nor that he was KOMIKEROS NEW WORLD OR, UNCLE Greetings to all the beautiful people that visit this blog ... and ugly people . We entered the year 1991 and see what happened inside the walls of DC Comics by then, to be honest there is not much relevant so I'll cover everything in this post.
begin with a megasaga called War of the Gods , arguably the editorial antencedente Our Worlds at War (and I'll talk about it) or Blackest Night, as would a plot originally dedicated to a single character, in this case Wonder Woman , but the publishers saw potential and decided to cover the entire DC universe with a series of tie-ins. It was intellectual work of George Perez and marked the final stage in the title of Wonder Woman, as its name must indicate this on a war between the gods and the Amazons are in the middle, as the sorceress Circe made a series of murders in the world of men, taking care that the Amazons were blamed, so the gringo army takes its customary place as protector of the world and declares war. While the Greek gods fight against the Egyptians and others (most notably the presence of Black Adam ), Wonder Woman must face Circe and Captain Marvel under their control, while the home of the Amazon is being destroyed.
The saga took place in special 4 numbers, 4 regular issues of the Wonder Woman series and 16 titles (from Batman to Doctor Fate), plus an epilogue on the number 62, Wonder Woman, where Perez goodbye to the series and all DC Comics, tired of being the only who cared for that character while the other editors and writers ignored. And honor to whom honor is due, good George is by far the best writer who has been Wonder Woman (not including its creator) and had every right to be outraged ... finally, to another subject.
War of the Gods was not the only mega saga of that year, there was more than accounted for the greatest fiasco in the history of DC Comics, this is Armageddon 2001 . Not that the saga was bad but the end will put paid to everything, but better I'll explain how it was the thing. This event would be the first important work as artist Dan Jurgens that had already earned the respect of his superiors thanks to his remarkable work on Superman and thought he was ready for something to cover the entire DC universe. Officially, the writers of this series were Archie Goodwin and Dennis O'Neil, but said they based their ideas on designs Jurgens, which, as I said recently, was obsessed with time lines and it was this series. It had
hero Waverider (the image), a time traveler, in the future, one of the current heroes had betrayed the others, was named Monarch and became ruler and tyrant the world. Traveling Waverider al presente para evitarlo, pero desconoce quién será el traidor así que usando sus poderes toca a distintos héroes (no es sexual) y con ello es capaz de dar un vistazo a sus futuros; todo esto se narra dentro de los anuales de distintas series, como Flash, Superman, Hawk and Dove (sí, esos mismos que en México fueron llamados Gavilán y Paloma, jo), etc, además de dos números especiales.
Hasta ahí todo iba bien, porque podíamos ver qué ocurriría con los héroes y crecía el suspenso de quién iba a enloquecer y matar a los demás, pero... ¡chin! Las pistas sobre la identidad de Monarca eran demasiados obvious and all readers soon discovered that Captain Atom who was mad. When the letters began to pour into the offices of DC deducting the secret, there was a editorial meeting where, instead of accepting the intelligence of readers and go ahead with the plans, decided to surprise all the smart-ass and would choose to another traitor. Of course, the heavyweights of the house as Superman, Batman and Flash were banned, so the choice was Hawk ... This was ridiculous!
Not only was relatively weak for that but, on the anniversary of Hawk & Dove, had shown their children were the only heroes who were fighting in the future against Monarch. Ignoring all that, went ahead and the saga has to be concluded that the future monarch kills Dove, Hawk gets angry and kills the villain to discover who is himself, so crazy and becomes monarch, fighting against Captain Atom and the two travel through the time where seemingly Atom wins the fight, returns to the present and the villain disappears as a possible future ... a full-fledged temporal paradox. Despite criticism from experts and readers to the end of the series, Armageddon 2001 had good numbers (except for the creative team of Hawk & Dove, which ran out without deberla comic or fear it) and Jurgens continued to top the list of favorites in DC, but was left with the thorn and continued using Waverider and Monarch, which is managed to escape from his fight with Captain Atom, until brought them back to the series Zero Hour, which I will talk soon. Fun fact: in recent times, following the Infinite Crisis saga, Captain Atom did end up going crazy and becoming monarch as originally planned, even in the comic Countdown destroyed several alternate realities, but recently returned and despite his sanity Initial distrust of his fellow ended up accepting it as a hero again ... I mean, if received Hal Jordan, which imports a genocidal more.
In 1991 there was also a Batman arc would end by turning the universe batmaniaco for a while: Venom . But first let me put some context to this: a couple of years earlier had begun publishing the comic Legends of the Dark Knight , which had the peculiarity of being located in Year One, that is, stories that were pure Batman's past (without Robin, Jim Gordon even police lieutenant, etc.), this comic turned out to be very popular because driving a dark, realistic and creative team did not have a contract basis but a writer and a cartoonist (always pure detailed artist style) for an arc of 5 or 6 numbers, so he had visions and art very different, but with the same publisher to maintain consistency. Among the types that paraded through this comic was the likes of Grant Morrison, JM Dematteis , Doug Moench and future editor of Batman, Dennis O'neil. And it is the latter that interests us because it was the writer of the saga Venom or Poison, published in Nos. 16 to 20 LotDK and Trevor Von Eeden drawings and Russell Braun.
In Venom, Batman tries save a girl kidnapped and tied up in the drainage tunnels, but fails unable to lift a giant rock that prevents its passage and she drowns, he blames himself for his weakness and to aggravate the problem, the father of the girl is a doctor working on a drug that increases the strength above any other set. To make the story not tired and do not spoil the reading of this saga if you get it (is compiled and edited by the Batman Vid size booklet), the bat becomes addicted to the substance and also the doctor works for a general you want to use it as a guinea pig and a mercenary to change continue to supply the drug. The rest of the story tells of how proud and poignant as Batman hit bottom in their addiction to overcome and then go after the doctor and the general were already a step further and also drug use surgery to create an army supermen who obey any order (including the general's son.) Venom is a raw saga but magnificent to be read if you have the opportunity and created the drug there would be resumed after the invention of for Bane, the villain who nearly killed the Batman vigilante day, as we shall soon.
And speaking of details that eventually claimed relevance, in that same year, 1991, in Detective Comics was created villain Abattoir , known in Mexico as Slaughterhouse created by Marv Wolfman and Jim Aparo. He was a serial murderer and internal Arkham Asylum, which had some attachments or even primitive shamanic because he thought he absorbed the strength and wisdom of those killed. 
In his first encounter with Batman gets almost kill him (he fired a bullet to the heart but the plate on his chest bat absorbed the shock) and take their fight to a cemetery where Slaughterhouse boasts having eaten the meat and drank the blood of their ancestors, perhaps literally. Fun fact: also believed that the pictures would steal the soul, ho. Slaughterhouse
made regular appearances in Detective Comics during the year, but never became a villain tercerón , probably because I had an image feature (only used his prison uniform and conventional weapons, sometimes a capita as shown in the picture), but his death would have a role a couple of years later, when a new Batman came to town. Indeed, Slaughter was among the villains zombies during the night more oscurota.
's it for today, next week a bit of Dark Horse Comics Valiant and more. Before saying goodbye, as we are speaking of the nineties, the video section is no longer only eighties to become the Polo Classic eighties and noventeros . Today I present a grounder not well remembered by the Pet Shop Boys I find most experimental and innovative than the more publicized as Go West. The video as well as the group is the pinnacle of manhood and masculinity ... Furthermore, if we do not like is because they are gay , ho. Without further ado, I leave you with the duet to which the organization PETA kindly asked to change its name to the Kids Adoption Center Animal. Bye.
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