Showing posts with label Limited Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Limited Series. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Avengers – The Children's Crusade | Comics

As young hero Wiccan see his powers growing rapidly, he must find out where Scarlet Witch is to get help.

Debuting at a time when The Avengers were fallen and scattered, a young group of heroes decided to take mantle of their icons and become Young Avengers, formed by Hawkeye, Hulkling, Patriot, Speed, Stature, Vision and Wiccan. Together they fought Kang the Conqueror, in Civil War, Secret Invasion and during Siege of Asgard.

As they were taking on racial zealot group Sons of the Serpent, one of their members shot Hulkling. When Captain America, Iron Man and Ms. Marvel reach there, one terrorist threatens them all with a nuclear weapon strapped to his back. To protect his boyfriend, Billy Kaplan sets off a power surge, rendering all Serpent members comatose.

Given Billy have no idea of what he just did; The Avengers suggest that he stays with them as they do not want to deal with another Scarlet Witch situation and explained how Wanda Maximoff went crazy after losing her twin sons. Surprised by this revelation, Wiccan concludes that he and Speed are likely to be her lost siblings.

Also, he is frustrated that his idols never even bothered to investigate whether or not she was truly responsible and leaves. However, Cap beat him to home and convinced his parents to let him stay with The Avengers. On their way, Hulkling showed up insisting to stay by his side since they are partners and Captain America simply agrees.

In their two-bed room in Avengers Tower, Teddy Altman tries to convince Billy Kaplan to agree to let The Avengers test his power and rest of their Young Avengers teammates arrive to rescue him just then. Although he is flattered to see his friends care for him, Billy requests them to put him back in or else he will be hounded once again.

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Avengers – The Children's Crusade | Comics

Stature suggests that they try to find Scarlet Witch instead so she knows that that her kids are alive and may be able to reverse her actions, possibly bringing her father back to life. Agreeing to her point, Magneto arrives out of nowhere to meet his grandsons and seek help from them to find his daughter as they are the only links to her.

When he attempted to take them to Wundagore Mountain in Transia, Patriot and rest of their team opposes only to be intervened by New Avengers. Wiccan tries to reason with them seeing Magneto and Wolverine quickly getting into a heated battle but when no one was ready to listen to him, he teleports all of his friends to Transia.

Patriot is upset at Billy as he has now made them all fugitives but Hawkeye states that they should stick together as a team. They start looking for clues at the grave of Magneto's former wife Magda and as soon as Wiccan begin to pick a trail of Wanda Maximoff, Speed races to nearby village area and ran into his uncle, Quicksilver.

What he does next is to race back at his father and starts throwing stakes at him, one of which impales a woman who looks like Wanda. It turns out to be a Doombot and everyone assumes that Doctor Doom has kept her a prisoner all along. Magneto believes that they couldn't find her until now probably because of Doom's powerful magic.

Meanwhile, The Avengers called in former member Wonder Man to help them find Wanda but he is not willing to help seeing Logan being too eager to kill her. After a heated exchange, He punched Wolverine down a level and he leaves to find her. Unwilling to help them find her or rejoin their ranks, Simon leaves briefly to find her as well.

Magneto suggests that they all invade Castle Doom but Patriot and Quicksilver opposes this idea of starting a war. Billy proposes to do a recon using magic and tries to do so at night even after everyone was against this idea. He eventually visits Latveria alone in a disguise but his cover is blown off by Wanda, who is betrothed to Doom.

Soon as they mentioned him, Doctor Doom appears and despite his belief, Wanda Maximoff was seemingly living here on her own free will. After knocking Wiccan out, Doom asks her to get married the next day. Outside of his castle, Magneto was making plans with Quicksilver and Young Avengers to storm his stronghold somehow.

Doom heals up Billy and relieves him off his powers as he explains how she came to him earlier seeking help. Before Magneto and his allies could lead an assault, The Avengers and Wonder Man arrive there. Curious to know about her past as Scarlet Witch and seeing Victor behaving differently, Wanda showed him out in her wedding dress.

When stepped outside, they see heroes are surrounded by an army of Doombots as they are trying to fight against Doom. Amidst this chaos, Wolverine sneaks up on Wanda and attempted to gut her down for what she did to millions of mutants before getting blasted off by Iron Lad, who has returned back from future to save Wiccan.

When things get heated up, he escapes into timestream with his friends and got back to the day Jack of Hearts blew up Avengers Mansion. They see Scott Lang AKA Ant-Man and they were able to save him before Jack explodes inevitably. Somehow they all return to present time and apparently Wanda Maximoff remembers everything now.

Regaining her powers, she conjures up a fleet of Kree ships and Ultron robots to attack her but her sons managed to calm her down. Beast, Hawkeye and Jessica Jones arrives to witness her reappearance and informs The Avengers. Young Avengers are worried that Logan is not ready to give her a second chance and intends to kill her.

Beast proposes that if she could restore powers of all depowered mutants who volunteers and they contacts X-Factor. Rictor agrees to be a guinea pig despite refusal from Madrox and even got his powers back. She intends to do that to all mutants who wants their power back and they all notices that X-Men are already here to get her.

A fight breaks down when The Avengers came to take custody of her and Wanda decides to seek help from Dr. Doom. She uses her godlike powers to access Life Force to undo her mistakes with help from her betrothed and Wiccan. Victor Von Doom stole her power to become omnipotent and gets opposed by all heroes.

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Deaths, Departures and Funeral

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Set in motion following "Avengers Disassembled" event, Marvel Comics has been planning "The Children's Crusade" with writer Allan Heinberg (Young Avengers – Family Matters, Young Avengers – Sidekicks) and artist Jim Cheung (Astonishing X-Men – Life of X, Avengers & X-Men – Axis) on board long before it was published in 2012.

Though Young Avengers have been there during some recent major crossovers, they never had a definitive event of their own. In quest for Scarlet Witch, who disappeared after altering reality during "House of M" and then depowering millions of mutants in a whim, Speed and Wiccan has found their believed mother and reunited with her.

After a newly reformed Magneto learns of these two from Dr. Nemesis, he approached Cyclops to know more about them. Wolverine warns him to stay away from those kids before walking away but Erik Lehnsherr paid them a visit anyway. Following a tussle with The Avengers, he even managed to enlist their help in finding his daughter.

Tension among Maximoff family has been an all time high; especially between Magneto and Quicksilver, considering the former tried to kill the latter last time they met. Victor Von Doom coming out as real culprit behind falling of Avengers by manipulating Wanda from very beginning was a real surprise and so was return of Ant-Man.

Doctor Doom ascending to godhood and becoming even more powerful than he was before by stealing Beyonder's power before in "Secret Wars" was a predictable threat. In a way, "The Children's Crusade" has paved paths for "Avengers Vs. X-Men" event with a brief yet intense skirmish within two super-hero teams, which took place afterwards.
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Batman – Arkham City | Comics

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Batman – Arkham City | Comics
Arkham Asylum is a mental institute for the lodging of criminally insane and Gotham's worst kind of villains. Recently, Batman's arch nemesis, The Joker has spread chaos in the inner circles of Arkham but Batman however, was able to finally put an end to the riot in time that left it all in ruins. The clown prince of crime formerly injected himself with the Venom like serum that super-powered criminal Bane uses to amplify his physical strength, called the Titan formula which had a bizarre effect on him, making him am enormous monster. Batman eventually defeated him in his gigantic form after quite a hard battle and The Joker is left in a dying, sickly state on Arkham.

In the heat of the situation, the administrator of Arkham Asylum, Quincy Sharp takes advantage of the situation and becomes the mayor of Gotham City to control the power that runs the city. Meanwhile, two super powered thug siblings named "T&T" who were working as henchmen for Two-Face, secretly succumbed to the Titan formula and starts a murderous spree across town, which prompts a martial law in Gotham by Mayor Sharp. Batman is well aware of Sharp's intention and realizes that someone from the behind is orchestrating the entire plot to manipulate the entire series of events. Meanwhile, Joker's girlfriend Harley Quinn decides to perform a rescue mission to set his lunatic lover free to spread limitless chaos together.

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As a tie-in prequel back-story to the 2009’s smash-hit game Batman – Arkham City, a five issue limited series of the same name was published by DC Comics in the same year. This comic book tale was written by famous Batman veteran Paul Dini (Justice League, Justice League Unlimited) and illustrated by artist Carlos D'Anda (Deathblow, JLA – Kid Amazo). This story is a link up to the first two games of the Arkham series; Batman – Arkham Asylum and Batman – Arkham City. Following the success of this limited series, a follow up monthly ongoing titled “Batman – Arkham Unhinged” was released by DC Comics in 2011, which was a continuation of the chronicles that took place in this book.
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine | Comics

About 66 million years ago, a bearded Peter Parker observes the sky with his hand-made telescope as an asteroid was heading towards Earth, which he informs to Logan, who now runs a group called 'Small Folk' in the valley of fire. Both are stranded in past time and living separately since they don't get along very well. As the K-T Extinction Event becomes imminent, Spidey and Logan is transported in time again.

In present time, the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and the feral X-Men member Wolverine tries to stop a bank robbery by the villain Orb and his gang. As Spidey hits one of Orb’s goons, he drops a few glowing diamonds on the ground that mysteriously sent the heroes back in time. There they find out that as they got into this timeline, The Orb is also travelling in time along with them. But the Orb became least of their concern when they are both confronted by a group of robots with whom Wolverine starts tangling around.

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Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine | Comics

After surviving the prehistoric extinction event, the 'Small Folk' has become a dominant tribe of people who ruled the world and are behind these robot attacks.. While fighting and later disarming a bunch of robots, Wolverine detects with his heightened sense that they are probably being watched by someone for some time. He and Spider-Man got busy in the new timeline and the latter is being considered as a Messiah to the gorilla-men who worships him believing that only he can stop the upcoming end of the world.

Spidey suggests Wolvey to give them some hope which they desperately needs at this time but Wolverine refuses to be considered as their savior. Soon, they face Devil Dinosaur and an aged Doom transferring his consciousness to Ego, the Living Planet. As Spidey has been looking for a means of mass destruction to take down this menace for quite some time and he eventually discovers a small fragment of Phoneix force, which he forged into a bullet.

Wolverine shot the bullet to Planet Doom, destroying it and also died in the process. By hot-wiring an old Cosmic Cube, Spidey brings him back only to experience another time-jump by two unknown person, Czar and Big Murder. Spider-Man and Wolverine realizes that the one responsible for doing all these time-travel is Mojo, who brings the duo in the pocket dimension Mojoworld.

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The Time Troublers

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Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine is a six issue limited series from Marvel Comics that came out in 2010, written by Jason Aaron (Avengers Vs. X-Men, Original Sin) and pencilled by amazingly talented artist Adam Kubert (The Amazing Spider-Man – Renew Your Vows, Avengers & X-Men – Axis). The entire plot of the series revolved around the costumed adventurer Spider-Man and Wolverine, who travels through time in expense of a life time of pain and battle.

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Another Fine Mess

The artwork and the story concept of the series were highly praised even though the whole story might seem a little bit complex and oddly placed. The series was also just a trip to another direction that weren't actually going anywhere while featured the special appearance of some other lesser-known Marvel characters as well.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Batman – Earth One Vol 01 | Comics

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Batman – Earth One Vol 01 | Comics
Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Arkham-Wayne are the concerned citizens of Gotham City and proud parents of their eight years old son Bruce Wayne. When Bruce’s father decides to run for the Mayor of Gotham, he calls up his war-time buddy Alfred Pennyworth. As an experienced soldier, Alfred deduces that Thomas has been receiving threats and he’s been called here to look over the security of Wayne Manor. That night the Wayne’s went out for their weekly movie night in spite of Alfred’s warnings and got murdered by a mugger in a set of events in motion. Now left in his custody, Bruce is raised by him and he served as the butler for the boy. While receiving training from Alfred, Bruce also took inspiration from the bats after being attacked once.

As he grew up as an adult, Bruce decides to investigate his parent’s murder and eventually found involvement of a corrupt former detective named Jacob Weaver working for the current Mayor Oswald Cobblepot. Dressed up in a bat-themed spandex costume, Bruce starts prowling at night but then went for help to Lucius Fox as he failed to catch Weaver when his gadget broke during chase. In the mean time, Detective James Gordon of Gotham City Police Department has been assigned with a new recruitment, Harvey Bullock on a case of mysterious disappearance of young girls. When Bullok unknowingly started digging at the old case of Wayne’s murder, Jim’s daughter Barbara Gordon is abducted by a dangerous serial killer who goes by the name of Birthday Boy.

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Debuted back in 2012, Batman – Earth One is an alternative take of storyline that was published from a set of graphic novels line titled ‘Earth One’. Writer Geoff Johns (Superman – Secret Origin, Justice League – New 52) and artist Gary Frank (Midnight Nation, Supergirl) were behind the wheels of this new ride with The Dark Knight on a new direction which led it to be the number #1 on the list of New York Times' bestselling book. Recently, a new rumor has surfaced that the book is going to be adapted for the live action Batman (2018) movie with writer Johns also reported to be collaborating the script alongside actor Ben Affleck as the lead, who also portrays the character in "Batman V Superman – Dawn of Justice" to be released on 2016. A sequel titled ‘Batman – Earth One Vol 02’ was also released on 2015 following the huge success of the crittically acclaimed first installment.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

X-Force – Sex and Violence | Comics

The long-running sexual tension between Wolverine and Domino comes to a point where it invites senseless violence.

A badly beaten, bloodied and battle-worn Domino remembers being attacked by a group of assailants who broke into her place, which she barely survived and ended up on Alcatraz Island. She hits the washroom spitting two of her teeth into sink and tells Elixir to heal her wounds up but Wolverine of X-Force stopped him from doing so.

Logan came here seeking her when he sensed that she is cooking some trouble and asks her how who did this to her. Neena spills that members of the infamous Assassins Guild took her in for a score but she never really knew who she was working for. Then shit just hit the fan and they are attacked by Ninjas of The Hand out of nowhere.

As these villains were busy tearing each other apart, she finds out that they were after a cargo full of captive Japanese girls. She managed to smuggle them back to Texas and helped them to get back but now the Guild is very pissed at her and want payback.

Wolverine suddenly shoots the hinges off the door to see X-23 standing on the other side and she came here following his trails. Laura suggests that Domino is still hiding something about her encounter with Assassins Guild and the run-in with Hand. Telling her to stay out of this, he tells Elixir to heal her before getting out.

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X-Force – Sex and Violence | Comics

Logan decides to stick with her and though she doesn't want his help, Domino suggests he is hanging out for a hookup. A bullet hits him, causing the car to crash and she comes out to see the Guild sends its members to bring her. A quick shootout ensues where Wolvie joins to lend a hand before they take out everyone and passionately kiss.

The villainous Razor-Fist leading the Guild members comes out asking her about the money she stole from them and Logan too asks her the same question. He goes slicing and dicing them up until getting stabbed by the mercenary leader. Logan manages to break free and spare him to tell Belladonna Boudreaux to stop chasing Neena Thurman.

Domino later confessed to him that during the rescue of those girls, she found a truck full of 237 million dollar and took it, which is why the Guild is mad now. The gun wielding bombshell suggests that they spend some quality time together in a hotel and then discuss about what to do with the money. Being an animal, Logan simply complies.

Assassins Guild leader Belladonna is furious at the incompetence of Razor-Fist, so she calls in favor from Black Mamba, Boomerang, Bullet, Bushwacker, Clay and Nakh to finish the job. They are quickly located in their hotel room in San Francisco, where Bushwacker breaks in to capture Domino and kill Wolverine, only to fail miserably.

These two then head to face the Guild and Neena points out walking straight to enemy lair is kind of a suicide mission she is not very fond of but for this instant, she is trusting Weapon X. The Guild thought that he came here to exchange her life for money but he suggests that the money goes to charity and they leave Domino alone.

An infuriated Belladonna orders her legion of killer to take them down and as the former X-Men duo was already having a hard time to even defend their own; a group of Ninjas sent by The Hand comes out of shadows to apprehend them.

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A Blood-Soaked Ride

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In 2010, Marvel Comics took writers Christopher Yost (X-23 – Innocence Lost, X-23 – Target X) and Craig Kyle (X-Force – Angels & Demons, X-Force – Old Ghosts) to work on a three part limited series focused on X-Force in collaboration with artist Gabriele Dell'Otto (Secret Wars, The Clone Conspiracy), who mostly does cover art in general.

"Sex and Violence" is the result of that creative process and features current X-Force members Archangel, Domino, Elixir, Vanisher, Warpath, Wolverine and X-23. After Cyclops has deployed a strike force version of the team following the events of "Messiah CompleX", the group has been operating as a black ops squad of mutants.

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Aggression and Romance

Although there is a certain twist in the plot that might make things interesting in the end, at times it might feels like that the story was only conceived to portray a couple of hot and steamy romantic encounter between Logan and Neena. Both Assassins Guild and The Hand may seem underplayed and so is the character of Belladonna Boudreaux.

This sexiest blood-soaked adventure taken place in "Sex and Violence" ushered a new direction for the team which reflected on a new monthly ongoing series Uncanny X-Force with some new members like Deadpool, Fantomex and Psylocke on the team.
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