Draugr ! !

It's the song that calls the dead. 

It's the song that lies.
The messenger sang of the Blighted Host...of slaughter and carrion...
of filth and vermin...Deceit and insanity, of torture and seduction and of Rage.

"It said 

the Doommaidens are rising"

But before the Doommaidens come, 

the world will be run thru by Draugr.

Enter

the Fearless Defenders has jumped off to a good start. It's plot, theme and feel is really strong and has laid down a good foundation for the characters. The art work is nice; right in the middle of animated and highly detailed. It's full of action with the right amount of light hearted sarcasm without being corny (so far). The three lead characters Valkyrie, Misty Knight and Moonstar are perfect. If they add in a guy to this group (Gunhawk, Reno Jones)  it should add to the awesomeness of what's a must read for you action adventure types. I say grab you a flying horse a bionic arm and a bow and arrow and get to it.

Draugr are undead Nordic warriors of Skyrim. Draugr once served Dragons; some even know several words of power. they await you in the deepest tombs and darkest shadows of  Tamriel. You Skyrim players know what I'm talking about.

 the Dragonborn comes...

Pencils and Pens

Interpretation                                                                                 is Everything

Bronze Tiger BATB: Zealand Jones

This is a favorite of mine. Wish BT had made more appearances on 

the Brave and the Bold.

Vixen and the Falcon: Peter Temple

Shlomo sent me this one. I don't really know Mr.Temple but he's one of my favorite artist.

And this is my choice look for BT by Peter. Matter of fact I wouldn't mind if BT was a Marvel character. He'd probably be better off.

Doom vs Suicide Squad: Comic Vine

 Doom is an enemy of the whole world. 

Why not every universe?

DSC Bronze Tiger: Tulio 19mx deviantArt

This guy has the look down pack, modern temp fade hair cut, 

bandolier type chest piece etc.

I like the direction the face is going in. Great concept.

Task ForceX: Shlomo the man deviantArt

Young Justice never did finish the League of shadows story line

and got cancelled before they could roll into the Legends story arc

but it would have been niiiice to see Bronze Tiger and Deadshot do their thing on YJ.

Suicide Squad #0: ledkilla, deviantArt

And here is the newest crew to call themselves the Squad.

Bronze Tiger origin Who's Who DC comics

He who writes History

Tariq  ibn  Ziyad

the conqueror of Spain

Tariq, the great African chief of the Moors 

was made general of the Arab army and subjugated Spain increasing Moorish holdings northward into the Iberian Penisular. The Arabs and Africans of North Africa joined forces after bitter conflict. But now trade, commerce and the islamic faith connected the Moors and Arabs into one of the most powerful global forces of that era (beating the Romans and the Persians). 

The Moors were African warrior scholars and part of the Islamic Empire, and Tariq ibn Ziyad was it's brightest commander. A brilliant general, a man of faith and unwavering determination. 

Tariq gathered his troops at Gibraltar (which means the mountain of Tariq) then landed on the Spanish coast with his Moorish warriors, 300 Arabs and 7000 native African Moors. Then he ordered the ships to be burned! When asked why, Tariq said "We will conquer or perish" And in their first engagement with the Visigoths upon landing, Tariq  killed the Visigoth Lord Theodore Meir.

 The next wave of Goths came with Rodriquez and his 80,000 men. The Moors and Arabs were superior in the art of mobile warfare. they were superb horsemen and had mastered the art of rapid enveloping movements. There was no contest. Even though the Muslims were outnumbered, the Visigoths were cut to pieces. Rodriquez was slain in battle with all his men. From there Tariq and his Black army swept into Spain and defeated the Visigoths in successive stages. 

The bloodiest battle was at Guadalete. This time Tariq faced 100,000 Goths. With his 7,000 Moors and 5,000  Berber reinforcements (Barbary pirates of Africa). Tariq annihilated the Visigoth King Roderick and drowned him in the river Barbate. Tariq divided his small army into four divisions and three of his lieutenants were sent to take Cordova, Malaga and Granada. Tariq himself at the head of his army took Toledo, the capital of Spain. The Moors were unstoppable, and Visigothic  Spain ceased to be. The few Visigoths left fled to the caves of the Cantabrian mountains.

Tariq stood King in Africa and Spain

(Chief in Morocco and Governor of Spain)

The Moors brought art, science and culture. They built palaces where African monarchs ruled. They built gardens, hospitals mosques and libraries, well paved streets with sidewalks, public baths in the hundreds when cleanliness in Europe was considered a sin. This was the beginning of the Golden age of Islam. The oppressed masses of Jews and white serfs (slaves) of Spain hailed Tariq as their liberator. Serfdom's were abolished and fair wages were instituted. Taxes were reduced to a fifth of the produce and anyone who accepted Islam was relieved of servitude. A large number of Spaniards became Muslim to escape  the oppression of their former masters. The religious minorities the Jews and Christians, received the protection of the state and were allowed participation at the highest levels of government. The Moors enlightened Europe and brought it out of the dark ages that ushered in the renaissance.

The Moors ruled Spain, Southern France and much of Scotland and Northern Africa during the middle ages for 700 years.

two thirds of the Spanish peninsula was renamed by the Moors as Al-Andalus

(Spain, Portugal,Gibraltar, and France)

on a comic note, the Bronze Tiger has fought with and against the Jewish Superhero team the Hayoth. It's a lot of untold stories to be told on Ben's solo exploits. 

OA1 presents

Operation: Iron Tiger

the Realest

 

Killing the Perception

 

 

Dr.Doris Zeul

 

Team affiliation: the Legion of Doom, Villainy Inc.

 Secret Six, Secret Society of Super Villains,

Injustice League

 

Abilities: size manipulation (can grow to 50+ feet tall) Superhuman strength and near invulnerability

when she grows.

 

 

Giganta is one of the founding members of

the Legion of Doom,

a scientist and fighter. She also represents

 something more as a woman. Giganta is 6' 5 or

 taller, intelligent, can protect herself and

is full figured. That's right sports fans,

Giganta is thick and curvy.

The sexy plus size villain that exemplifies every woman when it comes to her build, confidence and skill. When it comes to being respected by her peers for who she is,

no one in this genre does it better.

 

 

 

 

 Giganta is the only woman character that I can think of that radiates strength, danger and feminine sex appeal in one package.  When I think of my favorite 50 foot woman in a live action type version this is what I base her on.

 

 

Now we all know each artist and writer does his or her own thing when they control the character. The original idea for Giganta and what I like to see would be drawn and modeled

 

 

like ....BAM!!!

 

 

Artist, don't be scared to draw a voluptuous Amazon when you draw Giganta 

It's a real woman in those leopard prints.

 

 

 

 

A woman is the most beautiful thing God ever created if you ask OA1

and they come in all sizes of perfection.

 

consider this my first acknowledgement to you ladies.

There will be more. 

 

  

 

 

 

Trifecta

Continuing my very analytical conception of a Black Manta mini series.

I think we already covered what we already know about Black Manta in

Dark Water, which could also mean it's more to Manta than meets the eye

and definitely more than what's been written.

 

 

His mini series should focus on blood soaked revenge against Xebel, his relationship with his son kaldur'ahm aka Aqualad (Devil Ray). Were forgetting Aquaman altogether

and since Manta and Mera is not a factor Black Manta needs a love interest.

So who's out there that would be compatible and useful to the scourge of the 7 seas?

 

 

Why did I pick these three?

 

 

In this book David Ray is still a villain / anti hero

so we'll still see villain. He'll try to sugar coat and justify some of it

when Kaldur is around, and balance it out when he does heroic things (anti hero)

but with a fatal unforgiving style that only this idealist vigilante can bring.

Remembering Manta is an unforgiving, scheming, me first killer

we have to know that's how he'll deal with his women.

 

Clea: angry, vengeful and wrapped to tight

 for some wrong done to her by a man.

Maybe she just dislikes the fact that men

 rule the world and wants to hurt every

man she comes in contact with.

 Manta will crush her physically, financially,

 sexually, mentally and emotionally 

take everything she ever had and have.

Leave her broken on all levels.

Then build her back up giving her the power she needs and forever denying her the power she had. Making sure she can't even exist without him PERIOD!

 

 

 

Fatality: mercilessly manipulate her back into an unrepentant killing machine. Taking the honor and pride of a warrior from her, turning her into his own personal attack dog. Give her the true love from a man that she needs and the true love of a family that was taken away from her. Manta and Kaldur becomes her family. Giving Manta the love, loyalty and companionship of a woman he needs and another tool to turn Aqualad into his killing murdering prodigy. 

 

Giganta: Manta takes full advantage of their secret unknown relationship. Feed her desires and natural tendency for violence to the point of overflow. Champion  and protect her in battle, in the bed, in life outside of crime, until every hope and thought of rehabilitation is gone. Put a grip on her so hard that every thought she has is his. Every action, every dream belongs to Black Manta. Her devotion and obedience is so geared that she would kill every padawan on coruscant if Manta told her to. 

 

 

No padawans were hurt during the making of this post.
Killing padawans is not my Black Manta's style, At All!
D.Ray love the kids, old people and innocents. But if he told her to she'd do it.
 

To Dream

 

COMMEMORATE

 

 

 

 

In Honor of the Champion of Peace and Equality

 

The Prophet with Vision for a better world

 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Checkmate vs Suicide Squad

 

the Hawk and Dove Directive : A corrupt National Security council  member director Freitag has targeted the new Hawk and Dove. Freitag  has set Checkmate operatives Vigilante and Vixen to capture and bring the targets back for evaluation. In truth we know they want to weaponize and control the meta gene. Of course Amanda counter moves by sending in the Squad to help but with her own agendas. The hunt is on.

 

 

 

The Suicide Squad had a lot of face time in this issue. I just didn't care anything about Hawk and especially Dove. The guy Dove was an aggravating typical teenage chump. The Hawk character who actually was sort of interesting had half a chance but without buddy. Ultimately the book was cancelled.

 

 

 

This was also right after Vixen had left Ostranders book. At some point someone thought Vixen should shape shift into an actual animal (lame right?) Besides this blunder the writer Mike Baron kept a lot of the elements of Ostranders Squad and made it work for the most part. His lead characters Hawk and Dove were weak, it seemed he should have taken the SS reigns instead of those two characters and rode off into the sunset.

 

 

The artist Dean Zachery had a couple of good moments with our favorite expendable operatives and for me some of the best panels that's been dedicated to the Squad.

 

 

 

I will back up and say I didn't like what they did with Deadshot. He wasn't the cold laid back killer that I'm used to (didn't want to lead you to believe everything was good).

 

This is one of the only covers that actually told the truth though. Count Vertigo did do his Vertigo I'm better than you now have a headache thing. A little womanizing and some empty snitching. This was a good stand alone issue. For what it's worth if you try to collect everything the Squad is in. This is a must have.