Amalgam Universe Part 11
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scans_dailyFor my final this installment, I'm coincidentally presenting the Amalgam one-shot I just recently purchased.
Mix the tragic background of Bruce Wayne with the experiences of Nick Fury and you get...
This character is basically Batman without all the Gotham City limitations. His training all over the world was as an espionage agent, and his parents were spies (not unlike Peter Parker) killed by terrorists, so his theatre of operations is much grander than usual.
So, at the end of my first post, Lex Luthor (traitor industrialist and arch-enemy of Super-Soldier) was last seen escaping the castle headquarters of Baron Zemo via submarine. Whatever happened to him?
Well, for more than 50 years he continued his fight against the forces of democracy as the Green Skull, head of HYDRA.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, Colonel Bruce Wayne has finally brought an entire helicarrier of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best to HYDRA's doorstep, prepared to finish the mad-man and his cronies off once and for all, while also administering sweet, sweet revenge. DOUBLY UNFORTUNATELY, Luthor's daughter has decided to stage a coup at this very moment.
I don't know why she isn't named Talia Luthor, but whatever.
Aboard the helicarrier, semi-retired head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury (yeah, they still have him as a separate character; apparently he's just too badass to be put down by something so trivial as the complete merging of the universes) is warning Bruce to play this offensive safe. Bruce blows him off, telling him not to worry.
Bruce preps his field agents, which includes his girlfriend Black Bat and protege, Moonwing. In true super-secret-agent fashion, they all strap on jetpacks and go in guns a-blazin'.
What Green Skull neglected to tell the minions of HYDRA was that he replaced their regular tropical secret base with one housing an unstoppable weapon of ultimate DOOM. Let's see if they notice the difference.
Yeah, the HYDRA lieutenants are awesome combinations: Nuke is Bane and the Daredevil/Wolverine villain, Deathlok is Jason Todd and the zombified soldier, Baron Zero is Freeze and Zemo). Almost like classic COBRA villains.
Their aircraft flies over a gigantic explosion, and neither believes anything could have survived.
The final panel shows a darkened, smoke-filled room, where the REAL Green Skull watches his plans come to fruition. That dastardly crook! He's even using a theatre-length cigarette holder... Damn his cultured evil!
I hope you've enjoyed these selections from one of the most talked about inter-company crossovers of all time. I also hope my respected colleagues will continue to post their collected issues to fill in the entire collection. We may even back-track into covering the Access and Marvel vs. DC limited series.
Until then, I say thank you, and good night.
And remember: A-Make, A-Mine, Amalgam!
Mix the tragic background of Bruce Wayne with the experiences of Nick Fury and you get...
This character is basically Batman without all the Gotham City limitations. His training all over the world was as an espionage agent, and his parents were spies (not unlike Peter Parker) killed by terrorists, so his theatre of operations is much grander than usual.
So, at the end of my first post, Lex Luthor (traitor industrialist and arch-enemy of Super-Soldier) was last seen escaping the castle headquarters of Baron Zemo via submarine. Whatever happened to him?
Well, for more than 50 years he continued his fight against the forces of democracy as the Green Skull, head of HYDRA.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, Colonel Bruce Wayne has finally brought an entire helicarrier of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best to HYDRA's doorstep, prepared to finish the mad-man and his cronies off once and for all, while also administering sweet, sweet revenge. DOUBLY UNFORTUNATELY, Luthor's daughter has decided to stage a coup at this very moment.
I don't know why she isn't named Talia Luthor, but whatever.
Aboard the helicarrier, semi-retired head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury (yeah, they still have him as a separate character; apparently he's just too badass to be put down by something so trivial as the complete merging of the universes) is warning Bruce to play this offensive safe. Bruce blows him off, telling him not to worry.
Bruce preps his field agents, which includes his girlfriend Black Bat and protege, Moonwing. In true super-secret-agent fashion, they all strap on jetpacks and go in guns a-blazin'.
What Green Skull neglected to tell the minions of HYDRA was that he replaced their regular tropical secret base with one housing an unstoppable weapon of ultimate DOOM. Let's see if they notice the difference.
Yeah, the HYDRA lieutenants are awesome combinations: Nuke is Bane and the Daredevil/Wolverine villain, Deathlok is Jason Todd and the zombified soldier, Baron Zero is Freeze and Zemo). Almost like classic COBRA villains.
Their aircraft flies over a gigantic explosion, and neither believes anything could have survived.
The final panel shows a darkened, smoke-filled room, where the REAL Green Skull watches his plans come to fruition. That dastardly crook! He's even using a theatre-length cigarette holder... Damn his cultured evil!
I hope you've enjoyed these selections from one of the most talked about inter-company crossovers of all time. I also hope my respected colleagues will continue to post their collected issues to fill in the entire collection. We may even back-track into covering the Access and Marvel vs. DC limited series.
Until then, I say thank you, and good night.
And remember: A-Make, A-Mine, Amalgam!
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Date: 2010-03-27 06:08 pm (UTC)secretsretcons of the Bat-comics was hidden in it.Unless he's got a secret letter from Bob Kane hidden away somewhere.
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Date: 2010-03-27 09:59 pm (UTC)