So, last time I was here I posted some pages from the 2000 series Marvel Knights, a fun little exercise into street level team-building, featuring Daredevil assembling a team to take down the Punisher and for about fifteen issues, taking on various threats of a superpowered kind. The team was originally just Daredevil, Black Widow, Shang-Chi and Dagger (from Cloak and Dagger), but the group got an expansion in issue #5 with the inclusion of Moon Knight. The latter thought the team needed some organising (y'know, some actual being a team) and in issue #11, he brought in Luke Cage for some reinforcements.
This is a response to starwolf oakley's recent post, featuring Cage's interaction with DD in the pages of Bendis' Daredevil.
Scans not mine. Written by Chuck Dixon, drawn by Ed Barreto. 7/22.
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so, the Human Defence Corps.
Currently the unit General Sam "Wade Eiling 1.1" Lane's in command of, they were created under the Luthor administration to be the one armed gov't group gunning after non-baseline threats that was actually public.
( And they know what they're doing, surprisingly. )
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The Karl and Barbara Kesel run on Hawk and Dove was one of my favourite titles back in the 1990's. They oversaw the introduction of Dawn Granger as the second Dove (Who was, to be honest, FAR more interesting than Don Hall had ever been) and created as good a superhero comic as one might hope to find as well.
The Kesels are amongst the few people who seems to "get" Jack Kirby characters and concept, Karl in particular used them a lot in things like this title (and Superboy), and in a way that was usually respectful, but expanded on them in ways that Kirby never did, usually because he was already moving on to his NEXT idea.
Take the Female Furies, Granny Goodness' elite warriors; Lashina, Stompa, Bernadeth and the marvellously named Mad Harriet. In some way these ladies are a lynchpin of the DCU, an equivalent perhaps to the MU's Wrecking Crew. They're powerful, versatile, each has an awesome visual design, and together form a team which is a good, but not unbeatable, challenge for a new hero team (or single hero if they're powerful enough) to test their mettle and resourcefulness. They also have the advantage of not needing much explanatory motivation "A mission from Darkseid/Granny Goodness" covers a multitude of plot points.
And at the same time, they had a static membership for a LOOOONG time. Prior to this story they had only ever added ONE member to the team when John Ostrander introduced the archer Artemiz and her cyber-pack (Technologically enhanced Apokaliptian wolves, NOT exactly cuddly puppies).
And then we had this story, from Hawk and Dove 21, with guest art from Steve Erwin, which presents us with a...
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I wrote a script this evening that would let anyone, not just admins, backup Scans Daily.
After asking myself, "What would Oracle do?" I've decided not to share it with anyone. After all, I wouldn't want to share the ability to backup the SD community until everyone has the ability to back up the SD community.
Here's a scan to make this post legal.
( Babs has a boyfriend! )
Peace out, y'all!
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![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) scans_daily (posted by ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dizmo) |
| 2009-11-06 15:46 |
| A smorgasbord of Superdictionary silliness. |
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| char: atom/ray palmer, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: catwoman/selina kyle, char: flash/barry allen, char: green arrow/oliver queen, char: hawkgirl/shayera hol, char: joker, char: krypto the superdog, char: lex luthor, char: lois lane, char: martha kent, char: penguin/oswald cobblepot, char: supergirl/linda danvers, char: superman/clark kent, in-joke: bees. my god., title: superdictionary |
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Yeah, have a handful of Superdictionary entries! Always appreciated, I know. I went back through the IJcomm, and I'm pretty sure none of these have been seen on it up to this point, so yes.
( Under the cut are fourteen entries. That is as many as one ten plus four. )
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Chances are that if you owned ANY DC licensed merchandise in the late 70's or early 80's it either featured art by, or based on, work done by Jose-Luis Garcia-Lopez and Dick Giordano, two stalwarts of the organisation, who produced acres of top notch, lovely licensing art.
The art would be used from notepads to action figures, from t-shirts to underoos, and so had to be both simple and stylish, easily reproduced and instantly recognisable. They could hardly have asked for better!
The attached pics are scanned as best I can, and hopefully might bring a little happiness to your desktop should you wish to tweak them that way.
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I've been hot and cold about Brian Michael Bendis' work. But I've decided to take a look at his DAREDEVIL run with Alex Maleev.
Matt Murdock has found out two things: the Owl is trying to take over the Kingpin's territory with Mutant Growth Hormone *and* the NYPD are trying to get him on tape as Daredevil. So if Daredevil can't do it...
According to Wikipedia, this takes place after Jessica and Luke had their one night stand but before Jessica realized she was pregnant in ALIAS.
( I'm starting to doubt the man-crush theory. )
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On today's show, we will be baking a gigantic disaster souffle. First, take one genuine hero leader, put him in a situation he/she doesn't understand. Next, add one Deadpool... #17 flavor. Add plenty of munitions and knife sharpeners (can never have too much). Presto! Let explode and bring about raw carnage until done.
Make sure you bring plenty of electric fans to cool things off, because the action is hot and the sh*t tends to hit them!
CBR has the full preview.
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| scans_daily (posted by lipsofpoison) |
| 2009-11-06 16:35 |
| Jason in 'Tec Comics |
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| char: alfred pennyworth, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: catwoman/selina kyle, char: elongated man/ralph dibny, char: jim gordon, char: joker, char: leslie thompkins, char: robin/red hood/jason todd, char: two-face/harvey dent, creator: alan davis, creator: joey cavalieri, creator: klaus janson, creator: mike w. barr, title: detective comics |
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I've saved a lot of random bits of Jason adventures in 'Tec Comics over the last couple of years and upon reviewing them, there are some interesting points and foreshadowing, so after #571 was put up, I thought I'd put these up as well. Some of them are on the crisis cusp (just before, just after) so be aware of that. Let's start with what Jason's cape was used most often for:
( About 30 scans of varying sizes from varied issues under the cut. )
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| scans_daily (posted by pyrotwilight) |
| 2009-11-06 11:26 |
| Yet Another Few Siege Teasers: Norman's Secret Weapon and Look, up in the Sky! |
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| char: beyonder, char: green goblin/norman osborn, char: mephisto, char: molecule man/owen reece, char: odin, char: scarlet witch/wanda maximoff, char: sentry/bob reynolds, char: thanos, char: x-man/nate grey, event: siege |
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DC's Source blog has the first five pages of the upcoming new JSA ongoing up.
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Woo! First post on the new S_D here at IJ! I've finally got a scanner, so expect more comics in the future! Since you guys introduced me to Tim Drake and Spoiler back in the day, I figured the Robin/Spoiler Special from August 2008 would be a good way to start.
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| scans_daily (posted by colonel_green) |
| 2009-11-05 22:48 |
| Guess the conversation |
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| char: athena/marvel, char: hebe/marvel, char: hercules/marvel, char: stature/cassie lang, char: usagent/john walker, char: zeus/marvel, creator: khoi pham, creator: rodney buchemi, publisher: marvel comics, title: incredible hercules, title: mighty avengers |
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Looking over a few unlettered preview images for the upcoming Incredible Hercules #138 (due out at the end of the month), you can sort of follow the conversation that the characters are having, which is fun.
Edit: now with a preview image of Mighty Avengers #32, featuring Hercules.
( Read more... )
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This classic French BD, which inspired Star Wars and The Fifth Element, has never become very popular in the US, though quite a lot of it has been published here at one time or another. This one, though, is my own scanlation of a story that was never released in English (15 pp., ~8 MB; dial-uppers beware!).
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Someone asked about this (although it wasn't a Request per se)
Since it's an old comic I can post 7 scans, right?
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Okay I recenty bought volumes 2-6 of Peter David's run on Hulk and decided to do some reserch on a giant red gamma monster called Madman.http://marvel.com/universe/Madman_%28Phillip_Sterns%29 Partly because I liked the character and mostly because we've got another giant red problem in the Hulk books now.
Imagine my suprise when I saw that he was one those villains that confessed his love to his adversary. Being a fan of this type I would love to see some scans of the confession.
For legality have some Kristoff Vernard. ( Read more... )
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...only this time it's from Hercules' "Assault on New Olympus" story.
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*Ack!* Those things are just WRONG. This story appeared in MISTER MYSTERY# 7, September 1952. Basil Wolverton had a distinctive style like no other, it had texture and solidity that made it seem both unreal and convincing. He's mostly remembered for his twisted distorted portraits that appeared in MAD and DC's PLOP, as well as trading cards. Odd stuff. He also wrote and drew POWERHOUSE PEPPER, which used more alliteration per page than anything in history. Later in life, he did religious art that seems to concentrate on the coming apocalypse and it's as unsettling as you might expect.Earthmen Rod Crenshaw and Reese Bitner make a crashed landing on Venus, slamming down on the dense mysterious jungle. Not wearing any restraint belts (of course a 1950s comic), Bitner dies from a broken neck in the crash. Oh well, Crenshaw thinks and goes out to clear the encroaching fungus off the ship and make repairs. Then he notices some native life forms that are a bit unusual.
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Four scans from X-Men vs. Agents of Atlas #2.
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The first issue of Fabletown's resident super-spy's mini-series...
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The DCU Blog has some previous of the upcoming story involving Deadshot for Secret Six #15 (he's on the cover, so no big spoilers.)
One page of the preview behind the cut.
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The Great Ten are the Chinese superhero team DC introduced in 52.
Each issue of their 10-part maxi-series will apparently focus on a different member of the team. The first issue puts the spotlight on the Accomplished Perfect Physician.
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Natasha Romanova's been all over the place the last few months, and now she finally gets a story all her own. Four scans from Black Widow: Deadly Origin #1.
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Philip Tan posted some uncoloured/uninked preview images of Batman and Robin 6 on his Twitter account.
Consider these spoilery....
( Two uninked preview pages.... )
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| scans_daily (posted by colonel_green) |
| 2009-11-04 15:45 |
| Merc with a Myth |
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| char: amadeus cho, char: arcade, char: athena/marvel, char: deadpool/wade wilson, char: hebe/marvel, char: hercules/marvel, char: may parker, char: nightmare, char: spider-man/peter parker, creator: dalibor talajic, creator: fred van lente, creator: greg pak, creator: rodney buchemi, publisher: marvel comics, title: incredible hercules |
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Four scans apiece from Assault on New Olympus Prologue and Deadpool Team-Up #899, featuring the Incredible Hercules.
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