Fa Lo Suee — “Master of Kung Fu”
Daughters of Evil World Conquerors really have only two options in life: be their father’s adoring minion who ultimately falls for the Hero and helps him defeat her father, or strike out on your own and try to out-conquer him. Fah Lo Suee, daughter of the inscruitable Mandarin Fu Manchu, is entirely the latter. But while Fah Lo Suee in the novels was more the former, only once really acting in the role of conqueror in place of her father, in the Marvel comic “Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu”, she was a re-occurring character with her own agenda who battled her father as much as she battled her own half-brother Shang-Chi.
“A Midsummer’s Nightmare” — Justice League
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All across the world, people are developing super-powers, and the established super-powered beings are nowhere to be found. Called “sparks” and the phenomenon “sparking”, it is turning the world into a super battleground as gangs of sparks battle for turf. Its a dream of some, of having super-powers, that is turning into a nightmare for the entire world.
“Vision Machine”
What could happen if there was the facility to share your vision, literally, with everyone else in the world? How would that change the way people see each other and interact? How could that change the world? How could someone else use that power of communication not to increase communication but to limit it?
That’s the question posed in “Vision Machine”.
Io9 — A Mind Control Double Whammy or Double Miss
“Voodoo: Dancing in the Dark”
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When former superhero Priscilla Kitaen (code name Voodoo) travels to New Orleans to discover her future, she becomes involved with a battle between factions of the loa and an attempt to resurrect a dead sorcerer.
