Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Champions – Change The World | Comics

In New Jersey, at Khan Family residence, Kamala Khan was having breakfast with her family and was thinking about prior events that took place three days ago while her father Yusuf Khan asks her why is she not out much lately.

She recalls her last mission with The Avengers at Queens, when she was busy balancing a derailed train as Giant Girl in the middle of a fight against Wrecking Crew. She managed to save hundreds of passengers of that train while Sam Wilson and Jane Foster smites Thunderball and Piledriver of the gang down as Captain America and Thor.

As her teammates wrapped things up after taking down the bad guys, she asks them about their agenda on battle damage nearby and how their fight is constantly disrupting civilian lives. Vision agrees with her and points out how people are angry at them because of their recent internal skirmish.

They needs to earn that trust back. Her argument on the topic with Captain America has proved his points invalid to her as Ms. Marvel leaves the team while Jane Foster's Thor shockingly watched an Avenger quit again. Being bored sitting in home, she called her friends Miles Morales and Sam Alexander to meet her.

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Champions – Change The World | Comics

At George Washington Bridge, when Miles and Sam showed up as Spider-Man and Nova, they thought Ms. Marvel was about to request them to re-join The Avengers but she reveals that she already quit. Kamala explains to them that they should be forming a team who actually cares about super-heroics and can make an actual difference.

Miles suggests enlisting extraordinary young hero Amadeus Cho AKA Totally Awesome Hulk to their team. Cho was inside a Kentucky hills coal mine at that time for a rescue mission, where Ms. Marvel, Nova and Spidey showed up to lend their hands.

With some coordinated plan, there four successfully rescued the miners trapped inside and Cho then vouched for his gaming partner Viv Vision to be included as well. Riding in Cho's Meat Wagon, they all reached at Vision's house and Amadeus explains to the three ex-Avengers how they need to tap into worldwide events to get involved.

He suggested making Viv as their personal trouble-alert because of her built in Wi-Fi multiprocessors. To demonstrate her ability of filtering urgent problems from web, Viv picked up footage of captive girls in a cargo seeking help.

They all quickly rushed to the source of that video transmission to confront a demented clown called Pagliacci with his crews to stop them from deporting those captive girls. After they successfully foiled his attempt of human trafficking, Kamala announces themselves on behalf of her friends as The Champions by handing Pagliacci over to authorities.

However, while they celebrate their first victory and there is more to come, there is one more member to add to their ranks who is none other than a time displaced young X-Men leader Cyclops.

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Heroes of Tomorrow

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Champions – Change The World

Plotted by veteran writer Mark Waid (Spider-Man – Clone Saga, Spider-Man – House of M) and illustrated by artist Humberto Ramos (Crimson, Revelations), "Change The World" is the first story arc of second monthly ongoing volume of Champions comic-book series, collecting issues #01-05 from Marvel Comics.

Part of 2016's Marvel NOW! event, this ongoing series is a re-launch of former incarnation of the super-hero team of same name, previously formed by Angel, Black Widow, Ghost Rider, Hercules and IcemanMarvel was aiming at a soft-toned series formed with ambitious young heroes of next generations and Champions was their solution.

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Unknown Threats and Beyond

The new roster of team Champions includes a young Cyclops, Giant Girl, Nova, Miles Morales as Spider-ManTotally Awesome Hulk and Viv Vision, who embarks on a couple of mission that delivers some strong messages for their young audience. Set in aftermath of Civil War II, this story also features cameo appearance of Gwenpool, Joaquin Torres' Falcon, Redwing, Riri Wiliams, Nadia Pym's Wasp, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

A lot of groundwork was laid out to re-start this team and unlike their early predecessor, these young heroes are showing exceptional promise to shine and prosper before Marvel decides to cancel the series in foreseeable future.
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Green Lanterns – Phantom Lantern | Comics

Jessica Cruz is invited by Simon Baz to spend family time with him in Halloween and help him bake Ma'amoul cookies. Always a loner and suffering from social anxiety, Jessica Cruz decides to run away but Simon convinces her to stay. One of the Guardians of the Universe named Rami takes shelter in their residence to safeguard The Phantom Ring and meditate about the most obvious threat.

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Green Lanterns – Phantom Lantern | Comics

Sensing the presence of the alien race of Dominators, Rami goes rogue with the ring. Jessica and Simon eventually locates Rami and then two Dominators in pursuit attacks them, only to be taken down by the rookie Lanterns. However, a whack-job name Frank Laminski starts chasing Jessica and Simon in search for The Phantom Ring as he wants to have its power for himself.

In the flashback, it is shown that Frank was always hanging to the second string for his entire life and when his career in Air Force as a test pilot failed him to rise above, he was saved by Hal Jordan. Ever since then, he is fascinated by the power-ring and has been obsessed to gain one for him. While, he had no lack of dedication in his goal, his motives was outright selfish and that is why the ring never picked him.

However, help came from the most unexpected source to him as Volthoom, The First Lantern arrives at his doorstep to help him get The Phantom Ring. By distracting Jessica and Simon, Frank steals the ring and becomes Phantom Lantern with help from Volthoom but without any training of experience of wielding a power ring, he sure will doom everyone.

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The Dominating Spectrum

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Green Lanterns – Phantom Lantern

Following "Rage Planet", Green Lanterns monthly ongoing series continues from DC Comics with writer Sam Humphries (Fanboys vs. Zombies – Wrecking Crew 4 Lyfe, Fanboys vs. Zombies – Appetite for Destruction), assisted by the team of artists Ed Benes (Artemis – Requiem, Blackest Night – Titans), Eduardo Pansica, Jack Herbert, Robson Rocha and Ronan Cliquet.

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Phantom Ring Wielder

The second storyline from the series on the dawn of DC Rebirth, the arc collects issues #07-14 of the monthly volume. An old adversary of the Corps, Volthoom, The First Lantern returns with his newest schemes to exact his vengeance on the Guardians of the Universe and secretly employs his plan in action.
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Red Hood and the Outlaws – Dark Trinity | Comics

Establishing his new status as a villain, Red Hood decides to  take down Gotham's underworld while joined by a fallen Amazon and a faulty Superman clone.

Years before, Jason Todd was a street rat in Crime Alley who was stealing to survive and he was visited by Batman when he was trying to steal tires off the Batmobile. Never really found his comfort zone by working as Robin alongside The Dark Knight, Jason Todd eventually became an outlaw named Red Hood after he came back from dead.

While recalling these past events from his life, Jason came in his motorbike and shot the mayor on street before being confronted by his former mentor. These two fought a very brief yet intense battle and Red Hood then cheated his way out of the fight early on.

As he was having a drink in a bad-guy bar and got lost in thoughts from old days, a member of Black Mask's False Face Society approaches him to inform about their boss's invitation to join his cause. Jason then came saving life of a woman named Ma Gunn, whom he and Batman used to know from years before.

He stopped her from running criminal activities behind the cover of a Boarding School for Wayward Boys, which she used to run. Ma Gunn believes that it surely was Black Mask who gave the order to kill her for not joining in his recent mad schemes.

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Red Hood and the Outlaws– Dark Trinity | Comics

After catching up on old times, Jason learns from her that her place was about to open weeks ago and that means, the villain had planned for a mass-murder when he blew up her house. Still not giving in to his rage because of his promise to Batman, Red Hood decides to face crime-boss Black Mask about his offer.

The way he made an entrance by shooting at his guys and broke into his personal convoy impressed the villain. He actually opens up to him about his intention being different for Gotham City from the likes of Bane, Catwoman, The Joker, Killer Croc or The Penguin.

Jason has become a discussing topic among the bad guys of Gotham City these days for showing his raw boldness by publicly attempting an assassination on Mayor and a clash with The Dark Knight. All of these were what made the villain appreciate his raw talent and even offered Red Hood to be his heir since he has no kids of his own.

Before moving towards their next objective on expanding operation in Gotham City, Black Mask made an example out of his henchmen, who failed to kill Ma Gunn by blowing up their heads with pre-installed neuro-implants in front of Jason.

In order to secure a cargo for his new boss, Jason encounters fierce warrior Artemis of Amazons, who was here looking for an ancient artifact known as Bow of Ra, a weapon of immense power she has always longed for. After their initial encounter, she deduces that Jason is definitely onto something.

Also, Black Mask is not really after the artifact as these two have previously thought but he was eyeing for a more threatening specimen. It was Bizarro, a failed clone of Superman created by former villain Lex Luthor that he wants for his own. In quest of figuring out Black Mask's real plan, Jason feels lost in the midst of Artemis and Bizarro.

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Trinity of Outlaws

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Red Hood and the Outlaws – Dark Trinity

With first monthly series of Red Hood & the Outlaws debuting back on 2011, just as The New 52 wave started taking over DC Universe, the team comprised of anti-heroes and outlaws have changed their line-up recently. When Starfire left this trio, Red Hood and Arsenal quickly formed a new duo of bad-asses but that too has lived for a brief time.

It has come to an end because of circumstances and both of their conflicting nature to each other. However, we are in for an entirely different and all-new alliance up ahead of us where Jason Todd bands together with a fallen Amazon warrior Artemis and one of the many imperfect Superman clones; Bizarro.

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A Rampaging Bizarro

So, with DC Rebirth launching a new wave of change, comic-book writer Scott Lobdell (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Darkness) and artist Dexter Soy (Army of Two, Batman – Arkham Knight – Genesis) has band together to came up with some great alliance of beloved outlaws which they brought up in "Dark Trinity" storyline.

With issues #01-06 of second monthly ongoing volume of Red Hood & the Outlaws and the one-shot "Rebirth" issue, this storyline is a fresh-start for Jason Todd and his new allies in crime. Each three of them are given a fair share of flashbacks at how they ended up together for a same goal, which serves as an origin for the new incarnation of Outlaws.
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Justice League – Outbreak | Comics

An ancient being contracted of fear has struck over the locality and Justice League tries to stop it but the combined efforts of Aquaman, Batman, Cyborg, Flash, Superman and Wonder Woman seemed not to affect it. Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz were chose to became Green Lanterns after overcoming their own fears. Keeping that in mind, Cruz and Baz takes a last stand against the entity as the rest of the League joins them.

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Justice League – Outbreak | Comics

Eventually the day is saved by eradicating its presence. Cyborg offers everyone a transport back home, Arthur took Diana with him to work on something and Jessica asks out Barry on a date. Batman wanted to talk with Superman but he flies off to join a family dinner and Victor transports Simon away to a high school football game with him.

On their date, Barry starts taunting Jessica and during his diner with Lois and Jon, Clark acts erratic and loses his temper about Batman. Seems like, the being of fear still has some effects on their mind. Victor discovers his system compromised and Justice League Watchtower was moments away from hitting San Francisco. Then the virus took over Simon Baz's power ring and unleashed all sorts of horror on them.

At the same time, all weapons in Batcave goes online targeting Batman. Afterwards, he discovered a unique virus a.i. is behind these anomalies and tracks it to the source. The League is attacked by Count Vertigo, Fearsome Five, Major Disaster and many others set after them by the a.i. Among them is Amazo, who can duplicate the power of all League members.

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State of Fear

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Justice League – Outbreak

The journey to 'Rebirth' continues in the second storyline of the Justice League monthly comics series. The story titled 'Outbreak' is comprised of issues #06-11 from the third monthly ongoing volume of the Justice League. Writer Bryan Hitch (Age of Ultron, The Ultimates) returns to deliver another Justice League book with assistance from artists Matthew Clark (Doom Patrol, Teen Titans), Tom Derenick, Neil Edwards and Jesus Merino.

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Fear of Unknown

As Rebirth continues to bridge between past and future, it does follow up a step from The New 52. When the 'Justice League – Origin' was released, the next storyline, 'The Villain's Journey' was mostly a follow-up that focuses on the aftermath of what happened previously. DC Comics has implemented the same maneuver with 'Outbreak', staging the whole thing as a result of 'Kindred Invasion'.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Action Comics – Welcome to the Planet | Comics

The day Doomsday got loose and wrecked Metropolis was also the day when Lex Luthor decided to become the new Man of Steel but met with a Superman from another world. The world saw that Clark Kent and Superman are two different individual whereas they used to think them both are the same.

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Action Comics – Welcome to the Planet | Comics

As Kal-El of Prime Earth died, Wonder Woman also discovered that a counterpart from an alternate reality has taken the mantle of his love. However, the world still remains dubious with the existence of this new Clark Kent who is not Superman.

Even Jimmy Olsen and Perry White are having a hard time believing what Clark is claiming. So, Lex Luthor, now president and publisher of Daily Planet calls for a press conference to clear out everything in front of the public.

As the people present in the conference didn't buy that Clark and Superman being two different person and a whack job ended up shooting at the former, they had to call it quits. Clark even undergoes a lie-detector test and passes.

He decides to investigate Geneticron, who were responsible for the release of Doomsday and he is rescued by Superman when he is thrown out of the roof, who takes Clark to his Fortress of Solitude to determine who Clark really is.

Meanwhile, Lois Lane of Pre-Flashpoint era decides to show up in Daily Planet and everyone is surprised to see her. Superwoman decides to pay a visit to her as she is yet not convinced of this new Lois. As they sorted out these mysteries around them, an enemy from the future secretly watches over them.

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Superman Meets Clark Kent

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Action Comics – Welcome to the Planet

With the wave of change hits the DC Universe after DC Rebirth, Superman of New Earth reality finally took his own mantle again in "Path of Doom". In a continuation of that story, writer Dan Jurgens (Metamorpho – Year One, Superman/Doomsday – Hunter/Prey) has pitched the post-Doomday incident with artists Art Thibert (Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men), Clay Mann (Dark Reign – Elektra, Magneto – Not a Hero), Patrick Zircher (Green Arrow – New 52, Suicide Squad – New 52), Stephen Segovia (Green Lantern – New Guardians – Gods and Monsters, Poison Ivy – Cycle of Life and Death) and Tom Grummett (Robin, Superboy) in "Welcome to the Planet".


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Back at Daily Planet

Superman is having the trouble of his life in Prime Earth with the appearance of Super-Lex and a Human Clark, with whom he just could not cope-up. Comprising of issues #963-966 from Action Comics monthly ongoing series and issue #52 of Justice League series from The New 52, the story builds up onto two mini-stories. This story leads to the next arc titled "Men of Steel" that will feature a threat from the future called Godslayer.
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