It's that time of the week. Time to look at the latest edition of Best Battles in New Comics. Comics often feature big battles with superheroes fighting supervillains. Sometimes we even have superheroes fighting other superheroes. Get ready to cheer and possibly cringe at the brutal punches being thrown.
There will be some spoilers below! And violence. And some profanity.
DEATHSTROKE #7
(By Tony S. Daniel, James Bonny, Sandu Florea, and Tomeu Morey)
What's going on with Deathstroke these days? He's been hired for a job. To kill an actual god. Obviously Slade would be up for that. But how exactly could he even get started? Thanks to Hephaestus, the weapons forger for the Olympians, he has a God-Killer Sword. He immediately puts it to use.
Once Slade actually begins his mission, of course he won't be able to confront his main target right away. There will be some other targets to deal with first. That means more chances for him to use the sword and more chances for us to see it in action.
You can imagine that slicing and dicing like this would take a lot of strength. Just hefting a sword like that size that keeps changing could result in some sore. Slade has big muscles but come on, right?
This obviously isn't a regular sword. It's actually helping him and doing some of the work. But is that a good thing?
Some might say Slade is a bit of a control freak. He's great at what he does and knows how things should be done. Having a weapon that tries taking away those decisions could be difficult.
Needless to say, Slade does make some of his own decisions on his attacks and that opens a new door of trouble. We won't get into that now. You'll have to check out the issue. He might really have his hands full next issue.
LEGACY OF LUTHER STRODE #2
(By Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore, and Felipe Sobreiro)
You know what it means when there's a new Luther Strode issue--some big time crazy and over the top action.
Luther and Petra travel to Russian to find the Gardener. They find him and even though Luther makes it clear he doesn't want to fight, the Gardener doesn't listen. He also just speaks Russian so there might be a language barrier.
Even though Luther is sent flying through a bunch of trees, that doesn't take him out of the fight. He decides to grab one of those trees and smash the Gardener with it.
The fight continues for several pages. Even during the fight, Petra is firing away at the Gardener. It almost looks like nothing will stop him.
This is Luther Strode we're talking about.
Punching out someone's heart should do the trick, right? Guess what? He's still moving! Do yourself a favor and pick up the full issue.
UNCANNY AVENGERS #5
(By Rick Remender and Daniel Acuña)
That darn High Evolutionary. He's been causing the Avengers nothing but trouble since this volume has started. We come in with the fight already underway, continuing from last issue. Rogue has been put through a bit and there's also the fact that Simon Williams is no longer around. She starts to take out her anger on him.
It doesn't quite go as she expected. Luckily, Scarlet Witch is around to assist. High Evolutionary shrugs off her attack along with the oncoming Quicksilver.
As he goes on about being disappointed and finished with them, Doctor Voodoo attacks with the High Evolutionary's deceased victims.
This caused a distraction for him and for Scarlet Witch as well. She's in trouble now but she is on a team and teammates watch each other's backs.
High Evolutionary has several tricks up his sleeves and does manage to get a way with a couple members he's interested in experimenting on. Now it's Quicksilver's turn to give him all he has.
There's just so much going on in this issue. The fight has so many layers. You can see in that last panel that High Evolutionary's helmet is getting a bit busted. What's underneath? You know what I'm going to say. You need to buy the issue. This fight is just a small part of the entire issue.
What did you think of these battles? Are you guys digging the polls?
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Poll: Favorite Battle This Week (6/26/15)
Poll: Favorite Battle This Week (6/26/15)
Here are the results
(Thanks to dondave and Impervious for their input.)
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