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Bumblebee (Part 2): Return to glory.
The truth is that people in this country want to see their heroes fail... they want to see them fall. Because the only thing they love more than a fall from grace... is a return to glory.
Kyle HIGGINS, Gods & Soldiers, "Supreme Power"#1 à 4, Marvel Comics 2011.
College Football 2020 Season Week 12 TV Watch Em Ups:
Low effort is back, baby! It never really went anywhere. But I'm only planning to watch one game and I'm a little nervous that things will go horribly wrong.
RTARL investigates an absolutely great play that shouldn’t have counted because the runner was down but the kickoff never should have happened because the QB was down on the go ahead TD immediately preceding it
Miami plays at Duke this Friday night for the first time since that fateful Halloween tilt that ended with the greatest play-that-shouldn’t-have-counted-and-never-should-have-had-to-happen of this decade.
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Superman: Before Truth, Return to Glory, and Savage Dawn
As previously mentioned, the pile of books that I have been reading over the past couple weeks has been a daunting one. Nevertheless, I’ve endeavored to read as many of them as possible. One of the more intriguing stories I’ve read in a while was this Superman arc, penned originally by the skills of Pak, Yang, Tomasi, and others not listed where I could find them.
Now, many consider Superman to be a character who is difficult to relate to at best. After all, the man is virtually a god, what with the invincibility, flight, EYE LASERS, as well as the copious amounts of other powers he has gained over the years. In what seems like an attempt to bring Superman’s power level down a bit, Before Truth has the Man of Steel testing the limits of one of his newest abilities: the solar flare.
With this power, Clark is able to overload his heat vision, and release all of the solar energy he has stored up in one massive blast. It annihilates almost anything in its path, but leaves Superman in a vulnerable, depowered state afterwards. Furthermore, an EVIL PLOT is afoot. (GASP!)
Someone, HORDE_root or some similarly named villain, has learned of Superman’s ability to blow out his own powers. As such, he places our hero is some very unforgiving circumstances, during which he is able to deduce Superman’s civilian identity. HORDE_root then uses this information as blackmail, forcing Superman to bend to his whims or have his secret revealed. Additionally, he has developed specialized robots capable of absorbing Superman’s solar flare energies. By the end of this first arc, a large part of Superman’s power has been permanently drained, and he is still sitting under the threat of blackmail. In order to free him from this Sword of Damocles, Lois Lane takes action, with the best intentions. But we all know where that road leads. The reporter publishes Clark’s identity online, leaving him free to wreak all kinds of havoc on HORDE_root’s headquarters. But the villain escapes, and chuckles darkly to himself as Clark’s world crumbles around his ears.
So, at this point, you might be asking a question. “I thought Superman was supposed to have fun adventures, ones where the status quo goes back at the end of the story?” Well, sorry to break it to you, but this doesn’t quite go that way. The situation devolves further as a weakened Superman flees Metropolis, trying to escape the hordes of villains who now want a piece of him. He ends up on the West Coast for a while, and befriends some deities. Along the way, he manages to corner HORDE_root once again, and discover that the big boss is actually only an underling. The true power behind all these machinations is none other than Vandal Savage, and he’s been setting things into play for a long time.
This bit requires some backstory, but I’ll keep it brief. Vandal Savage was originally a caveman who gained superpowers (immortality, relative indestructibility, superstrength) from an odd comet. Over the years, he’s noticed that it’s come back near Earth, and decides to rope it in to gain access to even loftier realms of power. He ends up piloting a giant warship into the JLA’s Watchtower, and also steals Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. By their powers combined, he’s somehow able to rope his comet back towards Earth. Also, everyone who shares his blood (which is like, a lot of people, given his immortality) gains superpowers too? Anyways, he sets them all after Superman, who is still mostly depowered…until he stumbles upon an idea.
Given that it’s all of his older cells that are depleted and “blocked” from gaining more sunlight, he just needs to kill off that layer! So he goes and finds a bunker with a giant kryptonite pile and jumps in. Soon after, much like how Deadpool regenerates, but keeps his cancerous cells, Superman is powered up on kryptonite. He flies out to have a final fight with Savage, who is in the process of reaching his precious comet. But due to the rejuvenating effects of flying through his Fortress of Solitude, and doing something else that wasn’t included in the compilations I read, Superman is able to return to his normal powered-up self. He then flies up and has a good old-fashioned smackdown with Savage, eventually destroying his precious comet in the process.
Overall, I enjoyed this Superman series a lot, despite my tendency to stay more with the Batman and Constantine stories of DC. There are real things at stake for Clark, problems that are not easily resolved, even for the Man of Steel. Still, he tackles each new challenge in the steadfast way that only he can, ensuring that while he still draws breath, he will strive for truth, justice, and all that good stuff.
The only thing that really threw me about this comic was that Batman made jokes. Sure, they were at Superman’s expense, and the Dark Knight is no stranger to snark, but to hear him making jokes, and amusing ones at that, seemed contrary to most versions of his character that I had seen previously.
Edge of Twilight - Return to Glory: Steampunk Hack-and-Slash Game Returns From Development Hell
Edge of Twilight: Steampunk Hack-and-Slash Game Returns From #GameDev Hell
Apparently this game has been in development for years as they worked on the final release. Indie developers Fuzzyeyes has finally revealed that their action adventure hack-and-slash title Edge of Twilight – Return to Glory, will finally make its PC debut on Steam, this June of 2016. (more…)
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