Batman: Hush

A great story about Hush, the man who can out think Batman. For anyone that knows Batman, that's a big deal. How do you surprise that man that is prepared for all instabilities?

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JSA: Liberty Files

   This blog relates to a DC time bender called "JSA: Liberty Files. This comic is about a what if world in which the JSA were heroes and spies helping fight the Axis Powers in an underground race for time.
   This story focuses around three main characters. The Owl (Doctor Mid-nite), The Clock (Hourman) and the Bat (Batman), who are all three intelligence seekers for the U.S. armed forces.

                                    (From top) The Clock, The Bat, And The Owl
   In part one, They are tailing a German smuggler Jack the Grin (The Joker) who is carrying plans for a German secret weapon. They intercept him in Egypt, and recover the plans, only finding that the plans reveal the "ümbermensch" or in German, the Superman.

                                                           Jack the Grin
   Part two, starts on a sadder note. The Owl had been injured in a previous battle with the Germans and is recovering in the hospital when is killed by a German assassin. They (Now the Bat and the Clock) meet with a Swiss liaison, Terry Sloane, known as Mister Terrific.  However a German agent known as the Scarecrow bursts in and begins to fight Sloane, and during the struggle, Sloane's wife is killed. Then Sloane dons the Mister Terrific Alter-ego, and joins the Bat and The Clock , who all hunt down and kill the Scarecrow. (All the while Batman had been writing his thoughts in a small black journal, and when asked what he was writing, he responded with "nothing" and proceeded to burn the journal. Classic Batman moment.)

                                                  The Scarecrow
   The Bat then travels to Egypt, and confronts the German Superman, revealed to be the Martian Manhunter, who do to his ability to absorb thoughts from other people, Jon had only known Hitler's obscured and hate filled thought of the world. So Batman Dons a Jet-Pack, flys into the middle of the Germans rally, and touches The Martian Manhunter, who then sees that Hitler is... well.... a crazy murderer. So he then decides to join the allies. Batman stopped the release of the German superman just in time, for had he not, the allies were going to release the actual Superman.

    Part Three and forward will come later.
        Thanks for reading
                  -Chryonasake

The Darkness

   This post, ladies and gentleman, is about utter evil bent into something good. The Darkness. Not so recently, a critically acclaimed first person shooter based around this Top Cow comic phenomenon was released 6/25/07. And the sequel followed after this month, with a surprising review. With a comic book video game/ movie, questions get raised. I'm writing this article to clear some of those questions up.
  The basic plot synopsis of the comic book series "The Darkness" revolves around your typical, orphaned, mafia raised, mass murdering hitman named Jackie Estacado. Orphaned at a young age, he was picked up from St. Gerard's orphanage by the Franchetti family, and trained to be a deadly hitman, nicknamed "Kill the children" Estacado. Later to find out that his training was just a pawn movement by the Omnipotent Darkness, but I'll get to that in just a second. Through his youth, he lived the life of a well paid hitman. Losing his virginity at fourteen... during an investigation... to the investigating officer, making his first successful hit at the age of sixteen, he was geared for a life of death dealing. Still nothing could prepare him for his twenty first birthday. In tradition, the Estacado family has been plagued (some would say blessed) by the power of the darkness. As mentioned on Comicshine before, DC's the Blackest Night touches on the ideology of the pre-biblical life bringing light's existence by a dark overlord of sorts called Nekron. Same idea, only the black of time is known in The Darkness, as, what do you guess, The Darkness. An omnipotent god like character, whose power is beyond that of limitations. Two limitations. (If only the Sentry had a few of those) His power can only be harnessed through a human host (go back to where the darkness organizes Jackie's Hitman training) generally manifesting at the age of twenty one, and that host can only access those powers in darkness.
   His powers include, but aren't limited to, Darkness manipulation, Superhuman strength/agility/senses, Energy projection, Flight through wings of darkness, regenerative abilities, creation of objects out of the Darkness' power (Dark essence) i.e. guns and swords, and the ability (Go back to where I said God-like) to create life. He has been known to create small creatures with weapons called Darklings, a large Dragon, and Snake like creatures which can grow out of his back.
  Now with his past and history of violence, the question is raised as to why he is considered a hero. Well, he fought alongside Batman in the Unholy Union series, and is convinced to use his powers for good.
  Differences in the video game:

• The "snake heads" aren't generally things Jackie uses.  
• His Trench coat wardrobe is a strictly origin costume. His real costume is a green, yellow, and black, dark enveloped skintight organic suit.
• He actually has wings that are created by the Darkness, and he flies quite often.
• Jackie's mafia lord in the first game, Uncle Paulie, was actually a minor character, and was his cousin.

As With a lot of dark heroes, his enemies out number his allies. His allies include people like Batman, Superman, Ghost Rider, His very own power supply, And members of the Franchetti Family mob. He has been known to have a romantic complacency with Sara Pezzini, the wielder of the Witch Blade. His enemies consist of The Angelis, who is, by all means, the antithesis of the darkness. Also known as the Light of Heaven. Has almost the exact powers of the Darkness, including the Human host. Of whom was Jackies Adopted Mother Lauren Franchetti. Other foes include a power hungry anti-darkness group known as the brotherhood, and mainly everyone in every opposing mob group.

  So I hope that this brief summary has helped clear the air about a very well written character, who hasn't gotten the recognition I believe he deserves.
             -Chryonasake

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DMZ

Gritty and dark, it's a drama, about war, that isn't from the perspective of soldiers or superheros. Just a no name reporter that does what he thinks needs to be done. A damn good read, one of my favorite comics personally.

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