This would earn him the wrath of the Diablos , a group of demons who style themselves after the Mafia. Wanting to gain revenge for demons lost during the Day of Judgment, they attack Ragman, injuring him and tearing off parts of his costume. They believe him to be dead but this is not true.
Ragman is one of the members of Shadowpact , a team that formed to confront the Spectre in DC Comics Day of Vengeance limited series, a lead-up to the seven-issue Infinite Crisis limited series. During the Infinite Crisis storyline, Ragman and Nightshade are seen standing side by side as part of the line of superheroes defending Metropolis from attack from dozens of villains.
During the series Day Of Vengeance , Ragman is one of the few volunteers willing to take on the rampaging Spectre, who has decided that all magic is evil. During a planning session, he is taken aside by the Enchantress and given a mystical gun. She entrusts him with it, as it can kill her if she goes too far with her magic, a scenario she believes is all too possible.
He tells her if she truly turns evil, his costume will take her.
He then tries to kiss her, but his feelings are not returned and Enchantress even mocks him for it in front of the other heroes. In the Shadowpact series, Ragman, along with his teammates, was trapped inside a shield of solid blood that grew over the town of Riverrock, Wyoming. Ragman and the rest of the team spend a very short period of time inside the shield, but due to magical after-effects, a full year passes outside.
Various mystical heroes, such as Phantom Stranger and Rex the Wonder Dog keep watch outside the town's borders. While inside Riverrock, Rory met an evil counterpart of himself belonging to the supervillain group that had formed the shield, the Pentacle. His counterpart is named Bagman. While inside Bagman they either suffocate or they are digested. Bagman even mentioned how oddly similar the Shadowpact and the Pentacle are. Rory only survives this encounter because Bagman's boss does not want the heroes to be killed. After the Riverock encounter, Rory must deal with the severe disruption to his life, as everyone had thought he was dead.
He, like most of the team, ends up having to find a new source of income, a place to stay and the oddity of encountering a memorial statue to the entire team. In Shadowpact 8, Rory was temporarily trapped in the limbo dimension of his own cloak. He met the soul of an ancient centurion working off his crimes. This man, Marcus Liberius, first saved him from the beating several other of the murderous souls were giving Rory. Marcus reveals that the cloak was actually the "Great Collector Artifact", which has been in existence in many forms since the time of Abraham.
Ragmen in Rory's line have been in action since BCE. Marcus also helped Rory, who had become disenchanted with the job of collecting corrupted souls, to see that he is not a punisher but a redeemer — allowing a better afterlife for those who work for it. This work usually takes the form of suffering on Rory's behalf.
For example, Rory had been recently blinded by magic. Marcus willingly takes this blindness on, adding to previous injuries he had suffered. This last sacrifice allows Marcus, in the full view of the rest of the Shadowpact, to ascend to a higher realm. Rory, along with Nightmaster and Nightshade, attempted to teleport to Washington D. C to break up a bank robbery.
They were trapped mid transit in the Land of Nightshades. During this time it was suggested that he is attracted to team member Nightshade. In Trinity 18, Ragman appears to save a man from a gang of muggers, when reality has apparently been warped and there is no "Trinity" of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, and apparently never has been. Ragman is joined by a sidekick named Tatters, wearing a green tattered hoodless costume and mask.
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At first, he is seen confronting an alternate version of Green Arrow, a vigilante on the service of the wealthy who ignores the poor, and later, due to a chronal blast, is seen assuming Batman's position as premier vigilante of Gotham. Ragman briefly appears in The Network one-shot for the " Battle for the Cowl " storyline, assisting Cassandra Cain and the Huntress in tracking down a group of hostages around Gotham. After removing the duct tape from the mouth of a gagged woman, Ragman proceeds to counsel her for her apparent drug addiction, telling her that she will never truly be free until she takes hold of her life.
During the " Blackest Night " storylines, Nekron completely shut down Ragman's suit by using the Black Lantern rings to reanimate all the souls attached to his body. In October , Ragman starred in the one-shot Ragman: It was written by Christos Gage and drawn by Stephen Segovia. Rory Regan is the owner of the book and antique shop Rags 'n Tatters who moonlights as the costumed vigilante Ragman. At his shop, Rory Regan appraised a Celtic amulet as being nearly five hundred years old - and worth more than he could pay out. His customer's urgency and insistence in selling the amulet made him suspicious that it had been stolen, but the man insisted that it was just an heirloom.
Despite getting a deal, Rory worried that he would regret the purchase. Above his shop, Rory was roused from his sleep by a ghostly voice, warning that he was needed. He hurried down stairs to find a pair of thugs attempting to steal an ancient artifact from his safe in the shop. Angry, he followed them in the uniform of Ragman. Rory followed the thieves to their employer, where the remaining cultists intended to use Clayface and the stolen artifact to resurrect Morgan le Fay. At the cost of Clayface's discomfort, the Arthurian witch succeeded in returning to life in the present.
While too late to prevent her revival, Ragman joined up with Etrigan and Batwoman to fight her, introducing himself as his alias. When Etrigan, desperate to destroy the witch, broke a gas main in the old house the ritual took place in and breathed his fire on it, Ragman, Batwoman, and the now-amnesiac Clayface had barely any time to get out of range of the resultant explosion, but managed it.
According to Etrigan, who also survived, it was likely that Morgan also managed to live through the explosion.
Knowing that Clayface belonged in Arkham Asylum, but that Morgan could easily break him free on a moment's notice from there, Ragman offered to assuage Batwoman's worries thereof by taking Clayface into his own custody, hoping to help him find his memories. The group parted ways, and Etrigan promised that when next the time came to fight, he would be there.
Rory Regan dumped Clayface into his bathtub, for once thankful for being single and thus not needing to explain himself to anyone. Hungry, he checked his fridge and could not find anything appetizing, but was startled suddenly when Clayface appeared behind him and warned him that Morgan would kill again. Pre-Crisis, Ragman had the physical abilities of his father's friends: Currently, Ragman can draw upon the physical powers of any number of the corrupted souls that make up his suit.
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This way he can increase his strength, speed and stamina dozens or even hundreds of times over, though he has stated that it is not easy to tap into a large number of souls at once at the time, he made the comment that the most he had ever done was somewhere over one hundred. This also allows Ragman to avoid most wounds, as he can use one of his other souls to take the damage for him. Most significantly, having defeated an enemy, he can acquire new souls by absorbing them with the suit, although he can only do this for truly evil souls; as an example, he was unable to absorb the soul of supervillain Blue Moon because she was regularly sent to prison as her powers only worked at night, her time in prison counting as her having 'served her time' and preventing Ragman 'punishing' her himself.
Taking a soul adds a new rag to the suit and thus adds to Ragman's power supply. However, Rory has mentioned that the process of acquiring a new soul gives him stomach cramps and nausea. The book includes poems, plays, sermons, and many great stories because as Wangerin writes, stories are what make a pastor. The tales are all personal and most are moving. They examine a deep and living faith that sees the work of God everywhere: This is a great book for any pastor, for anyone who has done urban missions, or for anyone looking for a book that illustrates the very real ways God is working in our world today.
Fifteen years ago I had read the first chapter of this book, then lost it. I hoped someone would find it and be as inspired as I had been. Now I have found it again and been blessed to read the whole book. Though none matches the first chapter, they all have the authors brilliant touch and profound spiritual insight. You will be blessed.
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I enjoyed the symbolism in the stories and the stories. Some of them read like stories you might find sent around on mass email lists.
The stories challenge you by thinking through tough issues and encourages you to live out what you believe. The poems and stories encourage you to serve. I first heard about this through a sermon on Truth for Life and it's well worth your time to dig into this book. One person found this helpful. Walter Wangerin does an outstanding job utilizing fictitious some stories to present the Gospel in a real-world way.
It as timeless as it was the first time I read the book.
From teaching "The Good Samaritan" story at a gas pump to presenting Christ as a modern-day figure exchanging worn items for new ones, Dr. Wangerin shares with us his representation of God's light through Jesus. It is like a puzzle, at first, which slowly unfolds the more you read it. A treasure book, to be sure!
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Walt Wangerin is an amazing storyteller with meaning and authenticity. There is the "Ragman" poetry story which is wonderful in itself and then there are stories that are worth reading! See also the "Cries of the Congregation". See all 41 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.
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