Tuesday, May 8, 2007

The Walking Dead | Comics

Officer Rick Grimes was gravely wounded by a gunshot while chasing a group of thugs in the line of duty. He awakens in an abandoned hospital from coma only to discover that the town and probably the rest of the locality is now filled with walking corpses. He goes out to explore the world that he once knew and finds out that it now belongs to legion of undeads. He eventually met his friends and family as well as a band of survivors with whom he embarked a journey of a lifetime for the sake of survival.

Days Gone Bye
Upon getting shot during his time as Deputy Sheriff, Rick Grimes ended up in a hospital where he was into a coma for months. After regaining sense, he patches himself and goes to his home in search of his family but found none except the father-son duo of Morgan and Duane Jones. Rick then travels to Atlanta, Georgia, in search of his missing wife and son but when reached, he is welcomed by a massive horde of zombies who surprised and ravaged his horse in moments after he fell from it. Rick is saved by Glenn, who safely led him to a survivor group camp just outside the city.

There, Rick befriends fellow survivors Allen, Amy, Andrea, Billy, Ben, Dale, Donna, Jim, Carol and Sophia after finding his wife Lori and son Carl as well as close friend Shane. When Rick was out in the hospital and thought dead, Shane and Lori got together and now that he is back, Lori left Shane to reunite with her husband. Dale has a bad feeling about Shane that he reveals to Rick, which he brushes off. The other night, when all of them were having dinner, they were attacked by a group of zombies that leads to the death of Amy and Jim got bit. Shane got into a violent argument with Rick and ends up getting shot by Carl.

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Miles Behind Us
After Shane's burial, Lori displayed her disgust at him by spitting at his grave, indicating they had hooked up in Rick's absence. Dale asks Rick to be their new leader and Lori announced the news of her pregnancy. Along came Tyreese, Julie and Chris as they marched forward. Although Rick mistook Tyreese for a walker at first but these two got along just fine. They took shelter at "Wiltshire Estates" for a night and then forced to leave as they got swarmed by walkers. Later, they left their camp outside the city and they moved to the Greene family farm ran by Hershel Greene.

Safety Behind Bars
During their stay at Greene family farm, Glenn and Maggie starts dating and when an angry Harshel kicked out Rick and his gang after an incident that killed many of his children, he left behind at the farm. Rick's group hits the road again and all of them decided to take shelter on an abandoned prison that Andrea and Dale discovered and the trio of Rick, Andrea and Tyreese manages to completely clear it out of Walkers. Inside the compound, they met four remaining inmates who welcomed the group among them. Harshel is also invited to live among them and unaware of a threat that hides in plain sight.

The Heart's Desire
A mysterious katana-wielding survivor, Michonne is welcomed in Rick's gang after she safely escorted Otis back to the prison from a roaming horde. She used to walk with two of her pet Walkers, whom she crippled by hacking off their jaws and arms. When Rick agrees to let her in only if she hands over her sword and to kill them, she instantly beheads them. Tensions start rising when she tries to get cozy with Tyreese and hurting Carol's feelings, where she even tries to commit suicide. Rick and Tyreese have a fight over this issue and the former had to step down from the position of leadership.

The Best Defense
While tracking a crashed helicopter for survivors, Rick, Glenn and Michonne stumbles onto the community town called Woodbury. There the survivors' encounters the devilish leader of the town called The Governor. This lunatic enjoys people fighting in an arena surrounded by Walkers and he feeds strangers to them as well. He tries to squeeze information from Rick and his group by cutting Rick's right hand, brutally raping Michonne repeatedly and locks up Glenn to hear her screams. All he wants is to know where the prison compound is so that he can take their supplies and move with his town folks there.

This Sorrowful Life
With some unexpected help from The Governor's ally Caesar Martinez, Rick decides to escape from Woodbury with Glenn, Doctor Stevens and Nurse Alice. Michonne decides to stay behind for a while to settle some score with the maniacal leader of the town and promises to join them shortly. She breaks into Governor's apartment, knocks him off by surprise and then inflicted every other torture technique she could think off and successfully crippling him before escaping. Back at prison, Rick founds the compound overrunned and took care of a mole that he finds out.

The Calm Before
Lori finally opens up to Rick about her secret affair with Shane, that Rick admits of already knowing and requests her not to bring up. Glenn and Maggie get married through a small ceremony. Expecting a massive onslaught from Governor and his men from Woodbury, a small group from the prison goes to the National Guard Station for supplies. Lori finally gives birth to a baby girl who is named Judith. Dale gets bitten in the leg and one of the survivors totally loses it before doing the unthinkable. With all these trouble of their own, a threat arrives at their doorstep to knock them dead.

Made To Suffer
After getting severely mutilated by a vengeful Michonne, The Governor was nursed back to health. He gathers his men upon recovering and showed up at Rick's doorstep riding on a tank with Woodbury forces following his lead to kill Rick's group. In retaliation, Andrea fires at them from the guard tower to demolish Woodbury army but in the mean time, Tyreese and Michonne got captured at the hands of Governor's men. As they debate on whether to fight or run many of Rick's friend dies and the conflict between the two groups turns into a bloody massacre.

Here We Remain
Rick and Carl barely survive the bloody onslaught at the prison by The Governor and fled with their lives after losing Lori and Judith in the causality of the war. Michonne tracks them back and joined the duo to the town where they have temporarily starts staying until Rick recovers from a bullet wound he received from the war. They are reunited with Glenn and Maggie Greene, who are currrently living at the farm with Dale, Andrea, Ben, Billy and Sophia. Three new survivors; Abraham Ford, Rosita Espinosa and Eugene Porter heading to Washington, D.C. for a mission, crosses their path.

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The Army of Walking Dead

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The Walking Dead Vol 02 – Miles Behind Us


The Walking Dead Vol 03 – Safety Behind Bars


The Walking Dead Vol 04 – The Heart's Desire


The Walking Dead Vol 05 – The Best Defense


The Walking Dead Vol 06 – This Sorrowful Life


The Walking Dead Vol 07 – The Calm Before


The Walking Dead Vol 08 – Made To Suffer


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The Walking Dead Vol 13 – Too Far Gone


The Walking Dead Vol 14 – No Way Out

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Published monthly in a black and white format, The Walking Dead is a monthly ongoing comic-book series from the independent publication of Image Comics that start publishing in 2003. Renowned comic-book writer and series-creator Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, Haunt) and artist/co-creator Tony Moore (Fear Agent, Punisher) had created the core concept of this epic saga that is later continued by artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) when Moore left the series after his stint on the first six issues. However, he kept contributing to the series by providing mind-blowing cover arts for the series till issue 24.

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The Uprising of Walkers

The series became very popular as one of Kirkman's original work that it received Eisner Award for "Best Continuing Series" in 2010. Then a television series, The Walking Dead also adapted into and premiered the same year on AMC television, which has succeed for a eight season run and a record breaking amount of audience in the history of cable TV. Although the TV adaptation of the series has added many original character to the cast and killed off many characters with great importance in the future, it still manages to stay popular to the fan-base and be a charm to the rest of the audience at the same time.
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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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