Showing posts with label Stuart Immonen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stuart Immonen. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Amazing Spider-Man – Red Goblin | Comics

One of Spider-Man's greatest enemies meets with another to form an unholy bond and get back at him by threatening everyone close to him.

Due to previous unfortunate events, Peter Parker had to ruin Parker Industries and everything it was built on in order to prevent Doctor Octopus or Hydra from misusing any of it. Currently, he is crashing at the couch of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Bobbi Morse AKA Mockingbird when he is not fighting crime.

Aside from that, his adventure as Spider-Man continues and he managed to get a job as Daily Bugle's science section editor. By this time, two mercenaries breach at underwater containment facility called Lock Box to secure a package and releases an artifact known as Zodiac Key.

A year ago, on the same day, Spidey had thrown out the villainous Scorpio into Zodiac Dimension for a year after he gained a year worth of prior knowledge of future. On the same day, Lock Box is breached and he got out while gaining the key as well.

He is eventually taken down and he warns before going to prison that something is coming for the Wall-Crawler, which he brushes off. Elsewhere, those mercenaries arrive to their employer with the package, which turned out to be the Carnage symbiote and the boss being Norman Osborn.

Then he would be called upon to by the current Sorcerer Supreme, Loki in absence of Doctor Strange. Years ago, he owed Spidey a favor and he just wanted to return it now but after a brief adventure together, the latter used it in most unexpected way Laufeyson could ever think of.

Meanwhile, Osborn unleashed the symbiote after repeatedly failing to restore his madness by mystical, psychological or surgical ways. It tries to take over but he offered to teach it becoming more sadistic starting with killing two of his own henchmen.

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Amazing Spider-Man – Red Goblin | Comics

Carnage is intrigued by Osborn's method of torturing and wanted more but Norman agrees to that for being in full control. Not only does it repair his facial appearance, the symbiote ejected all nanites from his body that was stopping him from becoming Green Goblin.

Alchemax C.E.O. Liz Allan asks Flash Thompson to be present as Agent Anti-Venom during one of their upcoming presentation. There, Phil Urich showed up as Goblin King with his minions, which results in a fight and Peter ended up hitting the jackpot with Mary Jane Watson after the fight.

Peter and Mary Jane were at her apartment passionately making out and reminiscing about their past times together but then remember about their reason for splitting up seeing his costume underneath. Liz asks Flash again to try and retrieve the exploding metal tritium from Goblin King.

In one of his abandoned his gentleman's club, Osborn was talking to someone about Spider-Man whom he abducted and had blindfolded. Hearing some noise downstairs, he goes to check and confronts Phil, who he kills by ripping his heart out when Goblin King attacked him with a flame sword.

Norman came back monologuing to his prisoner explaining how he is going to deal with the Wall-Crawler but his hostage pointed out how Green Goblin has failed over and over in past only to fail each time and accidentally spills a hint.

With that, he managed to deduce the secret identity of the hero and his captive is revealed to be none other than J. Jonah Jameson. He then raids into Daily Bugle looking for the Web-Head and these two gets into a fight. GG threatened everyone with tritium explosives and Spidey managed to contain the blast.

Osborn got impaled on a girder and faking his dying state, he calls Parker near to thank him. Then he turned into a goblin/symbiote hybrid called Red Goblin. With his newfound power, Carnage/Goblin proves to overwhelming for Spider-Man alone.

He offers to leave him alone if he gives up being hero or kill each and everyone he loves. Even with help from his friends Anti-Venom, Clash, Human Torch, Miles Morales and Silk, Pete didn't stand a chance.

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The Loose Thread

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Amazing Spider-Man – Red Goblin

Despite Spider-Man having an impressive Rogue's Gallery, his villains can get a bit repetitive over times. In 2018, Marvel Comics hired writer Christos Gage (Civil War – House of M, House of M – Avengers) and Dan Slott (She-Hulk, Silver Surfer) to solve that problem in "Red Goblin" storyline.

Artists Jim Cheung (Avengers – The Children's Crusade, New Avengers – Illuminati), Giuseppe Camuncoli (Darth Vader – Imperial Machine, Darth Vader – Legacy's End) and Stuart Immonen (Fear Itself, Inferno) delivered illustrations for issues # 794-801 of Amazing Spider-Man monthly ongoing series.

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Go Down Swinging

Green Goblin has been a terrible menace who terrorized Peter Parker on personal level and in his super-heroism. Carnage is another psychopath who is nearly as ruthless but a lot more chaotic. When two of these terrible personas merges and creates a new one, it surely is a live horror show. With a slow build-up, the plot eventually delivers more twists and turns than readers have probably bargained for.

Throughout the arc, references of the events from One More Day, Secret Empire and The Clone Conspiracy were made. Apparently, it took place between "Hunt For Wolverine" and "Return of Wolverine" crossover events and Wolverine even showed up in a cameo in the first issue of the story.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

All-New Captain America – Hydra Ascendant | Comics

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All-New Captain America – Hydra Ascendant
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Steve Rogers was kidnapped and taken to Dimension Z by his long-time enemy Arnim Zola. Sharon Carter followed him to rescue but left behind while Rogers escaped successfully. In a fight against Iron Nail, the Super-Soldier Serum was drained from his body and he starts aging rapidly. Passing his shield to friend Sam Wilson, who used to be The Falcon, Steve chooses a normal life with Sharon and his adopted son Ian, who eventually made it back home. Now as Captain America, Sam heads to a new Hydra base in Ecuador to uncover their latest scheme with his trusty sidekick Redwing. He is spotted at the entrance by a Hydra agent and upon engaging, he led Cap right into the heart of their operation. Steve's son Ian Rogers came to help Sam as Nomad.

They discover a boy, who seems to be Hydra's new secret weapon guarded by Batroc the Leaper. In his effort to save Sam's life, Ian seemingly killed Batroc. Fleeing with the boy, Cap and Nomad stumbled onto more Hydra goons and is forced to flee in an elevator that led to Hydra's new leader Baron Helmut Zemo and his squad of villains consisting Armadillo, Baron Blood, Crossbones, King Cobra, Madame Hydra, Sinthea Shmidt and Taskmaster. Cap fled with the boy Lucas as Nomad held the others off. As Sam was having is butt kicked by Brock Rumlow, he received help from the most unexpected person ever. Meanwhile, Zemo plans to spread the blood of the Inhuman kid Lucas in the atmosphere as his blood can sterilize the entire human race.
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Successor of Mantles
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Cabal of New Hydra

All-New Captain America – Hydra Ascendant (Softcover)

All-New Captain America – Hydra Ascendant (Hardcover)

Writer Rick Remender (Black Science, Fear Agent) returns with a new Captain America storyline "Hydra Ascendant" from the brand-new monthly ongoing series All-New Captain America, with aid from artist Stuart Immonen (Fear Itself, Inferno). The story collects issues #01-06 from the monthly series and flashbacks into the Castaway in Dimension Z storyline as well as Infinity crossover event to build up a fresh status-quo for Sam Wilson's Captain America. As a new bearer of the torch of Sentinel of Liberty, Sam finds himself against a lot of challenges that clearly overwhelms him but he sticks to his cause till the end. Alex Ross, Kris Anka, Laura Martin, Paul Pope and Sara Pichelli (Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Men) has provided variant covers for the issues involved in this story arc from Marvel Comics.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

All-New X-Men – Yesterday's X-Men | Comics

To the world, Dr. Hank McCoy is better known as a member of the X-Men, going by the name Beast. Throughout his life, he has been mutated from his human form to a blue-furry bestial look and now he is experiencing another next-generation mutation that is killing him. Not knowing how much time he still has left, Hank worries about the future of the mutant-kind that is under peril now.

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All-New X-Men – Yesterday's X-Men | Comics

Storm calls him to see how the news of Cyclops, Emma Frost and Magneto going public to recruit a mutant who can control time named Eva Bell goes live. Iceman, Kitty Pryde and Storm are horrified by the actions of Cyclops and his Extinction X-Men team, who apparently wants to start some mutant revolution and how their younger self would be ashamed to see them like this.

This gives Hank an idea and in a last ditch effort to save his world, he travels 20 years back at past to bring Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Angel and Marvel Girl to face their counterparts and right after bringing them, he collapses. They immediately face hostility from Wolverine but eventually both teams get along to cure Hank.

On news of a riot after discovering another mutant, the five of them heads there in Blackbird to confront Scott. While Cyclops is stunned seeing his younger self and as her telepathy kicks in, Jean Grey discovers that Scott indeed has killed Professor X. At the same time, Scott starts experience his power losing control as a side-effect of being previous host to Phoenix force. In all these chaos, Jean Grey mentally links both Hanks to save the older one.

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Past Meets Future

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In the aftermath of the "Avengers Vs. X-Men" crossover event, the awareness that Professor Charles Xavier have mounted for mutants have greatly diminished and the credit goes to Scott Summers. Marvel Comics have brought the team of writer Brian Michael Bendis (Avengers Disassembled, Civil War II) and artist Stuart Immonen (All-New Captain America – Hydra Ascendant, Star Wars – Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon) on board to create the next-gen X-Men story.

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Today's X-Men

The story will take readers back to the past to realize how the dream of co-existence started in the first place. The storyline was released on 2013 and collected issues #01-05 from the All-New X-Men monthly ongoing series, to be concluded in "Here To Stay" story arc up next.
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Monday, July 1, 2013

Fear Itself | Comics

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Fear Itself | Comics
The Red Skull and his followers performed a ritual of blood-sacrifice decades ago, during World War II, to resurrect the Asgardian god of fear, The Serpent. His ritual caused the Hammer of Skadi to fall on Earth but even after locating the hammer, he was unable to lift it. In recent days Red Skull's daughter Sin finds it and becomes The Skadi, Herald of the Serpent upon lifting it. The Serpent is freed from his underwater imprisonment and seven divine hammers falls on Earth's various locations. Tony Stark offers help from his company, Stark Resilient to re-construct Asgard, after the demolition caused in "Siege" but on Serpent's return, Odin draws back his men from Earth.

The Serpent actually is Odin's brother Cul, who was defeated by him ages ago for his corrupt rule after their father's death. Soon those seven divine hammers come into contact with the villain Absorbing Man, Attuma, Grey Gargoyle, Hulk, Juggernaut, Titania and The Thing of the Fantastic Four, turning them into Serpent's generals. With the newly gained divine power and in its mystic influence, they start creating havoc around the globe on behalf of their Dark Master. The Avengers and Thor opposes The Skadi and the other generals of The Serpent with everything they got but even after everyone’s best effort, The Serpent is not stalled a bit. Spider-Man, Black Widow, Iron Fist, Wolverine, Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye, Red She-Hulk and Doctor Strange are assembled to make a final stand against The Serpent and his generals.

For more information on Fear Itself comic event, you can check out these links below.

Fear Itself (Comics) Wikipedia


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The Serpent's War
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Last Stand Against Worthies

Fear Itself (Softcover)

Fear Itself (Hardcover)

In 2011, Marvel Comics published a major crossover comic event titled "Fear Itself" by writer Matt Fraction (Satellite Sam, Sex Criminals), who composed the main plot for the event and artist Stuart Immonen (All-New Captain America – Hydra Ascendant, Ultimate Fantastic Four – Doom) delivered the illustrations. Numerous tie-in books were released to fill the gaps of the arc of this seven issue limited series as the likes of The Mighty Thor, The Invincible Iron Man, Avengers, New Avengers, Secret Avengers, Avengers Academy, Thunderbolts, Spider-Man, Black Widow, Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, Uncanny X-Force, Wolverine, Ghost Rider and Deadpool. It is the second event after "Civil War" which is inspired by the real world, through the main story was formed centering on the fables of Asgard.
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Siege – New Avengers | Comics

Ronin unsuccessfully attempts to kill Norman Osborn to end his "Dark Reign" and New Avengers comes for his rescue.

Ever since Norman Osborn has rose to power after helping end "Skrull Invasion", it became a major problem for entire superhero community and forced many like New Avengers into hiding. Most recently, Luke Cage was in a dire state following their encounter with Osborn and his cronies with Wolverine now stuck in Utopia.

Clint Barton among all is acting rabidly as he constantly declaring to kill him and can't simply get how his teammates are not supporting him. He is particularly annoyed over Spider-Man not taking out Osborn when he was Green Goblin and had the chance but none of his friends are willing to cross that road he is so eager to go down to.

Osborn is working on a list that he wants taken care of that Ares calls a hit list but he managed to convince God of War otherwise. Later that night, Clint decided to invade Avengers Tower in Ronin costume when he saw The Sentry going out. He breaks into and throws out Mac Gargan AKA Venom, which out the entire building on lockdown.

Barton fired a couple of rounds at current "Hawkeye" when they met before evading Daken and shot an arrow through his head. Clint asked Moonstone for help to kill Osborn when crossing paths with her or to let go but she couldn't comply. He came too close to kill Osborn but is eventually taken out by Ares and ended up being captive.

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Siege – New Avengers | Comics

He wakes up next day surrounded by Osborn and his Dark Avengers, who came here asking for their hideout but Barton starts causing trouble until he was knocked down by Sentry. Mentallo is called in to strip his secrets out of memory, forcing him to relive past moment of "Avengers Disassembled" and "House of M" events when he died.

Finding out their secret hideout, Osborn trashed that place down to find out that everyone left an hour ago. Meanwhile, Jessica Jones, Mockingbird, Ms. Marvel and Spider-Woman break into H.A.M.M.E.R. Hellicarier to rescue Clint. He apologizes to his friends for his actions and Steve Rogers shows up out of nowhere to reassemble them all.

The Hood has returned from his quest for power and offers his gang to buff up with Norn Stones to hunt down Avengers. In Brooklyn, Steve and Bucky gets ambushed by Corruptor and Living Laser but they managed to work it up with unexpected help of Luke Cage, followed by arrival of former Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury.

He ran a secret code to see whether or not his old war buddy is a Life Model Decoy and Rogers checks out. Their sweet reunion is then interrupted by a sudden attack from H.A.M.M.E.R. squad but is thwarted by Secret Warriors. The Avengers moved back to their secret base and everyone are astound to see these living legends among them.

Elsewhere, Griffin and Mandrill finds engages Spider-Man and Spider-Woman by turning the latter on the former. It took a lot of effort for Spidey to try and help her break free of mind-control and then some to spare lives of her enemies.

Catching up to Carol Danvers and to other friends at their current safe house, Rogers notices a live broadcast on TV of Osborn and his Dark Avengers taking down The Mighty Thor in a siege of Asgard. Steve then angrily asks Bucky and Fury of how many people they have at their side, ready to fight right now and declares Avengers Assemble.

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Completing an impressive 64 issue run that started back in 2005, writer Brian Michael Bendis (New Avengers – Breakout, New Avengers – Sentry) wraps up first monthly ongoing comic-book series of New Avengers for Marvel Comics in 2010 with "Siege – New Avengers" tit-in storyline, which continued from his previous arc "Powerloss".

Bendis was assisted by artists Bryan Hitch (Age of Ultron, The Ultimates), Marko Djurdjevic, Mike Mayhew, Mike McKone and Stuart Immonen (All-New Captain America – Hydra Ascendant, Ultimate Fantastic Four – Doom) on the story. Immonen worked on cover arts for all four numbered issues involved from regular series run.

"Dark Reign" has been unusual for all heroes to deal with a maniac like Norman Osborn being in charge of everything but he ultimately screws up publicly during "Siege" crossover event, giving Cap and his friends enough reason to strike back at him.

Though Steve Rogers is back in action, his old pal James Bucky Barnes still remains Captain America. It is not shown what really happened of The Sentry when he went full rogue and became a massive threat for everyone after losing total control but a happy conclusion was drawn for all members of New Avengers in finale issue.
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