Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Green Arrow – Island of Scars | Comics

After an epic encounter with the Ninth Circle on their giant ship The Inferno, Green Arrow, Black Canary, John Diggle and Emi Queen managed to wreck down the massive ship into the ocean. Emi was taken by her mother Shado to the Yakuza, to whom, she owes a blood debt and was acting as their double agent.

As she berates Emi, she recalls her time in Seattle with her brother Oliver Queen, their training and her social life. In flashback, it was shown how she came on contact with the villainous Clock King and how it effected her. Emi argues with her mother about her not belonging to the Yakuza leader Oyabun, just as her adopted father Komodo.

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Green Arrow – Island of Scars | Comics

She eventually manages to ditch her mother and draws Oyabun's attention in a Karaoke Nightclub by winning a fight. Ollie washed up on the shore on a lone island all by himself. It's been days that he was there and he suddenly stumbled into a bear while hunting for food.

Upon evading it, he came across Dinah Drake, which he thought was a dream. Later at night, Diggle was attacked by the bear and was abducted to a secret laboratory, ran by a woman named Ana, who's got half of her face burnt.

As soon as Ollie and Dinah realize what happened, they go looking for Diggle but found some more connections to the Ninth Circle. Together, they trashed the facility and hopped onto Empire Express, an under-ocean train carrying intercontinental delegates. Arrow, Canary and Diggle team up one more time to stop the vile mercenary Eddie Fyers from killing everyone on board.

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Couple That Hunts Together

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Green Arrow – Island of Scars

Following "The Death and Life of Oliver Queen" story-arc, the plot concluded and carried over to "Island of Scars" by writer Benjamin Percy (Teen Titans – Damian Knows Best, Titans – The Lazarus Contract), Otto Schmidt (Green Arrow – Emerald Outlaw, Korvac Saga – Warzones!) and Juan Ferreyra (New Suicide Squad – Kill Anything, Prometheus – Fire and Stone).

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Island of Secrets

Published by DC Comics in 2017 as part of their DC Rebirth initiative, this storyline features issues #06-11 from the sixth ongoing volume of Green Arrow monthly series. Percy creates another "Year One"-esque setting to strand Oliver in an isolated island and survive there as well as sending Emi on a journey on her own. This story as like the one before it also is concluded to the next one, titled "Emerald Outlaw".
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Superman – Trials of the Super Sons | Comics

With Superman's own kid is the new Superboy on the block, friends and enemies started to take notice.

After his recent fight with an entity known as Eradicator (Son of Superman) and then tackling the Kryptonian monstrosity Doomsday on Metropolis (Path of Doom), Superman agrees that he and his family has been through a lot upon arriving on Prime Earth.

So, he took his time off from being Man of Steel to take Lois and Jon to Hamilton County Fair, even though his wife is really skeptical about his break from heroism. Clark does his best to keep his promise of no caped-adventure to her but couldn't help without interfering on a robbery that was taking place during the fair.

Later, at his Fortress of Solitude on Arctic Circle, Clark was helping Jon with his school science project and accidentally they both gets teleported to Dinosaur Island along with Krypto! The cube Jon has been working on was the thing that brought them here and as the father-son duo try to get it, they are attacked by giant fish and pterodactyls.

Amidst the middle of prehistoric creatures and remains of World War II, Clark and Jon discovers Captain William Storm of the World War II military unit called "The Losers" alive, who helps his best to send the Kents back to their home.

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Superman – Trials of the Super Son | Comics

Maya Ducard AKA Nobody was sent by Damian Wayne to pick up Jon Kent from school as he was curious about the new Superboy, much to his father's dismay. Superman came crushing into the Batcave to rescue Jon as Batman expresses his concern over Superboy's lack of control on his near-limitless power.

Jon was able to calm them down from almost taking out each other in a heat of the situation. Damian's constant tease at Jon would make him engage in a fight with him and that led the brats to Batman's boot-camp, an attempt to make them learn to work together as a team, overseen by the Man of Steel himself.

Next up, Lois Lane goes to pay a visit to Editor Candice of the local newspaper, the Hamilton Horn but then all of a sudden, these two are being attacked in her office and chased by Frankenstein; agent of S.H.A.D.E. Since he wasn't after Lois, she uses her Hellbat Glove on him to save Candice.

Then taking Frankenstein's hover bike, they quickly ran off from the scene but he managed to latch on. Superman eventually finds out that Frankenstein is after his wife Lois Lane while he was actually after her Editor.

These two have traded a few blows with each other upon encounter until Clark's shotgun-wielding farmer neighbor Cobb Branden shot Frankenstein and stall him for a while till Superman came to punch him out. Frankenstein explains that he is after Candice, who was actually a purple skinned alien fugitive Kroog.

This alien is currently wanted by S.H.A.D.E. for acts of mass-murder on several planets. Soon, the four-armed Bride of Frankenstein barges in looking for the same person for collecting a considerable amount of bounty on its head and then their family issue came up in the middle to start a fight.

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Return to Dinosaur Island

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Superman – Trials of the Super Son

Building to the second story-arc of current series following the launch of DC Rebirth, "Trials of the Super Son" is actually a collection of mini-adventures from Superman's life on a new world. The plots were all devised by series-regular writer Peter Tomasi (Batman – Arkham Knight, Black Adam – The Dark Age).

He was assisted by talented artists Doug Mahnke (Justice League Elite, Major Bummer) Jorge Jiménez (Earth 2 – Society – Planetfall, Superman – The Final Days of Superman) and Patrick Gleason (Brightest Day, Sinestro Corps War). Published on 2017, this arc has run from issues #07-13 of the fourth monthly ongoing volume of Superman comic-book series from DC Comics.

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Monstrous Family-Issues

Major protagonist characters like Aquaman, Batman, The Flash and Wonder Woman also made brief cameo appearance at the beginning of the story when Superman showed up helping each of them in his own superb-way. Then formation of "Super Sons" was under development as the young sons of Man of Steel and The Dark Knight were trying to survive obstacle courses from their fathers.

Paranormal gotten into the mix when Frankenstein of S.H.A.D.E. came looking for an intergalactic escapee where his wife also gotten involved and the series continues with a story of the Multiverse in the next arc titled "Multiplicity".
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Uncanny Avengers – Civil War II | Comics

Deadpool risks his status on team. Cable and Steve Rogers face off. The Unity Squad goes against The Hand and a resurrected fallen hero.

An Inhuman precog who predicts the future has the superhero community divided and when he sees that the Hulk is going to kill all Avengers, Bruce Banner is confronted by Avengers Unity Division, Inhumans, S.H.I.E.L.D., Ultimates and X-Men. In an unprecedented event, Hawkeye took it upon himself to shot Banner with an arrow in the head.

Although Deadpool was poking fun at him when they took him to custody, he was surprised to see Clint making such a call. So, he takes on a secret mission to rescue Clint Barton from prison putting his Avengers status on risk. After having a meet up with Kate Bishop and making some arrangement, he breaks into The Cellar to get Barton out.

Taking down a few guards on duty, Wade finds him and though Clint thought he is here to gloat, DP hands him over some cash and a new passport to get a new life on somewhere else. He refuses to run and thanks Deadpool for his efforts anyway.

Captain America is called in to New Attilan by Queen Medusa as the precog Ulysses is having another vision about a member of his Unity Squad. He actually sees Cable waging a war in future and is currently with a bad company. This forces Steve Rogers to confront Nate with law enforcement but he claims to head for a pre-planned vacation.

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Uncanny Avengers – Civil War II | Comics

He meets Rogue in the plane and they are on a quest to find the cure for the poisoning caused by Terrigen Mist. They are accompanied by Sebastian Shaw, former Black King of Hellfire Club and Brotherhood of Evil Mutants member Toad. Wade goes to see Synapse to check on Quicksilver, who broke his leg fighting Ultron earlier.

While some of the closed friends showed up to pay respects to Dr. Banner at his funeral, Doctor Voodoo's brother Daniel Drumm makes a deal with The Hand. Cap asks DeePee about Nate or if he knows anything about what he is up to but he doesn't know a thing. Rogers is worried about his Unity Squad coming under fire for its mutant members.

Meanwhile, Cable and his gang of mutants raids U.S. Army Medical Research Institute to steal their research on Terrigen Mist. He decides to send data to Beast to find a cure for M-Pox but his A.I. Belle suggests that they do it anonymously. They find Deadpool waiting for them in the airfield but got busted to Cap at the last moment anyway.

He knocks off Toad and moves to a fistfight with Shaw before getting back at Cable until Rogue intervenes and breaks the fight. Nate leaves with the research and Rogers disbands Unity Squad for good, firing the mutants and rebukes Wade Wilson for being a disgrace. Rogue tries to argue about that but he simply won't listen to them anymore.

Doctor Voodoo is visited by his thought to be deceased brother Daniel at the Bar With No Doors, who is resurrected by The Hand in exchange for the location of Banner's body. Jericho promptly warns DP and Rogue, who called in Human Torch, Quicksilver, Synapse and Wasp to go to Japan and stop the evil ninja cult from resurrecting Banner.

Voodoo takes the team to Tokyo where they meet Elektra and they smoked one of their nests to invite a whole herd of undead ninjas for a city-wide brawl. With Natchios on their side, they quickly reaches to the place where they kept Bruce but by the time they reached it was too late and like a devastating earthquake, an undead Hulk arrives!

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A Breaking Point

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Uncanny Avengers – Civil War II

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came up with major crossover event Civil War II in 2016 as a sequel to its 2007 predecessor Civil War. Uncanny Avengers series regular writer Gerry Duggan (Arkham Manor, Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool) was roped in to create a tie-in story for the event and depict how it affected the members of the roster as well as their friends.

Artists Pepe Larraz (Fear Itself – The Home Front, New Avengers – Luke Cage) and Ryan Stegman (Scarlet Spider, Wolverine) were in charge of penciller duty. Collecting issues #13-17 of the third ongoing volume of the series, the story begins from the point where Hawkeye shot Banner dead and become an outcast among his team.

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No Rest For The Weary

Whatever dreams Steve Rogers had during the time when he assembled human, mutant and even Inhuman heroes to encourage peace and unity following Avengers/X-Men War, is now officially ended when his mutant teammates went outside of law and caught working with known criminals like Sebastian Shaw and Toad.

Early encounter of Avengers Unity Squad with Ultron/Hank Pym hybrid in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" and upcoming adventure in "Red Skull" storyline is perfectly bridged up in the plot before the team is officially disbanded. The Thing of the Fantastic Four and the former herald of Galactus, Silver Surfer showed up in cameo appearance.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Titans – The Return of Wally West | Comics

When "Flashpoint" wave caused the creation of the reality of Prime Earth, speedster Wally West was missing from that timeline and Barry Allen was the one the world came to know as The Flash. Since, Wally has recently resurfaced from beyond the Speed-Force and with help from Barry Allen, has established his anchor to Prime Earth.

Donning a new red costume, Wally now goes looking for his friends, The Titans but the world that he knew has forgotten him long ago. Back at their old hangout, Wally is confronted by his old friend Dick Grayson AKA Nightwing, only to be tased by lightning upon touching him, which also restores his memory about Wally.

Rest of the gang he used to hang out with; Arsenal, Donna Troy, Omen and Tempest also arrived thinking Nightwing was in trouble and soon takes their shot on Wally and everyone's memory is eventually restored with the spark of his Speed Force, re-uniting the happy family of Titans once again.

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Titans – The Return of Wally West | Comics

As Lilith Clay looked inside Wally's mind, she found a powerful thought in his mind, the name of Linda Park, whom he knew before all of these. Omen also unknowingly awakened another mind from within Wally's consciousness, currently residing in Keystone City.

A lousy magician named Mister Hocus Pocus, who suddenly started yelling in pain and transformed into Abra Kadabra, a villain who is obsessed with Wally West. Meanwhile, reporter Linda Park arrives at Keystone City looking for a fresh scoop and find out a crowd appeared out of nowhere, resembling to The Titans but only younger and in their old outfits.

She even confronted the Kid Flash among them about if he knows her, to which he denies as he was just born without any memories. Soon, the real Titans reach to the scene to confront their evil counterparts created by Abra Kadabra.

The magical reproductions of the original Titans seem to have outmatched the real team a bit but eventually got taken down. The puppet Lilith Clay figures out that Linda Park from the audience is very special to Abra Kadabra's arch-nemesis Wally West but he thinks that's impossible according to the history. However, the villain then abducts Linda Park in his twisted revenge scheme against Wally West and gave him only an hour to save her life.

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Revenge of Kadabra

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With a new wave of change, "DC Rebirth" has started unfolding many unresolved mysteries and providing long-awaited answers. "The Return of Wally West" storyline ran side by side with The Flash story-arc "Lightning Strikes Twice" and takes place to the third ongoing monthly series of "Titans", which is scripted by writer Dan Abnett (Ghostbusters, The Authority) and illustrated by artist Brett Booth (Justice League of America, Teen Titans – New 52), collecting issues #01-06 and Titans: Rebirth one-shot.

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Wally's Last Run

The story sheds light on the reality altering events of DC Universe, as Flash's old enemy Abra Kadabra is back again with his bag full of tricks and it is revealed that he made his arch-nemesis disappear from reality.

Though he was responsible for Wally's disappearance, he has nothing to do with reality manipulation of Prime Earth, since he isn't that powerful. However, Abra Kadabra is still aware of a "Presence" that was actually responsible for that. This probably is a nod to the "Watchmen" connection, which will be more detailed in the upcoming "Made in Manhattan" storyline.
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Suicide Squad – The Black Vault | Comics

President Obama angrily confronts Amanda Waller about her Task Force X secret project upon learning of its existence. The President is adamant about shutting it down for good but Waller convinces him of let it run covertly under the leadership of Colonel Rick Flag and she talked to Flag in his holding cells into leading the team again.

In the meantime, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot and Harley Quinn were fighting Dogra War; a meta-human army of Mongolia, created by Mark Ljungberg with a gene bomb. As Dogra War tries to take Ljungberg back, Boomerang secures the bomb by cutting his hand, Deadshot put a bullet in his head so that he cannot re-produce another one.

Harley then re-activates the bomb to revert the army to powerless humans again in a desperate attempt to even the odds, which actually worked. Rick Flag joins them in the battlefield to lead them save the world for their oncoming missions.

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Suicide Squad – The Black Vault | Comics

In Belle Reve Penitentiary, Waller re-assembles Suicide Squad by bringing Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, June Moone AKA Enchantress and Killer Croc, with Katana and Rick Flag for a new mission.

They are to steal or destroy an immensely powerful "Cosmic Item" from an undersea prison in Russia but in mid-air Croc got sick all of a sudden and their pod crash lands into ice, while the timely emergence of Enchantress saved them all.

As Amanda Waller and her new accomplice NSA agent Emilia Harcourt watches over, the team breaks into the prison and fell under heavy fire from the enemy. As they were kicking ass and hacking limbs, Harley Quinn tries to bond with Katana to no avail.

The Squad ends up killing all the guards and discovers a girl named Hack who knows about "The Black Vault" they are looking for and she is also a huge fan of Harley Quinn. The Squad re-materialized to another location to find an Orb that has a link to Phantom Zone and Croc gets sick again.

Before Rick could warn any of his teammates, one of them is disintegrated by Kryptonian zealot; General Zod. Now, since this angry Kryptonian was held here against his wishes, he's definitely angry and the fragile humans are all on his way!

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Blitzkrieg Bop Suckers!

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Suicide Squad – The Black Vault

With the Rebirth of the DC Universe, changes were made on a grand-scale and Suicide Squad monthly ongoing also returns with a new team line-up that mostly resembles to their live-action movie-counterparts from Suicide Squad (2016).

Writer Rob Williams (Martian Manhunter – The Epiphany, Unfollow) teamed up with one of DC's most talented asset; artist Jim Lee (Batman – Hush, Divine Right) to the re-launch of Task Force X in an all-new image for new readers.

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Prepping for Duty

Artists Philip Tan (Spawn, Uncanny X-Men), Jason Fabok (Justice League – Darkseid War, Justice League – Injustice League), Ivan Reis (Blackest Night, Infinite Crisis) and Gary Frank (Batman – Earth One, Superman – Secret Origin) were also part of this Rebirth project.

This storyline collects one-shot Suicide Squad: Rebirth issue as well as the first eight issue from the fifth ongoing volume of the series and the aftermath of the arc creates a set-up for the 2017's crossover event "Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad".
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