Dark Avengers – Assemble | Comics

Norman Osborn now controls a powerful super-hero team as his "Dark Avengers" to do some good or serve his twisted version?

In a surprising turn of events, Norman Osborn ended up saving Earth during peak of a full-scale "Skrull Invasion" by killing their Queen. Tony Stark is removed from his position as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and replaced by Osborn. He made a pact with a secretly formed group called Cabal that has divisive figures like Doctor Doom as its members.

He hired former S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Victoria Hand to help him establish his new organization H.A.M.M.E.R. before firing Maria Hill. Bullseye is called in shortly afterwards to fly with him to New York, Avengers Tower. Norman asks New Avengers member Carol Danvers to join his new team but she straight out refuses and fled off.

He approached Karla Sofen AKA Moonstone at Thunderbolts Mountain to become Ms. Marvel for him. Next up, Osborn goes to see Mac Gargan with a medication that would contain his monstrous form into more presentable state. He then recruited Daken Akihiro from a diner at New Orleans where he came looking for a job.

Norman convinced Kree warrior Noh-Varr at The Cube into joining his cause as Captain Marvel. His next employ is Ghost to unlock a secret stash of armored suits that once belonged to Tony Stark. He builds a suit of armor similar to Captain America's costume for himself called "Iron Patriot" and then went to public with his all-new Avengers.

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Dark sorceress Morgana le Fay has been looking all over for Victor von Doom after he betrayed him earlier. When Doom was being escorted back to Latveria by Osborn's men, she attacked them with an army of demons at her side. Report of this attack is received by Osborn and he led his new team of Avengers for their very first mission.

He orders The Sentry to go all-out and he does so by simply tearing her head off, which shocked his teammates. Morgana reappears in a moment, causing Sentry to suddenly explode and she confronted Ares by forcing Venom to violently attack him. She then turned God of War into stone right before being killed again by new Hawkeye.

Though unable to move in his armor, Doom responds to Norman as he proceeds to carry his ally out of battlefield. Despite his unwillingness to share, he eventually shares his armor interface with Osborn to access his time machine. Together, they go back to Morgana's time and Victor sent her to 1,000,000 BC using a spell unknown even to her.

Going back to present time, Doom revives Ares from his state with a reverse spell but Sentry is presumed dead. On their way back to New York, Victoria Hand informs her boss about Clint Barton going on media to expose him as former Green Goblin. To which, he tells her to arrange an interview with the network to nicely sort things out.

All of a sudden, a blinding flash of light hits them all and they all astoundingly look at a very-much alive Sentry coming to them. Norman approaches and asks him about how he is feeling now since they all saw him die in Latveria. Trying to resonate with Bob and calm him down by talking to him, Osborn even removes his helmet to talk.

Later that day, an Atlantean terrorist group leads an attack in Los Angeles and members of Cabal were called to meet up. Prince Namor is asked to denounce those extremists publicly and help Ozman to capture them. They had a disagreement on how to approach this situation and it causes a troubled side of Osborn's persona to slip.

Back From Dead

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Dark Avengers – Assemble

Running in parallel with "Dark Reign" crossover event, Marvel Comics launched a new monthly ongoing series Dark Avengers in 2009 that has spawned from "Secret Invasion" story arc with writer Brian Michael Bendis (Mighty Avengers – Secret Invasion, Mighty Avengers – The Ultron Initiative) on board to work on its overall plotline.

For its first storyline "Assemble", Bendis has teamed up with artist Mike Deodato Jr. (Amazing Spider-Man – New Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man – Sins Past) that collects first six-issues of the series and focuses on establishment of a team comprised of former Mighty Avengers members and a group of former Thunderbolts operatives.

Wrath of Morgana le Fay

Norman Osborn dons his brand-new Iron Patriot armor that he built using StarkTech to march alongside his teammates Ares, Bullseye as Hawkeye, Daken as Wolverine, Marvel Boy Noh-Varr as Captain Marvel, Moonstone as Ms. Marvel, The Sentry and Venom as Spider-Man on public to present his newly assembled group of Avengers.

Osborn leads his Dark Avengers team to their first field mission to help Doctor Doom and entangles with Morgana le Fay. Then there is a slightly heated meeting with his Dark Illuminati, where Emma Frost, Namor and Loki had guest appearance. Bendis will return in collaboration with Deodato Jr. on next storyline "Molecule Man".
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The Walking Dead – What We Become | Comics

As the prison compound got destroyed by the villainous Governor, Rick Grimes and his new found family of other survivors got scattered. Rick eventually met his gang and was successful to regroup with most of the remaining members of the group who survived the destruction of prison. They also tagged along three new survivors; Sergeant Abraham Ford, his girlfriend Rosita Espinosa and scientist Eugene Porter in their road trip for life but only now they have a destination to reach which is Washington, D.C.

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Despite picking up the pieces of lost dreams to continue their journey of survival, Rick is still unable to cope with the fact of losing his wife, Lori and daughter Judith. He even sees his zombified wife Lori came back devouring him alive and wakes up in panic. Rick relieves Abraham of his monitor duty as he can’t sleep and starts talking to Lori on the phone again. Maggie Greene is also having a hard time coping with the aftermath of the prison massacre as she lost her whole family during the onslaught. Even Glenn fails to comfort her and she tries to commit suicide by hanging herself.

Her breathing stopped literally even after rescuing her fast and Abraham wants to put her down, on which point he had a brief skirmish with both Rick and Glenn. Following that, the group goes into a supply run where they discover new facts about the Walkers, Rick and Abraham tries to sort out their differences in a trip back Rick’s home and finally, they got chased by an enormous Zombie herd that forced everybody to move.

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Into The Herd

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The Walking Dead Vol 10 – What We Become

Creator Robert Kirkman (Image United, Invincible) and Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) continues The Walking Dead saga with “What We Become” storyline in 2009 from Image Comics, which was preceded by “Here We Remain”. The aftermath from “Made to Suffer” storyline is still affecting the remaining survivors of the undead apocalypse and elements from this volume is later adapted in the Season 4 of The Walking Dead TV Series on AMC.

Converged by Walkers

This book also feature the return of a character that was introduced earlier in the monthly ongoing as he first appeared in “Days Gone Bye”. This is the tenth volume from The Walking Dead comics series which marks the five years run of the popular series through issue #56 and “Fear The Hunters” is the next storyline in queue by the same creative team of Kirkman and Adlard.
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Chew | Comics

After 23 million Americans are dead in an outbreak of bird flu, chickens and other bird meats are announced illegal throughout the world. In that world, Tony Chu is a police detective, works for the Philadelphia Police Department and is a Cibopath, a rare food related ability which lets him get the psychic impressions or awareness about what happened of the people and things that are eaten or tasted by him.

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He investigates a chicken smuggling case that led him to a black market on FDA (Food and Drug Administration)’s invitation. Upon tasting a bowl of chicken soup he finds out the cook is responsible for murdering people and putting them in the soup but as he gives a chase, the chef puts his partner John Colby out off the commission by hitting on his head with a hatchet.

Not wanting to spill anything, commits suicide outside the restaurant afterwards. Chu gets fired from his duty and was hired by the FDA, where he gets a bulky partner named Mason Savoy, who also happens to be another Cibopath and is secretly looking for the reason that actually caused the catastrophic bird flu resulted the death to masses, including someone very close to him.

They were investigating about a Health Inspector named Evan Pepper, who went missing during duty and ended up on some unexpected ends. Soon, tables are turned and the situation starts getting out of his hand as he is betrayed by the people around and various challenges from many unlikely places came along at work.

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Chew – Chicken Tenders

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Entirely plotted by writer John Layman (Aliens – Inhuman Condition, Army of Darkness/Xena) and penciled by artist Rob Guillory, Chew is a monthly ongoing comic series from Image Comics publications. The series also is an Eisner Award winner and is greatly appreciated that the first few issues went on several printing process.

A Weird Romance

Throughout this outstanding series, John Layman creatively introduced a series of food related super powers and most definitely presented a unique story concept that managed to maintain a balance to the core. The series was also in talks for development for a television series adaptation starring Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) in the lead role.
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New Avengers – Power | Comics

Skrull Invasion is over but how would New Avengers roster will reassemble and survive an impending Dark Reign.

During crisis of "Secret Invasion", all superheroes and villains came together fighting the alien Skrulls but it was Norman Osborn, leader of Thunderbolts who effectively ended the conflict by taking a kill-shot on Queen Veranke. He becomes a beloved media hero and Tony Stark is overthrown from his position as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

President of the United States has tasked Osborn to assemble a new peace-keeping task force and handed Avengers Initiative over. He secretly assembled a number of divisive individuals like Emma Frost, Doctor Doom, Loki, Prince Namor and The Hood for a meeting to form a Cabal that would work to ensure all of its members' interests.

As part of his new schemes, Norman attempts to fully shut down current Thunderbolts program, which caused Swordsman to go into frenzy and he threatened to publicly expose Osborn only to get impaled by his own sword in return.

A new Captain America and Thor joined all assembled heroes when they were trying to defend capital city from Skrulls. Cap instructed New Avengers members to gather at his safe-house at Bronx, where Iron Fist, Mockingbird, Ronin, Spider-Man and Wolverine showed up next day followed by a recently resurfaced original Spider-Woman.

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Despite Clint started acting pretty antagonistic towards her, Logan vouched for her since she was replaced by Skrulls and had nothing to do anything with the invasion. Jessica Jones returns with Luke Cage and Ms. Marvel, desperately seeking for Edwin Jarvis imposter, to whom she gave her child before joining her husband at Central Park.

They immediately head out to find the baby and goes directly to Baxter Building, looking for help from Fantastic Four. Though they were in a mess already, Sue Storm rallied up her family up to look for Danielle. After searching into bases of A.I.M., HYDRA and even underground, they found a Skrull into a bar full of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

Before they could even properly interrogate, the disguised alien tried to run and is shot into head by a disgruntled S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Seeing no other way to get back his child, Cage asks Osborn to help him find where Skrull-Jarvis is hiding. Seeing him desperate to do anything at this point, Norman gladly agrees to make a deal.

They fly to maximum security prison Raft shortly afterwards to see Skrull prisoners captured for interrogation. Osborn asks one of them whether he knows where Skrull-Jarvis currently is but they choose not to respond. He tells Venom to eat one of them and he happily obliges, to which the surviving one cracks and gives them a location.

Cage walks into their meeting place and Jarvis pretended walks in carrying his daughter Danielle a while later. He tried to bargain release for his comrades but then gives her up anyway and gets shot in the head by Bullseye right away. Cage family is reunited at Avengers Tower and Luke tells Jessica that he gets a pass for life off her wifely stuff.

However, he didn't intend to keep his part of the deal to Osborn and took out both Gargan and Lester with Wrecker's magical crowbar before jumping out of window. Back at their hideout, New Avengers witness Norman Osborn to publicly announce his new "Dark Avengers" team, assembled with their twisted, villainous counterparts.

Heroes Parting Ways

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Once again, Marvel Comics brought back writer Brian Michael Bendis (House of M, Secret War) to lay some ground work for upcoming major crossover event "Dark Reign" through tenth storyline of New Avengers monthly ongoing comic-book series, "Power" that collects issues # 48-50 and Secret Invasion - Dark Reign one-shot.

Bendis worked on core plot alongside artists Alex Maleev (Infamous Iron Man – Infamous, Infamous Iron Man – The Absolution of Doom) and Billy Tan (Thor – Latverian Prometheus, Uncanny X-Men – End of Greys) throughout all issues.

Deal With The Devil

In a post-Secret Invasion period, Tony Stark became a fugitive and Norman Osborn assumes control over almost everything. Major controversial figures have agreed to join his new endeavor to take care of their own interest. A major power shift has lead to a new era where heroes are on the run and villains are in position of power.

Following apparent demise of Steve Rogers in the aftermath of "Civil War", his long-lost wartime buddy Bucky Barnes and a former Winter Soldier has decided to take on mantle of a new Captain America after he is reformed. His safe-house has now become a new home for outlaw members of New Avengers.

Mighty Avengers have been disbanded right after Earth is freed from Skrulls and therefore, Carol Danvers has rejoined her friends. Danny Rand temporarily quits team to take care of some urgent financial affairs at Rand Corporation. More of their adventures will be further explored in "Search for the Sorcerer Supreme" story next.
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Avengers - The Initiative – Disassembled | Comics

After the events of "Civil War" in terms of the controversial Superhuman Registration Act, the way of lives for all hero was changed drastically and the entire superheroes was divided. A new initiative is taken by the government and they now have to follow a couple of conditions like, to register their identities and to be trained with them.

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Following the Secret Invasion of Skrulls, superheroes started losing their faith and credibility from people's mind; ushering a "Dark Reign" of evil on the nation. Under Norman Osborn's control, Iron Man is replaced as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Initiative and everything it used to stand for is now completely changed. Worst of all, The Avengers are gone from the scene, now acting from the shadows as Secret Avengers.

After scientist Henry Pym left The Initiative, Gauntlet is in charge at Camp Hammond and is maintaining the cadets currently. To avenge their defeat over Earth and its populace, the Skrulls have implanted a mole of their own; the murderous Thor clone known as Ragnarok (who killed Goliath during Civil War) that has recently resurfaced after blasting Baron Von Blitzschlag upon mentioning that he is not the real “one”.

He went on rampage, only to be opposed by the currently outlaw team of New Warriors led by former Avenger member Justice. Last but not least, the identity of the mysterious member of the Shadow Initiative member Mutant Zero is finally revealed to everyone else of the team by Taskmaster and they are shocked at the revelation of the person who has four different persona to deal with and a history with Daredevil.

Ragnarok on Rampage

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"Disassembled " is a story arc that took place in the Avengers - The Initiative monthly series and ran from issues #21-25 from the monthly ongoing. This story arc was published by Marvel Comics in 2009, developed by writer Christos Gage (Annihilation – Conquest - Quasar, World War Hulk – X-Men) and manga styled artist Humberto Ramos (Superior Spider-Man, Wolverine).

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Serving as a tie-in to the company wide major crossover Dark Reign, "Disassembled" changed the very basics of the Avengers - The Initiative monthly title and features many fan favorite characters again in the lime light, as many significant character joins the team while others just leaves.

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