Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Detective comics 3


Batman gets straight into action in the opening scene against the dollmaker. But first he have to survive after getting injection that causes his right side of the body paralyzed. Soon batman have to fend off a few thugs and there's a lot of action as he tries to make a getaway. Batman escaped and takes jack in the box with him for interrogation which reveals nothing. Batman's further digging into dollmaker's origins reveals that his father was a mad serial killer with a penchant for collecting body parts. And the person responsible for stopping and ending this killer's life is Gordon back in the days. So now dollmaker is out for revenge but it seems there are more obscure villains pulling his strings.

The dollmaker has more plans for batman as he held commissioner Gordon and the little girl Olivia as hostages. Batman gets a bat signal from Olivia but unknown to him Olivia is part of dollmaker's plan to lure Batman to a trap. Batman arrives at the abandoned Mercy Hospital knowing well that it is a trap. Batman ended up getting knocked out by bentley and thrust into a dollmaker's deadly game on live broadcast.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Daredevil 6


After being kicked out a boat by bruiser in the previous issue, Daredevil ended up underwater. Quick reflex enable daredevil to hook his weapon on to the getaway boat where bruiser has abducted Randall. Bruiser brought Randall to the Midas base where all the leaders of criminal organization gathered from AIM to Hydra. Just as Randall and Austin is about to be executed, Daredevil barged in and gave bruiser a kick. But bruiser is no villain to go down easily and outmatched Daredevil on every step.

Daredevil got a beating again but once again his super sense comes into play and a swift move disabled bruiser permanently. Meanwhile the head of Midas retrieved the omega drive that contains all the data on all the criminal organization. The terrorists decides to take advantage of the situation and goes after daredevil and the drive. Daredevil get drive from the Midas boss just as the terrorists arrived and killed him. A complicated persuasion from Daredevil prevented another showdown with the terrorists and Daredevil walked out of there with Austin and Randall unscathed. With the omega drive in his hand, Daredevil is going to have his hands full as the terrorists will do whatever they can to get their hands on it. Maybe in another few months.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Resurrection Man 2

Resurrection man or Mitch Shelley as he is known now arrived at a care center in Portland. There he found out that his father used to be housed there and he begins to dig in about his past. Mitch has a permanent memory loss and every clue he can get here is vital for him. Here he encountered Darryl Roth who claims to be a neighbour of his fathers' and offered to help get any information regarding his father.


Unknown to Mitch an angel named Suriel that looks hot and has previously attacked him on a plane in the previous issue is hot on his heel. Not only that, two hot agents working for some shady organization named Bonnie and Carmen is also looking for Mitch. They finally tracked Mitch to Portland and a battle between Mich and the girls ensues. Mitch used his new power and turned to water easily as bullets passed right through him. Both the agents is not normal agents of course with super meta healing abilities and guns ablazing. In the final pages, Mitch was knocked out when he got electrocuted by the agents causing him to die and due for resurrection any time. One of the main attractions of this comic title must be the illustration of the hot and sexy agents going after Mitch. Seems like that is the main motivation to keep catching up on this title apart from Mitch mysterious past.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Captain America 4


After being attacked by a giant replica robot of himself in the last issue, Captain America vanished into Jimmny Jupiter alternate world. Everything seems fine at first as bravo toys with his mind. Till bravo puts Cap through the horror of having to face an alternate america turn to fascism. Bravo starts to kick Cap's ass in the alternate world and Cap is helpless. Bravo explains that his squad gets trap in the alternate world together with the other hydra agents in the mission years ago after Jimmy fell into a coma. Both Bravo and the hydra work together in order to survive in the alternate reality.

Meanwhile Nick Fury, Sharon Carter and Falcon tracks down the hydra agents from the alternate reality that has been behind all this. The hydra led by the queen is trying to merge the real world and the alternate world by using old Jimmy Jupiter using the world wide web. It sounds crazy but nonetheless hydra are convinced it will work. The trio of Falcon, Fury and Carter attacks just as hydra were implementing their evil scheme. Just as Carter were about to rescue old Jimmy, the queen held Jimmy hostage and threatens to kill the old man which would trap Cap in the alternate world.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Incredible Hulk 2

Bruce Banner is getting more obsessed about finding out how he got separated from hulk. The obsession leads to disagreement with Betty in the early part of the story and she left. Bruce gets more obsessed and experiments on everything whether on himself and on animals. All his experiments don't get unnoticed though. A secret organization whose prime objective is to track down mad scientist is on his radar. It enlists the help of hulk to deal with Bruce. Hulk and the organization had a rendezvous at a ship in the middle of ocean when they are under attack by none other than giant mutated sharks. Hulk waste no time in dealing with them without much trouble. More convincing to hulk helping the organization fell on deaf ears and hulk refused to help them giving excuse of not caring for anything.

At the Moloid caves the followers of hulk gets some uninvited guests in the shape of mutant beasts created by Bruce. The beast wants to exact revenge on the hulk and its followers for hurting their master who is Bruce Banner who created them. Marc Silvestri run on this new issue of Hulk is excellent in the artwork as always and the style is not much changed like it was ten years ago during his run at image comics. The hulk sharks drawings are worth a second look.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

The Dark Knight 3

Batman get straight to action facing off against a mega sized joker on a train. As the white rabbit watches the two tangles and the joker turns into another being and reveals himself to be clayface who has been pretending to be joker all along. A head on fight with clayface leaves both batman and clayface knocked out. The mysterious girl in rabbit suit who is behind all this menace slips away just as Flash arrives. Quite surprised to see Flash appearing here.




Batman's continuous investigation leads him to suspect poison ivy is also part of the conspiracy that turn half of arkham asylum residents mad. Batman and Flash went to poison ivy's lair. Flash have to take a leave as he got one of poison ivy's toxin by pricking his thumb. That leaves batman to confront her but all batman found was a plant infested rundown building. The artwork is getting more marvellous as the issue goes. The storyline is as good as the main batman issue storyline.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Wolverine 17

There are dragons and gorillas and triads in this new storyline. Wolverine's life keeps getting more and more intriguing. After recent events Wolverine decides to take the next step to open a new school for mutants. But first he needs to make a stop over at Chinatown where he is also known as the black dragon the underworld kingpin. Unknown to him trouble is brewing in Chinatown where a few gang clashes have happened. Wolverine's stop over at Melita's place doesn't last long as he have to settle the gang fights and keep the streets safe, part of the job of black dragon.

After meeting Master Po who informs him of who is responsible, Wolverine starts going after the gang who has been killing people. It doesn't take long before Wolverine stumbles on a drug dealing organization. Then in comes an ape like super human called Gorilla man who has been all along tracking the drug dealers. Egos and misunderstanding starts to set in and before long both are engaged in a fight. Master Po discovery of a hidden passageway stops them in their fight and investigation leads to an ancient tunnel to China where drugs are smuggled. Kind of hard to digest but not before the appearance of dragons hauling crates of drugs baffles all of them. Their presence are discovered and they are surrounded by the gangs and dragons with no way out. Another day in the life of Wolvie.