Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Power Man and Iron Fist – The Boys are Back in Town | Comics

When ex-convict Luke Cage showed up in Harlem City with his newfound enhanced abilities and met the other worldly Kung-Fu defender from K'un-Lun named Danny Rand AKA Iron Fist, they eventually banded the Heroes for Hire, Inc. Then they disbanded under some certain circumstances and after five years, they showed up at the East River dock to pick up their former associate Jennie Royce, who was framed for murdering Eugene Mason and is just released from Ryker's Island.

Taking her to the Excelsior Diner they offer Jennie to do anything for her that will help her get back on her feet, because they consider her as family. Besides, she already lost five years in prison for a false accusation and suffered without a valid reason. Since her ex-boyfriend owed a lot of money to many people and a necklace of her grandmother is now in someone else’s possession, which she would like to have back. The only problem is, it is currently owned by a notorious organized crime-boss named Lonnie Lincoln, or better known as the villainous Tombstone.

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Power Man and Iron Fist – The Boys are Back in Town | Comics

Luke Cage never liked it from the beginning and now seeing where it is going, he feels more uncomfortable as he shares history with Tombstone. However, they wanted to help Jennie for old times’ sake and Danny already promised her to get the necklace back. So, they go meet the villain in Harlem to talk about it. But Tombstone straight out refused of giving it back and their conversation eventually gone unpleasant when he assumes that they are accusing him of theft, whereas he won it from The Hood in a card game.

Before Luke and Iron Fist realize, they are surrounded by Tombstone's goons yet they took the necklace and fought their way out but couldn't hear the villain warning them about the necklace having magical powers. Upon handing it over to Jennie Royce at the Sisters of Mercy House, Luke and Danny leaves after hugging her one last time. Though Luke Cage feels quite uneasy with the fact that Jennie and Tombstone both have a different story about the necklace, Iron Fist points out that Lonnie Lincoln is probably lying here instead of their friend.

Back home, Jessica Jones asks Luke if he and Danny are going to be back again in action but Luke assures her that it was a one-time thing to help out a friend. Tombstone was going nuts over the necklace as it was a Supersoul Stone and tasks his group of henchmen to get the stone back for him. Jennie talks to her partner about their plan becoming a success who is revealed to be former criminal gang leader Mariah Dillard. Together as White Jennie and Black Mariah, they are gonna take over Harlem, when Tombstone loses his empire for failing to secure that artifact.

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Rumble In The Streets

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Power Man and Iron Fist – The Boys are Back in Town

Following the debut of the live-action Luke Cage TV Series as well as Iron Fist on Netflix in 2016, Marvel Comics have reunited one of the best buddy-team of comic books together again in their third ongoing volume of publication. To accomplish that, writer David Walker (Luke Cage – Caged!, Luke Cage – Sins of the Father) and artist Sanford Greene (Deadpool Team-Up – Good Buddies, Power Man and Iron Fist – Street Magic) were pulled on the driving wheels of this series to attract a lot of new readers to the awesomeness of these Heroes for Hire turned into The Avengers.

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Back In The Hero Business

Collecting the first five issues from the monthly ongoing, this story however doesn’t content any lives at stake type of situation in it but was a fresh point to start reading about the duo who rocked the streets of Harlem, New York. Plus, a cameo from Doctor Strange in this little “Fiddle-Faddle” is something that you cannot simply miss. This long awaited return of the duos in action can also mean the reformation of The Defenders anytime soon in their fifth monthly series, with possibly Daredevil and Jessica Jones joining the gang.
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Monday, September 26, 2016

The Walking Dead – Call To Arms | Comics

Rick Grimes and his people prepare to go up against The Whisperers but his former enemy Negan has some other plans.

Ever since members of Alexandria Safe-Zone has crossed paths with a savage group known as The Whisperers, Rick Grimes and his friends has not known peace. Their leader, Alpha has sent her daughter Lydia to live with them before killing off Ezekiel, Rosita and many more to mark a territory border with their severed heads on spike.

Knowing these enemies can decimate them all if they want, Rick did not take any rushed action against them but it soon started creating a friction among his fellow survivors and made everyone doubt his leadership skills. Seeing furious citizens fighting each other over this issue, he decides to see his arch-nemesis Negan for advice.

Carl and Lydia are escorted to Hilltop for safety by Andrea while Rick plans on forming a military with help from Dwight. They gathered a group of people with guns to take out a Zombie horde and lead out a practice session. Though Dwight is reluctant at being a leader of Alexandria militia but Rick tells him it's too late and they need him.

Maggie leaves Jesus behind before heading back to Hilltop and promises to send ten or more. Gabriel expresses his wish to join their newly formed army to serve people's souls because being a reverend is not enough anymore. Back at home, Rick suggests Michonne to go back to The Kingdom now that Ezekiel is gone and they need her.

Later he came across meets Brandon, whose father he had to kill earlier in self defense when attacked and even though he tried to say sorry to the boy, Rick is thrown down. Though he knocks that brat down, Michonne had to come and break it up but he was extra mad because earlier back at Hilltop, the boy even tried to hurt Carl.

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When Maggie and her group was leaving for home, Brandon sneaks away from them to steal keys to the cell Negan is kept in and offers him to escape, because he wants both Rick and The Whisperers to kill each other. Rick and Michonne are informed shortly about keys to Negan's cell are missing and finds an empty basement cell.

Though Siddiq and Annie at gate saw no one passing, Rick believes he escaped with Maggie and her group. Given he knows too much about their recent situation with The Whisperers, Aaron and Michonne decides to go out looking for him.

After making it out of Alexandria with Hilltop group, Brandon secretly slips out of crowd on their way to meet Negan and give him his old cloths back. They head over to Whisperers' border marked with spikes and as Brandon was crying about his mom, he is stabbed in his chest by Negan before walking alone into enemy territory.

On his way, he encountered a dozen of Whisperers led by Beta, second to their leader Alpha and they decide to take him upon learning he is alone. Soon as they arrived at camp and he declares that he is in love with Alpha when taken to her. His continuous effort to court her with sleazy lines ultimately led her to punch him in the face.

Deep within Whisperers' territory, Aaron and Michonne gets surrounded by a group and Beta stabs Aaron during confrontation. Only for a timely arrival of Dwight, they are saved and made their enemies quickly retreat under heavy gunfire. Beta goes back to camp charging at Negan after his recent encounter with Alexandria forces.

He simply admits of lying about being an escaped prisoner initially because he was intimidated by Beta at first but he has a lot to offer to them and then sticks with their group to earn his keep through working hard. Dwight tells his army to get back soon because they crossed enemy border to engage enemy, which is an act of war.

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Into Enemy Territory

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Heading towards a new direction with Image Comics monthly ongoing comic-book series The Walking Dead, creator/writer Robert Kirkman (Image United, Invincible) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) joins for their twenty fifth collaboration on "Call To Arms" storyline, collecting issues #151-156 from the series.

Long after a zombie-apocalypse has left ruins of civilization, former sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes and his group of survivor had come to a steady way of living among a world full of undeads. Trouble eventually found its way to their life and when it starts threatening too much, they start forming a rebellion to crush all oppression for good.

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Queen and King

Rick secretly discusses about his recent trouble with Negan, former leader of a rival group who has been long-imprisoned at Alexandria for his role during events of "All Out War". When opportunity presents itself, he decides to take things into his own hands to deal with problem at hand and do something to earn Rick's trust.

However, he took measures that have led things to escalate quickly between community of Alexandria and The Whisperers from what already was worsened from "No Turning Back" arc. A major catastrophe is now looming over on a dark horizon that will usher mass death and destruction soon in upcoming "The Whisperer War" story.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Superman – Before Truth | Comics

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Superman – Before Truth | Comics
During his encounter with the Man of Tomorrow; Ulysses, Superman discovered a new ability that he possessed; a solar flare. The only downside of this power is that it completely drains his powers. To deal with this side-effect of his new power, his friends in Justice League comes forward to test his limits and fortunately he reverts back to his powerful self after 24 hours. They go to dinner together and he gets a hangover from alcohol in his current state. Waking up to news of shootout downtown, he immediately rushes in normal speed to fight armed men that he never seen before and who seem to drain his power. He gets injured in fight and as he headed to Batman and Cyborg, got caught on camera bleeding. While the news goes viral Lois Lane also notices Clark’s injuries.

Jimmy Olsen now knows about Clark’s secret identity which he shared with his pal at some time ago and while they were at Daily Planet, Clark gets an anonymous tip in his phone that leads the duo to bust major crimes and on top of that, the person also knows his secret. As he blackmails Clark to follow his instructions, he plays along get to the bottom of it. Soon, Lois tags along with them on the case and finds the Metropolis state senator involved. Clark’s blackmailer then sends a girl named Condesa Amoragujeta to Daily Planet and is shortly arrested by the FBI. Lois inspires Clark to save her and in doing so, his identity is revealed to her and she couldn’t believe it. With his friends at his side, Clark now prepares to face his mysterious enemy HORDR Root.

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As the modern Trinity of DC Comics creative panel; writer Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Savage Dawn) and celebrated artists John Romita, Jr. (Kick-Ass, World War Hulk) and Klaus Janson (The Dark Knight Returns) have band together to bring something new to the Man of Steel legacy that would create some definite impact. “Before Truth” is a story that leads to another major revelation involving some very important cast of the DC Universe. Aside from the idea of a “powerless” Superman, the revealing of his secret identity is also explored. The cameo appearance of Aquaman, Batman, Cyborg, Flash and Wonder Woman as well as an ensemble cast of villains like Royal Flush Gang, Livewire, Killer Croc, Shockwave, Killer Frost and Titano was a bonus fun-part for the fans.
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Friday, September 16, 2016

Deathstroke – Suicide Run | Comics

Harley Quinn lures Deathstroke to Belle Reve and mae him fight the Suicide Squad, Lex Luthor's army of Bizarros to Red Hood.

Slade Wilson was tasked to kill a rogue Titan, Lapetus and gave up his eye as a part of a blood-sacrifice for his action (God Killer). He was training on Danger Island afterwards when his host Victor Ruiz brings him the news about his estranged daughter Rose Wilson, who is gunned down at her home before he could even react to it.

A furious Deathstroke immediately rushes to the spot only to find out it was another girl at his daughter's place with a message on her body that led Slade to believe it a handiwork of Joker's lunatic girlfriend; Harley Quinn, who previously made a deal with him for killing her "Boss" Amanda Waller; director of Suicide Squad.

So, arming himself up to infiltrate Belle Reve, Slade drops an EMP charge over the facility that severed all communications and unlocked all inmates. As guards were trying their best to keep the deranged inmates into their cells, he quietly drops inside.

While Task Force X member Captain Boomerang, Parasite and many other were taking out the guards; Harley Quinn was trying to make an escape out of this loony bin. Deathstroke grabs her from behind, asking about playing decoy with his daughter and got surrounded by other inmates, whom these two easily beat down to submission.

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Deathstroke – Suicide Run | Comics

Then another assassin Deadshot showed up there with a vendetta from their previous encounter on Russia (Pure Insanity). Their fight is briefly stalled when Slade explains his reason to be here is to find Rose but Harley tries to re-engage them to save herself.

They are soon interrupted as Deathstroke is quickly pulled to the aquatic block by Black Manta, who also wants to get back at him. Apparently, Manta too has a grudge over him regarding the last time they ran into each other and takes him down under.

At Waller's office, reptilian villain Snakebite shows up during the breakout and he cornered her after quickly killing off her bodyguards. All situations came under control when Internal Forces came to rescue shortly and have Manta diving back to water while Slade heads straight to Waller's office with Harley to finish his work.

There they find out corpse of her security personnel and presumed that she is dead already, whereas Snakebite is actually keeping the director hostage within Belle Reve compound. With a timely assist from Catwoman, they two fights their way out of armed guards.

More convicts approaches there seeing a chance to exact their vengeance on Waller and these three takes them all down before finally meeting the psycho snake man, with whom Deathstroke had a brief tussle with. Snakebite engages in a fight with Slade who ended up being poisoned by his venomous opponent but forcing him to flee.

Slade chases another lead for Rose at LexCorp that involves him standing against Mercy Graves, a Lex Luthor Robot and an army of Bizarros. Then he gets into a showdown with Red Hood, which led him to a man from his past trying to ruin him.

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Assault on The Wall

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Deathstroke – Suicide Run

Running on third ongoing volume, "Suicide Run" is the third story arc from Deathstroke monthly series, collecting issues #11-16. A part of The New 52 timeline, the story is plotted by writer James Bonny and Tony Daniel (Batman, Teen Titans), while arts were done by penciller Tyler Kirkham (The Darkness, Tomb Raider) back in 2015 for DC Comics.

Special guest appearance of Catwoman and Red Hood was truly a refreshing experience altogether even though it only mattered momentarily when they showed up as well as an antagonist from Slade's past, who wants to see him dead after tormenting him enough.

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Stingers of Snakebite

A pattern is formed from the very first arc of this series; "Gods of War" and then it subtly continued throughout the entire time as other development progressed along and Deathstroke eventually went toe to toe with members of the infamous Suicide Squad at one point, with whom he shares not so pleasant history after all.

Minor hints toward other ongoing stories of DC Universe such as "Robin – Son of Batman – Year of Blood" and previous issues from "God Killer" storyline were given in plot details as reference. Both the series and Slade's chronicles will be concluded within the next arc titled "Family Business" where all stakes will go sky high for him.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Spider-Man/Deadpool – Isn't it Bromantic | Comics

The Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool and webbed wonder, Spider-Man are teaming up together as a real dynamic duo in the neighborhood.

When one of his old enemies Morris Bench, better known as Hydro-Man came up with his latest scheme to sink New York City with its own sewage if he is not getting paid a hundred million dollars, Spider-Man decided to stop him while making bathroom jokes.

As he was on his fourth web cartridge, hired mercenary Deadpool showed up to check on him after he rage-quit Avengers Unity Division. Spidey was already having a tough time paring with Wet-Nap and now he's got to deal with Wade as well.

Since he has trouble understanding how society's moral contract work, DP's therapist suggested him a morality app and according to the suggestion it gave, he decided to go "Chaotic Neutral", which means, he will do whatever he thinks best in this situation.

So, he grabbed webhead and teleported to Hell only to get captured by the dreaded Dormammu and his army of Mindless Ones. As hanging upside down, they are caught in Spidey's webbing but Wade then came up with a butt-cracking idea!

He managed to snap his own hip for Spidey to grab his katana and cut them loose and the latter did so skeptically. Almost immediately after getting free, Deadpool gets overwhelmed by a horde of Mindless Ones but the wall-crawler pulled him out and it fixed his hip back.

As more of them try to swarm the duo, Dee Pee unexpectedly pulls out some real brains off his pouches that he got from a morgue and starts slamming them into their heads. Now, it starts turning them into "Mindful Ones". Having brains of the self-entitled millennials, they start rebelling against their master and the two teleports out of Hell in the mean time.

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Spider-Man/Deadpool – Isn't it Bromantic | Comics

Back in New York, they came across Hydro-Man once again and now Deadpool starts throwing poop jokes at him. After getting showered in poop water, Spidey throws Wade at the villain to detonate his incendiary grenades and it went KA-BOOM!

Spider-Man asks why Wade wants to hang out with him all of a sudden and he replies that he wants to be like Spidey. Back at his place, he receives a contract for killing Peter Parker, who is also the employer of his webhead friend and it makes everything complicated.

At Parker Industries, Peter was having a scene regarding the launch of a wrist device Webware 2.0, while Wade sits back at home going through evidence on his target sent by his contractor. Upon seeing them, his wife Shiklah confirms that the targeted individual deserves a seat in Hell but advises her husband to verify it for himself.

Given that he has no way of contacting his role-model, Wade Wilson starts mugging people off the street and Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales had to call Spidey in for help. He came demanding an explanation from Wade but the next thing they know; they are surrounded by dozens of Goblins from "Goblin Nation".

Deadpool could see through the hallucination they were in and came forward to help driving a revamped Spider-Mobile as Dead-Buggy over the building and shot the wrist devices of Spider-Men. Apparently, someone hacked into their Webware and created this illusion and tracking it back, they crash into the one responsible who turned out to be Mysterio.

Both parties leave but Wade sneaks into Parker Industries to find out a group of scientists experimenting on a subject and he kills off every one of them in disgust. Just when he is fully convinced, he calls his employer "Patient Zero" and accepts the contract.

Webhead have a shift in perspective and eventually starts thinking that Wade is not that awful. They even go on a double date with demonic Succubus named Jenny, who is a cousin of Shiklah and Jane Foster, the female Thor! The real fun begins when Deadpool accidentally makes a mess and tries to undo it with a great cost.

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Weird Double Date

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Considering one of them is company mascot and another being extremely popular these days because of his R-rated movie, Marvel Comics had to put together Spider-Man and Deadpool for an inevitable team-up, which ended up being a monthly ongoing series by writer Joe Kelly (Emperor Joker, Justice League Elite) and Scott Aukerman.

Also, artists Ed McGuinness (Amazing X-Men – The Quest For Nightcrawler, Avengers – X-Sanction) and Reilly Brown (Deadpool – Dracula's Gauntlet, Deadpool & The Mercs For Money – Mo' Mercs, Mo' Monkeys) were brought in to pull this off in "Isn't it Bromantic" storyline comprising issues #01-05 and 8 from the brand-new series.

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Bizarreness About Truth

Though these two doesn't get along and one of them pissed off another by being part of a badass team in "Uncanny Avengers – Lost Future", proves putting them together successfully is a tough job. Wade Wilson helped Peter Parker during a dirty job that involves them dipping into human filth by Hydro-Man, going to Hell and both of them dying.

Reference from 1994 crossover event "Clone Saga", "One More Day" story arc following the events of Civil War as well as Doctor Strange was mentioned at one point. Entities like Death and Mephisto makes cameo appearance because of their unconventional ties to these two iconic characters, who will return in upcoming arc titled "Side Pieces".
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Wonder Woman – War-Torn | Comics

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Wonder Woman – War-Torn | Comics
As she dealt with the menace of First Born, Diana has allowed her Amazonian "brothers" who used to work for Hephaestus into Themyscira. This worries her sisters and led many of them to question her judgment, most prominently by Derinoe, who believes that Diana is not a worthy heir of Hippolyta and thus, attempts to replace her with a worthy one. Before she could defend her actions, Wonder Woman is called by Justice League for an emergency. It appears that the entire populace of a village has vanished and during her investigation, she met with Swamp Thing and attacked him for suspecting him responsible but then talked down by Aquaman. She admits that she is troubled with her duty as a Queen, a member of Justice League and now as the God of War!

A part of being Pantheon of Olympians and being involved in the affairs of her brothers have kept her so busy that she barely has time for her. When returned to Paradise Island, Diana is summoned by the council of Amazons to choose between her duties as a Queen or a savior of humanity. Meanwhile, Derinoe convinces her daughter to give up her own child to a powerful sorceress for a ritual that will forge the perfect Amazon from clay. Therefore, young Donna Troy is born to be a successor of Hippolyta's throne by defeating Wonder Woman. But before they could even face each other in battle, Derinoe's hatred leads Troy to do something that will infuriate the Amazon Queen. Also, an unexpected heart-breaking bad news waits for Diana that will torn her forever.

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Challenger to The Throne
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Since the beginning of The New 52, things have escalated from the "Blood" storyline to the current status quo of Wonder Woman as she is now the God of War! DC Comics brings the team of writer Meredith Finch (Grimm Fairy Tales, Grimm Fairy Tales – Tales from Oz) and artist David Finch (Brightest Day, Forever Evil) to usher a new chapter of Wonder Woman, which also marks the first appearance of Donna Troy on Prime Earth. Batman, Cyborg, Flash and Superman also made brief appearance throughout the course of the plot. Among many other events took place lately, Superman's transformation after encountering Doomsday (Superman – Doomed) as well as Diana's ascension to a God of Olympus was mentioned. War-Torn is followed up by "A Twist of Fate" and "Resurrection" arcs next before the launch of DC Rebirth.
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