Showing posts with label Metallo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metallo. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Action Comics – The Oz Effect | Comics

Manipulating life-events of Superman from beyond, the mysterious Mister Oz finally reveals himself.

Clark Kent has moved to Metropolis lately but he is been busy ever since dealing with The Godslayer (Men of Steel), the Superman Revenge Squad (The New World) and Mr. Mxyzptlk (Superman Reborn), followed by one of their recent family road-trip (Hopes and Fears).

Just like every other day, Superman was busy saving the world and talking to Lois Lane on phone. Then he heard gunshots and screams, which led him to the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. Saving the locals from gunmen and wolves, he finds computer chip on their neck.

He calls out the mastermind behind this chaos named Machinist and the villain appears but turns out it was a decoy. As he takes him down, everyone else controlled by the chips fell but more of them emerge on all around the globe.

A lead he found on the chip took him to Lex Luthor and the latter claims someone stole his work. Luthor dons his Apokalyptian warsuit, and team-up with Superman to head for Kasmir/India border. There, the Machinist took control over Lex for a while to fight against Man of Steel but then he managed to regain control.

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Action Comics – The Oz Effect | Comics

Luthor successfully foiled Machinist's sinister plan with Superman and then begins investigating security footage of his suit. When he was about to discover a potential clue to uncover this mystery, Mister Oz suddenly appears in his lab, deleted footage and then hit him with a blast from his eye before leaving.

He then visits a captive Metallo in A.R.G.U.S. to pull his kryptonite heart, killing him and then tells his followers to be ready for the next day. The following day, Superman gets busy saving a shipment of smallpox vaccine on Metropolis. Lois visits Perry White at Daily Planet with Jon Kent while Steve Lombard tries to impress the boy.

Meanwhile, as his plan to spread anarchy around the world progress, Mister Oz reflects on how humanity hasn't evolved yet and remained brutal savages. To keep check on all these affairs, Superman desperately run to prevent prison riot, racial clash, ship wreck on the coast and terrorism worldwide but even he cannot handle all of that at once.

Earlier, Superman delivered smallpox vaccine on Logamga but now there is only death and chaos everywhere. Demonstrating how humanity is a lost cause after pushing them on the edge, Mister Oz comes out of the flames and takes him back to Fortress of Solitude.

There, Oz finally reveals his partly-disfigured face to Superman after removing his hood. He claims to be his presumed long-deceased father; Jor-El and is here to take him away from this world.

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The Startling Revelation

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Action Comics – The Oz Effect

"The Oz Effect" is the fifth storyline from the Action Comics monthly ongoing era that started after "DC Rebirth". This epic story brought Man of Steel closer to discover the connection with Watchmen and most possibly the person who is responsible for creating The New 52 timeline and tampering reality; Doctor Manhattan.

Collecting issues #985-992 from the comic-book series of DC Comics, the plotline was delivered by writer Dan Jurgens (Metamorpho – Year One, Superman/Doomsday – Hunter/Prey), who was aided by artists Guillem March (Catwoman – Dollhouse, Catwoman – The Game), Ryan Sook (DC Universe Online – Legends, The New 52 – Futures End) and Viktor Bogdanovic (New Super-Man – Coming to America, New Super-Man – Made in China).

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The After Effects

A grand-plot that was being developed behind-the-scene for some time, "The Oz Effect" draws conclusion to a long-running mystery of who Mister Oz really is but sadly, the character lasted for a very limited time after the revelation. Much of where he was all these time before appearing on Prime Earth and how he came here is still remains unanswered.

At one point, Superman discovered Doomsday still captive on Oz's off-world base instead of Phantom Zone in the middle of the fight with Oz. The epilogue of the arc saw a few cameos from fellow Justice League member Batman, Booster Gold and Green Lantern.

Even "The Men of Tomorrow" arc from The New 52 era was also referenced for Superman's previous encounter with the villain known as the Machinist. Also, the prophecy of Luthor becoming the incarnation of Darkseid by The Godslayer was teased shortly. The upcoming "Doomsday Clock" limited series crossover will possibly shed more light on the whole scenario.
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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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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Superman/Wonder Woman | Comics

When Clark Kent was living his dual life of a journalist and a superhero, Diana of Themyscira became an ambassador of peace for United States as Wonder Woman, led by Colonel Steve Trevor. Diana and Trevor started dating that somewhat worked till she got involved in Justice League after halting an invasion by the forces of evil god: Darkseid (Justice League – Origin).

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Superman/Wonder Woman | Comics

Upon her joining in the League with Aquaman, Batman, Cyborg, Green LanternSuperman and The Flash made Trevor jealous and they eventually broke up on terms after defeating David Graves (Justice League – The Villain's Journey). That time, when discussing their different situation and loneliness, they both realized how much they are alike and it all started then with a romantic kiss.

Apart from their duties to Justice League as well as their solo career of a hero, Superman and Wonder Woman would always hang-out when they are off duty and shares adventures of fighting threats together. Even when they are not wearing costumes, this "Power Couple" enjoys their little dates and some alone time together.

As they are as one, now they face the mutual antagonism from many of their own deadly adversaries leading them to battle Atomic Skull, Brainiac, Cyborg Superman, Major Disaster, Phantom Zoners and Metallo. But before they face all those super-powered goons, first they have to survive the wrath of the ultimate rampaging killing machine from Kryptonian; Doomsday and the antagonism of Diana's over-jealous godly kins as well.

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Superman/Wonder Woman (Comics) Wikipedia


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Love Is A Battlefield
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Justice League – Origin (Softcover)

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Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 01 – Power Couple (Softcover)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 01 – Power Couple (The New 52)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 02 – War and Peace (Softcover)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 02 – War and Peace (Hardcover)

Superman – Doomed (Softcover)

Superman – Doomed (Hardcover)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 03 – Casualties of War (Softcover)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 03 – Casualties of War (Hardcover)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 04 – Dark Truth (Softcover)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 04 – Dark Truth (Hardcover)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 05 – A Savage End (Softcover)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol 05 – A Savage End (Hardcover)

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Superman – The Final Days of Superman (Softcover)

Superman – The Final Days of Superman (Hardcover)

During the wake of The New 52 wave by DC Comics after "Flashpoint" crossover event, many ongoing titles and the featured characters has undergone change. Following the timeline change Superman and Wonder Woman started dating each other and to explore further on that relationship status, a new monthly ongoing is released on 2013.

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Romance of Super Couple

Writer Charles Soule (New Gods – Godhead, Red Lanterns – Atrocities) and artist Tony Daniel (Adrenalynn – Weapon of War, The Tenth – Resurrected) primarily started the series and later artist Doug Mahnke (Batman – The Man Who Laughs, Black Adam – The Dark Age) start to fill in the illustration duties for a few issues. Few issues from the title were counted as tie-in to the major New 52 crossover event ‘Superman – Doomed’.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Superman – New 52 | Comics

Before the formation of Justice League (Justice League – Origin), Superman used to fight crime and battle super-villains alone on his own terms. He as Clark Kent and Lois Lane works for two different leading newspaper and is not ever married, not even dating each other.

After the battle with David Graves, (Justice League – The Villain's Journey) he starts dating Wonder Woman, which would continue for a while. The Legion of Super-Heroes traveled in time with him to save him from Anti-Superman Army.

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Superman – New 52 | Comics

He had given up his Clark Kent persona into a firefighter of Metropolis, "Johnny Clark" due to his accidental revelation of identity. Johnny Clark would continue on his own but Batman helped him out to resurrect the “Clark Kent” persona again for him.

He and reporter Lois Lane may have cross paths and will not come in same terms with each other but they both have a respect for each other. He also has Superboy; a clone of himself and his cousin from Krypton; Supergirl at his side in many adventures in time to time as well. With them at his side as well as the Justice League, Superman was successful in halting H’El’s plan to destroy Earth (H'El on Earth) and nearly killing Superboy.

He battles villains like Darkseid, Biomass, Vyndktvx, Lex Luthor, Helspont and a deadly infection of the ultimate Kryptonian killing machine Doomsday (Superman – Doomed) while playing his role as reporter Clark as well. Then he met another super-power being Ulysses (The Men of Tomorrow) from Dimension Four.

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Superman Confronts Darkseid

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Superman Vol 01 – What Price Tomorrow? (Softcover)


Superman Vol 01 – What Price Tomorrow? (Hardcover)


Superman Vol 02 – Secrets & Lies (Softcover)


Superman Vol 02 – Secrets & Lies (Hardcover)


Superman Vol 03 – Fury At World's End (Softcover)


Superman Vol 03 – Fury At World's End (Hardcover)


Superman Vol 04 – Psi-War (Softcover)

Superman Vol 04 – Psi-War (Hardcover)


Superman Vol 05 – Under Fire (Softcover)

Superman Vol 05 – Under Fire (Hardcover)

When the timeline of reality itself is changed by The Flash of New Earth, during ‘Flashpoint’, Superman gained a whole new origin story of his own. With all of DC Comics titles re-launched in The New 52 timeline, initially veteran comic-book creator George Pérez (Crisis on Infinite Earths, Final Crisis – Legion of 3 Worlds) became writer for third ongoing volume of Superman comics with Jesús Merino as artist

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Man of Tomorrow

However, more of his origin details are cleared out in the second volume of Action Comics series in The New 52 era that ran in a similar timeline to the events from the life of Superman.
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