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September 2nd, 2009
12:38 am
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Cass vs. Zombies
In honour of Martial Arts Week and a semi-tie in to Blackest Night )

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September 1st, 2009
02:15 am
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Mad gun-fu is a martial art, right?
One of the fun things about Gunsmith Cats was that it was an incredibly geeky series. Many of the plot points were designed specifically to allow Kenichi Sonoda to nerd out about things he liked, such as muscle cars, spy gadgets, and guns he is not allowed to own because of Japan's incredibly strict guns laws. Not only that, but occasionally, in the gaps between plot arcs, the action would break so that Rally could spend pages on end talking to the audience other characters about the tricks of her trade.

One such scene can be found beneath the cut.

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August 31st, 2009
09:55 pm
[zechs27]

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Martial Arts Week: Cassandra Cain vs Lady Shiva The Rematch
As promised round 2 between two of the greatest martial artists in the DCU.



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02:33 pm
[zechs27]

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Martial Arts Week: Cassandra Cain vs the Mad Dog
Before Round 2 vs Lady Shiva and my little finale in posting in this event. The prelimary bout: Cassandra fighting her father's "first" the one called the Mad Dog.



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August 29th, 2009
11:43 pm
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Martial Arts Week: Shitty comic, great fights


Chuck Dixon's 2004 Richard Dragon series was lousy, to be sure, but it definitely had one thing going for it. Scott McDaniel's art, while no one is accusing it of being pretty, has an energy and flow that fit the series like a glove and made every fight a joy to read.
As evidence, I bring you the climactic clash between Richard and Lady Shiva.

Current Music: Elliott Smith ~ "Coming Up Roses"
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04:10 pm
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Martial Arts Week: The Battle of April's Apartment aka When TMNT Was Awesome(r)
Following zechs27's awesome post, more awesomeness! 12 pages of a 37 page spectacular.

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02:13 pm
[zechs27]

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Martial Arts Week: Cassandra Cain vs Lady Shiva


Two of the greatest Martial Artists in the DCU go at it.

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05:33 am
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In Case You Didn't Know: Colleen and Misty are Awesome
It being Martial Arts Week, and all, it seems like an excellent time to finally post a story rather dear to my heart called "Daughters of the Dragon*" first published in Marvel's DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG FU magazine back in 1976.

If you're not familiar with DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG FU, I'll let Wiki explain it, because the editor's use of scare quotes is hilarious:

This magazine was published in the early 1970s amidst the "Kung Fu" or "Chopsocky" movie craze. Bruce Lee movies were scoring huge box-office grosses, and the Kung-Fu television series was being watched by millions. Billy Jack the half-Indian, Green Beret martial arts hero was making his appearance, and people were "shaking their booty" to Carl Douglas's hit "Kung Fu Fighting". Kung-Fu was on many people's lips and the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu was there to capitalize on it. [...] Each issue had various comic stories from the above mentioned characters, both single issues stories and multi-issue arcs. Most of the issues had some kind of martial arts movie review from a recently released film. Other issues had interviews with authentic Martial arts instructors, while others had interviews with movie or television celebrities related to martial arts.

Add Women By Claremont to the mix, and sounds like fun, don't it?





* The first one, that is. Not to be confused with the second one printed later in BIZARRE ADVENTURES and subtitled "Safe Streets." Or the mini that preceded v2 HfH. The title seems to pop up a lot where these two are concerned.

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August 28th, 2009
10:31 pm
[zechs27]

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Martial Arts Week: Crimson Empire Part II
The finale to Crimson Empire.



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02:30 pm
[zechs27]

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Martial Arts Week: Leonardo vs the Foot Clan
If we're going to have a Martial Arts Week, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just gotta be represented. So I present the Leonardo One Shot (originally published by Mirage) IN GLORIOUS COLOR!!



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12:08 am
[zechs27]

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Martial Arts Week: Cassandra/Shiva
The Fabled First and Second Meetings from two of the greatest Martial Artists in the DC Universe.

Dial Uppers Beware!!

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12:45 am
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Of course he's single
And to continue with the Martial Arts week with another Batman post to exemplify my obsession. Now this post proved to quite challenging, as I felt the brawl in this story automatically belonged to this week, kind of, but the story had so many great moments and scenes to choose from while trying not to cross the posting limits. In the end I decided to stick with the fight scene in the beginning and the ending scene, which actually refers to said fight. What is this story I'm writing about? A masterpiece called Batman/Planetary: Night on Earth by Warren Ellis/John Cassaday.

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August 27th, 2009
06:12 pm
[volksjager]

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Taskmaster, he's just better at than you...
Martial Arts mayhem...



The Avengers are the first to encounter Taskmaster !

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Current Music: Insekt 5 " Green indicates Irony"
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03:00 pm
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Martial Arts Week: Kung Fu Nomenclature (with the Immortal Iron Fist)
First post after finally migrating to the new community.

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One of the best martial arts book on the market right now is Marvel's Immortal Iron Fist. Heavily inspired by classic Wuxia films and literature, this book has brought back into the mainstream one of my favorite tropes of martial arts fiction: crazy names for combat forms.



14 scans from The Immortal Iron Fist: The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven trade paperback.

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August 26th, 2009
06:21 pm
[zechs27]

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Martial Arts Week: Wolverine vs X-23
Doing the best at what they do.



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09:57 pm
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Clothing optional
Another addition to the martial arts week and again with Batman. Hey, we all have our single-minded obsessions, don't we? And that was a serious question. Anyway, this is a just short fight scene from the mind-blowingly excellent Prey storyline by Doug Moench, in which he provides a re-imagined version of Dr. Hugo Strange. Somewhat ironically it was originally meant to be a non-canonical story, but it was so good and popular that it became the foundation for the canon Hugo Strange. I would highly recommend the story to anyone, as it is worth it. Now it had a lot of good action sequences as well as excellent character moments, including an extremely brutal mental attack against Bruce, but I'm just posting this one scene as it doesn't require knowledge of the rest of the storyline to understand how awesome a scene it is.

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01:19 pm
[volksjager]

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Iron Fist shows how focus can overcome raw power !
It's Humpday in Martial arts week...



The wrecking crew vs. Ironfist "nuff said"

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Current Music: Trabfugelle "cowardly skin"
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12:02 am
[kingrockwell]

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It's Not About The Answers: Behind The Mask Of Vic Sage, pt 8
A Martial Arts Week special!


O'Neil: Vic the Seeker (pt 4)
The Great Fables Crossover! (sorry Vertigo fans, not that one)

In 1988, Denny O'Neil set off to tell a great martial arts epic, and close the book on the O-Sensei, the old master introduced in Kung-Fu Fighter, responsible for teaching Richard Dragon, Bronze Tiger and Lady Shiva. While I prolly should've held this one off until after I'd posted the arc from Question v1 16-18, where Vic and Ollie first met, well, who's fault was it starting Martial Arts Week now?
But though this crossover takes place in titles starring Batman, Green Arrow and The Question,

Current Music: Jimi Hendrix ~ "Crosstown Traffic"
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August 25th, 2009
11:05 pm
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Martial Arts Week: Daredevil vs. Lady B


In honour of Martial Arts Week, let's take a look at one of my favourite Ed Brubaker-written fight scenes, from Daredevil #113, as Daredevil comes fist to fist with Lady Bullseye for the first time.

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07:09 pm
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Martial Arts Week: Daredevil vs. the Punisher
Martial Arts Week continues with a fierce fight between Daredevil and the Punisher in DAREDEVIL #257. It is narrated by a criminal named Coppersmith both men are after for different reasons. The Punisher found Coppersmith first. As Ann Nocenti wrote the issue, there is a fair amount of narration.



A big fight and lots of text. )

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