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Bomb Queen
Bomb Queen is an American fictional comic book character created by Jimmie Robinson. She first appeared in Image Comics' ''Bomb Queen'' Vol. 1, #1, and has subsequently appeared in eight limited series, four single-issue specials, and a crossover in '' The Savage Dragon'' #134. Bomb Queen is a villainess who has eliminated and subsequently banned all superheroes from the fictional city of New Port City. She rules the city as a dictator; the limitations she has placed over the city's criminals have made her a popular leader. Fictional character biography Bomb Queen was originally part of a quartet of supervillains called The Four Queens, who reigned over New Port City. When all the superheroes in town were finally defeated or slain, the Queens turned on Bomb Queen. Bomb Queen emerged as the victor, and took control over the local government, without any superpowers of any kind, armed only with bombs and athletic ability. Bomb Queen founded New Port City's "No Heroes" law, (outlaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmie Robinson
Jimmie Robinson (born 1963 in California)"About the Artists & Writers," ''African-American Classics, Graphic Classics'' vol. 22 (Eureka Productions, 2011). is an American comic book creator, known for writing and drawing the comic book series ''Bomb Queen'', and for other works, including ''Amanda and Gunn'', ''Avigon'', ''Code Blue'', ''Evil & Malice'', ''Five Weapons'', ''The Empty'', ''Power Lines'', and ''Junk Rabbit'', most of which have been published by Image Comics. Biography Early life and education Robinson grew up in Oakland, California, and attended Mosswood Arts, Renaissance Middle School, and Concordia High School. Career After working as a commercial artist and starting a family, Robinson entered the comics industry in 1994, publishing eight issues of ''Cyberzone'' under his own Jet Black Graphiks imprint. A science fiction story, it featured a lesbian black bounty hunter named Amanda Shane, and her artificially-intelligent gun. In 1996, Image Comics published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Muse
''Tenth Muse'' (also ''10th Muse'') is an independent superhero comic book series about a modern-day daughter of the Greek god Zeus. It was created in 2000 by Darren G. Davis and originally written by Marv Wolfman. Several real-life models served as inspiration for the main character, starting with Rena Mero at launch, then later Cindy Margolis or Farrah Fawcett. The property was optioned for a TV show in 2002. When asked about it, Darren Davis told Nicholas Yanes of Scifipulse.net that "I would love to see this made. It would be the perfect vehicle for the CW if they did it right. I can see Katie Cassidy playing the 10th Muse. This one has a real chance of being made". Story Lead character Emma Sonnet returns after disappearing eight years before, with no answers for former best friends Brett and Dawn about where she has been and how she has become the until-now unheard-of tenth sister of the mythological nine Muses, the inspirational daughters of the almighty Zeus. The st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebound (comics)
Rebound is a fictional comic book character created by Jim Valentino. She first appeared in Jim Valentino's ''ShadowHawk'' #7 (November, 2005) where ShadowHawk meets a mysterious red haired girl who has the power to deflect anything thrown at her. Early life Born in New Port City's surburbia east side to a crack head father who died in prison after being gang raped. Her mother started turning tricks to support her. Later her mother met a man named John who had money, political influence in New Port City and started to support her and mother. But it has its price, as her mother was willing to turn a blind eye to statutory rape which began happening to her starting at ten years old. ShadowHawk ShadowHawk met Rebound, who has the power to deflect anything thrown at her. Later on ShadowHawk ShadowHawk is a superhero created by Jim Valentino for Image Comics. He was first advertised in the ''Malibu Sun'' free promotional magazine in May 1992. His official Image Comics debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. In the 2000s, blogs were often the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, multi-author blogs (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally Editing, edited. MABs from newspapers, other News media, media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog Web traffic, traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. ''Blog'' can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Government
The Federal Government of the United States of America (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the Federation#Federal governments, national government of the United States. The U.S. federal government is composed of three distinct branches: United States Congress, legislative, President of the United States, executive, and Federal judiciary of the United States, judicial. Powers of these three branches are defined and vested by the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution, which has been in continuous effect since May 4, 1789. The powers and duties of these branches are further defined by Act of Congress, Acts of Congress, including the creation of United States federal executive departments, executive departments and courts subordinate to the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court. In the Federalism in the United States, federal division of power, the federal government shares sovereignty with each of the 50 states in their respective t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invincible (character)
Invincible (Markus Sebastian "Mark" Grayson) is a superhero created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Cory Walker, currently drawn by Ryan Ottley. Invincible first appeared in a preview as part of ''Savage Dragon'' #102 (August 2002), before graduating to his own self-titled regular series in 2003, as the premier title in Image Comics' then-new superhero line, a relaunch of the Image Universe. Invincible appears in ''Invincible'', ''Bomb Queen'', ''Noble Causes'', ''The Pact'', ''Savage Dragon'', '' The Astounding Wolf-Man'', ''Dynamo 5'', '' I Hate Fairyland – I Hate Image'', and ''Battle Beast''. Born in 1987, Invincible is the son of Omni-Man, an extraterrestrial superhero of the Viltrumite race. Invincible inherited his father's complete array of superpowers and has sworn to protect the Earth. As a teenager, he had trouble adjusting to his newfound powers and coping with the reality of superhero work and his origins. Invincible is voiced by Patrick Cavanaugh in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamo 5
Dynamo 5 is a comic book superhero team created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, which appears in an eponymous series published by Image Comics. The team first appeared in ''Dynamo 5'' #1 (Jan. 2007). The monthly series ended with issue #25 (Oct. 2009). The team later appeared in a 2010 miniseries, ''Dynamo 5: Sins of the Father'', and the one-shot (comics), one-shot ''Dynamo 5 Holiday Special 2010'' (Dec. 2010). ''Dynamo 5'' is a Spin-off (media), spin-off of ''Noble Causes'', a previous comic book series created by Faerber set in the Image Universe, which also explores the dynamics of a superhero family. Publication history ''Dynamo 5'' is a Spin-off (media), spin-off of ''Noble Causes'', another comic book series created by Faerber and published by Image Comics, which likewise explores the dynamics of a superhero family. Faerber created ''Dynamo 5'' with the intent of making it more action-driven. The team is composed of five young men and women, each of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadowhawk
ShadowHawk is a superhero created by Jim Valentino for Image Comics. He was first advertised in the ''Malibu Sun'' free promotional magazine in May 1992. His official Image Comics debut was in the second issue of '' Youngblood'' series (June 1992), written and illustrated by Rob Liefeld. Originally, the name ShadowHawk was to be used for the Marvel character Starhawk while he had darkness powers, but Tom DeFalco convinced Valentino to use the name for a new character instead. Paul Johnstone Fictional character biography Paul Johnstone grew up as a troubled youth in Harlem, New York City. He avoided a life of crime due in part to the encouragement of a man named Richard Woodroe, who was originally assigned as a caseworker to Paul when he was caught stealing, and eventually married his mother, becoming his stepfather. Eventually, Paul became a lawyer and, beyond that, a district attorney. While his life was going so well, his half brother Hojo had taken his success in coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country at 2.84 million residents. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the central Maryland region together with the surrounding county that shares its name. The land that is present-day Baltimore was used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 1600s, the Susquehannock began to hunt there. People from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe and established the Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weapons Of Mass Destruction
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a Biological agent, biological, chemical weapon, chemical, Radiological weapon, radiological, nuclear weapon, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great damage to Artificiality, artificial structures (e.g., buildings), Nature, natural structures (e.g., Mountain, mountains), or the biosphere. The scope and usage of the term has evolved and been disputed, often signifying more politically than technically. Originally coined in reference to strategic bombing, aerial bombing with Explosive material#Chemical, chemical explosives during World War II, it has later come to refer to large-scale weaponry of warfare-related technologies, such as Biological warfare, biological, chemical warfare, chemical, Radiological warfare, radiological, or nuclear warfare. Early usage The first use of the term "weapon of mass destruction" on record is by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1937 in refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
