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DC versus Marvel Reading Challenge 2016
Team MarvelNova/Space Cop/Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century/3 of 3
(Planet on cover)
Nova Recruited!
Squirrel Girl/Tippy-Toe/Shadow Spell/1 of 3
Those of the O'Dwyer clan that are of the three can communicate with
hawk, hound, or horse)
Agent Coulson/Flying Car/Dark Witch/1 of 3
Main character, Boyle, owns a car and later on Iona will receive one for her birthday)
Team MarvelMs. Marvel/Marvelous Girl/Dance Upon The Air/2 out of 3
(The main character has a secret identity. Her real name/identity is supposedly deceased as she faked her death to escape an abusive husband)
Mod
First of all I'd like to welcome our new players! Within the last two weeks Mark and Jenny joined Team Marvel and Nick signed up for Team DC. Welcome guys, I hope you have a lot of fun!
And thank you to all the other players that made them feel welcome and helped to explain the rules! :)
Next up we have the round-up of the last two weeks:
Both teams were very active, but especially the Marvelites stepped up and took back the lead.
For them Nara, Wayland, Kate and Karen gave Mystiaue a beatdown towards the end of the month, while Wayland also defeated March's villain Poison Ivy.
In addition to that Nara and John recruited Blade, with Nara also adding Ms. Marvel to her roster. Clarkiep was the first player to recruit Thor and Joy added Nova to her team.
For DC Nick and Kate recruited Supergirl, with Nick also recruiting Alfred and Kate adding Atom to her squad. Veronica and Lel both took down Poison Ivy, but it was Veronica who took the achievement for being the first player to do this.
On the Energy front DC dominated once again with 5 to 4 and are only 5 cells away from their first portal hero.
And speaking of Portal Heroes...they finally arrived! I've added this year's sixtet and the teams have to ask themselves, if they are cat or dog persons or if they are going to seperate some star-crossed lovers or unite them.
I hope you have fun with the portal hero challenges. As always, you can find them at the start of the challenge in the portal hero segment, in our sepertae villain/portal hero thread, or right here down below.
I hope you all have a great weekend with many interesting reads!
Portal Heroes
Garfield
1. A Cat is a cat is a cat
Read a book with a cat on the cover or where a cat has a pov.
2. Striped like a tiger
Read a book with an orange colored cover or where a tiger appears.
3. Lasagne
Read a book with any kind of pasta on the cover or where the characters eat pasta within the story.
Snoopy
1. A-Dawg
Read a book with a dog on the cover or where a dog has a pov.
2. Aviator
Read a book with a character wearing an aviator cap/helmet on the cover or where a pov character is a pilot.
3. Woodstock
Read a book with a yellow colored cover or where the characters visit a music festival/concert.
Nimona
1. Evil Sidekick
Read a book with exactly two characters on the cover or where someone has a sidekick.
2. Different shape of villain
Read a book with a humanoid character with any kind of animal features on the cover or where a servant/sidekick has a different opinion than their master/boss.
3. Society of Evil
Read a book with a lair/castle on the cover or where the characters go up against an evil society. (should be a society/organization, not a single uber-villain like Sauron)
Alana
1. Green Hair
Read a book with a green-haired character on the cover or where someone has an unusual hair-color (green, blue, pink etc.)
2. Landfall
Read a book with "land" or "fall" in the title or where characters are making a landfall on an undiscovered shore/planet.
3. Hazel's Mother
Read a book with a woman carrying a baby on the cover or where a pov character is a mother of an infant.
Marko
1. Horned Hero
Read a book with a horned character on the cover or where a character has horns.
2. Wreath
Read a book with "wreath" in the title or where characters are living on a moon.
3. Hazel's Father
Read a book with a man carrying a baby on the cover or where a pov character is a father of an infant.
Rat Queens
1. Rats
Read a book with rats on the cover or where sentient rodents are characters.
2. Queens
Read a book with a crowned woman on the cover or where a pov character is a queen.
3. Quartet of Heroes
Read a book with exactly four characters on the cover or exactly four povs. (excluding prologues and epilogues. It's fine, if those are from different povs, but the main narrative should have exactly four.)
Mod
First of all I'd like to welcome our new players! Within the last two weeks Mark and Jenny joined Team Marvel and Nick signed up for Team DC. Welcome guys, I hope..."
Great job, Michael! I love the portal heroes! :D
Team Marvel Vision/Married to a Witch/Heaven and Earth/1 of 3
(Zach Todd is brother to Ripley who has powers/is a witch and husband to Nell (another witch). Mac Booke is related to Mia who is also a witch. Neither men have powers)
Mpauli- Thank you for organizing the challenge! So fun! :-)
Nice round-up Mpauli! Thanks for the welcome.DC Monster Hunter International/Firestorm/Dual Identity/1 of 3
- Main character walks around with a ghost in his head for most of the book, chatting away from time to time.
DC The Witch With No Name/Atom/Atomic Size/1 of 3- Jenks, urban fantasy's most creative curser, is a tiny flying pixy with a big attitude.
Team MarvelI see that my name has been added to the roster, so I'm posting my books:
1) Nova/Nova Corps/Colonel/1of 3
( Soldier on cover )
2) Nova/Space Cop/Sisterhood of Dune/ 2 of 3
( Main characters travel through space )
3) Nova/Cancerverse/Dying Bites/ 3 of 3
( Main character travels to alternate Earth )
** Nova Recruited **
4) Blade/Day Walker/Vanished/ 1 of 3
( A character is a vampire )
5) Blade/High Stakes/Weaveworld/ 2 of 3
( Character risks life for someone )
6) Jessica Jones/Alias investigator/Gods & Monsters/ 1 0f 3
( Main Protagonist is a Private Investigator )
7) Agent Coulson/Flying Car/The Chalice: A Glastonbury Ghost Story/ 1 of 3
( Main character owns an old volvo )
8) Poison Ivy/Queen of plants/Diuturnity's Dawn]/ 1 of 3
( Plants on cover )
9) Poison Ivy/Toxic plans/Poison Promise 2 of 3
( Word Poison in title )
Team DCThe Case of the Toxic Spell Dump/Poison Ivy/Toxic Plans/3 of 3
Toxic in the title.
Poison Ivy Defeated!
Poison Ivy/Toxic Plans/Blood Magick/2 of 3(A mixture of poison is used in the spell to destroy the villain and Fin is briefly poisoned by the villain when he protects Branna from)
Thor/Goddess of Thunder/Face the Fire/2 of 3
Lightning on the cover (middle left)
MarvelIron Fist/K'un-L'un/Das Spielmannslied/2 of 3
*Adventure group is travelling to a mountain to conquer a dragon (great book, only in german so far)
DCBlue Beetle/Beetlejuice/Perdido Street Station/2 of 3
The main characters girlfriend is a khepri, a race with human bodies and scarabs for heads
Team DCBlue Beetle/ I'm Blue/The Goldfinch/ 1 of 3
Poison Ivy/In Love with Harley Quinn/ Carry On/ 2 of 3
Mod
Tricky Twenty-Two Stephanie has some issues with her mom, her mom has more with her, and her mom has major issues with her mother, Stephanie's grandmother.
3/3 for Ms. Marvel
Ms. Marvel recruited!
Mod
The Rest of Us Just Live Here/Poison Ivy/In Love With Harley Quinn/2 of 3
Team DCCity of Bones / Alfred Pennyworth / Guardian to the Bat / 1 of 3
Jace raised by the Lightwoods
DC This Is Where It Ends/poison ivy/in love with harley quinn/3 of 3*lgbtqa relationship
*Poison Ivy defeated!
Marvel/Trapped (The Iron Druid #5)/Thor/To Asgard we fly/2 of 3Lots of elements of Norse Mythology included in this book.
Team MarvelPoison Ivy/In Love With Harley Quinn/The Hollow/3 of 3.
(Fox's sister, Sage, is a lesbian and married to Paula)
Poison Ivy Defeated!
Team Marvel.She-Hulk/Hulk it out!/Pines/1of3.
Sheriff Pope wears a "Hunter-Green" Shirt as part of his uniform.
MarvelIron Fist/Danny Rand/Shadowmarch/3 of 3
*main characters are prince and princess regent, rich enough^^
Iron Fist recruited!
Mod
Owlsight/Katana/Mask/1 of 3
Firesong wears a mask most of the time after bad scarring in a fire.
Mod
Some of the characters are big cat shifters.
Team MarvelGod Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything/Poison Ivy/Toxic Plans/3 of 3
Poison in the title
Poison Ivy Defeated!
team marvel Kindred /Nova /Cancerverse/ 3 of 3
she time and space jumps
Nova recruited!
Mod
For Team DC the focus was on villain hunting as Nick, Kate and Christina defeated Poison Ivy.
Team DC won the Energy Cell race this week with 3 to 2 and is only 2 cells away from their first portal hero.
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