#henry bendix

[why-i-love-comics]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #15 - "Siege of Gamorra" (2022)

written by Tom Taylor art by Cian Tormey, Scott Hanna, Federico Blee, & Matt Herms

#robin #damian wayne #henry bendix #DC #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[weathermanone]

Waller vs Wildstorm 4 (2023) by Spencer Ackerman, Evan Narcisse & Jesús Merino

Cover: Jorge Fornés

#DC Universe #Wildstorm #StormWATCH #SkyWATCH #Weatherman One #Henry Bendix #Miles Craven #Adeline Kane #Amanda Waller #Kaizen Gamorra #Mr Majestic #Spencer Ackerman #Evan Narcisse #Jesus Merino #Jorge Fornes

[yuriinadress]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #15 - Siege of Gamorra Finale

ICONIC!

#damian wayne #dc comics #henry bendix #robin #superman: son of kal el #son of kal el #soke #tuesday spoilers

[henrybendix]

Waller vs Wildstorm 4 (2023) by Spencer Ackerman, Evan Narcisse & Jesús Merino

Cover: Jorge Fornés

#DC Universe #Wildstorm #SkyWATCH #Weatherman One #Henry Bendix #Miles Craven #Adeline Kane #Amanda Waller #Kaizen Gamorra #Mr Majestic #Black Label #Spencer Ackerman #Evan Narcisse #Jesus Merino #Jorge Fornes

[dc-tournaments]

Why do they deserve to win?

Henry Bendix

Orm Marius

#dc #deadest corpse tournament #henry bendix #orm marius

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

The Wild Storm 6 (2017) by Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt

Cover: Jon Davis-Hunt

#Wildstorm #The Wild Storm #Henry Bendix #Warren Ellis #Jon Davis Hunt

[raceydays-hopelesshaze]

Reblog to to slap his bald head. Like to slap his bald head.

#Get his ass Damian!!! #Damian Wayne #henry bendix #Superman: son of kal-el #i15 #dc comics #å

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

I have noticed twice now at least that Tom Taylor seems to rely on a "This thing wasn't cool unlike my version" thing that's just odd and often annoying in his approach to comics.

Not because you can't criticize pre-existing characters but because the criticism is never... effective?

Like Jon asking Superman why Superman doesn't do stuff to save the world? When Superman does do stuff, and has historically been a political figure (and his politics have been far more radically leftist than Jon's). There's criticisms of Superman, but that one doesn't work.

Taylor's take on the Teen Titans is similar. He flashes back to a story where the JL bursts in to take out Brother Blood and plays it up as a "The New Teen Titans were lame" thing when that was probably the strongest point in TT history where they were most equivalent to the JL because he can hype up his new Titans as their most important versions. At the same time this take is going to fail because his new team is just the New Teen Titans. They've got no new characters, it's just the OG NTT.

I think the worst time he did this was inside his Son of Kal El book when he had Lex Luthor show up immediately murder Bendix and then talk about how he was foolish and a loser. Because that was after most of the book had been spent on Jon fighting Bendix (incredibly ineffectually). So if he was a foolish loser why did we spend so long on him?

I get this plot device in theory. Especially with Lex. It's the "Villain who beats the villain is the best villain" and that's great but you don't need to do this for Lex fucking Luthor? He's already the primary Superman villain. You do not need to convince us of that.

#Tom Taylor #Superman #Titans #dccomics #dc comics #Jon Kent #Lex Luthor #Henry Bendix

[atlas-authority]

“Who radicalized you?”

The answer for every member of Authority has been and will always be “Henry Bendix and the US government”

#dc #dc comics #wildstorm #authority #the authority #henry bendix

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Jenny Mei Sparks and Kaizen Gamorra; The Authority and The Weatherman. The Founders of STORM.

A Century Baby--to many, THE Century Baby--Jenny came away from the collapse of Diana’s Society with a kind of anxious hope. Extraordinary people could come together and could build towards great change. It was a real, legitimate hope. In that hope, she eventually turned to a pair of men she didn’t fully understand: Elijah Snow and Henry Bendix. Elijah would eventually disappear after getting into some trouble of his own, disrupting the Planetary Guide operations, but Bendix was on a basic level just pure fucking evil. Jenny would be lying if putting him down wasn’t satisfying in its own way.

In search of a new Weatherman--a director for STORM, now rebranded Stormwatch following Jenny’s loss of essential staff, let’s say--she connected with three brilliant Parousian brothers, Ken, Sum and Wai Gamora. As Mitch Wacky continued his...unseemingly experiments in the region, Ken pushed for more extreme responses to his actions. While Stormwatch did make several covert actions, dismantling Assemblers as Wacky continued sending them to attack other Pacific Island, it wasn’t enough.

In a fit of pique, Ken accessed Bendix’s personal files in search of STORM’s old black sites, discovering plans for “THE CITY” and “THE CHILDREN” a pair of projects involving the creation of a dedicated post-human settlement guided by “true genius” in opposition to what Bendix saw as the unmanageable spread of “wild metahumans” and...other remarks unsuitable to be reprinted here.

Using his brothers as his initial subjects, Ken used invasive bio-augmentation similar to the techniques Yohn Kohl had used to re-create his Majestic clones. Sum and Wai both died, but Ken perfected the technique before Jenny could discover his actions and attempt to deal with him the way she’d done to Bendix.

Fleeing to Parousia (now part of Rhelasia), Ken changed his name to “Kaizen” after the mythological founder of the country, and set to work convincing the government to provide “volunteers” to his post-human experiements as weapons to break from the Rhelasian occupation, as well as making select modifications to his own body. Once he’d build a sufficient base, Kaizen took control of the country himself, redubbed it “Gamorra” and--along with Black Adam, The Atlantean High Council, and Hippolyta --became one of the few metahuman world leaders with any amount of staying power.

Jenny would see Kaizen Gamorra--both his loss as her agent and friend, and his subsequent human experimentation and involvement in geopolitics--as one of her great failures. With the Justice League failing to address the issue and Extreme Justice already descended too far into a cult-like dedication to Captain Atom’s ideals, Jenny decided the only choice was to do what she had done all her life:

Take on her own Authority.

She would have help from an unexpected source when one of the League’s greatest heroes, The Superman Kal-El, approached her with a desire to help.

#dc #headverse #fanart #jenny mei sparks #jenny sparks #kaizen gamorra #ken gamorra #stormwatch #henry bendix #the authority #the weatherman

[midnighter-dc]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Authority (DC Comics), Midnighter (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Characters: Midnighter (DCU), Henry Bendix Additional Tags: Body Horror, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Stream of Consciousness, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Heavy Angst, Surgery, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Suicidal Thoughts, Temporary Character Death, Horror Summary:

Midnighter remembered. that was the issue them cutting him open, splitting him apart. he can only remember the begging in flashes. before the computer took over his memory, before they learnt how to strap him down properly.

jenny sparks says something that sends Midnighter down memory lane, to his creation.

#mind the tags #Midnighter #The Midnighter #Lucas Trent #Henry Bendix #Bendix being a sadistic fuckhead

[why-i-love-comics]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #15 - "Siege of Gamorra" (2022)

written by Tom Taylor art by Cian Tormey, Scott Hanna, Federico Blee, & Matt Herms

#lex luthor #henry bendix #DC #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[weathermanone]

Superman: Son of Kal-El 13 (2022) by Tom Taylor, Nicole Maines & Clayton Henry

#DC Universe #Henry Bendix #Superman #Jon Kent #Justice League #Tom Taylor #Nicole Maines #Clayton Henry

[yuriinadress]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #15 PREVIEW

#dc comics #Tuesday spoilers #superman: son of kal el #son of kal el #soke #jon kent #superman #jay nakamura #gossamer #sara Nakamura #henry bendix #wink

[henrybendix]

StormWATCH: A Finer World TP (1999) 

Cover: Bryan Hitch

Reprinting: StormWATCH 4-9 (1998) by Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch

#StormWATCH #SkyWATCH #Henry Bendix #Apollo #Midnighter #Battalion #Warren Ellis #Bryan Hitch

[watsondcsj]

The Importance of Names in Superman: Son of Kal-El

Fans of Rebirth Superman and Super Sons might think of one character when this point is brought up, but there are multiple instances of names betraying a deeper intent in the writing. None are more telling in my view than Jay Nakamura.

On the surface his name may not strike you as odd. An English given name with a Japanese surname could indicate Jay is biracial. Given his mother's name is Sarah, this could very well be the case if she married in to her last name, but the typical Japanese comic character or real-life Japanese immigrants to Western countries have a traditional Japanese given name rather than an English one because unlike other East Asian languages like Mandarin or Korean, Japanese shares phonetics that are easy for Westerners to Romanize and pronounce. This is but one of many strange story beats that made me obsessed with this comic, and I believe I have sussed out the reasoning after 17 long months.

All this and more in the following essay.

#superman #superman soke #jay nakamura #jonathan samuel kent #jon kent #super sons #dc comics #dc #damian wayne #henry bendix