Showing posts with label Robert Kirkman. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Haunt Vol 01 | Comics

Catholic priest Daniel Kilgore is forced to get along with his brother Kurt Kilgore, a government agent following an accident and becomes The Haunt.

Daniel Kilgore visits prostitutes on a regular basis, has an anger-management issue, leads a sleazy life and happens to be an associate priest. When he returns to church after his usual "appointment" with a hooker, he sees his brother Kurt is here to meet him. It seems that Daniel has a sort of abhorrence for Kurt who regularly visits him for confession.

Because of the distaste he has for his brother, Daniel asks Kurt to get it done with but the latter points out that it doesn't feel like a confession this way. So, the priest agrees to bear with him and they gets inside a confessional box for the sacrament. When he is asked how many people he has killed this time the penitent, Kurt begins his narration.

He states that, unlike always he went on a covert mission for The Agency as a government agent and was sent to retrieve a genetic researcher named Dr. Shillinger from a secret research compound in Bolivia. Pretending to be a dead body, he reached there in a body-bag and found himself on the middle of a dumping ground of rotten corpse.

He sneaks on a guard before the others see him and caught into a firefight while he made it inside. He found the man he came to extract here from but the doctor insisted that they have to retrieve his test subject as well. Upon finding him running horrible genetic experiments on living test subjects, Kurt ends up killing Shillinger on spot in disgust.

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He prompts to rescue the heavily gross hostages and a young mutated boy from the guards of the compound and lead them out while a mysterious female figure and steals the knapsack from the dead Doctor, which has gone unnoticed by everyone. He walks out of the church at the end of his confession upon failing again to bond with his brother.

Kurt is kidnapped by an unknown party who ambushed on him and then is tortured to death during the interrogation regarding the notes of Dr. Shillinger. Daniel didn't know any of it and after attending the funeral, Kurt's ghost talks to him about go to see his widow Amanda. They argue over the matter and he thinks all of this is just in his head.

Even though he goes to visit Amanda, with whom he had a long-history before she married his brother, there is an awkward silence and they don't talk to each other much. She asks Daniel to spend the night here and so he stays anyway. Later, he wakes up on the couch at the middle of the night when Kurt's ghost came to warn him of intruders.

Daniel brushes it off considering somewhere deep inside he still misses his dead brother but he then sees two assassins came looking for him and Amanda. When they starts firing at him, Kurt quickly jumps at his confused brother and transforms him into a white, ghostly apparition who lunges at the attackers and slashed their head clean off.

They go out taking down two more waiting in the van and then Kurt instructs Daniel to call for cleanup. Amanda goes to work next morning and Kilgore heads to church despite his ghost constantly urging to go after her to assure she is safe. He ran into a hired mercenary Cobra at church, working for some unknown party and had an intense fight.

The killer makes a quick escape knowing he cannot win and Kurt leads Daniel to The Agency to get help. They take him for interrogation to know more about the death of his brother and he turns into The Haunt when he is ambushed. With so many things coming at him, he still has to discover about rogue agent Mirage and a ruthless crime-boss Mr. Hurg.

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Secret Agent Kurt Kilgore

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Haunt Vol 01

"Haunt Vol 01" is the collectible of the first five issues from a brand-new monthly ongoing Image Comics title Haunt by comic-book creator Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, The Walking Dead) in 2010. Artists Greg Capullo (The Creech, Violator), Ryan Ottley (Grizzlyshark, Invincible) and Todd McFarlane (Image United, Spawn) also helped along.

Artist Ottley does a fine job on the pages of this gory supernatural action series which tells the origin of an ectoplasmic entity of two brothers co-existing in a body. Capullo also delivered the exquisite covers for the series with series co-creator McFarlane himself.

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The First Transformation

The chronicles of Daniel Kilgore goes in a fast paced series of events following the death of his estranged brother and how he is forced to take a heroic path to save the lives of the ones he love. Though an action focused series, Haunt depicts the life of the involved characters riddled with love, betrayal and ruthlessness over and towards one another.

Because of his McFarlane's work on Spider-Man for many years in past, the titular hero bears a lot of resemblance and some of the characteristics of Venom as well. The storyline serves as a "Year One" type of story for the character that will meet new challenges and unravel more mysteries from the past life of Kurt Kilgore in "Haunt Vol 02".
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Walking Dead – Fear The Hunters | Comics

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The Walking Dead – Fear The Hunters
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Abraham followed Rick and his son Carl to their hometown Kentucky to get supplies and they finds Rick’s old friend Morgan Jones in an unstable condition. They took Morgan with them and encounter a massive herd consisting of thousand Walkers on their way back. Rick reaches to his group after a lot of struggle but failed to ditch the herd. As a result, all of the survivors are forced to hit the road again from a remote farm house they had found for long staying and Dale is pissed off at Rick for him jeopardizing their safety. Meanwhile, one of Allen and Donna's twin sons Ben murders Billy which deeply shook up Dale. In the middle of this emotional situation, a priest, named Gabriel Stokes approaches the group seeking food, who did not receive a warm welcome.

As the rest of the group debate on Ben’s fate, he was eventually shot at the dark of night by one of the survivors. This led Dale to have a more severe emotional breakdown while Carl foul mouths him for that. Suddenly, Walkers attack the group and Dale screams for help. He assures he’s fine as soon as the undeads were all taken down. Even though all of them were skeptical about Gabriel, they followed him to his church anyway. Andrea felt that she was being watched by some unknown individual when she went to the woods to pee. Rest of the group brushed off the possibility of that. From the beginning of this Zombie apocalypse they’ve fought undeads and mad men but never before has they face such a fearful group of adversaries who are about to make their presence known.

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Beware The Hunters
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A Preacher In Rotworld

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The Walking Dead Vol 11 – Fear the Hunters

Writer Robert Kirkman (Outcast, The Astounding Wolf-Man) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) brought the eleventh storyline titled “Fear The Hunters” of the monthly ongoing series of The Walking Dead in 2010 after their run in "What We Become". Season 05 of The Walking Dead TV Show features a lot of plot elements like the death of Ben and Billy, history of Gabriel’s Church, death of another survivor and The Hunters from the storyline. The events of the tale is narrated in issue #61-66 and it was followed by the next part; “Life Among Them”.
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Haunt | Comics

Kurt Kilgore was an skillful special agent for The Agency where he worked as a covert operative, until he was deployed in a special operation to extract Doctor Shillinger, a scientist working on a top secret assignment. But Kurt killed him and he was killed in a plot by a crime lord named Mr. Hurg, with help from a secret betrayer in the Agency.

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Kurt also had a brother named Daniel Kilgore, who is a priest but also regularly visits prostitutes and they both have a strained relationship between them. Daniel hated Kurt because he thinks his former love Amanda cheated on him by marrying Kurt. After Kurt's death, Daniel starts sensing his brothers presence as a ghost who kept him warned about possible killing attempts on his widow Amanda which he brushed off completely.

Soon, by a series of incidental events, Kurt's spirit is merged with Daniel and they became the uncanny ectoplasmic entity called as The Haunt. With his newly discovered amazing abilities, Haunt successfully defends Amanda from the attackers.

Daniel is soon summoned by the Agency where he met Director Beth Tosh and a former Agency operative Mirage, whom had a romantic relation with Kurt. Daniel is then recruited as an agent for the Agency and Kurt's unknown enemy Mr. Hurg hires an assassin called Cobra to destroy the Haunt. Daniel faces all the challenges of his all-new life filled with adventures and beyond while Kurt's ghost tries to make amends with his brother.

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Haunt (Comics) Wikipedia



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Haunted by His Own

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Published by Image Comics, The Haunt is a monthly ongoing comic series featuring the fictional character of the same name created by comic legend Todd McFarlane (Image United, Spawn) and Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, The Walking Dead). Artist duo Ryan Ottley (Grizzlyshark, Invincible) and Greg Capullo (Batman – New 52, The Creech) provided artwork for the series.

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A Ghost in Hurg's Way

Initially, it was launched in 2009 and the series only ran for 28 issues. The concept of the series was conceived by McFarlane and Kirkman back in 2006 during San Diego Comic-Con.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

The Walking Dead – What We Become | Comics

As the prison compound got destroyed by the villainous Governor, Rick Grimes and his new found family of other survivors got scattered. Rick eventually met his gang and was successful to regroup with most of the remaining members of the group who survived the destruction of prison. They also tagged along three new survivors; Sergeant Abraham Ford, his girlfriend Rosita Espinosa and scientist Eugene Porter in their road trip for life but only now they have a destination to reach which is Washington, D.C.

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The Walking Dead – What We Become | Comics

Despite picking up the pieces of lost dreams to continue their journey of survival, Rick is still unable to cope with the fact of losing his wife, Lori and daughter Judith. He even sees his zombified wife Lori came back devouring him alive and wakes up in panic. Rick relieves Abraham of his monitor duty as he can’t sleep and starts talking to Lori on the phone again. Maggie Greene is also having a hard time coping with the aftermath of the prison massacre as she lost her whole family during the onslaught. Even Glenn fails to comfort her and she tries to commit suicide by hanging herself.

Her breathing stopped literally even after rescuing her fast and Abraham wants to put her down, on which point he had a brief skirmish with both Rick and Glenn. Following that, the group goes into a supply run where they discover new facts about the Walkers, Rick and Abraham tries to sort out their differences in a trip back Rick’s home and finally, they got chased by an enormous Zombie herd that forced everybody to move.

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The Walking Dead – What We Become (Comics) Wikia

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Into The Herd

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The Walking Dead Vol 10 – What We Become

Creator Robert Kirkman (Image United, Invincible) and Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) continues The Walking Dead saga with “What We Become” storyline in 2009 from Image Comics, which was preceded by “Here We Remain”. The aftermath from “Made to Suffer” storyline is still affecting the remaining survivors of the undead apocalypse and elements from this volume is later adapted in the Season 4 of The Walking Dead TV Series on AMC.

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Converged by Walkers

This book also feature the return of a character that was introduced earlier in the monthly ongoing as he first appeared in “Days Gone Bye”. This is the tenth volume from The Walking Dead comics series which marks the five years run of the popular series through issue #56 and “Fear The Hunters” is the next storyline in queue by the same creative team of Kirkman and Adlard.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Walking Dead – Here We Remain | Comics

After the bloody savage massacre at the prison led by the tyrannous manic known as The Governor with Woodbury forces, which did not go as planned, Rick Grimes narrowly escaped from the prison along with Carl with their lives in hand, also ridden with guilt over Lori and Judith. The group is shattered, most of them are killed in the battle and they don’t even know where the other survivors of the group are now.

After a couple of day’s worth of journey on foot they reach to a forest where they were looking for some shelter and they stumble upon a small, empty town. When attacked by a Zombie in a nearby store, Rick was barely able to handle it with his axe and Carl managed to kill the Zombie after some struggle while also looking for supplies. Soon, they took shelter in a nearby house where Rick takes a huge dosage of antibiotics for his bullet wound and fades.

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The Walking Dead – Here We Remain | Comics

At one point Carl thought that Rick is dead when he had not responded for long but found him unconscious from the drug overdose for his bullet wound. He even considered shooting Rick thinking that he is reanimating but then stopped as he saw his father breathe. After single handedly killing three Walkers banging outside of the door at once all by himself, Carl realized that he is his own man and doesn’t need to hide in his father’s shadow anymore.

He blames Rick for the death of his mother and baby sister as well as the entire group of friends they had back at the prison. Rick however doesn't hear any of this and momentarily wakes up and requests Carl to stay inside. After a few days of rest, he gets better and unexpectedly hears a telephone ringing which he answers to have a conversation with a woman who belongs to a larger group. Rick and Carl find an unknown suicidal survivor who is ravaged by Walkers and left a load of supplies behind.

Carl was surprisingly attacked by a Walker when Rick was trying to teach him to survive on his own but Michonne showed up to help. Glenn and Maggie Greene are found, who are staying along with Dale, Andrea, Ben, Billy and Sophia in their farm. Soon, they all meet three new survivors; Abraham Ford, Rosita Espinosa and Eugene Porter who are heading to Washington, D.C. with a mission to stop the apocalypse for good.

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The Walking Dead – Here We Remain (Comics) Wikia

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Carl Takes Down Walkers

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The Walking Dead Vol 09 – Here We Remain

After the unexpected tragedy in the previous storyline “Made to Suffer”, The Walking Dead chronicles is succeeded by “Here We Remain” arc that took place in the issues #49-54 of the monthly ongoing series. As always, the story is cooked up by writer/creator Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, Haunt) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files). This one marks the eighth time these creator duo of Kirkman and Adlard has worked on a storyline for the acclaimed Image Comics series.

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Survivors With A Mission

Many aspects of this storyline were adapted into the Season 4 of AMC's hit TV series The Walking Dead, especially the introduction of Abraham Ford, Rosita Espinosa and Eugene Porter's character to the TWD Universe. Though the introduction part happened on the second half of Season 4, because the first half of the season was entirely focused on the conflict with The Governer that has led the story at this point. This story takes us to "What We Become" arc up next where the survivors face more undead adventures in this post-apocalyptic world.
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Walking Dead – Made To Suffer | Comics

The Governor was found severely crippled with several limbs missing and taken care of by his men who had him rescued from a vengeful Michonne in the nick of time who was about to painfully torture him to death. After they barely patched him up with help from a former army medic named Bob, The Governor eventually survives. He wakes up a week after in Woodbury hospital and then waits for his man Caesar Martinez to return.

Caesar was sent with Rick Grimes and his group to follow them back to their home as a double agent for him and to locate the prison facility where the survivors were currently residing. After some searching, his men found Caesar zombified in the field. Apparently, he was killed by Rick who ran over Dale's RV on Martinez and then strangled to death when he found that the latter was going back to Woodbury.

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The Walking Dead – Made To Suffer | Comics

The Governor then successfully convinces the townspeople of Woodbury to attack the prison by telling them a false story about the prison dwellers being a very aggressive and savage band of folks. He also showed Martinez's zombified decapitated head to them to prove his claims, which really shocks a lot of them. As his search parties kept looking for the prison, The Governor prepares himself by practicing shooting even though his right arm was off.

Meanwhile, he was spending time with his own zombified niece Penny and kisses her after pulling out her teeth only to throw up immediately. Then he learned that a group of soldiers from Woodbury was killed by the prison group at the National Guard Station during a confrontation of their supply run. This angers The Governor and his men to attack the prison but they wait for long. With heavy vehicles and armory they approached at the prison as one of Governor’s men was successful in locating it after weeks of searching and mapping the surrounding areas.

During the first attack, Andrea climbs on the guard tower and devastates the Woodbury forces by shooting at them. The remaining survivors debate as to run away or to fight back. Tyreese and Michonne are also captured by Governor's men while trying to turn the tides of the battle and their fate seems to be quite unsure at this point. What happens next between the two group is a savage contest of massacring each other till no one is left.

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Woodbury Strikes Back

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The Walking Dead – Made To Suffer

Following the events of “The Calm Before”, there comes “Made To Suffer” storyline that collects issue #43-48 of The Walking Dead monthly ongoing comic-book series from Image Comics in 2008. It also is the one volume that features the highest amount of deaths in the panels which is later surpassed by the “All Out War” story arc. Series creator and writer Robert Kirkman (Outcast, The Astounding Wolf-Man) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) created this six part plot that is succeeded by "Here We Remain" storyline which is next to this one.

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Almost Dead Already

The eighth episode from Season 3 of AMC's The Walking Dead TV Series also shares the same name of the storyline. However, that episode did not feature the attack of Woodbury people led by The Governor on Rick's prison. Since AMC's TV adaptation is solely based on the source material of Robert Kirkman's work on the comics series, the third season seemed like a stretch as it concluded to Season 4 for viewers to find out what threat The Governor will pose on Rick's group. The key-elements of the violent nature of the conflict that took place on the arc was toned down for television audience when it was aired.
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