DC versus Marvel Reading Challenge 2015 Showing 1,201-1,250 of 1,404

[Shawnie]

Wayland wrote: "DC/ Energy Cell/ Ilium I finally finished it. There is not enough bourbon in Kentucky to get me to read the sequel."

LOL. I'm still at the bottom looking up at the mountain peak called Ilium.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Marvel/NOS4R2/Energy Cell

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Energy Cell / Theft of Swords

[Lel]

When Darkness Falls/Venom/Creator of Carnage, the serial killer/ 3 of 3

Venom defeated

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

This week was a rather slow week with a margin win for Team DC that was mainly caused by Nara defeating Venom.
Lel accomplished the same feat for Team Marvel
Both teams were able to 4 Energy Cells.

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

We also had our final DC villain of the year revealed. Lex Luthor comes with 3 new challenges to beat in November.
As always, you can find him in the villain post at the beginning of the challenge, in the seperate villains/portal heroes thread or right here, down below.

Lex Luthor

Active from 01/11/2015 - 30/11/2015



1. President Luthor
Read a book with "president" in the title or where someone is the president of a country (it should be an elected leader, not a king or emperor).

2. Lex Corp
Read a book with the word "company" in the title or where the main character owns a business (a tavern is fine, but being the head of a crime family wouldn't count).

3. Battle Suit
Read a book with "battle" or "suit" in the title or where a character wears a powered armor (it needs to be powered, not just a knight in armor).

[Brendan]

Team Marvel.
Venom/Creator of Carnage, the serial killer/Mean Business on North Ganson Street/2of3.
Serial killer option.

[Soila]

Thud!/Valkyrie/Armored warrior/2 of 3

[Lel]

NOS4R2/Team Marvel/Energy cell

[Brendan]

Team Marvel.
Venom/Agent Venom/Dark Savior/3of3.
Agent character option.
Venom defeated!

[Sam]

Team Marvel

The Thing/Benjamin Grimm/MaddAddam/3 of 3 (Adam is a pilot)

The Thing recruited

Rocket Racoon/Krutack!/Der dunkle Spiegel/3 of 3 (Beguine Almut curses everytime she's praying to mother Mary)

Rocket Racoon recruited

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

The Empress Game?Rocket Raccoon/Krutack/3 of 3 - Rocket recruited! (the word 'frutt' is used a lot by Kayla and Malkor, although it's not a real swear word, it's obviously a swear word in their world, does that count?

Zer0es/Venom/1 of 3 - parasite/symbiote option, can't go into much detail without spoilers...

[Shawnie]

Ilium/Marvel/Energy Cell

[Brendan]

Team Marvel.
NOS4A2/Energy cell.

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

Okay, there's a time for everything and this week is actually the first week that only one team scored.
Team Marvel was on a high and in addition to Rinn's and Sam's recruitment of Rocket Raccoon Sam also added Thing to her roster, while Brendan defeated Venom.
All 3 Energy Cells of the week also went the Marvel way.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Green Arrow 2. Read a book with a man having a woman in his arms on cover or where the main character is a playboy/womanizer. Tom Jones 2/3 for Green Arrow

[Christina]

Team DC

Nos4a2/Energy Cell- Finally finished this on Halloween night!

[Christina]

Team DC

Illuminae/Venom/ Alien Symbiote/ 1 of 3

A Thousand Pieces of You/ Venom/ Agent Venom 2 of 3

Library of Souls/ Venom/ Creator of Carnage, the serial killer/ 3 of 3

Venom defeated!

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

NaNoWriMo has started, so my reading will be slowing down, but I'll do what I can for team DC.

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Robin 2 / Dick Grayson / Water for Elephants / 3 of 3

Robin Recruited

Lex Luthor 3 / Battle Suit / Ex-Purgatory / 1 of 3

[Nara]

Wool/Rick Grimes/There's a new sheriff in town/3 of 3

Rick Grimes recruited!

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Lex Luthor 2 / Lex Corp / The Fifth Witness / 2 of 3

(Mickey owns his law business)

[Shawnie]

A Lily Among Thorns/Marvel/Lex Corp/Lex Luthor/ 1 of 3
Heroine owns an inn.

[Lel]

Blood Bound/Lex luthor/Lex corps/ 1 of 3

[Christina]

Deadpool Recruited

Frosbitten (Women of the Otherworld #10)/Marvel/Hack,Slash/Deadpool/3 of 3

Blood on the cover

[Shawnie]

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President/President Luthor/Lex Luthor/2 of 3
This was a really good book about President Garfield, his assassination, Alexander Bell and his inventions, and how doctors practiced and viewed infection at that time.

[Lel]

Honour's Knight/Lex Luthor/Battle suit/ 2 of 3

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Lex Luthor 1 / President Luthor / The Lions of Lucerne / 3 of 3

Lex Luthor Defeated!

[Lel]

Reaper Man/Lex Luthor/President Luthor/3 of 3

Havelock Vetinari was voted into power

Lex defeated

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

This week Team DC struck back and took the win. For them, Christina defeated Venom in the old month, while Roger too the achievement for defeating lex Luthor first in the new month. Roger also added Robin to his roster.
For Team Marvel, Christina recruited Deadpool, while Lel also sent home Lex Luthor with a beating.
Team DC also had the honor of acquiring the only Energy Cell of the week.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Lex Luthor 1. President Luthor
Read a book with "president" in the title or where someone is the president of a country (it should be an elected leader, not a king or emperor). His Excellency: George Washington 1/3 for Lex

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Energy Cell / Golden Son

[Clarkiep]

Team DC
Before They Are Hanged/Green Arrow/Bowman/2 of 3

[Shawnie]

Golden Son/Marvel/Energy Cell

[Shawnie]

Armor/Lex Luthor/Battle Suit/3 of 3
Lex Luthor Defeated

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Golden Son/Energy Cell

[Lel]

Golden Son/Team marvel/energy cell

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

This week was relatively slow and Shawnie's defeat of Lex Luthor made the difference in giving Team Marvel a margin victory.
Team Marvel also managed to acquire 3 Energy Cells compared to Team DC's 1 and managed to tie the race for the next portal hero. Bith teams are now at 27/30 cells.

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

And as we're already in November, of course some of you might have asked yourself, if there's going to be another challenge next year.
The answer to this is: If there's still interest, there will be a challenge.
The challenge would be quite similar to this year. With Marvel's new direction there are some characters like Ms. Marvel or Nova that come into the limelight and that we haven't had in a challenge and some changes like the female Thor that would make up for some interesting new combos of challenges.
For DC there are also a lot of characters that have risen in popularity through tv shows that haven't been part of this year's challenge like Supergirl, Canary or Atom.
So I think there would be enough material to put together another round of DC versus Marvel in 2016.
I would also plan to stick with the villains and portal heroes. The change here would be that I would adjust the goals for each portal, so that next year we might manage to open all 6.

The alternative to that scenario could be a dragons versus jetpacks chalenge, where we recruit famous characters from fantasy and sf.
The issue with that with that though would be that it is pretty hard to have challenges for like Gandalf and obviously not allowing The Lord of the rings to be read for it. But LotR could still be used for another challenge. That would be a logistical nightmare and would make the challenge less transparent and overly complicated.

So, to cut a long post short. If there's interest and you aren't tired of superheroes yet, there'll be a new version of this challenge next year.

[Lel]

Personally I would love another challenge next year. It helps me pick which book to read next, I have no idea how I would choose between them otherwise!

[Lel]

Personally I would love another challenge next year. It helps me pick which book to read next, I have no idea how I would choose between them otherwise!

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

I think I might sit out the next challenge, not that they aren't interesting, but I think I'd like a break of reading things for a challenge and just read for fun. There are a lot of series I started because of the challenge, which is awesome, but I want to finish them off.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

I would love another challenge, and am happy with any theme to be honest :) Thanks Michael!

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

I would love another challenge. Superheroes are near and dear to my heart, so another of these would be great, but I'd at least take a look at a different flavor theme.

[Christina]

I would definitely be down for another challenge. I may not get nearly as far in the next challenge since I will be in school but it has been a lot if fun! And I am also good with whatever challenge is available. :-)

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

No idea to what extent I'll be able to participate but would love another challenge next year!!

[Shawnie]

Thank you so much for running the challenges! I'd love to participate again. I branched out to read a lot I wouldn't have without trying to fit the categories! :-)

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

All You Need Is Kill/Lex Luthor/Battle Suit/1 of 3 - the soldiers wear 'Jackets' which are powered armour suits

[Soila]

I would definitely take part next year as well! :)

[Soila]

Expecting Someone Taller/Valkyrie/Over the rainbow bridge/3 of 3

Valkyrie recruited!