Saturday, May 5, 2007

Ultimate X-Men – Return to Weapon X | Comics

After saving New Work City and the life of the President of United States from Magneto’s attempted genocide, for the first time X-Men have found some appreciation from public. With Magneto out of the picture, Cyclops, Storm and Colossus travels to Japan to appear on a Japanese talk show as part of building public relations and improving their image to masses.

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Ultimate X-Men – Return to Weapon X | Comics

Wolverine also heads to track down Weapon X program to settling some of his old scores with them. A mutant-hating Colonel John Wraith, head of the barbaric Weapon X Program was hunting down the teleporter mutant named Nightcrawler, who ran away from the facility. Next, Wraith led his operatives on the X-Mansion to led an ambush attack on the X-Men and captured them all, sans Wolverine.

They released the Juggernaut who took down four of them and the rest also followed. The X-Men were all captured and later forced to act against their will for the threat of a forcible neural implant. Meanwhile, Wraith and General "Thunderbolt" Ross of S.H.I.E.L.D. had a meeting for rescuing Nick Fury from India.

John Wraith plans to use them for his own purpose of deadly covert missions led by his right-hand man Sabretooth. He tasks Sabretooth to find Wolverine out for giving him a terrible face scar on their previous encounter. But Wolverine has a secret plan of his own to rescue his fellow X-Men that he cooked up especially for them. While Ross planned to shut down all the funding for Weapon X, Wraith also kept secret of having Charles Xavier alive in his fold.

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Ultimate Weapon X Recruits

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Following the opening story of Ultimate X-Men series from Ultimate Universe of Marvel titled "The Tomorrow People", writer Mark Miller (Kick-Ass, Civil War) and artist Adam Kubert (Superman – Last Son, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine) returns with "Return to Weapon X" storyline that runs through issue #07-12 of the Ultimate X-Men monthly ongoing comic series in 2001.

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Brotherhood To The Rescue

Lots of character development was on progress throughout the plot and there was an epic brawl between the feral mutant Wolverine and Sabretooth in the end that makes it even better for any fan. This spectacular storyline leads to the hit four part crossover limited series titled "Ultimate War" featuring The Ultimates.
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Fantastic Four – Unthinkable | Comics

To exact vengeance against Reed Richards and the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom does the unthinkable!

Before he crossed paths with genius inventor Reed Richards, before he had his face violently disfigured by an unfortunate accident at State University in New York or before engaging in years of endless fighting with the popular adventurer team known as Fantastic Four by becoming Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom was a very different man.

Long before he became the tyrant ruler of Latveria, he fell in love with a beautiful young girl named Valeria from the same Romani camp. These two love-birds were having their good days together with heartfelt affection and genuine concern for each other.

She was the only support left for Victor when he lost his parents at an early stage of life and became an orphan. Victor then studied both science and dark sorcery to open gateways to another realm in hopes to free his parents. He eventually became a great inventor and got a chance of scholarship in America through his growing reputation.

When his lover made him chose between her and the newfound opportunity, Victor chose this golden opportunity over Valeria for the pursuit of knowledge that would bring him power. Years after, he is searching for the love of his life again in places with no results even though having accomplishments in the field of science or being a billionaire.

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Fantastic Four – Unthinkable | Comics

Except for Valeria being in his life, he finds it all meaningless after all these years but ever since this couple parted ways before he came to America, they never contacted to each other and Victor doesn't even have the slightest idea of her current whereabouts. So he is currently seeking help from fortune tellers and gypsies everywhere to find her out.

Because, this time he is willing to give up everything he ever achieved, only to have her back in his life and he eventually does find her the first time he came looking for her, pointed out by another fortune teller he came across lately. As she was already waiting for him, Victor approaches an elderly Valeria, asking her to change his life forever.

The day of the lives of Fantastic Four was going just like any other normal one with their regular family misadventures. The Thing asks Johnny Storm to borrow some cash as he is the new Chief Financial Officer of Fantastic Four, Inc. When he stood Ben up for too many times, he decides to play prank on Johnny by hitting him up with a massive water balloon.

Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman went on a tour to a dimension filled with trinary code speaking aliens, looking for photonuclear crystals to fuel his tech for a foreseeable future. Franklin and his sister Valeria were in care of Crystal and Medusa of The Inhumans at New Attilan, Blue Area of the Moon, while their parents were away.

Upon returning, Reed and Sue bring them back through a portal and Susan takes Val to feed her. Reed goes to lab with Franklin to find out an entirely soaked Johnny looking for something to hurt Ben. Knowing it was probably Human Torch who angered Ben in the first place; Reed offers a non-lethal suggestion and tells them to meet him after suiting up.

Susan was talking to Ben in kitchen about how she is worried about a normal future for her daughter. As Val was playing with blocks, Ben tries for her to say his name but unseen to them all, Doctor Doom showed up to her, claiming her to be his goddaughter.

He compels her to say the word "Doom" and when she does, chaos breaks out at lab in form of a weird green energy beam almost immediately. Johnny couldn't stop it with his flames and Mr. Fantastic was forced to quickly transport Franklin to New Attilan for safety but the boy accidentally ended up being dragged out by netherdemons into Hell.

Defense system went down pretty fast and Johnny jumps in to save his nephew, only to get badly burnt by hellfire. When Ben mentioned of what Val said earlier, Reed watches into her eye and through it, Victor assures him to meet very soon. The world's greatest family then head over to Latveria for an unthinkable confrontation of their lives.

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The Conflict Infernal

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A four issue plot with a prologue story on Victor Von Doom from the pages of Fantastic Four, "Unthinkable" is further exploring untold origin of Doom's back-story. The story kick starts from issue #67 of third volume of titular monthly ongoing comic-book series and ended up on issue #500 of original count, which came after 70th issue of this volume.

Veteran comic-book writer Mark Waid (Onslaught Saga, Original Sin) and artist Mike Wieringo (Fantastic Four – Disassembled, Fantastic Four – Rising Storm) tied this story up in 2004 that would have after effects on the heroes in the long run of their lives.

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An Unthinkable Doom

This one is quite a different story-arc for the family as their arch-nemesis now relies on mystical powers beyond their understanding. Yet question remains, why Victor is looking for Valeria after all these years? What cryptic connection does it has with the Fantastic Four? What unthinkable deed he is going to do when he finds out his lost love?

A brief glimpse on New Attilan as well as other known Marvel Comics characters like Crystal, Lockjaw and Medusa making a cameo was very enjoyable. Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange appears in a guest-role as well as beings from Dark Dimension. Though the good doctor didn't hang out for long, he did provide Reed a way to salvation.
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Friday, May 4, 2007

Superman – Red Son | Comics

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Superman – Red Son | Comics
Before his birth-planet Krypton gets destroyed, Kal-L was sent to Earth in a rocket-ship by his parents who were part of a very advanced culture than us. Due to an unexpected malfunction en route, his rocket had landed on a collective farm of Soviet Ukraine before a few hours than it was planned. Josef Stalin was the leader of Soviet Union then and the boy is immediately taken to custody by his government. They witnessed un-earthly abilities that the boy possessed and decided to employ him for the greater good of the country. So, he grew up to be a Soviet citizen, whose identity was a state secret, eventually becomes an associate of Stalin's inner circle and he names the boy “Superman” for his extraordinary powers that helped them boost their regime.

It was during Cold War when USSR has introduced their secret weapon to whole world and turned tides of the whole scenario. As Superman became an icon to everyone and a favorite to Stalin himself, Pyotr Roslov; Stalin’s illegitimate son grew jealous of him. Upon persuasion from CIA, an American S.T.A.R. Labs scientist and a genius-mind Lex Luthor crushes Sputnik 2 on Metropolis as a plot to collect Superman’s DNA and create a means to fight him. Kal-L’s also about to find out Lois Lane is married to the last person he could have ever expected, met his future diplomatic ally Wonder Woman from Themyscira. who felt strongly attracted to him and faced a vengeful Dark Knight hell-bent on killing him as his parents were once killed by Stalin's government.

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The Red Dynasty
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"Red Son" is a three issue limited series that features an alternate history of Man of Steel that is way different than his mainstream portrayal; an idea conceived by writer Mark Miller (The Flash, Swamp Thing). This series was drawn by artists Dave Johnson and Kilian Plunkett, which was from DC Comics’s Elseworlds imprint and was released on 2003. Alternate portrayal of popular DC Comics characters like Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (as Green Light), Lois Lane (as Lois Luthor), Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Bizarro, Parasite, Metallo and Doomsday are also attributed to the story. The reality of Red Son is marked as set on Earth-30 which is part of DC’s multiple Earths and also belongs to the reality of The New 52. Superman from this timeline also appeared on Countdown – Arena and DC – The New Frontier limited series later.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

New X-Men – Assault on Weapon Plus | Comics

Jean Grey caught Scott red-handed on the mental quarters of Emma Frost, trying to seduce him in the Dark Phoenix costume. Kicking him out of her mental space, Jean confronts Emma about this activity and learns that it's been going on for some time. Later, when Beast goes looking for cheering up Emma, he finds her seemingly killed with her body shattered into pieces in her diamond form. Bishop and Sage are immediately called in to investigate and they starts interrogating everyone in the mansion.

After his secret psychic affair with Emma Frost is exposed, Cyclops left the X-Men behind and seeks solace at the Hellfire Club in a bottle of wine. One of Hellfire Club's scantily clad strippers seductively tries to charm him but Scott brushes her off by not paying any mind. The feral mutant Sabretooth was also found present at the facility and couldn't help but mock him a little for having to deal with his issues with booze until club’s owner Sebastian Shaw arrives to warn him about not to bother a patron of the club.

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New X-Men – Assault on Weapon Plus | Comics

Scott was then found drinking at the club by Wolverine and addresses how bad he is making the X-Men look like right now. Cyclops asked him if he's been tracking him but Logan assures him that he has his own business here. After talking to Scott, he came to the conclusion that Cyclops has already decided to quit the X-Men before leaving him for a while to hit the men’s room. As Wolverine stumbles onto Victor Creed there, the former tries to engage the latter in a battle by escalating an aggressive argument but unable to do so.

Cyclops and Wolverine gets back to their talk and then were approached a person in all-white attire, who goes by the name Fantomex and is here to see Logan. He is here to take help from them to infiltrate the Weapon Plus facility; a program responsible for the establishment of the original Weapon X program and turning Logan into the very man he is today and is currently floating in the earth's orbit. Fantomex wants to destroy Weapon XV and Wolverine wants to get his hands on classified files on him.

Scott declares that he has no interest in this venture and fall onto his faces but Wolverine assures Fantomex that he is the right person to be at their side. They arrive at Weapon Plus' self-contained research facility known as The World and find a couple of A.I.M. soldiers lying dead. Judging by the savage nature of the killings, Fantomex immediately deduces this as the handiwork of Weapon XV. Soon, the remaining goon starts firing at them till they are taken down.

The three of them enters The World filled with cybernetic wonders all around them, where time was frozen. Weapon XV eventually bumps into the trio and defeated them before heading to the Weapon Plus base on space. They reach the long deserted facility where Wolverine finds out classified information about him before he was drafted into the Weapon X program and during his days in the facility. A horrible truth about his past is revealed to him only moments before they set off the base to explode.

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Assault of Weapon XV

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New X-Men Vol 05 – Assault on Weapon Plus

Taking place on the monthly ongoing series New X-Men, "Assault on Weapon Plus" is a story-arc that ran from issue #139-145 from the series. The story was published by Marvel Comics in 2003 and the plot was written by legendary writer Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Final Crisis) and pencilled by the talented artists Chris Bachalo (Captain America – Homeland, Dark Reign – The Sinister Spider-Man) as well as Phil Jimenez (New Teen Titans – Who is Donna Troy?, Wonder Woman – Paradise Lost). The titular four part plot is built on the first three issues featuring the book.

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Ultimaton, The Living Weapon

"Assault on Weapon Plus" deals with Cyclops' personal problems regarding Jean Grey and Emma Frost, then Wolverine goes to get his hands on the dirty-secrets he's been chasing for decades and finally, the enigmatic mutant Fantomex joins the duo to see the end to a rogue Weapon Plus subject Weapon XV, which is also known as Ultimaton and was created with the purpose of destroying mutants. The current storyline is preceded by "Riot at Xavier's" and succeeded by "Planet X" storyline next from the same monthly ongoing.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Street Fighters | Comics

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Street Fighters | Comics
Ryu, an honorable Japanese warrior, trained in martial arts, who is both raised and trained by a man named Gouken after he had found him at a very young age. While training to hon himself throughout the years, he unwillingly took an enthusiastic Japanese schoolgirl Sakura as his student, who also happens to be a big fan of his. Ryu has a best friend named Ken Masters, who is also trained in the same manner of skills as him but only had honed a bit of different style than his. He is one of the contestants of the World Warrior tournament hosted by Sagat; the God of Muay Thai. Years ago, an epic battle followed between the two great warriors and after being defeated at the hands of a nearly beaten Ryu, Sagat made a vow to exact vengeance upon him and regain his honor.

A member of the secret elite military team, Charlie Nash goes on a secret mission to end the sinister organization Shadaloo, who has a strong hatred to its leader M. Bison. But he ended up beaten by his enemy and is seemingly killed by the ruthless dictator himself. Chun-Li and Guile then bands together to stop the reign of the evil M. Bison. Meanwhile, Sagat is seeking for Ryu to settle some old score with him and tracking him on his own and while following Ryu, he bests his body and moves for the ultimate battle against his hated enemy. Akuma; the brother of Gouken has been keeping watch on Ryu wherever he goes, to follow his progress for a long time, so that he may challenge him. Impressed by his talent, Bison too keeps track of Ryu to have him as his puppet, someday.

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Based on the popular Street Fighters fighting-game series by Capcom, the comic series of the same name was jointly published by Image Comics and UDON, starting from 2003. The series follows various storyline of the fighters. While the comic series was based on the original Street Fighters game, the comic titles sometime didn't follow the same continuity of that universe. Various fighters from the very beginning to the modern day are featured in this series. It also unveils many plots, which were left unexplained in the game series. Following the core series, spin-off's like Street Fighter 25th Anniversary, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II Turbo, Street Fighter III, Street Fighter IV, Street Fighter Legends – Chun-Li, Street Fighter Legends – Sakura and also a bunch of one-shot stories were released later.
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