Sunday, August 24, 2008

Superman/Batman – With a Vengeance | Comics

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Superman/Batman – With a Vengeance
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The world's finest superhero duo, Superman and Batman faces a new superhero team from another dimension, whom are calling themselves the Maximums. When Superman learns that Lois Lane is dead and the villain Skyscraper is the one who killed her, Superman faces him quite harshly. Back on Earth, when the World's Finest duo were fighting with the villainous Automic Skull, the Maximums came to this reality following a lead form one of their fallen comrade and attacked the duo almost instantly. After a fight, they quickly gained the upper hands on Superman, also knocking Batman out as well. Batman's counterpart Batzarro, the world’s worst detective came to rescue his "idol", Batman.

Batzarro informed Superman's counterpart, Bizarro in his 'Graveyard of Solitude' about the ensuing fight and after Batzarro convinces Bizarro about helping the World's Finest, they soon team up to save their original counterparts from trouble. One of the Maximums met Lex Luthor and Batman eventually becomes possessed by the Kryptonite Man. While K-Man attacks Superman, Bizarro and Batzarro makes a failed attempt to pull them to the New Earth reality via a Boom Tube. Meanwhile, Darkseid, the evil god of Apokolips is finally freed from the Source Wall and because of his immediate betrayal, Superman is now trapped there instead, with o hope of releasing from there. As it seems that it could not go any worse, it is finally revealed that The Joker and Mr. Mxyzptlk were behind these mysterious twists in reality, which was part of a game.

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Collecting issue #20-25, "With a Vengeance" is the fourth storyline from the first volume of Superman/Batman monthly ongoing series by DC Comics in 2006, by writer Jeph Loeb (Batman – Dark Victory, Batman – The Long Halloween) and artist Ed McGuinness (Superman/Batman – Public Enemies, Thundercats – Reclaiming Thundera). This duo previously worked on the "Public Enemies" storyline of the series and their remarkable work also led the story to be the plot of great importance. A hint about the oncoming “Infinite Crisis” is also given in the final part of the storyline by the villain Mr. Mxyzptlk to Darkseid. A near-similar plot, where The Joker became omnipotent and took over the world in "Emperor Joker" also used the idea of reality warping using the magic of Mr. Mxyzptlk.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Ororo – Before the Storm | Comics

Orphaned as a child, Ororo Munroe was raised in the city of Cairo, Egypt and trained up as a master thief along with fellow children of the Thieves' Quarter under the guidance of their leader Achmed el-Gibar; also a father figure to them all. As she bonds to her new found friends, she soon became a very important part of this family of misfits and quite a formidable pupil of her master as well.

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Ororo – Before the Storm | Comics

This brave young lady had no idea of her becoming an important member of the superhero mutant adventurer team X-Men and also being worshiped as a goddess of nature who manipulates weather by people in the upcoming future. Meanwhile, a mysterious persona came to Egypt, looking for some rare ancient artifact pieces for the reasons unknown.

Called by the name of Barrett, he comes to the city of Cairo, looking to hire the best thieves of Cairo, which leads him to meet Achmed el-Gibar, who happens to be the teacher as well as leader of the thieves. Barrett wants to hire the services of his thieves to steal an artifact which is a powerful gem located inside of a pyramid and is surrounded by various death traps and puzzles.

Achmed el-Gibar refused at first seeing the risk on his kids but later accepts for a greater price. Unknown danger waits for Ororo Munroe and her friends in their quest that would change their lives forever. As they advances inside the pyramid, she even witnesses the tomb of the eternal mutant En Sabah Nur, also encountering his servant Ozymandias, who prophecies on her upcoming bright future.

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Egyptian History Lesson

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To celebrate the 30 Years anniversary of the fictional superhero character Storm, a member of mutant superhero team X-Men, Marvel Comics has launched a four issue limited series titled "Ororo – Before the Storm". Writer Marc Sumerak and artist Carlo Barberi (Deadpool – Suicide Kings, Thunderbolts) were tasked to tell this early tale of Storm where they even brought up one of her future nemesis in stasis, yet to come out and reveal himself to humanity.

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This small time adventure of a lifetime featuring one of the greatest Marvel heroines was published back in 2005. This storyline gave a special look-back at Storm's life as 2001's Marvel limited series "Origin" did depicting the back story of Wolverine.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

New Avengers – Sentry | Comics

Secrets of the Sentry have remained a mystery to world for long and now New Avengers are trying to figure out who he really is.

Before going out to apprehend one of Raft escapees, The Wrecker at Long Island, Spider-Woman reports to Iron Man. He then goes offline before entering a secret meeting place to meet his colleagues at Illuminati. Doctor Strange, Mister Fantastic and Professor X congratulate him on formation of New Avengers, except Namor.

He is upset that they were not aware of the news of his new team even though it all happened all of a sudden but Black Bolt remains silent as usual. Tony Stark then asks them if anyone happen to know who Sentry is, because he thinks this guy can become a problem for them but apparently no one seems to have ever heard of him so far.

When Tony asked Reed Richards about this guy, he seemed as clueless as everyone else but Stark reminds him that how he sent Matt Murdock to meet him but Reed claims that he hasn't talked to Matt for months. To clear up their confusion, he quickly checks in his files looking for anything on Sentry but came out absolutely nothing.

After helping in wrap up a massive breakout at Raft, the heroes present were inspired by Sentry to assemble a team but went into a hiding afterwards before they could invite him. S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill located Robert Reynolds in Nevada Desert, where Captain America and Iron Man goes to talk to him but Sentry asks them to leave.

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He explains that since he has used his powers of million exploding suns to help them, now The Void will come to unleash its darkness. When Bob claimed that it also killed his wife, Tony brings out Lindy Reynolds to meet her astound husband and a comic-book writer named Paul Jenkins, who seem to have created his character.

Even after seeing a character similar to him on page of comic-books, Reynolds still couldn't figure out a thing from his past. With so many things seem to overwhelm him at once, he vanishes and wakes up as Bob in a house only to see psychic Emma Frost on his TV screen telling him to come outside and make things easy.

In Long Island, Wrecking Crew member Dirk Garthwaite showed up on house of a very wealthy man named Ed Gross to get his super-villain costume and threatens his daughter to accompany him as a hostage. Just as they were about to leave, Jessica Drew arrives on a Quinjet with Luke Cage, Spider-Man and Wolverine to apprehend him.

Their effort to take Wrecker down remained unsuccessful initially as he sent them all flying until Jessica managed to distract him using her pheromone powers for Cage and Logan to deal the finishing blow. Right after they are done with him, Tony called them to assemble on Hartford, Connecticut immediately and leave.

A confused Bob Reynolds comes out of his house to see members of Fantastic Four, Inhumans, New Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and X-Men have gathered at his front door. He breaks into tears saying that he tried to save them all and then The Void comes out of nowhere to viciously attack each and every other heroes present there.

He discovers himself in company of Emma and Reed secured within a sphere confined by a force field of Invisible Woman, energy field by Iron Man and protective spell from Doctor Strange. In order to help the heroes stop this madness, Bob allows Miss Frost access into his mind and she discovers some dark secret hidden beneath.

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Following a "Breakout" of super-villains, Marvel Comics have kick-started New Avengers monthly ongoing series. "Sentry" is second storyline from the same comic-book lineup by writer Brian Michael Bendis (House of M, Secret War) and artist Steve McNiven (Guardians of the Galaxy – Cosmic Avengers, Wolverine – Old Man Logan).

For long, Sentry has remained a mystery and was locked up at Raft prison facility for claims of murdering his wife but most recently, she turns out very much alive. What is more baffling is that no one seemed to remember who this powerful superhero is and not even Reed Richards or Tony Stark has anything about him in their records.

It appears that an answer to who he really is and what made everyone forget about him is trapped within his own consciousness. However, accessing that has grave consequences for everyone if things go south. Emma Frost was successful in digging out the true culprit behind his memory loss and truth behind his nightmare, The Void.

New Avengers are still riling up escaped prisoners of Raft and there are still many more to go. With a new mysterious character named Ronin entering the fray up next in "Secrets & Lies" storyline, there will be much exciting secrets to discover.
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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Black Panther – Who Is The Black Panther | Comics

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Black Panther – Who Is The Black Panther
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Wakanda is a small country of African dialect which has a far more superior and advanced scientific fields than any other country in the world. They even have invented the remedy to cure cancer. There is one more thing that made the country a target to the invaders for ages and that is the huge resources of the precious mineral called Vibranium. Wakanda is also has never been conquered by any intruders or any invading forces ever. But most notably it’s the home of an Avenger known only as the Black Panther. Black Panther is a mantle for the protector and ruler of the nation. For ages, many tribes and team of explorers had set their greedy eyes on Wakanda, but they each failed greatly and every time the opponents are mercilessly massacred on their counter attempt.

After his father T'Chaka, T'Challa becomes the new Black Panther who has earned the title in an annual ritual tournament held every year, where anyone can participate. Upon becoming the new ruler of Wakanda, he sets his eyes on one person, who is responsible for his father's death: the runaway villain Ulysses Klaw. On the other side of the story, Klaw was also preparing his own team of super-criminals to lead a large-scale organized assault on Wakanda to destroy the country and kill the current Black PantherT'Challa as a revenge for his disfigured visage by the hands of his father T'Chaka. So, Klaw recruits Radioactive Man and Spider-Man's rival; Rhino for his cause. Now, it's a Panther's journey to embrace and fulfill his destiny as a ruler of his people and defend his country from the evil across the border of Wakanda.
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In 2005, Marvel Comics re-launched the Black Panther series with director/producer Reginald Hudlin and penciller John Romita, Jr. (Avengers Vs. X-Men, World War Hulk) as the plotters of this series and "Who Is the Black Panther" is a six part storyline ran from the fourth monthly ongoing volume of the series, collecting issue #01-06, features the origin story for the hero. Reginald Hudlin's attempt to re-tell the origin of this hero was not appreciated at all because of his trying to force a few non related elements to merge with it. Though it’s a pretty good attempt to revamp this hero in a modern day perspective and John Romita Jr.'s fan-favourite jaw dropping artwork truly satisfies your visual desires.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Blade of the Immortal | Comics

In the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period, there lived a skilled samurai in Japan called Manji. He was at the service of the local powerful Feudal lord, Hatamoto Horii Shigenobu but quickly left his aid upon realizing his shady ways and killed him. This event however caused the death of 100 law enforcers, leading Manji to become an outlaw. To take shelter, he goes to his sister’s house where he kills her husband in an act of self defense, leading her to go insane.

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Manji decides to take care of her and then he encounters Yaobikuni, an 800 years old mysterious nun who gave him kessen-chu, the sacred bloodworms that will render him ageless and immune to lethal injuries of any sort. If he even loses a limb, the worms will help him re-attach it or regrow him a new one. Because of his actions against Hatamoto, his sister was also killed as retaliation and to get rid of his immortality he made a pact with the nun that he would kill 1000 evil men in exchange for the removal of kessen-chu from his bloodstream.

Soon, he encounters a young girl named Asano Rin, the only remaining survivor of the infamous Ittō-ryū massacre by its leader Kagehisa Anotsu and vows revenge on him for killing her entire family. Though Manji looked her up as his younger sister and decided to help her fulfill her destiny, Rin eventually develops feelings for him while trying to get her revenge alongside the quest Manji is set for.

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Blade of the Immortal Vol 01 – Blood of a Thousand

Blade of the Immortal Vol 02 – Cry of the Worm

Blade of the Immortal Vol 03 – Dreamsong

Blade of the Immortal Vol 04 – On Silent Wings

Blade of the Immortal Vol 05 – On Silent Wings II

Blade of the Immortal Vol 06 – Dark Shadows

Blade of the Immortal Vol 07 – Heart of Darkness

Blade of the Immortal Vol 08 – The Gathering

Blade of the Immortal Vol 09 – The Gathering Part 2

Blade of the Immortal Vol 10 – Secrets

Blade of the Immortal Vol 11 – Beasts

Blade of the Immortal Vol 12 – Autumn Frost

Blade of the Immortal Vol 13 – Mirror of the Soul

Blade of the Immortal Vol 14 – Last Blood

Blade of the Immortal Vol 15 – Trickster

Blade of the Immortal Vol 16 – Shortcut

Blade of the Immortal Vol 17 – On the Perfection of Anatomy

Blade of the Immortal Vol 18 – The Sparrow Net

Blade of the Immortal Vol 19 – Badger Hole

Blade of the Immortal Vol 20 – Demon Lair

Blade of the Immortal Vol 21 – Demon Lair II

Blade of the Immortal Vol 22 – Footsteps

Blade of the Immortal Vol 23 – Scarlet Swords

Blade of the Immortal Vol 24 – Massacre

Blade of the Immortal Vol 25 – Snowfall at Dawn

Blade of the Immortal Vol 26 – Blizzard

Blade of the Immortal Vol 27 – Mist on the Spider's Web

Blade of the Immortal Vol 28 – Raining Chaos

Blade of the Immortal Vol 29 – Beyond Good and Evil

Blade of the Immortal Vol 30 – Vigilance

Created by by Hiroaki Samura, Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人) is a popular Japanese Manga series that originally ran from 1993 to 2012. Later, Dark Horse Comics started publishing the series in United States and in 2008 an anime adaption was made that was produced by Bee Train and Production I.G.

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Manji and Rin

When translated in English, the series gain more popularity and eventually led it to won the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 2000, already having won the Excellence Prize previously in 1997 at the Japan Media Arts Festival.
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