That would be pretty interesting, and Nocenti parallels that with Shun, kidnapped, tortured, and tattooed by the Sword Clan until Katana inspires her to vengeance, only for Katana to argue in the end that revenge isn't worth it. Ostensibly Soultaker is the story of Tatsu, a Japanese woman in a traditional marriage who, upon the death of her husband, finds herself as the sword-wielding Katana but believing Maseo still alive in her sword, Tatsu vacillates between her new, free life and her old tendencies toward subservience. Katana's prowess with her namesake weapon is presented as a given here, but from her first training session Katana's actual skill appears lacking, up to and including often triumphing based on her enemies' mistakes an all-powerful character bores fast, but Nocenti shows Katana as surprisingly easy to defeat. is that it was she herself who killed her husband, who turns out himself to have been corrupt - though Nocenti strangely ignores that fact in Katana's continued devotion to Maseo through the rest of the book. At the same time, the dubious answer to Katana's quest across Birds of Prey, Justice League of America, and etc. The New 52 questioned Katana's very sanity, whether she imagines her husband in her sword Soultaker proves Katana sane, because ghosts really do live in her sword. Nocenti therefore bends our understanding of Katana in a variety of odd ways. Nocenti's extended origin, however, has Katana loving Sickle but choosing to marry the "safe" Maseo, who turns out to be an assassin, and Tatsu accidentally killing Maseo to protect Sickle when he confronts Maseo about his bad deeds. Historically Katana has been one of Batman's most trusted allies and a charter member of Batman's (pre- Flashpoint) Outsiders, a martial artist whose husband and children are killed by her husband's jealous Yazuka-connected brother (this book's Sickle). The Sword Clan representatives happen to include Sickle, brother of Katana's deceased husband Maseo (now living in Katanta's Soultaker sword), tying it all back to Katana's own origins. Related, Katana's trying to root out corruption in the Sword Clan, part of a shadowy weapons collective called the Outsiders from Lemire's Green Arrow run (think the multi-hued Lantern Corps, done with weapons). How and why Katanta finds out about Shun is one of those things Nocenti never quite details, which depending on your point of view is either maddening or a wise exercise in compressed storytelling. Soultaker starts with Katana Tatsu Yamashiro setting up camp in San Francisco's "Japantown," on the trail of a mysterious tattooed woman, Shun. These elements combine to make a book that's hard to figure. To those ends, Katanta might almost be workable, were it not for the strained (and repetitious) dialogue and what seem to be Nocenti's almost trademark leaps of logic. Nocenti populates it with characters with vying motives on all sides there's a lot packed in with ties big and small to Geoff Johns's Justice League of America, Jeff Lemire's Green Arrow, and the Creeper via Dan DiDio's Phantom Stranger. Katana is a complicated tale of women's lives, love, obsession, subservience, and revenge. 1: Soultaker, for instance, suffers from lazy writing, or if there's a thematic imperative in two different characters repeating almost the same line of dialogue four times in the last chapter, whether Nocenti's work is full of poetry or confusion. Executive producers include Butch Lukic ( Batman: The Long Halloween) and Sam Register, along with longtime Batman franchise executive producer Michael Uslan.I haven't been overly taken with Ann Nocenti's recent DC Comics work ( Catwoman, Green Arrow), but there's something about it I find compelling. Moreau ( Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham). The producers are Jim Krieg ( The Death and Return of Superman) and Kimberly S. The film was written by Jeremy Adams ( Supernatural), Ernie Altbacker ( Justice League Dark: Apocalypse War) and Josie Campbell ( She-Ra and the Princesses of Power). Jeff Wamester ( Legion of Super-Heroes) is the director of Justice League: Warworld. Cross as Machiste, Brett Dalton as Bat Lash, Trevor Duvall as Drifter, John DiMaggio as Lobo, Robin Atkin Downes as Mongul, Frank Grillo as Agent Faraday, Rachel Kimsey as Mariah Romanova, David Lodge as Sheriff, and Damian O'Hare as Deimos and Teddy Sears as Warlord. It also includes Ike Amadi as Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onzz, Troy Baker as Jonah Hex, Matt Bomer as Old Man, Roger C. Justice League: Warworld includes a cast led by Jensen Ackles as Batman/Officer Wayne, Stana Katic as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince and Darren Criss as Superman/Agent Kent. But when they are swept away to War World, a place of unending brutal gladiatorial combat, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the others must somehow unite to form an unbeatable resistance able to lead an entire planet to freedom. Until now, the Justice League has been a loose association of superpowered individuals.
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