contd.....
Anitha was moaning "oooooffff....
yeeeeaaa.... fuck me fuck me fuck me
hard.. yea.. go on don't stop.." I was
getting wilder with that and was tearing her
pussy with all my energy. Within 2 minutes
I was about to cum and told her that am
reaching climax and Anitha asked me to
empty it in her pussy. With 3-4 strokes I
emptied my load in her pussy and I also
felt her reach the climax at the same time.
I collapsed on her and she took me in her
arms and we were there in that position for
the 20 minutes. My dick was still inside her
pussy and at the end it started to gain
erection inside her pussy only. I told her
that I wanted to fuck her again. Anitha told
me that its late now and her hubby would
come anytime so its better we get dressed
up and she would give me a blowjob
instead so that even if the bells rings we
will be safe.
I told her " am not done baby. I want to
have sex with u again." Anitha told me "oh
yes. am not done either. its that we wind
up for the day and we shall do it everyday.
my hubby isn't looking after me sexually".
We then got up and Anitha was about to
wear her bra and panty but I stopped her
from wearing that telling her " wear your t-
shirt and skirt. I have other plans."
saying so I wore the t-shirt and skirt for
her and she put on my t-shirt and shorts.
We then went to the hall and sat down in
the couch and switched on the TV and
played some music just in case noone
should hear our moans. Anitha then put her
hand inside my shorts and pulled out my
dick. It was in semi erect condition and
Anitha went down to the floor knelt down in
front of me and straight away took my cock
in her mouth.
Anitha was sucking on my cock as well as
playing with my balls. Anitha will take the
entire length in her mouth and then lick it
from top to bottom and suck on my balls
and again take my cock in her mouth. OMG
she was simply awesome in that and any
man would go crazy behind her and fuck
all her holes.
It was only then I thought her hubby shoudl
be a dumb asshole to deprive such a sexy
lady from sex life. After some 5 minutes I
pulled her to me and made her sit on my
cock which she happily did by lifting her
skirt. Anitha adjusted her arse to take my
cock inside her completely. Then I lifed her
t-shirt and started to suck on her boobs.
Then we locked our lips to avoid moaning
sounds and Anitha started to ride my cock.
Anitha rode my cock for some 5minutes by
when she had her orgasm. I then stood up
with carrying Anitha and made her lie down
on the couch. I went inbetween her legs
and she put them on my shoulders. I bent
down kissed her lips and started to pump
her pussy very fast.
This time my cock was touching her
deepest part in her pussy and she was
enjoying the fuck so as me. I fucked her for
another 10 minutes and discharged my load
deep inside her. Anitha had her second
orgasm as well then. We then got dressed
up and was playing with each other's body
for sometime.



It was only then Anitha told me that she is
on pills and there won't be any pregnancy
issues and again " I lost my virginity to
hubby. during colg my frens used to have
sex with their bfs and I never wanted to as
I was with one man policy. u are the
second guy in my life to see me naked,
have sex." I was like "anitha are u feeling
guilty over what happened between us?"
she told me " no no not at all.
I was sex deprived by my hubby and I
wanted an alternative and again someone
who's trustworthy. I have been seeing u for
the past one year so I thot why not seduce
u and have my desires fullfilled". I told her
" I am lucky to have sex with the sexiest
lady I have seen in my life". I then got up
to leave and Anitha came with me to the
door, we walked holding hands and at the
door we have a long kiss and I left for
home.
I went in and crashed in my bed. I woke up
2 hours later had dinner and again went to
sleep. At around 12:30 I got a call from
Anitha and she said " I am not done yet.
my pussy still wants a cock. I tried having
sex with my hubby but he crashed before I
had my shower. " I told her " am still
thinking of u, your lovely ass, clean shaved
pussy, big round boobs and those beautiful
lips.
I want to fuck your pussy like thers no
tomorrow. " She then moved to the next
bedroom and we had a long session of
phone sex and I ended up masturbating
some 3-4 times. We decided to meet up
tomorrow morning somewhere outside and
have sex for the entire day and so I gave
the idea of going to a resort in the outskirts
of city and she agreed to that and we hung
up the call.
Next morning at around 8 I left home as
usual to college and picked up Anitha at
the decided spot in my car and we drove to
the resort. Anitha had already done the
bookings there in the resort and we checked
in at around 9am. Anitha was wearing a
sleeveless top and a knee length skirt and
no panty inside.
Anitha had booked a suite in the resort and
it was deserted from the resort and had a
small private swimming pool. Once inside
the room, I carried her to the couch, made
her bend down, lifted her skirt up and
entered her pussy from behind. I fucked for
some 10 minutes and it was only then we
relaxed in the room and started our
foreplays.
We stripped each other and I sucked her
pussy till she had 2 back to back massive
orgasms. I left her pussy alone only after
she had cummed twice. She then gave me
a good blowjob and I sprayed my cum on
her boobs and face. We then went and
jumped into the pool. I made her lean on
the wall and started fucking her in the
water.
That was an awesome experience fucking
my sexy lady in the pool. I had sex with
Anitha that day for like some 4 times. We
then left home and we still have sex
regularly. I will visit her house every
evening on the pretext of tutions for some
2 hours and we will have sex the whole
time and whenever she has her periods, she
would simply give me bolwjobs and I would
fuck her boobs.


Anitha makes sure am satidfied with her
and I too look to it she is satisfied with me.
And now it was last week when her hubby
said he wanted to have kids and he had
sex some 2 times and both the times he
got drained out easily leaving Anitha
unsatisfied. She now wants to carry my kid
and so for the past one week she didn't
take pills after having sex with me.

 




contd.....
Anitha lifted her arse giving me more
access and she was giving all horny
reactions which I saw it on the mirror in
front which was driving me crazy again.
Anitha still had the bra on her exposing her
boobs though and I didn't like that piece of
cloth on her. So I pulled her up towards me
and removed the bra over her head. I took
her in my arms and we were kissing like
mad dogs.
I pushed her behind and she had her arse
resting on the basin and she ligted her legs
in air to step out of the skirt and panty. I
then carried her in my arms and moved to
the bed. I put her on the bed and jumped
on her and were started kissing again and
the kiss was wilder and we were kissing
like theres no tomorrow.
We broke the kiss and Anitha pushed me
down and I went down kissing her body all
through. I stopped at her pussy and opened
her pussy lips with my left thumb and
forefinger and inserted my right middle
finger inside her pussy and started to finger
fuck her and soon I had my 3 fingers inside
and I was fucking her vigrously.
Anitha started to moan
"mmmmmmmmmaaaaahhhhhhh
mmmmmmmmaaaaahhhhhhh
yeeeeeeaaaaaa..... oooooooooffffffffff.......
mmmmmmmmmm..... aaaaaaaaaaahhhh
hhhhhhhh... ". I then was playing with her
clitoris still fucking her pussy and again I
went on to suck her clitoris and thats when
she went really mad.
Her moans were becoming louder and I was
fearing if the sound may got outside since
its an apartment. I knew I had touched her
G-Spot and was finger fucking her too fast
and withing few seconds she reached her
orgasm and she'd come in huge quantity.
Anitha then asked for my fingers and she
sucked her juices from my fingers dry.
Anitha wasn't wearing her mangalsutra so
ME : " Anitha where is your mangalsutra?"
Anitha : " I have removed it cos I knew I
would end up having sex with u." ME : " so
why did u remove it?"
Anitha : " i'd get reminded of my hubby."
ME : " oh well i'd want to fuck u with the
mangalsutra on u." Anitha : " do u really
want me to wear it?" ME : " yes."
and with that she rolled to the side of her
bed and took her mangalsutra and wore it
over her head. The mangalsutra was just
resting between her boobs and she was
looking sexy as ever in that and I told her
that too. " Anitha u look super sexy all
naked with just your mangalsutra." She
blushed and said thank you.
I pushed her down on the bed and started
to play with her boobs, and also kissing
her lips. I was sucking on her lower lips
and then upper lips and pinching her
nipples as well. My dick was at its
maximum size and wanted to enter a
pussy. I moved over her positioning myself
to enter her pussy. Anitha parted her legs
and she too moved her ass and now my
dick was right at the entrance of her pussy.
I whispered in her ears " oooff Anitha, I
couldn't believe this is happening. I am a
virgin and your are the first female with
whom I had my first kiss and now am
going to fuck this sexy babe." Anitha
hugged me tightly and gave me a kiss on
my lips. While kissing she took my dick in
her hands and guided it into her pussy.
It all wet and even though she is married
for the past one year, her pussy was pretty
tight and with few strokes I was completely
inside her. All this while Anitha was kissing
me and now I broke the kiss and moved on
to her boobs and was fucking her in slow
pace. I bit her nipples making her go mad
with every stroke and I was literally
chewing her nipples.



The room was filled with sex and our
moans. I fucked her in that position for
some 5 minutes and I stopped and asked
Anitha to come on top as I wanted to see
her boobs shaking and her mangalsutra
dancing as well. We rolled over with my
dick still inside. Anitha was sitting on my
cock and I had my hands on her hips.
She started to ride me and I moved my
hands to her boobs pincing and playing
with those. Anitha would bend down to kiss
me. She rode me for another 10 minutes
and asked me to carry on from there. Good
I took breaks inbetween that I lasted long
for my first time. I again rolled over and
came on top and started to fuck her at full
pace.

 



Hello readers,.. this happened when i was
20 year of age.
I used to live in an apartment from my
childhood and Anitha came into the flat
next to mine a year back. She was newly
married then and she got settled down with
her hubby. Anitha was very friendly in
nature so she used to come over to my
house and spend the daytime with my mom
as her husband leaves to work. As far as I
saw they were one happly couple.
Her husband used to work for some
software company and he used to take care
of Anitha very well. To describe Anitha she
has a maintained her body very well with
no extra fat and has a 36D boobs, and a
round ass. She wasn't of those plumpy
females but took care of her body very
well. She used to hit the gym regularly.
As time passed, her husband got very
involved in work as all the men do after
marriage as a result Anitha wasn't getting
too much of sex from him. She seemed to
be depressed with life and everyday she
kept complaining to my mom which I used
to hear when at home. She had completed
her engineering and so my mom suggested
her to divert by taking tuitions for school
kids.
Anitha wasn't sure if that will work out so
she wanted to start off with me. I was
doing my engineering as well and though I
wasn't bad at academics I was asked to
take tution from her. This way I had to visit
Anitha's house every evening from 6-8pm.
Initially it was just the academic talks we
had and our relationship was very formal.
Slowly she started to open up with me and
we started to talk more freely.
This led to less academic talks and more
of casual talks. As I didn't have a girlfriend
then I was happy to have some female to
flirt with. We became so close that I started
to share everything with Anitha and again
she also did the same. Eventually she
started to fret about her sex life to me. At
first I was shocked as that was the first
time I ever heard a female talk about sex
life to me.
She used to tell me that her husband is too
much into work and he doesn't spend time
and care for her. And again he is
postponing the kids as he wanted to earn
for like a year more. I felt bad for her and I
didn't know what to say for that. So
everyday I would go to her home in the
name of tution but we sit and talk all crap.
She always wears a tight t-shirt and a
bottom or shorts but nothing below her
knee.
She would sit very close to me in the couch
we will be chit chatting. Anitha clearly had
the intentions to have sex with me and she
took every step in the relationship towards
that. Once I had a holiday and so was
chilling at my room. I got a sms from
Anitha which read " hey.. u free? mind
dropping in home? am bored.". I said " oh
yea. I will."
and with that I left for her house. I knocked
the door and there came her voice asking
me to come in. Once inside I again heard
her saying "just gimme 5 minutes. I will be
back." I said "ok" and sat down in the
couch. After some 10 minutes she came
out her bedroom wearing a white t-shirt
and a denim skirt. I'd rather call it a mini
skirt as it was too short.
Her hairs were wet and I could also see
water droplets in her thighs. I had my eyes
fixed on her as she came towards me and
sat beside me. Even then I was constantly
looking at her. Anitha broke the ice " what
u gazing at? ". I was like " nothing am
sorry. what took u this long?" Anitha said "
I was in the shower. " I had a hard on and
wanted to cover it up as I too was wearing
a shorts.
So I took the cushion and placed it on my
lap. We then started our usual talks and
this time she seeing me in that condition
she was more into flirting. And finally we
decided to watch some movie in her laptop
as there was no good movies in the TV. So
she invited me to her bedroom and I sat on
the bed leaning towards the wall with a
pillow on my lap just in case to avoid
showing her my hard on.
She thought I had the pillow to have the
laptop so she came and placed the laptp on
my lap and she sat to my right. She logged
on the movie started to play. It was the
movie called " Friends with Benefits". I had
no idea what movie it was. Anitha had a
naughty smile in her lips and she sat to my
right and she hugged my right hand and
rested her head on my shoulder.
Anitha was adjusting her position every
now and then and everytime her hug got
bolder and tighter. I could feel her left
boobs and there was an immediate hard
on. Thanks to the laptop and pillow. Then
came the scene where Justin Timberlake
and Mila Kunis were sitting in her house
and sipping beer and talking about
relationships.
All of a sudden the guy would ask the girl if
they could have sex. And he would again
come up saying not serious relationships
but just sex. I was like WTF inside and
turned to see Anitha, she had her eyes
glued to the screen and she moved her
hands to my thighs. I was becoming too
restless and even thought of leaving the
room.
So I tried to move but Anitha pulled me
closer and she was in no mood to quit
watching the movie. Then Mila Kunis would
strip herself and she would get involved in
hot sex. I was in a point of no control that I
immediately turned around and cupped
Anitha's breats. She too responed by taking
my other hand to her other breast and I
was playing with them over her dress for
quiet a long time.
Then I pulled her and placed my lips on
hers. Anitha had closed her eyes and in
sometime she opened her lips and she
pushed her tongue into my mouth. We had
a long kiss and I came on top of her
kissing and at the same time playing with
her boobs. Anitha wrapped her legs around
me and I was moving up and down, my
hard cock over my shorts was touching her
pussy over her panty and we had dry sex.
Soon I felt I had cum in my undies and so
got up. I couldn't see her face so just
turned back to leave. Just then Anitha
came and hugged me from behind and
whispered in my ears " where are u going?
its not done yet" saying so she turned me
around and we started to hug each each
other very tightly and also our lips started
to play.
I had my hand in her hips, pressed them
and Anitha went mad with my touches
there. I then moved away and let my hands
inside her t-shirt and touched her bare
skin. OMG it was so soft and I was
caressing her skin there. I then moved my
hands from the top of her skirt inside her
panty as well and cupped her ass cheeks.
Anitha let out a moan.
These were more then enough for me to get
a hard on that my cock started to pain
inside my shorts and it was longing to get
out. I went wild with that, my kisses
became more wild. Anitha realising my
state pulled down my shorts and lifted her
right leg and put it around my hips giving
access to her pussy. My cock was now
touching her pussy over her panty.
I pulled Anitha more closer with the help of
her ass. Anitha moved her hands into my t-
shirt and was caressing my back. I then
took my hand from her ass and pulled her
t-shirt up exposing and she lifted her hands
in the air for my to get rid of the t-shirt.
Now Anitha was standing with a pink mesh
bra that barely covered her boobs and her
denim shorts.
She was fair in color and her boobs were
stiff. I couldn't keep my hands off this
beauty that I wasted no time and her boobs
in my mouth over her bra. Her nipples were
so hard and stiff. I then moved the cloth
that covered her boobs to the side and
sucked on her boobs an was fidling with
her other nipple. Anitha had a sexy nipple
that was not too large neither too small.
It was medium sized with light brown
aeroles. I started to bite her nipples and
Anitha was moaning out and her hands
were on my hairs and she pushed my head
further inside. I then switched over to the
other nipple and was doing the same for
the next 15 - 20 minutes. Till now we never
spoke a word but were busy with our
foreplays.
Anitha then knelt down in front of me
taking my cock in her hand and stroking it.
It was already super wet with my juices.
Anitha had a sexy look in her eyes and
again that was full of lust. She had her
mouth right in front of my cock as she was
stroking and her mouth was watering to
take it inside. Anitha looked up to me and
said " shall I take it in my mouth. my
hubby would never allow oral sex."
I replied " I wouldn't say no to such a
beauty from doing anything. carry on with
what ever u want. your hubby should be
mad." Anitha then let her tongue out and
she tried to pull back my foreskin and it
was tight. She then took it in her mouth
and was sucking my tip making it wet and
in few minutes she succeeded in bringing
back my foreskin.
She then was licking the entire length (6")
from front to back and was also sucking
on my balls. Soon she started to take the
whole length in her mouth. My cock was
touching the deepest part of her throat. Her
wet hairs were coming in front giving her
some difficuilty in the blowjob. I moved her
hairs behind and her face was looking so
damm sexy taking my cock inside her.
Her hands were caressing my balls making
me go wild. I was about to reach my
climax so held her hairs tight and started
to fuck her vigroulsy in her mouth and
soon I released my hot semen in her
mouth. I had come in large quantity and
Anitha couldn't swallow everything and
some fell on her boobs and face. She then
sucked my cock dry and told me that " your
cock is bigger in length and width than that
of my hubby's".
Anitha then got up and went to the
washroom to clean herself and I followed
her there. She was bending down in the
wash basin, cleaning her face and I stood
just behind her touching her ass, hips and
pulled down her skirt and panty in one go.
Anitha's arse was so sexy, fair and had the
right amount of flesh.


I got an immediate hard on seeing her arse
that I started to move my hands over hers
caressing them and moving my cock over
her arse cheeks making her horny as well
( which wasn't actually necessary as she
was horny to the core). I was rubbing my
cock in between her arse cracks and I was
going wild.
next part in the evening guys..... have a
pleasurable day you all

Not to repeat myself, but I haven't been satisfied with Peter Milligan's Red Lanterns series since the beginning, and the only reason I didn't drop it with the second volume is because Red Lanterns Vol. 3: The Second Prophecy ties in to the "Rise of the Third Army" and "Wrath of the First Lantern" crossovers (completist that I am). This third book doesn't fare much better, both in telling a meandering, too-decompressed story and also in too many subplots that never actually pan out.

[Review contains spoilers]

Neither the Green Lantern: New Guardians series nor Red Lanterns are particularly well-treated by the culminating storylines of Geoff Johns's Green Lantern run. Both books are tertiary to the "Third Army/First Lantern" storylines; in both, the characters from each series make only small cameos in the stories' resolutions. New Guardians is the better story, not brought down by the vagaries of Red Lanterns, though surprisingly Red Lanterns is the more connected of the two, with an aspect of the "First Lantern" story tying (just barely) into the climactic Green Lantern #20.

As with most of the other third volume Green Lantern books, Second Prophecy collects issues #0 and #13-20 of the series, plus the aforementioned Green Lantern #20. For most of the Green Lantern books, issue #16 marks a cliffhanger before the end of "Third Army" and issue #17 starts in another place with "First Lantern"; Milligan, to his credit, gets around this by having Red Lantern Atrocitus send the resurrected robot Manhunters to Oa in issue #16 instead of going himself, such that Atrocitus's story continues uninterrupted through the whole book.

The "Third Army" story involves Atrocitus resurrecting the Green Lantern Guardians' Manhunters -- his sworn enemies, responsible for killing his family -- in order to pit them against the Guardians. For my tastes, Milligan would seem to over- and under-emphasize the wrong things here. For all the book's navel-gazing, there's not much discussion of the morality of Atrocitus turning to these genocidal robots for assistance; at the same time, Milligan uses three issues on Atrocitus recruiting the Manhunters, including a couple of fights and an imaginary sequence, when some of that fluff could likely have been cut back.

The "First Lantern" story reads as equally thin. Milligan takes an entire issue for Atrocitus to dig underground and find the Guardians' "Great Heart," only for it to be immediately stolen by the First Lantern in the next issue. The First Lantern shows Atrocitus a vision of his life if his family hadn't been murdered, in which Atrocitus becomes a dictator and his family murders him, leading Atrocitus to "choose" the current reality. Ridiculously, this causes Atrocitus to now blame himself for his family's murder and to order the Red Lanterns to kill him, effectively committing suicide.

The Red Lanterns comply without question, but in the span of an issue again Atrocitus has "found himself" and regained control of the Lanterns. The motivations of the characters shift with the story -- Atrocitus wants to die, then he wants to live; the Red Lanterns are happy to kill their boss, then to follow him again -- and it's hard to feel for the characters when they're so ephemeral.

This is not even to mention the side trip that Red Lantern Bleez and the human Red Lantern Rankorr make to Earth, in which Bleez wants to steal Rankorr's powers, he stops her, and then ... really nothing. Dex-Starr, Atrocitus's loyal companion, goes to Earth to find Stormwatch's Midnighter and ... kills someone else instead and that's it; that more is not later made of the fact that Dex-Starr is willing to kill Atrocitus on command is a missed opportunity.

Also, a running subplot of Red Lanterns since the second book has been the Five Inversions, demons who gave Atrocitus his powers, poisoning the Red Lantern battery and slowly taking over the Red Lantern corps. Chalk it up, perhaps, to Milligan's run on Red Lanterns coming to a maybe-sudden end, but in the issue #20 finale, the Red Lanterns finally go up against the Inversions and ... beat them handily. It's a too-cutesy end to what seemed like a serious storyline, and for me the resolution fell flat.

There is some good suspense right at the very end in Red Lanterns #20, when Sinestro murders all of the Guardians but leaves one for Atrocitus. Throughout Red Lanterns and even in Atrocitus's Green Lantern appearances before that, Atrocitus has sworn he'd kill a Guardian in revenge for the actions of the Manhunters, and finally he stalks the last of those Guardians. I felt rather mixed emotions here; on one hand, it's a brutal scene and no one wants to see a little blue Guardian executed, but on the other hand, for Milligan to have had Atrocitus turn away from killing the Guardian after all this time would leave Atrocitus's arc unresolved. Milligan does have Atrocitus murder the Guardian and the moment comes off earned and appropriate, and up until the conclusion I felt quite riveted, unsure what would happen.

I like the Red Lanterns characters very much -- Atrocitus, Bleez, Rankorr, and the rest -- and I regret that I never quite got the swing of Peter Milligan's run on the title. I tend to wish writers would stay on titles longer (though twenty issues is nothing to sneeze at), but in concluding with Red Lanterns Vol. 3: The Second Prophecy, I think it works out. Red Lanterns continues, but under a different team; hopefully Charles Soule and company will have new life to bring to the title.

[Includes original covers, gatefold "WTF" cover, cover designs, and Miguel Sepulveda sketchbook]

Later this week, Dark Horse's Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows.

We are slipping out of June with a couple of stories from one of the first horror comics I ever owned. I got it in a trade circa 1959, and it has been in my collection since.

I have shown the Dick Briefer-drawn “Somewhere Lurks a Thing!” before, in the early days of this blog. These are new scans. “Ted’s Head” has art credited by the GCD to Larry Woromay ? by way of the Atlas Tales site. I think Larry did a pretty good job showing headless people without the gore. But it wouldn't have satisfied the Senate committee and their hearing on comics. They didn’t buy Bill Gaines’ decapitated head cover of Crime Suspenstories #22 as “being in good taste for a horror comic.” For the record, I think “Ted’s Head” is in good taste for a horror comic.

 
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This is the final posting from our “Aces Up My Sleeve” theme week, featuring early stories from the Ace Comics line.

This is the issue where Flash Lightning became Lash Lightning. No explanation...it just was.

It is also a story with inconsistencies which seem jarring. Lash drives a car to the Army base. But he can fly and uses that power when he is blocked from entering in his car. Why drive? To show that the road to the base is blocked appears to be the only reason. And the evil Mastermind, who can “project himself anywhere” can project himself on the base, but then climbs into the commanding officer’s window the old-fashioned way.

Despite those weaknesses in the writing, the art is by comics journeyman Jim Mooney, and it is excellent.

From Lightning Comics Vol 2 No.1 (1941):

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The origin story of Flash Lightning from Sure-Fire Comics #1 is here. Just click on the thumbnail:

It feels like writer Tom Taylor has less set-up to do in the second volume of Injustice: Gods Among Us, especially in terms of the tragic deaths that catalyze the piece, and this allows for more of your standard superhero fare for the reader to get behind. Injustice is the pro wrestling of the DC Comics set right now (appropriate for a comic based on a fighting video game), a book enjoyable largely in how over-the-top and "wrong" it often is. Taylor writes a convincing Superman vs. Batman story here; this is not "our" Superman and Batman, nor would we ever want them to be, but I found this a credible take on what a conflict between these two heroes might be like.

[Review contains spoilers]

There's a few sequences in Injustice Vol. 2 where Superman and Batman work to one-up one another. Batman kidnaps one of Superman's allies and replaces them with a spy; Superman attempts to reveal to the world Batman's identity; Batman brings the Justice League watchtower crashing to Earth. If we turn our heads and squint a little bit, and tell ourselves this is not the shining Man of Tomorrow and the noble Dark Knight, there's something engaging about this conflict of brawn versus brains, each of them convinced of their role as the hero of the story.

Taylor nicely complicates the conflict, as when Batman and his team break into the Fortress of Solitude wanting to steal Superman's secret weapon, but their efforts are misconstrued as trying to harm Superman's parents. At the (cold, cold) heart of the book, each hero wants desperately for the other to understand their point of view; this could be written as just a story of Bright Hero A versus Dark Hero B, but the layers of past friendship that the reader brings to a tale of Superman and Batman give their conflict extra depth.

Much of the plot of Injustice Vol. 2 turns on that secret weapon, a "magic pill" created by Lex Luthor (Superman's buddy, apparently) to give normal people super-powers to help Superman fight his war on crime. I don't know to what extent the magic pill corresponds to the Injustice video game, but I can extrapolate a certain logic here -- Black Canary can't reasonably go up against Superman in the game, but by fiat of a magic pill (no less ridiculous than any other solution), those match-ups become feasible. I haven't played Injustice, but I sense Taylor gets closest to a real approximation of the gameplay in the annual collected here in which a powered-up Harley Quinn fights Lobo. That's a ridiculous match, but then again putting Harley and Lobo together in a story makes a certain amount of sense, and herein one begins to see Injustice's appeal -- no rules also means no limits to the storytelling.

What's to the benefit to the story, of course, can also be its drawback. That Taylor portrays, in another instance, Ma Kent, Pa Kent, and a hologram of Jor-El all hugging over their concern about Superman is a wildly imaginative scene, and exactly the kind of thing you might never see anywhere else that Injustice should strive for. On the flip side, however, is one of the concluding scenes where Superman breaks Batman's back over his knee Bane-style, simultaneously horrifying and ridiculous, which might be pegged as appropriately over-the-top or gruesomely irreverent, depending on your point of view. And not to be outdone, Taylor finishes the book with a sequence where a super-powered Alfred (yes, Alfred) punches and kicks and head-butts Superman to a pulp. Again, there's something fantastically outrageous and also very, very wrong with the story here.

What generally sells me on a "wrong" story of this type (Judd Winick's Catwoman Vol. 1: The Game is another that comes to mind) is whether it's apparent to me that the authors understand the kind of story they're telling. It's fitting that the book starts with a Shazam (nee Captain Marvel) story in which Billy Batson interviews people about their perspectives on Superman's dictatorial ways, ending with a pseudo-conversation between Billy and Shazam/Marvel himself. Billy remarks, "I don't think someone as young as me is supposed to see this stuff ... I think it's affecting me." Taylor, in essence, gives the book a warning label; this is rough stuff, by design, but it's not blithe about it (Alfred bashing in Superman's face notwithstanding).

Injustice ought end the debate (though it probably won't) as to whether superheroes should kill. Taylor brings Apokoliptian blowhard Kalibak to Earth, raining down destruction with his Parademons, even as he chides Superman that he knows Superman won't kill to stop them (setting aside that, at least in the New 52, Parademons are robots). We see here quite clearly the slippery slope; Superman does not want to kill, but having already killed the Joker, murder as a viable solution becomes easier and easier, and Superman indeed kills the Parademons. A little while later, Taylor offers a scene in which Superman and the Flash play chess, and Superman proposes destroying all guns; here, Flash demonstrates the slipper slope himself by asking Superman if they'd next outlaw cigarettes, or lock up people who speed in cars, or leave dangerous dogs unchained, or who don't recycle.

Taylor at times makes Superman's hard-line approach in the book very attractive, but he also demonstrates its complete unworkability; there's no scenario in which Superman trying to protect people from themselves doesn't end up in a totalitarianism regime. Taylor populates the story with characters that know this, even on Superman's side, including the Kents, Jor-El, Lex Luthor, and the Flash. What I hope is that Taylor is moving us toward a place where Superman recognizes the contradictions as well; the Injustice game dictates Superman can't change his position, but I would be curious to see Taylor write Superman's dawning insight at the same time.

As with many of DC Comics's digital first books, Injustice straddles the line of being kind-of, sort-of an old DC Universe book. Taylor side-steps much of that with this being an alternate universe, but in flashbacks we see that Superman used to wear his classic underwear-on-the-outside costume and Harley Quinn once wore her clown suit (I'd be pleased to see a Year Zero Injustice story at some point that depicts how the characters went from their previous appearances to these). The Fortress of Solitude here has the classic big key, and Taylor's Jor-El is the old John Byrne version; all of these are nice remembrances of times past, even in a book that for many might sully those memories.

At the same time, Taylor plays fast and loose with established continuity at other times, making that call for a prequel to the prequel even stronger. Most notably, in Injustice Superman and Lex Luthor have always been friends, and Taylor treats it so matter-of-factly that the reader does a double-take; surely that's a story waiting to be told. Also, there's an amusing scene in which we find Huntress and Black Canary, but not Green Arrow, know Batman's identity. It is amusing, but it's hard to imagine the series of events through which Taylor thinks that logically would be the case.

The first volume of Injustice began and ended with some really appalling deaths -- Superman murdering Lois and his child on one end, and Robin Damian Wayne killing Nightwing with an absurd trip-and-fall on the other. In that Injustice: Gods Among Us Vol. 2 skews less tragic, more loony, and with greater emphasis on freedom fighter Batman, I was able to enjoy the story more and feel the "wrongness" less. Injustice will not appeal to everyone, but Tom Taylor piqued my interest this time, and I'd be curious to read the first Year Two volume.

[Review by Doug Glassman, who Tumblrs at '80s Marvel Rocks!]

Dystopian timelines are a staple of the X-books. Partly it's because the original "Days of Future Past" story was so well-received, but these stories also fit thematically. If there's any group of characters where Murphy's Law will kick them in their collective rears, it's the X-Men. Some work better than others; for instance, Age of Apocalypse succeeded on an epic scale, while Bishop's future was so generic that it never really got its own timeline name. The X-Men: Age of X event, while smaller in scale than Apocalypse, is definitely in the win column, thanks to both Mike Carey's world-building and a mystery leading up to a clever twist. That it's only six issues long, plus three tie-ins, is a show of restraint; Apocalypse is long enough to fill two omnibuses.

Big spoilers lie ahead; if you don't want the twist ruined, click away now.

The story begins with Age of X: Alpha, an anthology following four major mutants: Cyclops, Cannonball, Wolverine, and Magneto. This is actually a bit of misdirection; only the last story is really key to the plot. That's not to say that Alpha is a waste of time: Cyclops gets a terrifying new origin as the Basilisk while Wolverine sacrifices his healing factor to stop the creation of the mutant cure. Only the Cannonball and Husk story seems extraneous; it's mainly there because the two titles crossing over were X-Men Legacy and New Mutants and at least one New Mutant needed to be in the lead-in. Magneto's story ends with a scene similar to the climax of the "Days of Future Past" film but in a larger scale as he abducts New York skyscrapers to build a fortress of refuge for mutantkind.

We pick up three years later as humans and mutants are at a stalemate: the humans attack Fortress X, and the mutants defend it with overlapping psychic and physical shields. Magneto is growing impatient, Legion is a constantly-shirtless hero, Rogue has become the memory-absorbing "Legacy" and the Fortress' most feared fighters are what we would call the New Mutants. The appearance of Kitty Pryde and a camera full of hazy pictures of the outside world bring chaos into an already untenable situation. Legacy's investigation into the mystery puts her at odds with "X," the mysterious force that controls the Fortress, until she finally finds a man in the brig whom she doesn't recognize: Charles Xavier.

One reason why Age of X is so enjoyable is because it keeps a brisk pace, using the introduction of various characters to also set up the central mystery. Suddenly seeing people like Moira MacTaggert alive again keeps the reader occupied; it's not even clear that there is a secret behind the story until the very end of the second part. Once that's in place, the threads start to unravel as Xavier regains consciousness, Legacy finds more evidence of how strange their world is, and X tries to stop them in their tracks by manipulating others. The truth finally comes out: Moira's responsible! Except that it's not really Moira . . . it's a facet of Legion's personality that's taken her shape. It's yet another story where Legion is at the core, but while it was a little incongruous in Fall of the New Mutants, it's built up to better over the course of this book.

Carey also makes sure to explain what the stakes are and exactly what's happened to the world. Essentially, Legion has separated Utopia Island from the rest of the world and created a false reality wherein he is the hero he always wanted to be. This has been foreshadowed with his shirtlessness and people name-dropping him in otherwise unrelated conversations. Legion can warp reality to a massive scale . . . but he's not great at details. That's why Kitty Pryde could escape and why Xavier still exists in the Age of X timeline.

The manipulation also has consequences; when reality returns to normal, everyone still has their memories. This means that the former supervillain Frenzy still remembers being married to Scott Summers, potentially throwing a wrench into the Cyclops/Emma Frost relationship. Others have further changes: Chamber, formerly of Generation X, regains his old combustion powers at the expense of his rebuilt chest and face. This isn't an event that can be written off and forgotten as "just a dream." This kind of ending also doesn't deflate the story; even classics like "Days of Future Past" can feel a bit hollow once the story is resolved. A recent Uncanny X-Men solicitation hints at something going wrong in Cyclops' mind; it might very well be the return of the Basilisk persona.

Rounding out the Age of X trade are the two "Universe" issues which really should have been put towards the front. They show what happened to the Avengers, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange in this timeline. By the time you read the stories here, the twist has been revealed, so it becomes a little unclear about how much of these stories actually happened. They technically take place in Legion's head as the backstory for his own little fan-fiction universe . . . except that they also feature a few mutants. While the Avengers tale is quite sadistic and the Doctor Strange/Dazzler story is just dull, Jim McCann and Paul Davidson's Spider-Man story is one of the event's highlights. Hunted for being too similar to a mutant, Spidey sacrifices his life to save the woman he loves . . . a pregnant Mary-Jane Watson. It's as if McCann wrote the story as a big "up yours" to Joe Quesada's treatment of the character.

Despite this odd ending, X-Men: Age of X really succeeds as both a major X-Men story and as a narrative in its own right.

 Next week, it's back to GI Joe to simultaneously celebrate the Fourth of July and kick off the second annual Indie-Pendence Month.

This is the second offering from our theme week, Aces Up My Sleeve, featuring early characters from comics published by Ace.*

Congo Jack did not appear in more than a few issues of Lightning Comics in the early forties. This particular sequence, spread over two issues, has a science fiction setting in an underground kingdom. Congo Jack is kidnapped by green men because he is white. (The green men blow up the African tribesmen they first encounter, all part of the unconscionable racial attitudes of the day...natives were “expendable.”) There is a sinister green man who doesn’t want Jack getting the beautiful green queen’s favor. In the second part of the story some blue dwarfs enter the action. And action there is...Congo Jack is good with his fists and there is a lot of sock-bam-pow going on.

Mark Schneider, who signed both chapters in panels every couple of pages or so, is not credited with comics beyond about 1942. I assume he went into the Armed Services during World War II like so many men, but I have no verification. He was a decent artist, and his work fit in perfectly with the still young comics industry.

From Lightning Comics Vol. 2 No. 1 and Vol. 2 No. 2 (1941):

*This is the same Ace that published all of those cool science fiction paperbacks in the fifties and sixties, including the collectible and desirable Ace Double Novels. Publisher Aaron A. Wyn (born Aaron Weinstein 1898, died 1967) started in the pulp magazine business, was active with a comic book line in the forties until quitting that business in the mid-fifties, and is probably best known for the genre paperbacks, crime, romance, Western, and the aforementioned science fiction.