Assassin's Creed: The Fall

   This post is to review the Wildstorm/ubisoft Brainchild that is "Assassin's Creed: The fall". This three part comic tails the stories of two new people, Subject Four (Daniel Cross) who, in 1988, is reliving the memories of Nikolai Orelov, a Russian assassin who reigned in 1880.
   Part one opens with Nikolai battling Templar agents to gain control of a powerful Holy relic, hidden within Moscow's walls. This first edition leads to a metaphorical Boss fight with Tzar Alexander the Third. The fight is a clash of swords and hidden blades aboard a speeding bullet train.

                            Nikolai boards the train and fights 
 Part two picks up with a plot of Nikolai's to attack a Templar research station in Siberia, which leads, happily enough, to the Tunguska event (a large explosion killing thousands). Meanwhile in modern (1988) time, Daniel is attempting to gather history on the assassin's order.

                                Tunguska Event as shown in "The Fall" 
 Part three is where it takes a dramatic turn for the worst. Daniel meets with the modern mentor of the assassin's creed, and kills him, because you then find that Daniel was an Abstergo (Templar organization) sleeper agent brainwashed to kill the mentor at around the age of 7.
   All in all a very good fast paced read that is sure to make "Assassin's Creed" fans happy.

                             Nikolai and Daniel in the Animus


          Thanks for reading

                -Chryonasake

Batman: Under the Red Hood

   This post relates not to a comic, but to a DC Classic animated movie, "Under the Red Hood". Now with Comic book related movies, comes a lot of incorrect hooha. However, this movie does not. There are a few minor details that are focused on more, and a few comic related moments that are ignored, but overall it gets the point across.
   The story opens in a warehouse were The joker is beating Jason Todd ( second Robin now deceased) to death with a crowbar. Joker leaves, and a bomb goes off killing Jason right as Batman arrives. Cuts to modern day, Batman meets the new Red Hood in a rooftop chase sequence, and loses him, but through voice clarity, finds that The Hood calls him Bruce. So after a sequence of Black Mask and the Red Hood having a turf war, The Black Mask sends in the Fearsome Hand of Four to fight the Red Hood, and is then met by Batman, and the two square off against the Four, and after a victory, Red Hood vanishes leaving a single drop of Blood on one of the Four's swords.

   So then metaphorical feces fan slinging happens. DNA matches the blood to that of Jason Todd, which leads to the sympathetic vendetta to save Jason from this new life of crime. At this point, Black Mask has gone into cahoots with the Joker, who has put, not only Black Mask but, all of the Black Mask's goons into a truck bed, filled with gasoline, and drops a lighter. His plan to... well... his lack of plan was then thwarted by the Batman who douses the flame with a Batplane projected fire extinguisher. Batman then grapple hooks the Joker from the truck and begins to carry him away, until the Red Hood cuts the Joker free and escapes with him.

    The two Meet up in Crime Alley and Chase through the streets until they crash through the wall of an abandoned apartments bathroom, where batman brakes the wall of a bathtub, the wall of the toilet, and the wall... with Jason Todd's head. Jason then holds a gun to Batman and reveals that he has captured the Joker, and demands Batman shoot the latter. Batman refuses and leaves.

    The majority aforementioned is absolutely accurate. Thus Under the Red Hood is a good watch for all you diehard Batfans.
                            Thanks for reading
                      -Chryonasake

Justice League #1 Reeboot

    In the world of geeky comic fandom, there's a lot of controversy. Most of which stems from external media sources, i.e. Diehard Batman fans attempting to swallow the movie the Dark knight. However once in a while the actual writers will do something so stupid (The infinite number of crisis that coccured, including "Infinite Crises", in the DC universe) that people get angry. The latest of those crazy things was (In all caps represents yelling) DC RE-BOOTED THE ENTIRE COMPANY! Everything started over! The first of the baby comics that i've read, was The Justice League #1.

     Now I'm going to be honest, when I picked this up, I had a negative notion to begin with. But the odd thing is I really didn't mind it. Like all new series there were good and bad things, but lets focus on the good. In the original justice league appearance (The Brave and the Bold #28) it was far to campy to take the formation seriously. In this, characters such as Batman, The Green Lantern, and Superman, all have an actual personality. Batman with the brooding, GL with the arrogance, and Superman with the, well... Supermanlyness.
     The story of this comic, revolves around two things. The formation of the league, and the introduction to a new villain. In this comic, I feel it should be noted, you only meet four members of the league. Batman, the Green Lantern, Victor Stone (Cyborg), and Superman. The Green Lantern Is in patrol in Gotham based on reports of an extra terrestrial threat. He is then approached by The Batman, who is both condescending and judgmental, and knows Hal by name. They are then confronted by what appears to be a cyborg lizard man. They chase it into the sewers to confront it and it shouts Hail darksied, and detonates a bomb blowing the sewer. So in this, they are introduced to the Leagues most dangerous foe, unknowingly. The two survive through Green Lantern's ring.

                                 Batman interrogates Darksied's minion
   Due to the alien nature of the minion, the two, go to Metropolis (where we see football player Victor Stone "Cyborg") to explore a potential lead, the alien who fell from the sky, that people consistently call the Superman, who then fight the two at the end of the comic.
              Thanks for reading
           -Chryonasake

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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