Posts tagged ‘punisher’
Deadpool – Suicide Kings
Deadpool follows an ad looking for a merc, only to find a pretty-boy billionaire’s son who owes a lot of money to a loan shark. He wants to hire Deadpool to kill the guy, only our boy ‘Pool is set up to look like a terrorist with some creative camera work. Now he’s public enemy number one.
Continue Reading September 25, 2009 at 4:06 pm Leave a comment
Dark Reign – Part 2
Following the events of the 2008 storyline “Secret Invasion”, Norman Osborn resigns as Director of Thunderbolts and disbands the team. Immediately afterward Osborn meets with the President and is given complete control of a new world peace-keeping organization, “H.A.M.M.E.R.” (as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s viability had been deemed compromised by the massive Skrull infiltration). Tony Stark is removed as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., due to his inability to stop the Skrulls and his unwillingness to give up the list of secret identities of every registered SHRA member.
Dark Reign – Part 1
Dark Reign is a American comic book storyline that began in December 2008. Published by Marvel Comics, it deals with the aftermath of the Secret Invasion limited series, which led to a shift of power in the Marvel Universe toward Norman Osborn. “Dark Reign” refers to Osborn’s rise to global power and the ramifications of the changes across the Marvel Universe.Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, stated that Dark Reign is not really “an event; it’s what happening in the Marvel Universe”. He believes that “Dark Reign leads to an interesting place in the Marvel Universe. I think you’ll see a pulling back at the end of Dark Reign, but you’ll understand at the end of it what we were trying to get to.”
