Best Comic Book Battles This Week: 2-26-16

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Comics often feature huge fights between superheroes and supervillains. Sometimes we even have superheroes fighting other superheroes. Get ready to cheer (and possibly cringe) at the brutal punches being thrown in this week's selection of best battles.

There will be some spoilers below!

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Justice League #48

(By Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, and Brad Anderson)

The Justice League were caught in the middle of a war between Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor. The Anti-Monitor already destroyed Earths from other dimensions so the League has no choice but to team up with the Crime Syndicate from Earth-3. As the fight begins, Hal Jordan manages to call in some more back up.

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You would think the Justice League, the Crime Syndicate, and now the Green Lantern Corps would be enough to deal with Anti-Monitor. Unfortunately that isn't the case. Looks like some replacement Lanterns will soon be needed.

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Wonder Woman and Superwoman attack next. Anti-Monitor tosses them aside. Superman and Ultraman come in next. Superman has recently been changed into a New God and Ultraman is Superman's [evil] counterpart from Earth-3.

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Ultraman isn't the most stable guy around. Even though the Syndicate has teamed up with the League, he decides he should take on Anti-Monitor by himself and knocks Superman out of the way.

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Apparently Ultraman forgot Anit-Monitor destroyed his entire world. The rest of the battle doesn't go too well for him.

Spawn #261

(By Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, and FCO Plascencia)

Spawn has gone to Hell. Satan has offered Al Simmons a deal. If he gives up his costume, he'll let let him leave with his wife, Wanda. Spawn doesn't take the deal and they begin to fight. After fleeing to another part of Hell, Spawn and Wanda are soon discovered. Satan begins by growing large and smashes Spawn completely.

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Lifting his hand, Satan is surprised to discover Spawn is not there. Spawn burrowed himself into Satan's arm.

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Spawn has reached his limit. He's tired of dealing with Satan and his threats. He knows he possibly has the upper hand and taunts Satan to go ahead and try to take the costume. He knows Satan isn't able to otherwise he would have done so already.

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Spawn continues to cut loose on Satan's agents. It turns out Satan still has another trick up his sleeve. He makes another offer to Spawn. He might not be able to resist this offer.

Karnak #2

(By Warren Ellis, Gerardo Zaffino, Antonio Fuso, and Dan Brown)

Karnak is on a mission to retrieve an Inhuman child who was taken by a dark science organization. With the ability to see the flaws and weakness in everything, he easily takes on a Berlin splinter cell in order to get to the child.

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Karnak has seen a lot in his life. He's even died and come back to the land of the living. Despite the large number of guards, he remains calm and exploits their weaknesses to get past them.

It's not just about punching or kicking for Karnak. He can also use the destruction of his surroundings as projectile weapons against his foes.

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After a countless number of guards and several pages of action, he finally comes face to face with the leader of this cell. Rather than simply give up the child, he begins to attack Karnak. Karnak can easily see where to stomp his foot on the floor in order to send a piece of concrete flying at his foe's face.

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After getting the answers (or lack of answers) he needs, you should see what happens when applies just the right amount of pressure to the piece of shrapnel and the affect it has the priest's skull. We'd show you, but that's all the time we have for this week.

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What are your top three fights from this latest round of new comics? Support what you love and tell the world below. Also, don't forget to make nominations every week in this thread, especially if you feel we missed a great battle. If you're sad we missed one, speak up next week! You can even make suggestions via Twitter and use the hashtag #CVBattles.

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#1  Edited By Batman3000

JL is my favorite.

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Karnak was brutally awesome.

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Superman is a new god now?

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#6  Edited By sirfizzwhizz  Online

Damn, Spawn been wrecking Hell for 3 issues now. It was suggested, and kinda shown that Spawn was no match for Satan last issue, I wonder what changed.....

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#7  Edited By apokos7

I loved the Justice League issue and the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the GL Corps' appearence was how much I'd love to see Fabok on, say, Hal Jordan and the GLC after Rebirth (assuming this title will be the one with the big cast and Green Lanterns deals with a smaller team like Gardner, Stewart, Rayner, Baz and Cruz).

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More Proof that Ellis writes the best fight scenes in comics.

Also, it is a shame that the artist for Karnak had to leave. That was a beautiful comic.

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man, karnak is a total badass.

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1. Why a pregnant woman is fighting is beyond me.

2.Pretty sure Ultraman fought the antimonitor and lost on his earth, so why did he think he had a chance here?

3. Did the artist forget that wonder woman's bracelets were destroyed in issue one?

4. I don't really care but I amaze at the fact no one noticed aquaman's absence.

5. Love Lex's entrance

6. Most epic DC event I read since blackest night.

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6. Most epic DC event I read since blackest night.

This statement couldn't be more correct! This really needed to be highlighted, since there are plenty of people throwing dirt at Johns' way for his Justice League run, even though it was truly great!

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Karnak was awesome.

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@justiceteen: 1. I mean it is kind of the end of the world if the league/syndicate fail, so I would say she at least has her priorities in order (take notes Shinji Ikari)

2. Let's be honest. He's never been much of a thinker. Or maybe he was still coked up from that kryptonite he had earlier in the issue

3. Where they really? I guess I forgot too, lol

4. Same, but to be fair "Aquaman: God of Sea" sounds like it might have undermined the badass-itude of the storyline (come to think of it though, Aquaman hasn't done a whole lot in JL since that one storyline about atlantis has he? Hmmm)

5. The only thing I'm excited for next issue more than Lex vs Anti-monitor is Lex vs. God of Strength Superman, which is bound to happen pretty soon.

6. Hell yes. My favorite thing about it isn't even the fact that it's so well written and features lots of Scot Free, it's that no other books are being interrupted (Black Vortex) or worse, cancelled (Forever Evil), in order for the storyline to happen.

Also, what the hell is going on with Grail?

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#14  Edited By Gracetrack

Is it me, or does the Anti-Monitor kind of look like Lex-Brainaic from Justice League Unlimited?

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This new Karnak series is really something... Makes the older version look lame.

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#16  Edited By VashtaNerada88

.....spawn is a beast

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Hold on.......is superwoman on the front lines? Pregnant?

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#18  Edited By linsanel_Doctor

Karnak is a beast..

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The JL part is pretty epic. Karnak is awesome. Spawn is hardcore.

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Hold on.......is superwoman on the front lines? Pregnant?

Yep. That looks like it. I wonder where the writers got this idea from. Having a pregnant superhero on the frontlines. Hmm...

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Spawn is a beast.

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Loving JL. I wish they had changed Anti-Monitor's look a little less though. His armor was terrifying to me. Now he kind of looks like every new alien villain.

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I wanted Ultramam to shout "I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!"

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Karnak is my favorite, but it's a monthly.

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KARNAK! How I miss the familiarly brutal Moon Knight.

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Finally trying to get rid of Karnak's jobber status.

Can we work on Taskmaster now? Wolverine left a sour taste in my mouth.

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Karnak this week was amazing but I hoped for some more dialogue in this issue. Oh well, let's hope the next one has more.

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I am really liking the new Anti-Monitor stuff.

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#29  Edited By Madripoor

Man, the art in Karnak looks great !

Justice League ' s still my favourite ongoing series though.

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#31  Edited By apokos7

As Justice League is slowly coming to an end I can't help but think how much I want an Omnibus or two of the series! Probably for Snyder's Batman too.

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I read both justice league and spawn this week but I like the justice league fight a bit more.

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@justiceteen: Has Aquaman been in any issue of Darkseid War? Now that you bring it up, I'm not sure.

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@optimuccrime: IIRC, I don't think he has been.

I have been absolutely loving JL at the moment.

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#36 sirfizzwhizz  Online

@emperorxhadesx420: came back issue 250 with Downing... Dying I guess.... And been wrecking house up to current issue.

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I forgot Spawn was still a thing

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@medulaoblaganda said:

man, karnak is a total badass.

So true. What makes him even more of a badass is that he is an Inhuman with no powers. Hopefully he will make in the Inhuman movie.

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#39  Edited By Judgment_Dragon

She-Thor beating the crap out of Odin

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@pres_superman: and at the same time humans will consider him as a super human because recently, he brought down a building with a single punch easily.