Monday, June 25, 2012

Siege – Dark Avengers | Comics

Norman Osborn is trying to keep his Dark Avengers together from falling apart and succumbing to his Green Goblin persona.

Shortly after being agreed to work with Norman Osborn and joining his Dark Avengers, Noh-Varr was enlightened by Ms. Marvel that these are just criminals and madmen he has surrounded himself with before leaving. Confused and looking for guidance, he built a device to communicate with Kree Empire and roaming in disguise.

Curious to learn more about human behavior, he approaches a girl on street named Annie and starts talking but is soon interrupted by arrival of The Sentry, who is sent here by Osborn. They two collide and Marvel Boy seems to have a tough time dealing with the Golden Guardian but he eventually manages to escape with help from Annie.

He later establishes contact with Kree Supreme Intelligence and is told to become a savior of Earth. He then received a new costume with a set of improved Nega-Bands and dubbed as Protector. When a search party came looking for him, they couldn't sniff him out in any way and Noh-Varr came to secretly meet Annie in an alley.

Back in Avengers Tower, Ms. Marvel saw Sentry arriving while everyone was having a breakfast. In his watchtower, Bob arrives to find his wife Lindy already pointing an alien gun at him and got his head blown off completely. He regenerates back to life right away as Void takes over his body and quickly prevents her from taking her own life.

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Siege – Dark Avengers | Comics

Robert assumes control over him in time to stop him from doing so while trying to remind their deal of not touching her. Bob tries to hurl himself into sun itself but his body regenerates again and Void takes control. He returns to Earth, hovering over city of Manhattan spreading his dark tendrils all over and causing massive destruction.

Fearing Norman to slip into his Green Goblin persona, his secretary Victoria Hand tries to convince him to see a psychotherapist. She goes to handle a lewd situation regarding Bullseye and Moonstone next when they all see an unearthly darkness slowly engulfing the sky and buildings of New York starts getting wrecked by it.

Suiting up promptly, Osborn tries to reason with Bob pointing out that if he keeps throwing tantrums like this, people who are capable of neutralizing him would surely come after him. Sentry then dials down his temper and Norman sees a terrified Lindy Reynolds looking at them from Watchtower, deducing her to have caused this.

Later that night, he goes to see Lester in his room and tasks him to take care of her in time of his choosing. After one of Cabal's secret meetings goes wrong when Doctor Doom is threatened by Osborn and blasted off by Void. He then unleashes a locust swarm upon them and everyone in Avengers Tower is instructed to evacuate quickly.

Victoria Hand was seeing to lead everyone out while Bullseye managed to fly Lindy on a copter and complete his task. By the time he arrived back, Bob has dealt with Doom by then and asks where his wife was. Hearing that she has committed suicide by jumping off to sea because of being scared of him, Robert immediately flips again.

It took all of Ares and Iron Patriot just to keep him away from Hawkeye before Sentry decides to go over and find her. Victoria sees Bullseye giving a subtle nod to her boss on his way out, which gives her a clear idea of what has just happened.

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A Grim Funeral

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To wrap up Dark Avengers series from Marvel Comics, writer Brian Michael Bendis (Mighty Avengers – Secret Invasion, Mighty Avengers – The Ultron Initiative) teams up with artist Mike Deodato Jr. (Amazing Spider-Man – New Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man – Sins Past) to work on its final storyline and tie-in for "Siege" crossover event.

This one marks final arc for the comic-book monthly ongoing following "Dark Reign" crossover from earlier and reflects on many recent events the team has faced so far, including their disbandment. It served as a tie-in plot premise to titular event in 2011, collecting issues #13-16 and first issue of Dark Avengers Annual from the series.

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Final Fate of Sentry

A long kept and not-so heroic secret about true origin of Sentry from his clouded past is finally revealed by his beloved wife Lindy. Majority of final arc is focused on him and his gradually worsening fractured psyche that keeps losing grip over reality. It ultimately became a huge problem during siege of Asgard and lead to serious causality.

Osborn's fall from power also reinstated old team of New Avengers out of hiding now that Steve Rogers is running things. Though many of Dark Avengers members are apprehended by law enforcement, Daken has managed to sneak away. A brand-new direction for heroes and villains of Marvel starts from here to an unforeseen future.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Remains | Comics

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Remains | Comics
It all happened on 3rd June of 2005, the day that was meant to be the greatest day ever in history when most of the world’s biggest communities have finally decided to stop fighting wars and threatening against each other, to finally re-unite as whole collective. As soon as Shirley Wallace is elected president, she brought all leading countries with nuclear weaponries at their disposal to an agreement of complete disarmament with help from brilliant scientists and political leaders. But during this ground-breaking event, a meddling kid of a VIP guest named Spaulding manages to sneak into the nuke oven of Nevada and pressed the danger button that blew it up along with the world. But when the smoke is cleared, all the dead has came back to life as flesh eating zombies.

While this was going outside, in Reno, Nevada, Tom Bennett was working for Silver Star Hotel and Casino as a dealer of Blackjack and since the day he’s been working there, all he could ever think about was to screw fellow waiter Tori. She refused him over and over after but he finally made her drop her pants inside the casino vault one day in exchange for some cocaine and weeds. They get out of the vault after the play and found the whole casino empty without knowing the news of the outbreak caused by that nuclear meltdown. They were only alone for a while and soon the deads starts coming knocking at their doorstep as well as bands of savage scavengers from around. But the real threat presents itself when the flesh-eating brain-dead folks suddenly starts developing intelligence.

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Released under the banner of IDW Publishing in year 2004, "Remains" is a a five-issue comic-book limited series about a post-apocalyptic world, where two unlikely survivors tries to fight their way to survive a fate worse that death. Plotted out by fan-favorite horror fiction writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night – Dark Days, Night of the Living Dead – London) and artist Kieron Dwyer (Night Mary, XXXombies), "Remains" has been worked up by this creative talent duo and in 2005, Keiron Dwyer was also nominated for Eisner Award in "Best Cover Artist" category for the covers he illustrated for Remains series.
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

The Walking Dead – Life Among Them | Comics

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Rick Grimes and the survivors hit the road after giving Dale a proper burial on the church graveyard. He found a small town that is already overruned and then returned to the group. As they were getting closer to Washington, D.C. he asks Eugene for an update on the radio but got in a brawl when Rick has gone to reach for the radio. It is revealed that it was empty and there was no battery in it ever, which finally confirms that he was lying about being a scientist. Right at that moment, Abraham bursts into rage and almost beat him to death. Suddenly everyone loses hope they had about going to Washington and Abraham is pissed at himself for being a fool for such a long time. He and Rick were greeted by a stranger at night when they were having a conversation with each other.

Introducing himself as Aaron, the man asks to meet the leader of the group as he is a recruiter who takes new people to join his community. But a suspicious Rick Grimes knocked him over and tied him up for interrogation. Due to their previous experience with The Governor, most of the group is skeptical about Aaron's credibility but Michonne vouched up for him. The group starts next morning for Aaron’s community, stops to assist other supply runners of the community and fights a group of Walkers in the city and then head back to home. The survivors eventually reached the gates of Alexandria Safe-Zone, which Aaron was talking about earlier. Rick and Alexandria's leader, Douglas Monroe had a chat and Rick’s group is welcomed to that Zombie-free community.

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As the twelfth storyline of The Walking Dead monthly ongoing series, "Life Among Them" starts from where the previous story ‘Fear The Hunters’ concluded. The arc features issue #67-72 from the series, written by creator Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, Haunt) and drawn by artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files). This storyline and some major concepts have been adapted to the Season 05 of The Walking Dead TV Series on AMC. Rick and his group of survivors continue their harsh journey of survival on the next story which is "Too Far Gone".
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Transformers – More Than Meets the Eye Vol 01 | Comics

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Optimus Prime discovers himself on a landscape that resembles to Cybertron but not the one he used to know. He thought he is either in a distant past or future and then remnants of Galvatron's Sweeps confirms him neither. City of Iacon is now full of unknown populace and one of them starts rebuking him until Sideswipe and Whirl shows up. Bumblebee and Rodimus joins them and expresses their concern about the increasing number of Non-Aligned Indigenous Lifeforms, acronymed "NAIL", as they hate The Autobots, accusing them to be the cause of Great War. Matrix of Leadership reveals a cosmic map that may lead them to Knights of Cybertron. For the sake of Cybertron, Optimus Prime must make the ultimate sacrifice and thus, Orion Pax will reborn.

Shortly after Prime's departure, Rodimus decides to follow the map of Matrix aboard Lost Light in search for Knights of Cybertron. Despite Prowl's forecast of no one joining the cause, Rodimus rounded up around two hundred sign ups. As a result of a misunderstanding, Cyclonus and Whirl gets into a brawl and it went quite far till Tailgate bursts from the ground beneath. Failing to stop Ratchet and Chromedome from joining Rodimus' quest, Bumblebee and Prowl sets a plan in motion to thwart the voyage. Lost Light was forced to quantum jump when one of it's rear thrusters explodes, trapping them on the furthest corner of galaxy and a quarter of their crews stranded on space. Meanwhile, a distress message from future Lost Light came too late for an unbeknownst Rodimus.
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Dear Departed Leader

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Transformers – More Than Meets The Eye Vol 01

Releasing from IDW in 2012, the first volume of The Transformers spin-off, Transformers – More Than Meets the Eye monthly ongoing series was plotted by writer James Roberts (Transformers – Last Stand of the Wreckers, Transformers – Titans Return), while artist Alex Milne (Transformers – Megatron Origin, Transformers – Reign of Starscream) and Nick Roche (Transformers – Devastation, Transformers – Sins of the Wreckers) aided him with illustration for the story. The story kicks off with "The Death of Optimus Prime" for a surprise to many but it picked up the right vibe that was needed for it o begin from a new point. Since Rodimus is the current command of Lost Light crews and have Ultra Magnus as his second in command, it's time people will grow into seeing The Autobots working without Optimus Prime as their leader.
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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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Friday, June 1, 2012

Siege – New Avengers | Comics

Ronin unsuccessfully attempts to kill Norman Osborn to end his "Dark Reign" and New Avengers comes for his rescue.

Ever since Norman Osborn has rose to power after helping end "Skrull Invasion", it became a major problem for entire superhero community and forced many like New Avengers into hiding. Most recently, Luke Cage was in a dire state following their encounter with Osborn and his cronies with Wolverine now stuck in Utopia.

Clint Barton among all is acting rabidly as he constantly declaring to kill him and can't simply get how his teammates are not supporting him. He is particularly annoyed over Spider-Man not taking out Osborn when he was Green Goblin and had the chance but none of his friends are willing to cross that road he is so eager to go down to.

Osborn is working on a list that he wants taken care of that Ares calls a hit list but he managed to convince God of War otherwise. Later that night, Clint decided to invade Avengers Tower in Ronin costume when he saw The Sentry going out. He breaks into and throws out Mac Gargan AKA Venom, which out the entire building on lockdown.

Barton fired a couple of rounds at current "Hawkeye" when they met before evading Daken and shot an arrow through his head. Clint asked Moonstone for help to kill Osborn when crossing paths with her or to let go but she couldn't comply. He came too close to kill Osborn but is eventually taken out by Ares and ended up being captive.

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Siege – New Avengers | Comics

He wakes up next day surrounded by Osborn and his Dark Avengers, who came here asking for their hideout but Barton starts causing trouble until he was knocked down by Sentry. Mentallo is called in to strip his secrets out of memory, forcing him to relive past moment of "Avengers Disassembled" and "House of M" events when he died.

Finding out their secret hideout, Osborn trashed that place down to find out that everyone left an hour ago. Meanwhile, Jessica Jones, Mockingbird, Ms. Marvel and Spider-Woman break into H.A.M.M.E.R. Hellicarier to rescue Clint. He apologizes to his friends for his actions and Steve Rogers shows up out of nowhere to reassemble them all.

The Hood has returned from his quest for power and offers his gang to buff up with Norn Stones to hunt down Avengers. In Brooklyn, Steve and Bucky gets ambushed by Corruptor and Living Laser but they managed to work it up with unexpected help of Luke Cage, followed by arrival of former Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury.

He ran a secret code to see whether or not his old war buddy is a Life Model Decoy and Rogers checks out. Their sweet reunion is then interrupted by a sudden attack from H.A.M.M.E.R. squad but is thwarted by Secret Warriors. The Avengers moved back to their secret base and everyone are astound to see these living legends among them.

Elsewhere, Griffin and Mandrill finds engages Spider-Man and Spider-Woman by turning the latter on the former. It took a lot of effort for Spidey to try and help her break free of mind-control and then some to spare lives of her enemies.

Catching up to Carol Danvers and to other friends at their current safe house, Rogers notices a live broadcast on TV of Osborn and his Dark Avengers taking down The Mighty Thor in a siege of Asgard. Steve then angrily asks Bucky and Fury of how many people they have at their side, ready to fight right now and declares Avengers Assemble.

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Completing an impressive 64 issue run that started back in 2005, writer Brian Michael Bendis (New Avengers – Breakout, New Avengers – Sentry) wraps up first monthly ongoing comic-book series of New Avengers for Marvel Comics in 2010 with "Siege – New Avengers" tit-in storyline, which continued from his previous arc "Powerloss".

Bendis was assisted by artists Bryan Hitch (Age of Ultron, The Ultimates), Marko Djurdjevic, Mike Mayhew, Mike McKone and Stuart Immonen (All-New Captain America – Hydra Ascendant, Ultimate Fantastic Four – Doom) on the story. Immonen worked on cover arts for all four numbered issues involved from regular series run.

"Dark Reign" has been unusual for all heroes to deal with a maniac like Norman Osborn being in charge of everything but he ultimately screws up publicly during "Siege" crossover event, giving Cap and his friends enough reason to strike back at him.

Though Steve Rogers is back in action, his old pal James Bucky Barnes still remains Captain America. It is not shown what really happened of The Sentry when he went full rogue and became a massive threat for everyone after losing total control but a happy conclusion was drawn for all members of New Avengers in finale issue.
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