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  Comics You Should Own #4 » PopCultureShock
Bloodtype and Aztek are caught in an explosion that kills the anti-hero, and the nice thing about his death is that it leads into a different story, this one in issue #3, when his ex-girlfriend, Death Doll, goes after the person she thinks is responsible for his death (Aztek, naturally).
Therefore, the Piper dies, Bloodtype dies, Aztek's girlfriend Joy is captured and shrunk, the Lizard King dies.
Aztek is an interesting failure, in that it proves that comics readers don't mind a little weirdness as long as it happens to Batman or Superman.
popcultureshock.com /features.php?id=1140   (2027 words)

  
  Aztek (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aztek was a superhero in the DC Universe.
His base of operations was the city of Vanity, a strange town that had bizarre architecture, and the highest suicide rate in the DC Universe version of the United States.
A younger African-American female Aztek was seen in Grant Morrison's run on JLA during "The Rock of Ages" storyline in which the JLA traveled to an alternate future overrun by Darkseid.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aztek_(comics)   (477 words)

  
 Comics Encyclopedia Article @ EveryLast.Net (Every Last Net)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of May 30 art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of Shogakukan Publishing or image captions.
Whilst almost all comics art is in some sense, and also whilst every artist who has produced comics work brings their own individual approach to bear, some broader art styles have been identified.
In the webcomics the term "comics" is sometimes used to describe the page of a newspaper upon which comic strips are found, and through this usage has also grown to be used as a definition for comic strips.
everylast.net /encyclopedia/Comics   (5653 words)

  
 Fanzing 26 - April 2000 - Hall of Justice
Aztek was still able to function without his sight, thanks to the helmet.
Aztek used the suit's space capability to penetrate Mageddon again…and this time, he sacrificed his life to save Superman's.
Aztek is skilled in various fighting styles and is a skilled tactician.
www.fanzing.com /mag/fanzing26/hoj.shtml   (1391 words)

  
 The religion of Aztek (Uno, of the JLA)
Aztek was a superhero in the DC Universe.
Aztek later became a member of the Justice League but felt he had to resign when it was revealed that one of the mysterious benefactors of the Q society was supervillain Lex Luthor.
A younger female Aztek was seen in Grant Morrisson's run on JLA during "The Rock of Ages" storyline in which the JLA traveled to a future over run by Darkseid.
www.adherents.com /lit/comics/Aztek.html   (645 words)

  
 Aztek
Aztek’s first mission was to set up an identity, find a job and a place to live.
Aztek took to the skies and confronted Mageddon before he could reach Earth.
Aztek had no metahuman powers, but was trained since childhood to physical and mental perfection.
www.mykey3000.com /cosmicteams/profiles/aztek.htm   (1388 words)

  
 The Ultimate Man
Aztek teamed up with Batman to solve this crime, but Aztek was damaged in the battle.
When Aztek will go to Metropolis soon to help out a comatose child whose only hope of recovery is encouragement from Superman.
Aztek has a gold helmet with 5 points bending backwards off of it, not unlike a sun.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/4398/aztek.html   (795 words)

  
 Aztek
He lived in the city operating as a hero form some time and eventually joined the JLA where he was an excellent member until Lex Luthor constructed the Injustice Gang and Aztek was faced with a conflict of interest.
Aztek worked with the JLA for his last time during the Mageddon war.
Aztek, JLA and all other characters and stories on this page are a copyright of DC Comics.
www.geocities.com /johnnylingoshark/aztekbio.htm   (282 words)

  
 Floridian: Aztek sacrifice
Aztek owners have ways of defending their vehicles against the slings and arrows of wisecracking fellow motorists.
And now comes talk of the predictable next step: The Aztek is expected to be discontinued as soon as 2004, leaving its drivers with orphan cars, as the survivors of a discontinued model are called.
Aztek owners are not waiting for the official announcement to express their displeasure with General Motors.
www.sptimes.com /2003/05/12/news_pf/Floridian/Aztek_sacrifice.shtml   (1716 words)

  
 Aztek - DC Database
Luthor revealed to Aztek that he funded much of the Q Foundation's work so he could have a hero in the JLA.
Aztek defied Luthor and deactivated several nuclear bombs the IS had teleported into the Watchtower.
Aztek died in the blast, but he managed to hurt Maggedon long enough for Batman and Martian Manhunter to free Superman while the rest of the JLA organized a counterattack.
www.dcdatabaseproject.com /Aztek   (428 words)

  
 FANBOY PLANET.com .: mc-continuitycornerIAMLEGION :.
Aztek ran for ten issues in his own title, co-writtten by Morrison and Mark Millar, with pencils by N. Steven Harris and inks by JSA's current writer Keith Champagne.
Sent to a city called Vanity (in his first story, "A Town Called Vanity") by a super-secret society, Aztek had been raised and trained to be the ultimate weapon against an ancient world-destroying enemy, assumed to be from Aztec mythology.
Copyrights and trademarks for existing entertainment (film, TV, comics, wrestling) properties are held by their respective owners and are used with permission or for promotional purposes of said properties.
fanboyplanet.com /ontv/justiceleague/mc-continuitycornerIAMLEGION.php   (663 words)

  
 How is the comic industry in bad shape? - Page 3 - Penciljack Forum
Part of the thing with comics too, is that they are supposed to be collector's items.
most comics are printed in such a high volume and the stories are retconned so much that nothing is really unique or signifigant anymore.
Tell that to all those parents who flocked to the comic stores to Buy the Black Bagged Death of Superduperman so they could send their chillen to college on the money those would earn.
www.penciljack.com /forum/showthread.php?p=771321#post771321   (712 words)

  
 Aztek
However, there was evidence from his past that linked him to a global conspiracy reaching into the farthest corners of the DC Universe, the new Injustice Gang and a reclusive cult who planned to usher in the end of the world at the earliest opportunity.
Aztek himself was a well-meaning innocent, engulfed by events beyond his control and manipulated by the one of the smartest men alive, Lex Luthor.
His membership in the League had created a moral dilemma: he wanted to help, but in joining he might have provided a terrible force of evil with the means of defeating the team forever.
galileo.spaceports.com /~xsufiru/databank/Aztek/index.htm   (342 words)

  
 PopImage
AZTEK is about a hero trained, from birth, to battle the shadow god, Tezcatlicopa.
Aztek assumes the real name of a doctor turned pseudo-has-been supervillian who dies in the first issue.
Among them: the story behind the city of Vanity, the role of Aztek's estranged family, and the motives behind the Q Foundation, and the details behind the return of the Shadow God (who was actually Mageddon from Morrison's run on JLA).
www.popimage.com /profile/morrison/012501aztekrev.html   (583 words)

  
 DC Universe - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The concept of a shared universe in comics involves writers and editors, together with artists, who together create a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters grow and change.
This idea was strongly developed in the Marvel Universe in the early 1960s, and seen also in other publishers in recent years, but it was pioneered by the DC Universe and in particular by writer Gardner Fox.
The DC Universe typically has its comic books set in fictional cities, such as the twin cities of Gotham City (based upon New York City) and Metropolis (based in part upon Toronto, though like Gotham, it also serves as a New York City analog in the comics).
www.netipedia.com /index.php/DC_Universe   (2885 words)

  
 The Nexus: DC News & Views
Aztek goes head to head with the insane Lizard King, a villain who claims he, not Aztek, is better suited to saving the world from the coming darkness.
Doing brutality in comics is like doing horror in comics: it is not impossible (peek Joker wailing on Jason Todd with a crowbar for confirmation of that), but it is pretty damn hard.
Comics are a static art, (as in they don\'t move, like TV or film) and as a result, it can make moments less visceral.
comicsnexus.insidepulse.com /articles/28321   (3563 words)

  
 arthritis pain relief - Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison (1960 -) is a Scottish comic book writer and cartoonist best-known for his non-linear narratives and counter-cultural leanings and often acclaimed as one of the most creative writers ever to work in mainstream comics.
He was born in Glasgow and became accustomed to comic books during the 1960s and 1970s.
Morrison has recently returned to DC Comics after several years at Marvel, where he wrote the New X-Men series and the miniseries Marvel Boy and Fantastic Four 1234.
www.painreliefchat.com /arthritis-pain-relief/Grant_Morrison   (620 words)

  
 FANBOY PLANET.com .: mc-continuitycornerIAMLEGION :.
Aztek ran for ten issues in his own title, co-writtten by Morrison and Mark Millar, with pencils by N. Steven Harris and inks by JSA's current writer Keith Champagne.
Sent to a city called Vanity (in his first story, "A Town Called Vanity") by a super-secret society, Aztek had been raised and trained to be the ultimate weapon against an ancient world-destroying enemy, assumed to be from Aztec mythology.
Copyrights and trademarks for existing entertainment (film, TV, comics, wrestling) properties are held by their respective owners and are used with permission or for promotional purposes of said properties.
www.fanboyplanet.com /ontv/justiceleague/mc-continuitycornerIAMLEGION.php   (663 words)

  
 DC Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The concept of a shared universe was originally pioneered by the DC Comics (originally known as National Periodical Publications) and in particular by writer Gardner Fox.
The fact that DC Comics Characters coexisted in the same world was first established in All Star Comics #3 (1940) where several superheroes (who starred in separate stories in the series up to that point) met each other, and soon founded the superhero team, the Justice Society of America.
The DC Universe typically has its comic books set in fictional cities, such as the cities of Gotham City (based upon Chicago) and Metropolis (based in part upon New York, though like Gotham, it also serves as a New York City analog in the comics).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DC_Universe   (3101 words)

  
 JS Online: GM's Aztech to Get Facelift
He said GM mistakenly thought the Aztek would be a hot seller on the West Coast, and on that assumption allocated more vehicles than usual to its dealers in that region.
Bernacchi suggests the Aztek be targeted more at customers with an active lifestyle rather than at a particular demographic group.
He's optimistic about sales, predicting by the time the Aztek is a year old it will have sold between 35,000 and 36,000 units - not as high as Vurpillat would like.
www.jsonline.com /bym/news/ap/jun01/ap-aztek-brand-man060901.asp   (658 words)

  
 Pope Alien . Comics - Automotive Reviews - 2001 Pontiac Aztek
Onstar’s sole purpose is to allow frustrated Aztek owners a way to communicate instantly with the people who cause their frustration.
The Aztek’s traction is provided by all-wheel drive (a note to the off road enthusiast, this doesn’t mean 4 wheel drive.) With all-wheel drive, the Aztek can handle most smoothly paved suburban road surfaces, but the car quickly bogs down in potholes or off road.
The Aztek is a perfect example of GM’s trend toward designing cars from polling data.
www.popealien.com /reviews/ra-aztek.htm   (1007 words)

  
 Movie Poop Shoot - COMICS 101
Aztek was kept pretty busy in his early days in Vanity, including an encounter with Death-Doll, a superheroine-turned-CIA assassin who also happened to be the girlfriend of the deceased Bloodtype, and decided to express her grief to Aztek, with extreme prejudice.
Aztek also tries to get a social life going in his new “Curt Falconer” identity with a nurse from the hospital named Joy, but a call to duty during dinner, combined with his own near-complete social ineptitude, puts the kibosh on any grand romantic plans.
However, the accumulated events of the previous few weeks have taken their toll on Aztek, and he’s snatched up by his minders in the Q-Group for rehabilitation, which is about when we (although not Aztek) discover one of the primary patrons of the Q-Group: Lex Luthor.
www.moviepoopshoot.com /comics101/148.html   (1589 words)

  
 Death-Doll
(Aztek: The Ultimate Man #3, Aztek: The Ultimate Man #9 (fb) - BTS)) - Aztek was falsely implicated in the death of Bloodtype, and Death-Doll swore she would kill him.
She confronted Aztek and had him on the ropes when her thug assistants, who were impressed by how nice Aztek was to them, came to his aid.
Unfortunately for her, her teleport device was damaged in the fight against Aztek, and she teleported right into Bloodtype's tombstone.
www.angelfire.com /ar/hellUSA/Deathdoll.html   (295 words)

  
 Suspended Animation by Michael Vance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aztek was Curt Falconer, a man raised by monks and trained by an outfit called the "Q Foundation," to be their champion against the shadow god "Tezcatlipoca," who they believed would one day threaten Earth.
He was also the latest in a line of "true believers," dating back centuries, to wear the Aztek costume, which was powered by a fourth-dimensional power source, making him a fairly powerful individual.
And yet, despite having everything going for it, Aztek's sales figures deemed it unworthy of continued production, and it was given the ax by D.C. Of course, Aztek went on to join the JLA, but was hardly ever used in the book, and recently died in JLA #41, the culmination of the "Mageddon" storyline.
www.starland.com /sus/2000/sus000705.htm   (320 words)

  
 The City Paper - Smart, Fast, Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This describes the 2001 Pontiac Aztek, a sport utility vehicle that doesn't come close to conforming to our expectations of what an SUV should look like.
The dare-to-look-different Aztek is boxy, to be sure, but not a regular box.
The four-door GT Aztek I was driving had front-wheel drive, but an all-wheel drive model is available.
www.nashvillecitypaper.com /index.cfm?section=12&screen=news&news_id=3978   (730 words)

  
 LILEKS (James) The Bleat.
Closing the door, opening the bag, sliding out the comic with the care an archeologist would give a manuscript rescued from the Library of Alexandria, laying on your bed or the floor, and falling through the page.
The number of bad comics and bad heroes and bad artists is remarkable, and makes you realize these things were pitched at eight-year olds.
In the 50s, the comics required an older sensibility – why, you had to be eleven to appreciate the twists in an EC horror comic.
www.lileks.com /bleats/archive/06/0506/052406.html   (1725 words)

  
 Movie Poop Shoot - Preachin' from the Longbox
So I can hear you saying, “What the hell does this have to do with comic books, Britt?” Well, I’ll tell you if you could be a little more patient that my 2 and a half year old is at 5:30 in the morning asking for breakfast.
Aztek was trained to wait for the coming of Tezatlipoca, the dark god by the Q-Society, a group who dealings were shadier than Suge Knight’s ones with Death Row financial backers.
Chuck Dixon and Jeff Johnson proved that the tale of a misguided thief in an ancient Asian mystical setting with its inherent martial arts action could be translated to the 4-color panel quite nicely (without the overbearing presence of the company’s “sigil” requirement which was forced on the rest of CG’s titles).
www.moviepoopshoot.com /longbox/31.html   (2098 words)

  
 Fanzing 2 - January 1998 - What About The Women?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of the big hazards of being a popular female character in comic books is that as soon as people care about you, you run the risk of being killed off in some overly-dramatic fashion.
The reason that heroines are often the ones to die in comics is fairly obvious: the majority of readers are male, and men can be more easily jarred by a woman's death than the death of a man.
The Powers That Be at DC Comics have been fighting to make death permanent as much as possible, as bringing a person back too often clearly diminishes the intensity of death in comic books.
www.monitorduty.com /mag/fanzing02/feature1.shtml   (2197 words)

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