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Alex Ross
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The original Invaders (Captain America, Bucky, Human Torch, Toro, and the Sub-Mariner) return, courtesy of the award-winning team behind Earth X, Justice, and Project: Superpowers! The greatest super-team of World War II finds itself transported from the battlefields of the Second World War to a future they never imagined! Now, the Invaders must face two teams of Avengers who want desperately to believe these heroes are who they say they are, while Tony Stark confronts his greatest challenge since the Civil War as he must deal with the "return" of Steve Rogers. Confronted by a world they barely recognize, the Invaders will have to show Earth's Mightiest Heroes just what k...
  Great all inclusive story, 2010-03-17
I knew this would be an all-inclusive story that had little to no implications to the real continuity of Marvel 616, but it was a great ride. And I was surprised that it actually DID have some implications - the return of one of the Invaders to modern times! (I Won't spoil it, but it's cool).
While the story seemed a little stretched at times, this probably could've been a little shorter, I still enjoyed it.
And while there was some confusion on the description of the book on Amazon, this hardcover is the ENTIRE limited series. Great book, very nice.
Recommended for those who like the Invaders, or want more Avengers to read (as if there's not enough these days)
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Author:
Alex Ross,
Jim Krueger
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Marvel
Loved it!, 2009-09-05
Beautiful artwork, solid and compelling story and the character development was so well done I had to keep reading to see what was around ever turn for every single character.
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Author:
Geoff Johns
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Marvel
With her powers out of control, She-Hulk goes berserk in the town of Bone, Idaho, and the assembled Avengers may not be enough to stop her, even when Hawkeye and the Hulk return to aid them! Plus, the Wasp and Yellowjacket versus Whirlwind in Las Vegas! And when Ant-Man's daughter gets kidnapped, an Avenger sacrifices his life to save her! Collects Avengers (1998) #71-76.
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Author:
Ron Marz,
Stjepan Sejic,
Luke Ross,
Steve Sadowski,
Rick Leonardi,
Kevin Nowlan,
Sami Basri
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Top Cow Productions/Image Comics
First Born, the biggest event of 2007, is collected in this trade paperback along with key subsequent issues of Witchblade. Written by Ron Marz (Ion, Samurai: Heaven & Earth) and featuring art by a hit parade of artists such as Luke Ross, Steve Sadowski, Rick Leonardi, Kevin Nowlan, Stjepan Sejic, and Sami Basri, this volume collects the entire epic storyline which revealed the father of Sara Pezzini's mysterious child, the child's significance, and shook the Top Cow Universe to the core. Collecting Witchblade #110-115, First Born #1-3, and a cover gallery for a massive nine-issue trade paperback.
cop forensics and supernatural eeeeeevil, 2009-09-16
I'm not that terribly familiar anymore with WITCHBLADE or, come to think of it, a lot of the other Top Cow titles. Regarding WITCHBLADE's mythology, I know that the Witchblade itself is a tremendously powerful supernatural artifact wielded by NYPD homicide detective Sara Pezzini, and that this is a very dark comic book series.
In fact, the Witchblade is ridiculously ancient and sentient and has had countless bearers throughout history. Taking on the semblance of a shapeshifting gauntlet, its higher purpose is to serve as a balance between the Light and the Dark, the two primal forces of the universe. The Witchblade is actually an offspring of Light and Darkness, created long ago to cement a truce between the two primal forces. Except that, now, the truce is over. All because Sara Pezzini is about to have a baby. This last part is news to me, having lost touch with the series and just now picking it up again.
Okay, so sometime ago Sara learned that she was inexplicably pregnant, despite her not having gotten it on with anyone for a while now. Concerned about her baby's safety, Sara had relinquished the Witchblade to a dancer named Dani Baptiste, who also happens to be the daughter of Sara's police captain and for whom the Witchblade had revealed an affinity. The storytelling makes it pretty easy to pick up on all this.
NYPD is baffled by a recent spate of murders in which incinerated corpses are featured, and you should know that weird cases like this one crops up all the time in Sara Pezzini's city. WITCHBLADE is gritty police procedural meeting supernatural hoohaa, and it's a cool concept. Although, for the bulk of this volume, the Law & Order angle gives way to the otherworldly stuff.
WITCHBLADE Vol. 5 collects all three issues of Top Cow's hit crossover mini-series FIRST BORN and also issues #110-115 of the regular WITCHBLADE series. FIRST BORN chronicles the epic face-off between the agents of Light and Darkness as they contend for possession of Sara's baby. Along the way, we learn just how special this child is and also the identity of the father. In the course of all this, the Darkness, Dani the current Witchblade, and Patience the current Magdalena get embroiled, drawn together to protect the vulnerable Sara and her baby. I'm not fully caught up on much yet, but I do recognize life-changing events when I see them. This applies even to Jackie Estacado, a New York crime lord and also the human host of the Darkness. Big things happen. The first several WITCHBLADE issues reprinted here are tie-ins to FIRST BORN, while the last three or four issues are basically stand-alone "let's catch our breaths" episodes as Sara and Dani cope with the aftermath of the FIRST BORN arc. There's a creepy ghost story here and a moment, on moving day, in which Sara's cop partner and boyfriend loses his Man Card.
Is this where I talk about Stjepan Sejic's phenomenal artwork? Or maybe I should start with veteran writer Ron Marz, whose CrossGen stuff I really dug. I don't know how long Ron Marz has been writing WITCHBLADE, but I know that he brings a clear storytelling style and a good grasp of character narrative. There's a lot in the dense Witchblade mythos which could've hopelessly bewildered a new reader or a catch-up reader like me. Under Marz' pen (or, probably, keyboard), it never got confusing. The interesting thing is that I find it difficult to pick a side, Darkness or the Light, as their respective minions all seem pretty shady. In fact, the servants of Darkness come off as the lesser evil. And the Angelus, well, she's pretty reprehensible.
There's a Cyberforce sighting, which startled me until I remembered that Top Cow publishes Cyberforce. But the cameo fits, tying in with the Angelus's search for a human vessel sturdy enough to contain her/its celestial essence. The story arc feels epic. There's a feel of big, big things unfolding. The Angelus and its heavenly warrior hosts are salivating for battle, eager for the kill. The Dark, independent of Jackie Estacado, is laying out its machinations. It's all leading to a desperate last stand and a whopping big fighty fight. All the while Ron Marz allows us to soak in the inter-relationships, the uneasy alliances, of our lead characters. Sara, the Magdalena, and Jackie Estacado have distinctive enough personalities that it should be fairly easy to set them straight in readers' minds. Only Dani Baptiste, the current Witchblade, seems a bit bland.
Room for romance, if you're into that mush, for Sara and Detective Patrick Gleason, and also for Dani and a mysterious stranger. But I'm not invested in these characters enough to truly give a fig. But, okay, I've always liked Sara Pezzini.
This trade also comes with an intro by Robert Kirkman (Yay, Invincible!) and a 21-paged gallery reprinting various artists' covers to the FIRST BORN crossover event (including Stjepan Sejic's gatefold cover).
Ron Marz can tell a story, no doubt about it. And I don't want to dis the other artists in this bunch of issues, because their stuff is also pretty nice. But the overwhelming draw has to be Stjepan Sejic, who does the artwork for the FIRST BORN mini-series and whose digitally painted artwork is utterly spectacular. There are some awesome panels of the Darkness and the Angelus duking it out. And the women look... well, they look like what I would've wanted to ogle at when I was 14 years old. As it is, I'm glad Sejic paints his warrior women in mostly full armor because, that way, I don't feel quite so dirty and inappropriate. One reason I'm sticking with this series is that Stjepan Sejic, as of issue #116, has become WITCHBLADE's regular artist. Because, once in a while, I like to read a comic book in which everyone is just so damn sexy looking. Then, afterwards, I prefer to cry into a big pillow.
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Alex Ross Jim Krueger
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MARVEL COMICS
Written by JIM KRUEGER & ALEX ROSS
Penciled by STEVE SADOWSKI
Cover by ALEX ROSS
Variant Cover by DALE EAGLESHAM
DUTY NOW...FOR THE FUTURE! The year long event concludes with a battle royale against a Cosmic Cube powered Red Skull that shakes history to its core. In an altered past and an unrecognizable present, three super-powered teams made up of Earth Mightiest Heroes and the Greatest Heroes of World War Two, find themselves at a crossroads that none of them...or us...may survive.
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Author:
Alex Ross,
Jim Krueger
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Marvel Comics
The original Invaders (Captain America , Bucky , Human Torch , Toro , and the Sub-Mariner) return in a twelve issue maxi-series by the award winning team behind EARTH X, Justice and Project Superpowers .The greatest super-team of World War II finds themselves transported from the battlefields of the Second World War to a future they never imagined! Now, the Invaders find themselves confronted by two teams of Avengers who want desperately to believe these heroes are who they say they are, while Tony Stark faces his greatest challenge since the Civil War as he must deal with the "return" of Steve Rogers. Confronted by a world they barely recognize, the Invaders will have to...
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Author:
Alex Ross,
Jim Krueger
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Marvel Comics
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Author:
Alex Ross,
Jim Krueger
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Marvel
Legends Live Again! The original Invaders (Captain America , Bucky , Human Torch , Toro , and the Sub-Mariner) return in a new story by the award-winning team behind EARTH X, Justice, and Project Superpowers. The greatest super-team of World War II finds themselves transported from the battlefields of the Second World War to a future they never imagined! Now, the Invaders find themselves confronted by two teams of Avengers who want desperately to believe these heroes are who they say they are, while Tony Stark faces his greatest challenge since Civil War as he must deal with the "return" of Steve Rogers. Confronted by a world they barely recognize, the Invaders will have ...
The Invaders Return, 2010-08-21
What happens when the Invaders (Captain America, Bucky, Human Torch, Toro and Submariner) enter a rift in time to meet today's Avengers? How will they return to their past without destroying the present? What will happen when the 1940s Captain America meets Winter Soldier /Captain America? Namor meets himself as the Submariner? Avengers / Invaders presents this compelling scenario, set after the Civil War and Captain America's death.
This is actually quite an epic feast. I usually have niggling doubts about past Marvel characters making their way into the present, but Avengers / Invaders presents Marvel's top characters equally in top form. And why not? Captain America and Namor have long been Marvel stalwarts. And the Invaders as we see, were yesterday's Avengers.
Fortunately, the Invaders don't end up as hokey representations of the past (the 70s series was good but this takes them to a whole different level) and the focus of the story is really about them and the moral choices they have to confront. They do not end up as quaint relics from a bygone era.
The storytelling is excellent mainly because the writers (including Alex Ross) focus on the human core of our heroes. For example, Bucky meets himself as the ex-Winter Soldier / Captain America - triggering a mindbender. How do you deal with your own existence and issues of life and death - when larger problems are at stake?
There are little technical umms however. Stephen Sadowski's pencils are right on (as seen in the included sketches), but something gets lost in the inks and colours. Still, the story doesn't suffer.
Worth the price of admission for Alex Ross's sketchbook - he is truly the most epic superhero artist ever. Every tableaux looks like heroes about to enter Valhalla, Asgard, etc. His hyperrealistic work burns to the soul. The man's covers and variants - which I don't usually gush about - are something to behold...
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Author:
James Robinson,
David S. Goyer,
Steve Sadowski
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DC Comics
The worlds first super-hero team returns in these stories that revamp the team for todays sophisticated comics readers. The new teamwhich includes Black Canary, Starman, Dr. Fate, the Golden Age versions of Flash and Green Lantern and many others as wellfirst gather at the funeral of the original Sandman, Wesley Dodds, only to head into action together against the Scarab and the classic DC villain Mordru!
Why do I think James Robinson rocks?, 2008-06-26
This is a Justice Society , a team of older generation super heroes ( Green Lantern Alan Scott, Dr Fate, Dr Midnite , Wildcat, Hawkman and Hawkgirl ) , with some fresh faces like Starman, Star spangled girl and so on.
So, you will say, we saw that 1000 times. This is DC's mainstream comics.
There is one big thing to be said, along with former two statements: James Robinson wrote it, and he can make mainstream comic really decent product if not more than that. Read Starman if you don't believe me.
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