Showing posts with label Joe Madureira. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Madureira. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Inhuman – Genesis | Comics

A short while ago, when The Mad Titan came to Earth looking for his son and threatened the survival of entire Inhuman race, King Black Bolt detonated a Terrigen Bomb out of desperation that spread a cloud of Terrigen Mists on Earth's atmosphere. Coming in contact of this mutagenic substance, anyone with a potential Inhuman genome in them has been turned into one. While the cloud was placing people into cocoons worldwide, a mysterious individual named Lash took it upon himself to collect those specimens.

He would patiently wait for it to hatch and then decide whether or not the transformation is a success. Otherwise, he would simply incinerate the subject and go looking for a new one. Struggling musician Dante Pertuz from Des Plaines, Illinois, were going out for a weeding gig to support his sick mother and pregnant sister Gabriela when suddenly Mrs. Pertuz was heard screaming. He and Gabriela quickly rushed to her room to find her covered in a cocoon and at the same time he too undergoes Terrigenesis.

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Inhuman – Genesis | Comics

Queen Medusa of Inhuman Royal Family quickly took charge of her people and her aide Elejea informs her that one of their own was found on Battery Park. Despite objections from S.H.I.E.L.D. agents at the scene she approaches and seeks help through Eldrac the Door in locating her now-missing husband and Inhuman King Blackagar Boltagon. Meanwhile, Lash approaches Dante Pertuz to join his cause with his exceptional gift of power but he retaliated on the former as he was about to obliterate Mrs. Pertuz still in her cocoon.

Dante eventually took Medusa's side upon her timely arrival, which saved his sister and her unborn child. Lash is forced to retreat and Medusa was able to calm down Dante by smothering his flames with her hair. The remains of Attilan are now mostly in ruins residing on Hudson River and Dante is now training with Gorgon to learn better control over his powers. Then Captain America shows up at their doorstep with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to check on her and Medusa soon finds herself allied with Steve Rogers in taking down A.I.M. agents to retrieve part of New Attilan's remains.

A mysterious Inhuman calling himself Lineage offers his aid to Medusa, claiming he posses the whereabouts of Black Bolt but not revealing his true intentions to anyone just yet. Queen Medusa led an all-out assault on Lash and his recruits on Orollan with Inhuman Royal Family at her side. Later, Thor visits New Attilan and there was a small occurrence during his presence. An Inhuman named Reader goes to China to recruit a powerful Nuhuman named Xiaoyi to their fold. One of the worst enemies of Inhuman history; The Unspoken has finally returned with a tribute.

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Trial by Fire

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Inhuman – Genesis

Stepping into a brand-new monthly ongoing Inhuman comic-book series, writer Charles Soule (Death of Wolverine – The Logan Legacy, Death of Wolverine – The Weapon X Program), artist Joe Madureira (Deadpool – The Circle Chase, Savage Wolverine – Hands on a Dead Body) and Ryan Stegman (Fantastic Four, Scarlet Spider) preps up for a new chapter of Marvel Comics' one of most compelling characters roster ever. Titled "Genesis", the storyline consists of issue #01-06 from first volume of Inhuman monthly comic series, which is a follow-up to "Infinity" crossover event and a part of "Inhumanity" as well.

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The Unspoken Returns

One thing that sets The Inhumans from The Avengers or X-Men is that, they are all family members and not just friends. This is why Marvel has brought over superstar artist like Joe Madureira back in the game to rejuvenate the franchise into all-new glory. During post-Infinity period their race is forced to re-form once again but only this time, all of them are scattered and worst part is, their beloved King Black Bolt is missing. So, Queen Medusa is giving orders now and she leads her people quite very well. This story arc leads to upcoming stories "AXIS" and "Lineage" of Inhuman monthly ongoing series.
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Monday, September 15, 2014

Savage Wolverine – Hands on a Dead Body | Comics

Two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were talking on the topic of how their job is affecting their personal life in S.H.I.E.L.D. Nega-Compound B, where they were guarding a corpse of a super-villain. Elektra, the assassin for hire suddenly breaks into the compound and took down the guards within moments. It appears that what she was looking for is the corpse of the menacing villain Bullseye, who were slain by the costumed hero Daredevil during the prior events of “Shadowland”.

Hawkeye, Spider-Man and Spider-Woman of The Avengers were having a rough time to resist Wolverine from killing the hulking villain Infernock for burning half of his face. Finally, it was Captain America who talked him down for good. Back at the HQ, he is still pissed off about his face and when Spidey confronted Logan about this, Elektra arrives to seek Logan’s assistance. Without even asking for a reason, Logan gets dressed up to get going with her at once, much to Spidey's surprise.

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Savage Wolverine – Hands on a Dead Body | Comics

Meanwhile, Kingpin is informed by The Hand that recently the mysterious grotesque entity, The Arbiters has raised a dead one from past to test him, who is now tasked to kill him. As the representative of The Arbiters leaves, Kingpin unleashed his anger on the two remaining ninja guards. Elektra and Wolverine are soon confronted by Lady Bullseye and met Kingpin who hired them both for an important task.

In The Hand’s lair the duo is approached by a gang of ninjas but Elektra quickly took out their leader and Logan gets on offing the rest of them. After taking a few hits, he gives in to his animal rage and makes a quick work of the rest. Elektra and Wolverine goes deep inside the quarters below but by then The Arbiters have already resurrected their agent to kill Kingpin. There, these two came across Mikaru the Blind, who tells them to leave or suffer the wrath of Shikaru the Mute.

Wolverine defies Mikaru's warning and engages in a furious battle against the dreaded goliath like being named Shikaru in a deadly duel while Elektra tries to figure a way out of this situation. Meanwhile, in the new Shadowland at Hell's Kitchen, Wilson Fisk is visited by someone from his past he never thought he'd see again and to be the leader of The Hand, he must prove himself against his assassin.

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Ninjas, Blades and Revenge!

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"Hands on a Dead Body" is the second story-arc of the monthly ongoing Savage Wolverine comic-book series from Marvel Comics. The story is penned down by writer Zeb Wells (Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus – Year One, Venom – Dark Origin) and drawn by artist Joe Madureira (Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men), while another penciller Jock (Green Arrow – Year One, Superman – American Alien) works on a secondary plot for the feral mutant. This fine storyline that is based on a twisted plot and contains lots of jaw dropping drawing actions by Joe Mad himself on his ran from issue #06-08.

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Fight That Leaves Scars

The core story mainly focuses on a personal mission of Elektra, where she is set off to retrieve the deceased corpse of the deranged assassin Bullseye, who once killed her. With a long-due vengeance on her mind, she recruits the best killing-machine she knows personally; Wolverine. Various members of The Hand played all the political agenda for a new internal power-shift in leadership, which they were unwilling to hand over to Wilson Fisk. On the side-story, Logan crash-lands off planet and finds a kid who is set to kill him.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Avenging Spider-Man – My Friends Can Beat Up Your Friends | Comics

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and The Avengers were fighting a giant robot from A.I.M. While his fellow team-members Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Red Hulk, Spider-Woman, Thor and Wolverine were busy taking it down, Spidey wonders about how he manages to make time for all these super-heroics all the time! So, he asked his colleagues if anyone is going back to New York City as he has to get back to his job. Everyone bailed out and Iron Man suggested that Red Hulk drops him on their behalf.

At the same time, Mayor J. Jonah Jameson was attending a marathon on the other side of the city and soon it is interrupted by a huge pack of Moloids who stomped towards him, scaring the joggers present there. Mayor Jameson tried to stop the Moloids by shooting at them but quickly realized that it is filled with blanks and is kidnapped by the Moloids, who has taken his through a hole on street. Getting a call from Iron Man, Spidey and Red Hulk arrived moments before Jameson was taken.

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Avenging Spider-Man – My Friends Can Beat Up Your Friends | Comics

While Jonah Jameson was still threatening the Moloids for tearing his roads apart, Spider-Man and Red Hulk tries to intimidate the Moloids army. This result in one of them whistles a flute to summon a giant ground worm from beneath that apparently tore through land to swallow them both. Spidey and Rulk struggles to get free but some neuro-toxin released from its tongues put them to sleep. The Moloids, who thought Jameson to be King of island "New York" and taken him to their ruler Mole Man to ask for his help.

It appears that Mole Man didn't send the Moloids, they went looking for Jameson by their own. In fact, he no longer rules Subterranea as he is dethroned by the leader of the Molans called Ra'ktar. Mayor Jameson is brought to the new king and he is told to kneel but he refused. Since they all speak in runes, Jameson couldn't understand that he actually challenged Ra'ktar for his throne by refusing to kneel despite Mole Man's constant warnings before him and he is taken away.

When Spidey and Rulk gains consciousness, they found themselves in the deep underground of Subterranea. Rulk was about to bring it all down when Spidey stopped him and they are informed by the Moloids of a Civil War that is taking place between two Subterranean races; Moloids and Molans. As Jameson was being prepared by Molans to face Ra'ktar in combat, Red Hulk appears and challenges him in a battle. Rulk assured Spidey and Mayor Jameson that it would be a short fight but did not expect it to be for him.

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Subterranean Civil War

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Avenging Spider-Man – My Friends Can Beat Up Your Friends

"My Friends Can Beat Up Your Friends" is the first storyline from the brand-new monthly ongoing Avenging Spider-Man comic-book series. So, writer Zeb Wells (Dark Reign – Elektra, Shadowland – Elektra) teamed up with the long absent fan favorite Joe Madureira (Inhuman – Genesis, Savage Wolverine – Hands on a Dead Body) to create this part of storyline for Marvel Comics in 2012. Two one part bonus stories are also done by guest artist Greg Land (Mighty Avengers, Uncanny X-Men) and Leinil Francis Yu (New Avengers, Secret Invasion), also plotted by writer Wells.

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Ra'ktar, Champion of Molans

The first storyline follow a very unlikely team-up adventure of Spider-Man and Red Hulk in their quest to save a hostage Mayor J. Jonah Jameson from the middle of a Subterranean Civil War. However, it wasn't his lucky day and Spidey was forced to fill in for him and managed to save the day in a twist. Next up, he finds fellow Avenger member Hawkeye tagged along in a mission against Serpent Society, where his feeling of inferiority among super-heroes is explored. Finally, it was Captain America, who fought side by side with him in defeating Copperhead and they shared views about their passion.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Ultimates 3 – Who Killed The Scarlet Witch? | Comics

On Tony Stark's mansion at Fifth Avenue, members of superhero team The Ultimates have gathered as a video tape of Tony having an intercourse with their former traitorous teammate Black Widow was playing. Hawkeye was making remarks on the sex tape, which is out now on ABC and CNN as well, while Wasp was unsuccessfully trying to comfort Stark about Natasha's betrayal and an eventual death. Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver gets up to tend some of their personal matters but Clint reminds them that their meeting is yet not over only to have Pietro lash out at him.

Janet is still trying to talk about a possible security breach that led to this unfortunate triple-X disaster and trying to find answer to that, Tony pour another drink. Suddenly, the mansion wall broke with The Mighty Thor came crushing followed by symbiotic nightmare known as Venom. He came looking for some woman no one had any clue about but Black Panther and Hawkeye took him outside for Wasp to join them shortly. Moments later, Valkyrie jumps off from a black winged Pegasus straight to battle and sliced Venom in half.

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Ultimates 3 – Who Killed The Scarlet Witch | Comics

The villain quickly overpowers her and proceeds to slay her with her sword when he is struck by a powerful lightning blast and perishes. Thor arrives to reunite with his lover and these two started to make out. Firing a few more shot at Venom's corpse, Clint Barton went looking for T'Challa. Before leaving, Pietro and Wanda came across Captain America, who suggests her to wear something less revealing, which irked Quicksilver. Janet explains to him that even though they are brothers and sisters, they are in love with each other.

Wasp then goes to see her ex, Hank Pym who was formerly Giant Man and is currently under house arrest. Though she thought that Hank has probably fallen asleep but it appears he is overdosed with drugs and now unconscious. Pietro and Wanda were out in public when they hear a "BANG!" and the former ran after the speeding bullet. Telling her to stay down, he kept running but it turns and even after seemingly catching it, the bullet hit Scarlet Witch through one of her hexes. A doctor from crowd comes forward to check on her condition and after performing CPR on her, he declares her dead.

Clint attacks on Spider-Man thinking that he has something to do with Venom attacking them recently and in the meantime, Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy broke into mansion. Tony was having nightmares of Natasha Romanova, which turned out to be Mystique in disguise. Lorelei takes over Thor and made him attack Valkyrie, Blob went after Wasp but Iron Man came to her rescue, Cap takes on Sabretooth while Hawkeye shots down Jamie Madrox' Multiple Man. To make matters worse, Magneto decided to show up at their doorstep, followed by a feral X-Men member, Wolverine.

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Perils of Savage Land

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Ultimates 3 is a five issue limited series monthly comic-book published by Marvel Comics in 2009. The story is plotted by writer Jeph Loeb (Daredevil – Yellow, Hulk – Gray) and illustrated by the extraordinarily talented artist Joe Madureira (Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men). When first released, it was named "Sex, Lies, and DVD" but that sounded too corny even for a graphic novel and so it was later changed into "Who Killed The Scarlet Witch?" to be more appropriate. Some critics loved it and some criticized it for not having any serious depth of story from an Eisner winner nominee.

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Wrath of Thunder God

There is a trip to Savage Land, where we meet Ka-Zar and Shanna along with a few other recurring characters from Ultimate Marvel Universe. Some grim foreshadowing of the upcoming "Ultimatum" event was there considering the entire setup for this story seems a lot darker than usual Ultimate Universe books in general. The writing have some serious downsides that people hated but it can still be overlooked in exchange for some fantabulous artwork from the one and only artist Joe Mad. Joe's amazing art style took The Ultimates to a higher level and gave us a whole new point of view to look at it!
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Sunday, April 9, 2006

Battle Chasers | Comics

It's a story of a nine year old girl named Gully with the possession of a pair of magical gloves left behind by her father who has disappeared very recently along with a few other good men that he knew of. Garrison, was once a legendary swordsman and a gallant warrior with reputation, who is frequently having nervous breakdown these days from the heart-breaking trauma of his recently deceased wife.

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Battle Chasers | Comics

He is approached by the voluptuous and notoriously sensual bounty hunter, Red Monica to assist her rescuing a prisoner for reasons that are yet to be revealed. But unable to focus on things at hand, Garrison becomes alcoholic and rejects Red Monika's offer. Garrison was once trained for battle by Monika herself and they both had quite a history together.

While rescuing the prisoner, Monika also accidentally released four super powered villainous beings. This breakout led Garrison to finally overcome his loss and with his magically powerful sword, he soon joins Gully and her friends; Knolan, the powerful crafty wizard and Calibretto, an outlawed but mild mannered fully-functional war golem, who was the last of his line.

Together they eventually prepare to oppose the threat of the villains unleashed and starts a mysterious quest to find Gully's missing father, Aramus; the person who once was the mentor for Garrison who guided him to become the warrior he is today before he suddenly disappeared without leaving any clue behind.

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Battle Chasers Universe

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Battle Chasers Anthology

Battle Chasers is a popular comic series by industry talent Joe Madureira (Astonishing X-Men, Ultimates 3). It was one of the most demanding title back in 1998 when it was released from Wildstorm Comics. Joe did one of the finest piece of work on the book but also was heavily criticized for the long delayed period of this series and the title was later moved to Image Comics.

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A Gathering of Heroes

Some people praised the story, some hated it but even if you don't like the story, there is a little not to like about the beautiful artwork delivered by the bad-ass penciller like Joe Mad. From human shapes to machines, he can deliver the finest outlines possible compared to no other.

That's one of the reason behind the success of this amazing sci-fi fantasy filled limited series. In 2015, Madureira launched a Japanese-style role-playing game called Battle Chasers – Nightwar, which serves as a link to the book.
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