#Lashina

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Justice League: Gods and Monsters By Luis Valero-Suarez

Mary Marvel - An elderly civil rights activist, who, now gifted with the powers of SHAZAM!, is able to relive her youth and now fights and protects as a superhero. The Element Woman - Dr. Barbara Ann Minerva, the wealthy heiress and archeologist, was part of an expedition to Egypt where, upon getting lost, stumbled upon the lost Orb of Ra. The strange artifact morphed her into The Element Woman and gifted her the ability to control the natural elements of the Earth. Wonder Woman & Wonder Girl - Returning home to face her past, Wonder Woman finds Lashina, the last surviving Female Fury on the run since the Red Wedding, being hunted by Highfather’s regime. Wonder Woman intervenes and invokes a vow of eternal protection. Together, Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl will end Highfather’s war. Green Lantern - Ma’alefa’ak, a white Martian who seeks to redeem himself after the death of his twin brother, J’onn J’onnz. With his new found Power Ring, he will protect those from evil’s might.

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Birds of Prey (1999-2000) cover art by Brian Stelfreeze and Greg Land

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Female Furies 5 (2019) by Julian Totino Tedesco  

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Some awesome Nightshade panels.

Source: Suicide Squad Vol 1 #30.

Source: Suicide Squad Vol 1 #35

Source: Deathstroke #33

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Me and my friends going out for a night on the town:

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Suicide Squad #13 (1988) by John Ostrander & Luke McDonnell

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Mister Miracle

Volume: 4

Issue: 7

Writers: Tom King

Pencils: Mitch Gerads

Inks: Mitch Gerads

Colours: Mitch Gerads

Covers: Nick Derington

DC

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Female Furies by Tom Scioli

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The Fall and Rise of Orca: Bootleg The Thing Possession and Bad Puns

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Harley Quinn 2022 Annual  Vol 4 Issue #1 “Task Force XX Chapter 5″.

In the wake of the Justice League seemingly dying and other hero teams being preoccupied, Luke Fox gathered together a team of semi-reformed villains in order to retrieve the dangerous Element-X from an abandoned League moon base with the intent of destroying it, with Harley Quinn being among the team’s number. The U.S. military soon became aware of the team’s rocket flight to the moon, complicating matters. Once the team arrived, team leader Lashina was quickly possessed by Element-X, now a sentient alien being. Luke informed the team that he had in fact sent the element to the moon base after having a vision of it destroying all life on Prime Earth as team member Solomon Grundy was also taken over by the alien element and morphed into a hybridized monster with Lashina, forcing the team to defend themselves and fall back. While team member Killer Frost was able to fend the hybrid monster off via draining its collective life-force, the monster soon turn its attention to activating the base’s teleportation system in order to reach Earth after the power had been restored by the team. 

Luke, realizing his terrible mistake, went to call Jon Kent for aid, only to be ambushed by military forces, shortly before they themselves were attacked and possessed by the hybrid monster. As Luke did his best to evade the monster and the soldiers, the remaining team members teleported back to Earth, fighting off the soldiers until Luke was able to don his new armor and rescue them. After some soul searching from Luke on finding his own hero identity and regrouping, the team set out to face the extraterrestrial threat once more.

In the midst of the fight against the soldiers, the monster had escaped, forcing the team to regroup and plan a strategy. Luke recalled that Killer Frost had been able to draw lifeforce from the monster, thus hypothetically giving them a chance of ending the threat. The team considered where the monster might be going, theorizing at first the near Gotham City, as its goal was absorbing as many people into its collective as possible, but realizing that the even closer Blackgate Penitentiary was its primary target. By the time the team arrived, the monster had already had taken over the prisoners, guards and staff, forcing the team to fight their way through once more. After the hypothesis of Killer Frost being the alien's weakness was proven correct, the team split off with Luke and Bronze Tiger holding off the brainwashed horde and Harley, The Verdict and Killer Frost heading off to find the monster.

However, they were soon stopped by a strange rumbling and faced a new obstacle with an infected, familiar face:

The hammer Harley is weirding was shown earlier in the story to have some sort of enhanced electrical power, though she seems to be just using normal strength here, probably to avoid leathal damage. It's still hard to say if Orca would normally be able to tank that kind of hit without being under alien possession, so I'll put that in the maybe pile. I also don't know whether the puns are charming or groan-worthy. Probably both.

Killer Frost was soon able to gain the upper hand, freezing Orca to the wall as The Verdict elected to stay behind in order to give Harley and Frost more time to find the monster:

Not sure if Orca is breaking out of the ice due to enhanced strength from the alien or if she can do that normally. Real orcas are able to withstand temperatures of the Antarctic waters, so I'm going to say this is within her normal strength range. Plus we've already seen she was able to punch Etrigan's head 360 degrees around, so this is probably a cake walk for her.

After an intense battle, Killer Frost was able to drain the monster's lifeforce, allowing Grundy and Lashina to return to their normal forms and ending the hivemind control of the prison, Orca included:

Luke took responsibility for the events as he still hoped to find his own identity and things ended on a happy note with the team going out for frozen yogurt.

I don't always like stories where Orca is just an extended cameo, but this felt almost like a one shot episode of an action animated series, so it was actually fun from the small section I looked at. Not a big fan of Orca being subjected to bad puns, but she wasn't otherwise disrespected in the story, so I'll let it slide. I wonder if this is taking place after the Punchline storyline where she was in Blackgate. In which case, they forgot her prison croptop jumpsuit. Also are we ever going to get any follow up on her potentially facing a life sentence after being framed for a prison riot? No? Okay then.

I think the only major complaint I have is the design for Orca. It makes sense for her to be hideous when she's got alien tentacles coming off her, but the more normal looking shots are way out of proportion and just flat out ugly:

If I have to look at it, so do you.

Sorry this entry had such a long summary, but context is context.

Next time, Orca joins a furry gang!

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BARDA by Ngozi Ukazu Darkseid is…and life on Apokolips is tough - but then, it is hell, after all. And no one knows this better than Barda, Granny Goodness' right-hand warrior.

But Barda has a secret…she is in love. Or she is drawn to the idea of it, anyway, whether it be the beauty of a flower; her affection for her closest friend, Aurelie; or the mysterious and fierce enemy warrior Orion, who is the only match for Barda's strength.

When Granny decides Barda is becoming too soft, she assigns Barda a task that might be more than she can handle-to break the seemingly unbreakable Scott Free. And as Barda questions why Scott has such hope and what he might have done to provoke such hatred from Granny, she finds herself drawn to him in a way she never expected.

The only thing is, we do not speak of love on Apokolips…

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gilotina, talking about mad harriet: we have a half wit for a sister

lashina, muttering: i have two

gilotina: i heard that

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"Now, unwrap your claws from that lash!!"

Big Barda's former unit, the Female Furies, was essentially the universe's most ferocious women's wrestling team, each with their own unique gimmick. Perhaps the most memorable is Lashina:

In the '80s, Lashina was stranded on Earth for a while and joined the Suicide Squad, claiming to have amnesia. Dubbed "The Duchess" by her new teammates ("because if John Wayne ever came back as a woman, he'd be her"), she temporarily abandoned her costume and signature lashes so as not to blow her cover, relying instead on her incredible strength, surly disposition, and whatever other weapons she could make or steal. Here, she confronts Batman, who quickly determines that there's no percentage in fighting fair:

(It just belatedly occurred to me that her appearance as the Duchess was probably inspired by Vasquez in ALIENS.)

More recently, Lashina appeared in a 2009 episode of the BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD ("Duel of the Double Crossers!"), wherein she engaged in a very amusing flirtation with hideously disfigured Old West bounty hunter Jonah Hex, remarking, "I like guys with scars..."

As the orc marching song in the 1980 animated RETURN OF THE KING movie reminds us, "Where there's a whip, there's a way."