Mortal Kombat X (2015) Vol. 2

Mortal Kombat X #2

by Shawn Kittelsen, Dexter Soy (Illustrator), Daniel Sampere (Artist)

The quest for the Kamidogu daggers continues…Fight!

Great changes are coming to Outworld and Earthrealm alike. Whether they seek to protect the worlds of gods and men or to rule them, Kombatants new and old are heading towards bloody conflict.

Hoping to thwart the coming evil, Raiden has conscripted Hanzo Hasashi—Scorpion—and his charge, Takeda Takahashi, to gather the mystical Kamidogu daggers. Their journey leads them to an old foe who holds one of the powerful cursed weapons—Kuai Liang, the ninja known as Sub-Zero! With Sub-Zero corrupted by the Blood Magik of the dagger and Scorpion's deadly thirst for vengeance, the two will lock in a Mortal Kombat for the ages!

Elsewhere, Kotal Kahn faces a challenge to his rule from the scorned tribe of the Shokan. King Gorbak is leading an army of Shokan and Oni warriors powerful enough to decimate the Emperor of Outworld. Though Kahn refuses to unleash his Kamidogu's Blood Magik again, he has an unlikely group of allies in the Earthrealmers Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade. The pair only wishes to rescue their daughter from the clutches of Reiko, but first they'll have to help Kahn protect his throne—which means an alliance with Kano and the Black Dragon!

Writer SHAWN KITTELSEN continues his epic debut with the help of artists DEXTER SOY (DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE), IGOR VITORINO (Green Hornet) and DANIEL SAMPERE (BATGIRL) as they paint the blood-soaked story that leads into the video game phenomenon in MORTAL KOMBAT X: BLOOD GODS! Collects issues #5-8.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Video Games, Fantasy, Comic Book, Action

133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 13, 2015

Reviews

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

The multiple storylines from the first volume converge into two: the recovery of the daggers to keep Shinnok imprisoned and the war in the Otherworld. The focus is still on the daggers that can control a person's mind and give them greater strength and resilience.

Kotal agrees to help Sonya and Cage to find Cassie. But first Kotal has to contend with a war with the Shokan - Goro's people. The Shokan have allied themselves with the Oni Warlords and Kotal's side initially loses badly, but Kotal killing their leader throws them into disarray. Kotal is getting ready for the next assault and on top of it has his dagger stolen by Skarlet. He does get Kano to fight for him and that tips the scales of battle, but the other side has the Shokan race among them. Kotal wins and convinces the Shokan to join him. At the same time he refuses to pay for Kano's services and imprisons him and his group instead. Kotal joins Sonya and Cage on Shang Tsung's island where Cassie is being held. Unfortunately, she is already controlled by the daggers by the time they arrive.

Hanzo and Takeda continue their mission to gather the daggers called Kamidogu that imprison Shinnok. Reiko is doing the same, so eventually they will be fighting each other to own the whole set. They recover a dagger from Sub-Zero who was under its control. After a bloody battle Sub-Zero is left for dead, but healed by Bo' Rai Cho. Jackson 'Jax' Briggs received the next dagger on their list, but it's stolen by Reiko before Hanzo gets to it. A corrupted dojo master and a Havik are next in line and this time Hanzo is defeated.

[Etienne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just loved this series. The illustrations are beautiful in an intense way that really transposes the video game into a comic book. All the violence and action are also well transpose; there is a ton of it and that why I enjoy it. You don’t read or play Mortal Kombat for a deep and intense storyline. You enjoy this brand for the action, the violence and the characters.

[Chaze Correa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was about six kamidou spread into six different realms and all of them have whats called Blood Magik (yes spelled with a k). They are all the conciousness of what is called the one being. There is a man named Havik who tries to get all of the Kamidogu and he ends up fighting scorpion and Takeda. Meanwhile Kotal Khan the rule of outworld has Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage along with some other special forces crew to help fight the Shokan which is a race of four arms tall and deadly warriors there are two sub-species, the Royal Bloodline of Draco and the 2nd class Tigrar species but they are both hybrids between humans and dragons... Afterwards Kotal Khan and his servants help Sonya and Johnny find their daughter and their family friends daughter Jacqui Briggs.... Now Sonya and Johnny are part of the Special Forces who work for the U.S. Military. Havik is a tall strong scary looking Chaosrealmer where his face is a skull but the rest is humanoid even his hair. He has a weird out fit where on half of his chest has armor and the other half is sashes. Its weird. Scorpion otherwise known as Hanzo Hasashi has a ninja outfit with two shulder things come down into one he has a hood and has two katanas on his back. and he is tall. Takeda in the comic has a mask that covers his mouth that looks like a skull, a bit like Haviks but Takeda actually looks like a normal person with and without it. Takeda wears a grey shirt and a yellow sash and a grey sash and regular dark pants with arm guards and boots. Now Sonya Blade wears a shirt under this sweater with long pants and shorts that cover them. She has dog tags and holsters with pockects all over her pants and her sweater. She has her hair in a very long braid with a cap her hair s blonde and has these things on her forearms that can blast these energy things fom them its like really cool. Shes 5"9' and still kicks butt at forty something. Johnny cage is a tall guy with a humorous attitude and in this book he isnt as cockey as he s in the games before Mortal Kombat X game. And he has sunglasses on most of the time he has brown hair with grey streaks in it a shirt with a vest and has Khakis with grips gloves on his hand and tape on his forearm to him hand. Then we have Kotal Kahn... No shirt no pants (hes not naked!) and he has this really big helmet with feathers coming out of the back. He has these underwear thingies and that thing hanging down the middle that I dont know the name of and there is bones on it and he has arm guards also his skin has markings all of it because they are filled depending on which vaiation he has he has blood god sun god and war god and heres a twist... His skin is blue and he has unicorn horns comng out of his nose but obviously they are tiny and the each go away from the center of his nose, but in all reality he is super cool and can squeez someone so hard that their head pops off and the insides splatter over everywhere and what remains is just the outside of the body. But this book is super cool and awesome and I definatley would recomend it to someone who likes action and gore, with a twist of polotics because there are some polotics in the series aswell.

[Eren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Geçtiğimiz ayın sonunda okuduğum, en sevdiğim oyun serilerinden biri olan Mortal Kombat'ın ikinci cildiyle maceraya ara vermeden devam etmek istedim bu ay. Normalde araya başka kitaplar da koymak istiyordum ama aklım bu çizgi romanda kaldığı için devam etmek istedim. 5,6,7 ve 8. issueları, yani 13.sayıdan 24.sayıya kadar olan her şeyin toplama versiyonu olan bu Vol 2'de de macera hız kesmeden devam ediyordu. Merakla ve tutkuyla okuduğum bu cildi de an itibariyle bitirdim ve son kısım olan Vol 3'e geçmemek için adeta direniyorum.
Kotal Kahn, Outworld'ün yönetimini ele geçirmek için Dünyalılarla iş birliği yapmak istiyordu çünkü onların yardımına ihtiyacı vardı. Hikayenin ana karakterlerinden olan Johnny Cage ve Sonya Blade'in kızları Cassie ve arkadaşı Jacqui'nin, Kızıl Ejder Örgütü tarafından Havik'ın yönettiği Shang Tsung Adası'na kaçırılmasından sonra bu eski çift de kendini savaşın içinde buluyor. Mileena'nın müttefiki olarak Kotal'ın tahta oturmasını engellemeye çalışan Shokan örgütü ile Kotal Kahn destekçilerinin güzel savaşına da tanık oluyoruz fakat zavallı Mileena, kimle iş birliği yapsa hepsinden darbe yiyor ve sürekli ihanete uğruyor, bu yüzden en sevdiğim karakterin bu halde olması beni çok üzdü çizgi romanı okurken. Öte yandan Raiden'ın Kamidogu denilen büyülü hançerleri toplamak için Scorpion ve Takeda'yı görevlendirmesinden ötürü bu ikilinin baş ettiği kişiler ve girdiği tehlikeleri de soluksuz okudum. Oyunlarda gördüğümüz karakterlerin bir şekilde hikayeye dahil edilmesi benim için çok güzel bir ayrıntıydı ve kurgu gerçekten güzel ilerleyerek 2. cildi de bitirmiş oldum.
Oyunun hikayesine aşina olmayan biri için bu seriyi okumak biraz kafa karıştırıcı ve sıkıcı olabilir ama gerçekten güzel ilerleyen bir kurgusu vardı. İlk cilde göre diyaloglar biraz azdı sanki, bu yer yer beni şaşırttı ama hikayenin soluksuz ilerlemesi ve ilgi çekici yönlere gitmesi içimi ferahlattı. Sevdiğim karakterlerin ilerleyişleri, ihanetler, entrika, kan savaşları, vahşet, katliamlar... Bir Mortal Kombat oyununda ne görüyorsak bu çizgi romanda da onlara tanıklık ediyoruz. Güzel bir cildi daha bitirmenin sevincini yaşarken, bu günlerde kafa dağıtmak için bu tarz şeyleri okumak gayet iyi oluyor, bunu da söyleyebilirim. Üçüncü cilde hemen başlamamak için kendimi zor tutuyorum.

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars

I did enjoy this volume slightly more than the first, mainly because I had a little better idea of what was going on as the story is a little more consolidated in this volume into two basic plots. I think I went into this expecting a simpler plot and instead this is a complex and layered story. And even at that, the characters included barely scratch the surface of what would be available in the Mortal Kombat universe.

I'd really like to see an anthology series focusing on individual characters rather than the large ensemble cast used here, but I doubt that's in the cards.

[Maciej · Rating 5 out of 5]

PL
Drugi tom wydaje się jeszcze bardziej napakowany energią i krwawymi pojedynkami. Roztrzaskiwane głowy, łamane kończyny i dużo kultowych postaci, które niestety nie pojawiły się w dziesiątej odsłonie gry, a szkoda.
EN
The second volume seems even more packed with energy and bloody duels. Shattered heads, broken limbs and a lot of iconic characters, which unfortunately did not appear in the tenth installment of the game, which is a pity.

[Andrew Hale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Volume 1: Blood Ties Review
Volume 2: Blood Gods Review
Volume 3: Blood Island Review

- Blood Gods: Cold Nights. Art by Dexter Soy.
- Sub-Zero: Sekret Origin. Art by Daniel Sampere.
- Blood Gods: The Oni/Shokan Uprising. Art by Igor Vitorino.
- Outworld: Sekret Origin. Art by Daniel Sampere.
- Deadly Allies. Art by Dexter Soy.
- Blood Gods: Just the Two of Us.
- Cage/Blade: Sekret Origin. Art by Daniel Sampere.
- Blood God's: Departures and Arrivals. Art by Igor Vitorino.

Short synopsis/review: Six kamidogu blades are separated by Raiden and given over to different protectors, in order to keep the wrong hands from gathering all six and conquering the worlds. Side stories give insight into rivalries and bad bloods, like Scorpion to Sub-Zero, Sonya and Johnny, Kotal Khan and Goro. Ultimately, a few are looking to usurp power for themselves, like Mileena and Reiko and Goro, while others are simply caught up in protecting their clans, families, and races. The Cages and Blades are kinda obnoxious. Hanzo, Laui, and Takeda are the most intriguing aspect of the story, with the Outerworld clan wars giving a mixed vibe of sword-and-sorcery and sci-fi.

Longer details: The Osh-Tekk, a once proud Outworld race, imperialist rulers over the Shokan people, were slaughtered by Reiko and Goro of the Shokan, leaving the sole surviving Kotal Khan to enact vengeance. Now Kotal also faces reprieve from the Earthrealm folks because of his subordinate's (Erron Black) actions to start a war ... or he can join up with them, in the name of family, to head to Shang Tsung's island to save Cassie and Jacqui and defeat Goro. Family blood will spill across races and realms.

An evil entity has possessed Raiden and Fox, with horrific outcomes, and now Sub-Zero freezes the landscape with the same possessed frenzy. Scorpion and Takeda trek across the war zone to find out who is behind it all while fighting to survive, only to meet with a deadly possessed foe: Sub-Zero. Sub-Zero gets aid on his deathbed, from Bo' Rai Cho.

The monks of Kang Shaolin Temple come into the mix, as holders of the Chaosrealm kamidogu blade/key while the Earthrealm kamidogu holder faces off against Reiko: Jackson Briggs.

Kotal Khan looks to settle a prideful race score with Goro, but Goro has enlisted the help of Oni Warlords. Johnny and Sonya look to infiltrate Shang Tsung's Island to rescue Cassie but they all have some pretty narcissistic and prideful attitudes that make them obnoxious to witness. Hanzo and Takeda face off against Sub-Zero, one of the more enthralling storylines and action to witness, where demon-possessed blades turn the holders into maniacal serial killers. Haunted by the slaughter of the Shirai Ryu clan by the Lin Keui, Scorpion's fiery anger will inflame Hanzo's resolve.

Outworld:
Kotal Khan (Osh-Tekk)
Erron Black
D'Vorah (Kyttin)
Reptile
Ferra & Torr

Goro (Shokan)
Mileena (Tarkatan)
King Gorbak (Shokan)
Lord Kintaro (Oni warlord)
Baraka (Tarkatans)
Rain
Ermac

Netherrealm:
Raiden
Fujin
Quan Chi

Earthrealm:
Johnny Cage
Sonya Blade
Cassie Cage
Jackson Briggs
Vera Briggs
Jacqui Briggs
Kenshi

Japan:
Hanzo Hasashi (Scorpion)
Takeda
Kuai Liang (Sub-Zero)

Black Dragons:
Kano
Tremor

Shang Tsung's Island (between realms):
Havik
Reiko
Skarlet

Chaosrealm:
Liu Kang
Master Shujinko

Six Kamidogu holders:
Kotal Khan in Outerworld
Jackson Briggs in Earthrealm
Kang Temple in Chaosrealm
Raiden has 3

[Rajiv Ashrafi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn yes! More fights, please!

[Ilias Avramidis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Typically too much Scorpion and Sub Zero for my taste but the story goes preety deep for a comic based on a video game. Nice work!

[Nate Meadows · Rating 3 out of 5]

Non stop action, great art, storywise is mych better than I would have thought a Mortal Kombat comic would be but still lacking.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

lfg

[paul kassim]

Love it

Love this version of mortal combat great story great art highly recommended definitely worth a read it u a fan

[Derrick McDonald · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the mature themes and violence are present with the underlying good guys need to beat bad guys tropes.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hope MKX has a better story mode than this comic. Yes there is gore but i barely care about any of the New characters.

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

Absolutely awesome, a great read and story if you're a big Mortal Kombat fan like me, Havik's a beast and this Blood code is crazy

[A · Rating 5 out of 5]

SubZero's and Scorpion's fight was✨️ Justice for the Briggs family. Ship Cage/Blade. The war was crazy beyond. When Havik beat the crap out of Hanzo, and Takeda was there... I shed real tears for my men over here. Loved this book.

[Matthew Whitehead · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won my copy through Goodreads Giveaways.
So other than the old live action movies and some old arcade games I was completely unfamiliar with the series, that said it was still easy to follow along with this volume. The story is bloody and gory at times but that is to be expected in this franchise. The artwork is gorgeous throughout.

[Keith Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won this in a Goodreads giveaway contest. Not my favorite subject but I found the subject material interesting and engaging. If you enjoy this type of thing you'll probably lovee it.

[Raphael Gopi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series.

[Nina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love it and I can't wait for the next one!

[Brandon García Neri · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 - Entretenido

[حمد المطر · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good story, i liked how they give scorpion and sub zero their rights and spaces.

[Cora · Rating 4 out of 5]

Why the hell wasn't this the story mode of the game?

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a pretty fun story. I can't wait to read the final volume!