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You’re not ready for this realness. If you’re not caught up on Jonathan Hickman’s Dawn of X books, you dam sure aint ready! You might not even know who the hell Gorgon is. OG X-Fans know. The pale gawd is one of the most badass villains to ever step to Wolverine, the X-Men and plenty of unfortunate heroes in between. Created by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr, Gorgon hopped on the scene in the first issue of Wolverine’s 2004 “Enemy of the State” (Wolverine #20) run and ran the table on them heroes! Born in Japan, Tomi Shishido achieved the wildest feats as a BABY! This cat was speaking 2 weeks out the womb. Insane. Tomi was reading and writing by the time he blew out his first birthday candle. Four years deep and he was the greatest artist in his whole dam country. Of course, it wasn’t long before he found out he was a mutant, could Madusa mufuckas with his eyes and has telepathy! A few years of the most God Tier blindfolded combat and ninja training to show ayebody he don’t even need his eyes to be the best of the best, and we got ourselves one of the deadliest mutants of all time! 1) “Many men, wish death upon meBlood in my eye dog and I can’t seeI’m trying to be what I’m destined to beAnd heroes trying to take my life away”
When you’re fully capable of taking on Wolverine and Elektra TOGETHER in a fight you clearly got the juice, bottle, and whole supermarket because we’re talking about 2 of the greatest fighters, killers and assassins to ever do it! When you can bust L…
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Ja-Quan Greene
Ja-Quan is a NYC teacher and artist holding a B.A. in Sociology and History from SUNY New Paltz. On his journey to become Hokage, the Lord of The Speed Force and Protector of the Recaps…
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