.

Seeing his teammates not getting along with Nathan much, Wade suggests that if he is here from future then things are bad for real. These two mutant mercenaries go guns blazing against those creatures before having Rogue to throw him to at the enemy for a "Fastball Special" when he ran out of ammo and Cable eventually saves the day.

The Man Who Fell To Earth
Trapped inside the prison of Pleasant Hill, Wade gives chase to a vehicle with Nathan, Rogue, Synapse and Voodoo to a vehicle Wrecker was driving. He asks the Wrecking Crew member if he has been looking for Red Skull as he was tasked. Together they all regrouped to fight back S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives to stop them from taking Maria Hill back.

When Hank Pym returns to Earth soon wrapped up in Ultron parts, Wade was surprised as everyone else. He later stops by to ask Cable if Half Life 3 ever drops seeing him talking with Human Torch about future. As the Schaefer Theater is blown up by a distressed Hank, DP has him held on gunpoint after Wasp hits him with an E.M.P. charge.

While Cap and Janet argues about whether to take a shot, he fires a warning shot touching his ear, only to be impaled by a robotic extension of the robot. Nate asks Wasp to fire a second E.M.P. to disable Ultron's remains inside Deadpool's body and then separates the Merc from the machine by ripping it all from his flesh using his telekinesis.

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Gags, Booms and Wade Wilson

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Writer Fabian Nicieza (Alpha Flight, New Warriors) came up with the idea to co-create Deadpool for Marvel Comics with artist Rob Liefeld (Heroes Reborn – Captain America, Onslaught Reborn) who made debut in first volume of New Mutants monthly ongoing series in 1991 and then went on to appear in several comic-book titles for years.

After starring in many limited series with single-serving plots, he gets his own monthly ongoing series by writer Joe Kelly (Emperor Joker, Justice League Elite) and collaborating artist Ed McGuinness (Avengers – X-Sanction, Hulk – Red Hulk) in 1997, which often turned into action comedy stories for comic relief rather than some serious stuff.

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The Best Mercenary Ever

Over the years of publications, Wade Wilson has made more deadly enemies than he made friends that he can count on and though his intentions are not always bad, he is often portrayed as an anti-hero. He would mostly go pick up fights with bad guys who are way out of his league but will manage to take them down in the end somehow anyway.

Even after all that blood in his resume, he somehow pulled off being a member of Uncanny Avengers and mutant superhero team of the X-Men for at least once. In motion picture, the character is portrayed by actor Ryan Reynolds in X-Men Origins – Wolverine in 2009 first and then later in his R-rated live-action solo Deadpool movie in 2016.

The solo movie became an impressive Box-Office success worldwide and triggered for a sequel. Reynolds eventually returns with Deadpool 2 in 2018 which also stars actor Josh Brolin and Zazie Beetz to portray Cable and Domino respectively in the cinematic debut of these characters and a very short-lived version of X-Force at the same time.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Superman – Emperor Joker | Comics

In a world where Superman is the most dangerous criminal, Bizarro  is the greatest hero and that means the world has gone crazy!

Superman wakes up discovering himself imprisoned in a cell of Arkham Asylum wearing his black and silver Kryptonian battle costume, having no idea of how and when he got here. After breaking his chains he escapes from his cell, which prompts an emergency call to the J.L.A. by Warden Solomon Grundy.

He learns from a poster on street that he is here for murdering Lex Luthor and that doesn’t make any sense to him because Superman doesn't kill. His old enemy Mr. Mxyzptlk shouts to him for hearing him out but is interrupted when the imp is hit by a train before the Man of Steel could even hear him.

As he was wandering around Meflopolis, Bizarro appears to apprehend him on behalf of Joker League of Anarchy. A fist fight breaks in between them where the hero was repeatedly pummeled by the impish being and ended up crashing through Lane Corp building when his enemy unleashed his heat breath on him.

Superman begs for help to take down Bizarro and look up to see a megalomaniac Lois Lane standing beside him. She does help him . . . getting caught by her fierce pet hounds until he is taken away.

Jimmy Olsen is Bizarro's pal Gravedigger Lad, who takes care of his Graveyard of Solitude, where Huntress, Nightwing and Robin are buried. The grey goliath attempted to drown Big Blue but a fish-headed Aquaman with an axe for an arm interrupts them, only to be freezed by ice vision.

Bizarro drops Superman at Arkham on care of Warden Grundy and while he was leaving, someone from not afar screams in pain. Through the streets of Meflopolis, Mxyzptlk was hurriedly running before getting squashed by an iron safe.

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Superman – Emperor Joker | Comics

In a religious temple around town, Niece Matrix receives a vision of Superman that prompts her to scream and priest Perry White came in to see her hovering with flaming wings. It's not a secret anymore that this is a warped version of reality they are dwelling in and the Man of Steel is routinely escaping from Arkham every night now.

This time, he promises himself to not get caught and came across Lois in a helicopter. She took him to a hidden bunker of her for doctors to examine him and locked up behind electric fields.

In Watchtower, Poison Ivy was ranting on Bizarro about how stupid he is and then her tune changes when he arrives. Big "B" goes out seeking the escapee along with Scorch right away. Seeing him coming to them, Lois frees Clark and told him to leave but right before that they share a kiss. On his way, he is confronted by Mr. B and his fiery partner, giving him a hard time.

Supes managed to get free and Matrix appears to him as Earth Angel moments before he is caught and swallowed by Jimmy Olsen, who has become a giant Turtle Boy after getting bit by The Turtle during his fight with The Flab.

He wakes up in S.S. Arkham under the care of a superhuman telepath Skizm; a member of J.L.A. Big Blue stumbles onto John Henry Irons, who started to make sense and they two eventually broke out of the joint. While Irons try to work out his suit, cowboy gunslinger Bounty from Joker League of Anarchy arrives to take them in but is taken care of by Superman.

Bizarro too joined the party soon for Steel and Superman to beat him in wits. Lois then came to their rescue and picked the heroes up to help, after a powerless Mxyzptlk gave them hints to find out the anomaly of this weird reality and regain control.

Throughout a series of more bizarre events and a face-off with living weapon Ignition, Superman finally remembers the abnormality of this reality, which is The Joker, who has tricked Mr. Mxyzptlk into giving his power and has re-shaped entire reality in his own maniacal image, now claiming himself as Emperor Joker!

Apart from spreading chaos, the Clown Prince of Crime also had another sinister agenda of keep torturing his arch-nemesis; The Dark Knight to death and have him experience that over and over for an eternity.

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He Who Laughs Last!

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Superman – Emperor Joker

A nine-part crossover story titled "Emperor Joker" is featuring Superman that was started publishing in 2000 mostly throughout the second volume of Superman alongside The Adventures of Superman, Superman – The Man of Steel and Action Comics monthly ongoing comic-book series from DC Comics.

A one-shot titled "Emperor Joker" was also released to highlight the main theme of the story. Many new characters were created for an entire new depiction of reality and many of the existing ones got a twist of their roles to fit in this quirked universe. Ignition and Scorch were one of those who debuted during the event and they made it to New Earth reality after everything was reverted back.

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The Dark Knight Lives Again

Various renowned writers like Joe Kelly (Justice League Elite, Our Worlds at War), Mark Schultz (Aliens – Apocalypse, Aliens – Havoc) and Jeph Loeb (Batman – Dark Victory, Batman – Hush) has came up forging a bizarre story of The Joker ruling the universe.

Also on board were artists Carlo Barberi (Deadpool – Suicide Kings, Ororo – Before the Storm), Doug Mahnke (Batman – The Man Who Laughs, Black Adam – The Dark Age), Duncan Rouleau (Superman – Ending Battle, Metal Men), Ed McGuinness (Superman/Batman – Public Enemies, Superman/Batman – With a Vengeance), Scott McDaniel (Batman – Dead to Rights, Batman – Impostors) and Todd Nauck (Legion of Superheroes, Teen Titans) to create this remarkable tale.

One of the biggest aspects of "Emperor Joker" event was how the Justice League of America turned into a team of maniacs called Joker League of Anarchy. Advertisement of Wonder Woman starring in porn "Amazon Women Behind Bars" was a bit subtle pun that could easily go unnoticed. Replacement of Superman's arch-rival Lex Luthor with his love of life, Lois Lane as a ruthless businesswoman was also interesting.

Revelation of what really is going on with Steel, Supergirl and Superboy had unique takes that had the touch of fun. Special appearance from Darkseid, Harley Quinn and Spectre was also quite noteworthy.
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