Wednesday, September 10, 2008

House of M | Comics

On the island nation of Genosha, the world’s most powerful telepath and the leader of the mutant adventurer team X-Men; Professor Charles Xavier is witnessing the mistress of chaos magic; Wanda Maximoff, AKA the Scarlet Witch unsuccessfully giving birth to her twin children using her hex power. While Wanda was creating this illusion with Doctor Strange and The Vision at her side, Professor X told her to come back to the real world. Xavier forcibly puts her to sleep using his powers as Magneto enters the room to check her progress.

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It seems that she is still having deep remorse over causing The Avengers team to scatter before she was forced into a deep sleep by Xavier, who expresses doubts on how long she can be contained to her father Magneto. The Avengers and other heroes have gathered to decide her fate and the majority have decided to eliminate her. Though, the majority of the crowd decided to end her life for the sake of world, Captain America asks them to look for an alternate solution that doesn't need killing her.

Wolverine steps up to volunteer for the job as no one else has the guts to do it. Others are worried about if the words of her insanity gets out on public, the existing human-mutant relationship will set back to ages. To save his sister from execution, a desperate Quicksilver begs his father to save Wanda from the crowd but got denied. As the heroes were looking for Wanda to ask for her decision over the matter, suddenly they all started vanishing into a blinding white light.

When the light is gone, everyone else discovers them in a new world with no memory of the previous event and a reality that they all desired. Spider-Man finds himself married to Gwen Stacy and Uncle Ben is alive too. Hawkeye is still alive here and works for underworld boss Luke Cage. The X-Men or The Avengers doesn't even exist and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s in-charge Wolverine has noticed this change of reality. Mystique has two kids; Rogue and Nightcrawler and currently in an affair with Logan. On top of everything, this new world is ruled by Mutants, not humans.

Wolverine goes on an investigation to get some answers and is captured by Luke Cage. He recalls how Wanda's psychic breakdown took the life of Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Jack of Hearts and Vision, then destroyed The Avengers. The folks present there believes his theory because apparently, a mutant girl named Layla Miller can show them the reality. Rest of the heroes of this world is assembled and awakened from their illusion to confront Magneto and finally end this falsehood forever.

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Houseof M – Spider-Man, Fantastic Four & X-Men

"House of M" is a follow-up crossover event that carried out the effects of "Planet X" and "Avengers Disassembled" by Marvel Comics. The main limited series published on 2005, featuring the titled story was written by Brian Michael Bendis (Age of Ultron, Civil War II), who was assisted by artist Olivier Coipel (Avengers Vs. X-Men, Siege) for its eight issue run. Bendis' work on this event would leave a mark and will cause effect to many crossovers in the upcoming years for sure.

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Scarlet Witch's Shattered Reality

During the course of action a similar alternate reality was created for a brief time in the manner of “The Age of Apocalypse” crossover which depicted a parallel universe. Regular monthly ongoing titles like Excalibur, New X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine, as well as several limited series like Fantastic Four – House of M, Iron-Man – House of M, Mutopia X – House of M and Spider-Man – House of M had acted as tie-ins for the event. Following the end of the event, everything was reverted back to normal as it were but the mutant population of the world is reduced to a hundred and few.
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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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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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