Showing posts with label Joe Madureira. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Operation – Zero Tolerance | Comics

After most of The Avengers, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk and Doctor Doom has seemingly sacrificed themselves to destroy the essence of the psionic being Onslaught, only the mutant superheroes were left on Earth. Bunch of non-mutant superheroes including Daredevil, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man were left behind along with the team of X-Men. A mutant-hating human and also a candidate for Presidential election, Graydon Creed got killed and his unknown killer is suspected to be a mutant.

The government has given the complete authority to Bastion; an upgrade to the advanced sentinel Nimrod, to handle the situation and he came up with a plan along with his newly assembled troops of Prime Sentinels to capture all mutants, dubbing it as "Operation: Zero Tolerance". Many of the X-Men are captured and the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning is seized by him. This gave Bastion all access to the information about every known mutant out there.

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X-Men – Operation Zero Tolerance | Comics

Because of his role on Onslaught Saga, Professor X voluntarily turns himself to the authority and Bastion confronts him personally before locking him away. The young mutant Jubilee of team Generation X is soon captured along with her team and taken to the custody of Bastion where she is extensively tortured on a mental level by the Sentinel-Hybrid to discover the secrets about her fellow mutants.

X-Men member Cyclops, Jean Grey, Cannonball, Storm and Wolverine are also captured by the program. In the mean time, the time-travelling mutant from the future, Cable sneaks into the X-Mansion to rescue his ally Caliban and erase Xavier's files containing all information on other mutants to save them from Bastion. Iceman has formed a small rebellion team against the Operation and Bastion himself.

The mutant Marrow also joins in his cause to avenge her mentor and the Morlock leader, Callisto. As they were preparing to lead an attack on Bastion, the rebellion faced a sudden ambush by a group of Prime Sentinels. Iceman eventually gets his chance to go up against Bastion and was seemingly besting him but then the Sentinel tuned the tides of their fight.

For more information on "Operation – Zero Tolerance" crossover, you can check out those links below.

Operation – Zero Tolerance (Comics) Wikipedia

Operation – Zero Tolerance (Comics) Marvel Wikia

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Verge of Extinction

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01. Generation X 27

02. X-Men V2 65

03. X-Force 67

04. Cable 45

05. X-Force 68

06. Cable 46

07. X-Force 69

08. Cable 47

09. Uncanny X-Men 346

10. Generation X 29

11. X-Men V2 66

12. Wolverine V2 115

13. X-Men V2 67

14. Wolverine V2 116

15. Generation X 30

16. Generation X 31

17. X-Men V2 68

18. Wolverine V2 117

19. X-Men V2 69

20. Wolverine V2 118

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X-Men – Zero Tolerance

"Operation – Zero Tolerance" is a 1997 X-Men crossover event from Marvel Comics that spawned in the monthly ongoing series of Cable, Generation X, Uncanny X-Men, WolverineX-Force, and X-Man. The story revolves around the assassination of a presidential candidate and afterwards, how the effects of that incident helps an advanced Sentinel prototype named Bastion to take over the mutant community with help from the government. The initial plots of the event were planned by veteran writer Scott Lobdell (Alpha Flight, Excalibur) and Larry Hama (Venom – Along Came A Spider, Venom – Carnage Unleashed).

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Bastion Declares War

Artist Leinil Francis Yu (New Avengers, Secret Invasion) did the drawings along with Chris Bachalo (Captain America – Homeland, Dark Reign – The Sinister Spider-Man), Pasqual Ferry (Adam Strange – Planet Heist, Superman – Ending Battle), Joe Madureira (Inhuman – Genesis, Savage Wolverine – Hands on a Dead Body), Roger Cruz and Salvador Larroca (Death of Wolverine – The Weapon X Program, Spider-Man – House of M). This event got bigger and better with the participation of all the big guns of the industry in the post-Onslaught devastated Marvel Universe.
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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.

For more information on Onslaught Saga crossover event, you can check out these links below.

Onslaught Saga (Comics) Wikipedia


Onslaught Saga (Comics) Marvel Wikia


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Heroes and Mutants United

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X-Men – Prelude to Onslaught


X-Men – The Road to Onslaught Volume 01


X-Men – The Road to Onslaught Volume 02


X-Men – The Road to Onslaught Volume 03


X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 01


X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 02

X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 03

X-Men – The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 04

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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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Age of Apocalypse | Comics

The mentally unstable mutant son of Professor Charles Xavier named David Haller A.K.A. Legion time travels to the past with an intention to kill the mutant master of magnetism; Magneto once and for all. Legion reached to the past and he actually appeared in a time when Charles Xavier and Magneto were still friends. When Legion attacked to take Magneto's life, Charles helped save his friend's life and died instead of Eric.

Legion got vanished from scene and a shocked Magneto was left with the corpse of his friend, who died trying to protect him. For the first time in his life, Magneto realizes the dream that Charles had of human-mutant co-existence and starts believing in it. Following this shocking event, a new alternate timeline was created from right that point. The time-travelling mutant from the future; Bishop was aware of the change of reality as he came following Legion through time.

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Age of Apocalypse | Comics

The eternal evil mutant En Sabah Nur AKA Apocalypse has always been watching over the world to conquer it when the time to strike is right and as he observes this unexpected incident, he deems it as a perfect moment to start his agenda of ruling the world by conquering it all. Alongside his wife Rogue, Magneto assembles the team of Astonishing X-Men, his rebellion mutant army against the tyrant's genocidal campaign "culling", where many were slain.

Instead of all the effort, Apocalypse has conquered entire North America and hunted down all mutants with potent telepathic or chronal abilities, as well as other super-heroes to assure the durability of his evil reign. It's a timeline that is full of chaos, abnormalities and madness all over it, as it is ruled by the one who is the malevolent mutant Apocalypse himself.

While Nightcrawler was leding the X-Calibre team to locate Destiny, he came across Callisto, Juggernaut, his mother Mystique and Thunderbird of this reality. To retrieve a piece of M'Kraan Crystal that controls over time and dimensions, Gambit and the X-Ternals travels to space. Colossus and Shadowcat are a married couple who trains a group of young mutants from the original Generation X, who call themselves Generation Next.

Blink, Morph, Sabretooth, Sunfire and Wild Child fought Apocalypse's son Holocaust under Magneto's command to stop the "cullings". Logan carries out his own missions as Weapon X, along with his lover Jean Grey for the Human High Council. Allegedly born from Cyclops' and Jean Grey's DNA, a new and powerful mutant Nate Gray AKA X-Man makes his presence known as the world's most powerful telekinetic.

For more information on Age of Apocalypse crossover event, you can check out the link below.

Age of Apocalypse (Comics) Wikipedia



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Survivors of The Culling

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X-Men – Age of Apocalypse Prelude


X-Men – The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 01


X-Men – The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 02


X-Men – The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 03


X-Men – The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 04

X-Men – The Age of Apocalypse Omnibus


X-Men – Age of Apocalypse Omnibus Companion


"Age of Apocalypse" is a major crossover comic event of 1995 from Marvel Comics, when all of the then ongoing series were temporarily replaced by their counter series set in a different timeline. A wide array of creative writers as Scott Lobdell (Alpha Flight, The Darkness), Mark Waid (Captain America, Fantastic Four), Jeph Loeb (Daredevil – Yellow, Hulk – Gray), Fabian Nicieza (New Warriors, Thunderbolts), Larry Hama (Venom – Along Came A Spider, Venom – Carnage Unleashed) and Howard Mackie wrote various limited series that built up the entire saga.

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Apocalyptic Arc of Tragedy

Industry legends like Joe Madureira (Inhuman – Genesis, Savage Wolverine – Hands on a Dead Body), Adam Kubert (Amazing Spider-Man – Renew Your Vows, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine), Chris Bachalo (Captain America – Homeland, Dark Reign – The Sinister Spider-Man), Salvador Larroca (Heroes Reborn – The Return, Spider-Man – House of M), Andy Kubert (The Avengers, Origin) and Roger Cruz provided their drawing talents for the crossover. "Age of Apocalypse" is one of the greatest comic-book event by Marvel Comics and this event led to the legendary "Onslaught Saga".
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Thursday, October 6, 2005

Astonishing X-Men | Comics

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Astonishing X-Men | Comics
In the wake of the eternal mutant Apocalypse’s rise in power and the untimely death of professor Charles Xavier, Magneto, now head of the X-Men in this newly altered dystopian timeline has taken charge, assembles his team of the gifted mutants, whom are now the potential threat for the ruler of the world, Apocalypse. While discussing their mission with his team, he is joined by Blink and Sunfire, who came through a portal after being chased by Apocalypse’s minion Delgado. They inform the X-Men about Apocalypse's latest culling of the humans, led by his son and one of his Horseman – Holocaust.

A loyal mutant follower of Apocalypse has brought him the news of Delgado’s failed attempt to apprehend the two X-Men members but the tyrant himself smiles about it. After bidding Gambit goodbye to his own separate mission, Rogue, along with Blink, Sabretooth, Morph and Wild Child sets off for Chicago to face the deadly horseman Holocaust. Sabretooth personally wants to settle some old score with the Horseman of Apocalypse. When they met him, Sabretooth quickly engages in a fierce battle with Holocaust and their fight creates mayhem in the battlefield. Just as they are trying to fight off the forces of Apocalypse, the tyrant himself is also seeking to meet the X-Men personally for purpose unknown.

For more information on the limited series, you can check out the link below.

Astonishing X-Men (Comics) Wikipedia

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In Excess Holocaust!
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Astonishing X-Men 01


Astonishing X-Men 02

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A Savior in Peril

Astonishing X-Men 03

Astonishing X-Men 04

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Astonishing X-Men (Softcover)

Released from Marvel Comics in 1995, the four issue limited series of Astonishing X-Men served as one of the core stories for the then ongoing crossover event "Age of Apocalypse" that drafted the foundation for the “Onslaught Saga” afterwards. Writer Scott Lobdell and fan favourite superstar artist Joe Madureira pitched up this storyline that is set in an alternate reality of Earth-295. It was a different take on the classic Uncanny X-Men series and Joe Mad delivered one of his finest artworks as usual.
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