Thursday, May 4, 2006

Batgirl – Death Wish | Comics

As she continues to train with Batman, Batgirl prepares to encounter the unbeatable assassin Lady Shiva one year later.

In spite of her superior training, Batgirl takes a punch from a thug during patrol, which Batman notices and tries to figure out what caused her to lose focus. Oracle calls in to inform Cassandra Cain that she has located the complex where the group of government agents she tussled with earlier has her tape and other evidence to identify her.

With approval from her mentor, she heads to Langley, Virginia and breaks in evading every security measure like they were nothing to steal physical proof of her being such as blood samples and video tape. Barbara talks to Bruce concerning for the girl and he later sends her after the rogue agent Masters, who killed one of her friends.

Batgirl then meets Robin in the middle of a mob shooting where one was chasing a mob boss and another is seeking an assassin. The Boy Wonder is astound and shocked to see her bullet dodging skills with all the exit wounds on her body left by her trainer David Cain. She is shot by the killer with cybernetics named "Deadeye" but still takes him down.

Next up, she had to approach another fellow costumed vigilante Spoiler after retrieving one million dollar and a ransom note from gang feud. They got into the case together because the latter wanted to take part in this adventure and eventually sorted everything out in the end before agreeing to donate the money to a children's hospital.

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Batgirl – Death Wish | Comics

Barbara Gordon calls in for Batman after picking up master assassin David Cain on the nuclear weapons storage of Hanford Island through satellite. He then teases the Caped Crusader through security feed to go there and face him. Feeling responsible for her father, Cassandra wanted in but is denied and left to keep a watch on Gotham.

The Dark Knight walks straight into a trap set by Cain and he goes on taking a shot at her young daughter. Turns out, he was hired by an individual who has physically suffered at the hands of Batgirl a year ago and is part of organized crime in Gotham, only wanting her to be taken care of with no knowledge of what she is to the person he hired for the job.

After she takes down a suicide bomber, Barbara talks to her about how exciting the experience is for the first time and how it was a rush for Babs at the beginning, which reminds the young protégé of how a year have passed of her deal with Lady Shiva. So, telling Oracle to run simulation for Shiva, she goes to study the lethal assassin.

In the mean time, Barbara talks to Batman about how she is worried that it's been nearly a year Cassandra has fought Shiva but she never told Babs about it. Bruce points out that only by facing Wu-San in combat, Batgirl can move past her death wish.

Besides, they have been keeping tracks of her confrontation with powerful rivals like Bizarro and Shadow Thief lately after moving on to her own cave, which was quite impressive progress on her part. Oracle still protests about letting her go ahead with what she is up to fearing the outcome but The Dark Knight allowed her to continue nevertheless.

Finally, that fateful night arrives when Cassandra prepares herself for a face-off and Barbara tries to talk her out of her deadly duel with Shiva in a ditch attempt to throw her away from the path of a certain suicide. So, she paralyzed Babs with a nerve strike before apologizing for doing that and heading over to a rooftop of Gotham City to meet her fate.

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Cain Has Lost It

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Batgirl – Death Wish

The seventeen year old young heroine Cassandra Cain returns to her Batgirl cowl with the third story arc "Batgirl – Death Wish" from the first monthly ongoing comic-book series of the character by DC Comics in 2003, collecting issues #17-20, 22, 23, 25.

Writer Chuck Dixon (Batgirl – Year One, Robin – Year One) joins series regular Kelley Puckett (Batgirl – A Knight Alone, Batgirl – Silent Running) and artist Damion Scott (Robin/Batgirl – Fresh Blood, Robin – To Kill a Bird) in a journey to take the Silent Knight of Gotham into a new height by pitting her up against major league players out there.

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The Inevitable Rematch

Not only has her relationship with Oracle strengthened whom she sees as a motherly figure during the events of "Death Wish", it also sets out her feud with her biological mother and the unbeatable assassin Lady Shiva to set her record straight on how good she really is. Cassandra had a chance to come across her father David Cain as well.

One good thing this storyline does in particular is that Cassandra gets an up close interaction with other allies of Bat-Family like Robin and Spoiler, which helped her bond with them as they worked together and humanize herself further. More exciting development will be seen on the upcoming "Fists of Fury" arc as it tie-in with "Joker – Last Laugh".
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Comics

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Comics
Hamato Yoshi was a member of a ninja cult known as Foot Clan, who happened to be their best warrior and the rival of another Foot Clan member, Oroku Nagi. They even competed for the affection of lady Tang Shen but she accepted Yoshi in return. This prompted an enraged Nagi to angrily beat her only to be killed by Yoshi in retaliation. Right after this, Yoshi left Japan with his wife Tang Shen and pet rat, while Nagi's brother Oroku Saki swears vengeance on Yoshi for killing his brother. He becomes the villainous "Shredder" and eventually slaughters Yoshi and Shen. The pet rat of Yoshi wanders in the streets of Manhattan upon losing his master and once found four baby turtles near a canister of toxic waste, got covered with it while saving them.

The next day, they discover themselves mutated and transformed in size and brilliance, gaining humanoid shape on their species wise stature. However, there is also a belief that the rat and the turtle are believed to be a reincarnation of Yoshi and his four sons killed by Shredder. The turtles starts following the rat as both as their adopted father and master, calling him "Splinter". Splinter taught them lessons of Ninjitsu, that he learnt and practiced from his former master Yoshi. He also named his boys after famous artists as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. Together, along with their human friends, reporter April O'Neil and a vigilante Casey Jones, they fight for justice and opposes the evil plans of Foot Clan under the guidance of master Splinter.

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Rivalry With Foot Clan
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Based on the idea of creator Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a comic book ongoing series focusing on a group of mutant turtles, published under the label of Mirage Studios in 1984. The series later moved to Image Comics in 1996 and then to IDW Comics in 2011 which then spawned a few spin-off related to TMNT mytho in modern style. The popularity of the franchise expands to an animated movie titled TMNT (2007) and many video games over the years. Also director Michael Bay have also made two live-action movie featuring The Turtles titled; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Out of the Shadows (2016), both of which was very successful at the box office worldwide.
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Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Thor – The Dark Gods | Comics

The Dark Gods are an evil opposition of Asgardians and one of Asgard's most dreaded enemies from the past returns and took over the eternal realm of it. While Thor was on Midgard tending business with The Avengers, they invaded and re-shaped Asgard in their own dark view. Not only they took over Asgard but they also have destroyed the Olympus as well.

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Thor – The Dark Gods | Comics

Ages ago, Perrikus’ wife Tserron was killed in a battle with Lonkarr, a scout Odin had sent to explore the universe who stumbled upon their city Narcisson. They were once defeated by the mighty Odin ages ago and now to avenge their defeat, they returned to claim Asgard and Thor is the one left alone to face them in battle. Perrikus of Dark Gods confronts The Mighty Thor, who once defeated him before.

Thor and Perrikus battled and during their clash, the evil god revealed Thor's disbelief on mighty Mjolnir and even defeated him. The mighty Mjolnir is destroyed during their fight and Thor reverted back to his human form of Jake Olsen only to be captured by Perrikus. This transformation has somehow saved him from a powerful magical blast from Perrikus.

However, he is successful in freeing himself and is assisted by the mysterious Marnot. Thor eventually manages to repair Mjolnir and with the prince of power, Hercules by his side who is also seeking revenge on The Dark Gods, for destroying his home, Olympus and one of Thor's old nemesis, The Destroyer is convinced by the former to bettle alongside them to put a fight against The Dark Gods.

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Ascension of Dark Gods

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Following “Thor – In Search of the Gods” storyline, comic-book writer Dan Jurgens (Superman/Doomsday – Hunter/Prey, The Death of Superman) and superstar artist John Romita Jr. (Uncanny X-Men, World War Hulk) returns in the second run of their take on Asgard's Thunder God's tale in “Thor – The Dark Gods” published by Marvel Comics in 2000.

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The Dark Wars

The stakes are high as always but very difficult to overcome such a threat that has the entire Asgardian Gods held captive on their custody. This storyline features issue #09-13 from second volume of Thor monthly ongoing series. This tale is followed by “The Eighth Day” crossover story where the same creative team has taken part along with other industry talents.
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Saturday, April 29, 2006

X-Men – The Hunt for Xavier | Comics

At Cape Citadel, Florida, a public controversy is forming regarding the launch of a rocket that is secretly programmed to track and terminate all mutants of the world. The location of the launch also stirs controversy as it was the place where the world known about the existence of mutants as Professor X's original X-Men were fighting against Magneto for the first time. Operating from the shadows, Xavier is seen recruiting Chaos, Crux, Grey King, Landslide, Mercury and Rapture to re-form his dream team of X-Men.

Along with Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Colossus were resting by the pool abroad the cruise ship Titania after the Excalibur team has been disbanded most recently. Calling themselves the X-Men, Xavier's new recruits attacks on board Titania. While Kurt and Peter were busy on crowd-control, these newly assembled mutants abduct Kitty Pryde and take her to their so-called savior.

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X-Men – The Hunt for Xavier | Comics

The X-Men team at the X-Mansion is re grouping again after the devastating events of "Operation – Zero Tolerance" and Storm is in charge of the current team. She leads fellow teammates Marrow, Rogue and Wolverine through the tunnels of Washington, D.C., through a series of defensive machines and hidden traps. After their brief meeting with X-Factor liaison Valerie Cooper about the recent developments regarding the missile launch, the X-Men are attacked by their impostors in mid-air, ensuing a battle but Nightcrawler and Colossus came to the rescue.

Afterwards, all of them goes to rescue Shadowcat and breaks her out of there after battling it out with their fake counterparts. Kitty Pryde was brought here in the first place as Xavier explained that during the time Bastion kept him, he was infected with a computer virus that now only she can cure him off. The X-Men flies back home in Blackbird and Xavier seemingly absorbed his fake recruits to take a robotic form, now calling himself Cerebro.

They soon are summoned by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. to deal with one of their former villain Pyro. The mutant Pyro has good nuts and is flaming out intensely in Nebraska. Not only that, he's been shouting out the name of Professor Charles Xavier all the time. Storm splits the team in two groups, sending Wolverine, Colossus and Gambit after Pyro and led her own team of Marrow, Nightcrawler, Rogue and Shadowcat for crowd control.

As Storm engage to control the situation, Marrow confronts her about Xavier's action on the infamous "Mutant Massacre" event. Since Pyro is infected with the lethal Legacy Virus that is reaching to its ultimate stage, his powers are way out of their regular scale. Even Colossus felt the heat Pyro emitted in his armor mode. The X-Men were finally successful to take him down, but they are still riddled with the question that, why Pyro was frequently calling out for Xavier, when they don't share even a short history together.

After returning to the X-Mansion, they ran a search for Xavier via Cerebro but surprisingly found that currently there are two Xavier around the world! Meanwhile, the real Professor Charles Xavier was forming a new Brotherhood of Mutants consisting Blob, Post, Mimic and Toad to oppose an oncoming foe that he fears he cannot face and win alone against.

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Meltdown Madness

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X-Men – The Hunt for Professor X

Followed from the "Operation - Zero Tolerance" crossover, "The Hunt for Xavier" is a six part crossover take that ran in the two major X-Men titles. With writer Steve Seagle teaming up with artist Chris Bachalo (Captain America – Homeland, Dark Reign – The Sinister Spider-Man) in the issues of Uncanny X-Men. Joe Kelly (Emperor Joker, Justice League Elite) and Adam Kubert (Amazing Spider-Man – Renew Your Vows, Avengers & X-Men – Axis) also filled the story in the pages of the second volume of X-Men comic series by Marvel Comics in 1998.

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Cerebro Ascendant

Since this was a six-issue crossover arc, penciller Leinil Francis Yu (New Avengers, Secret Invasion) and Pasqual Ferry (Adam Strange – Planet Heist, Superman – Ending Battle) also appeared as guest artist. Late artist Mike Wieringo (Fantastic Four, The Flash) also contributed to the X-Men issue #1/2 that is also part of the book as well. The entire concept has build upon the idea of what if Professor Xavier's long-time trusty mutant-detecting program goes rogue and how will he manage to put an end to it's menace then.
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