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Jihad (comics)
The Onslaught are a fictional team of state sponsored super powered Quraci terrorists published by DC Comics. They first appeared in '' Suicide Squad'' #1, and were created by John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell. History The Onslaught is a team of super-powered international terrorists-for-hire operating out of the outlaw nation of Qurac. The team was created and guided by Qurac's President Marlos and had accepted, as its first commission, the assignment of killing the President of the United States. Former Suicide Squad member Jess Bright, now a Soviet operative named Koshchei helped bio-engineer candidates for the team. At its inception, the Jihad was infiltrated by Nemesis and Nightshade, members of the advance team of the Suicide Squad, and was the target of a preemptive attack by the Squad (as seen in ''Suicide Squad'' #1 and #2). After their first clash with the Suicide Squad, Raza Kattuah now calling himself Rustam formed a second team based in an old World War II fortre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke McDonnell
Luke McDonnell (born July 19, 1959) is an American artist whose early career was spent specialising in comic books. Career Comic books Luke McDonnell began his career as a comics artist in 1980 and illustrated a wide variety of comics including long runs on ''Iron Man'', ''The Phantom'' and'' Suicide Squad''. He made his Marvel Comics debut with the story "Eclipse of Reason" in ''Star Trek'' #12 (March 1981). In 1983, McDonnell and writer Dennis O'Neil began a storyline in which the character James Rhodes replaced Tony Stark in the role of Iron Man. McDonnell moved to DC Comics in 1985 and became the regular artist on ''Justice League of America'' with issue #245 (Dec. 1985). He drew the title through its final storyline (#258–261) which was written by J. M. DeMatteis. McDonnell was one of the contributors to the '' DC Challenge'' limited series and then moved over to the ''Suicide Squad '' series written by John Ostrander. ''Suicide Squad'' #23 (Jan. 1989) written by Ostrander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |