Reason #33 Why I Love DS9 – The Visitor
There are many reasons why I love Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and why it remains my favorite of the Star Trek franchise.
Reason #33: “The Visitor”
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July 2011
First Look
- Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
- IMDB: link
The Raimi-less Spidey reboot finally has a trailer. And we think you really, really should watch. The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield hits theaters next July.
New Avengers #14
- Title: New Avengers #14
- Comic Vine: link
- Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
- Artist: Mike Deodato, Jr.
I’ve been lukewarm to the entire Fear Itself storyline, but this is the first tie-in that I’ve really liked. And it’s not only because it manages to summarize the entire summer event in a single panel (though it does, marvelously). It’s because this is simply a darn good story, even if it is tied to an event I care little or nothing about. And even more unlikely, it’s centered around a character I’ve never given two shits about.
The entire issue is centered around Mockingbird coming to grips with being alive, reuniting with her New Avenger teammates, and trying her new found abilities out on Nazi robots. Yeah, that’s right, Nazi robots!
It seems Mockingbird was saved from certain death by a combination of some leftover version of Super Soldier Serum (which made Steve Rogers into Captain America) mixed with the Infinity Formula (which made Nick Fury effectively immortal) transforming a throwaway character into a possible major player in the Marvel Universe. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m intrigued to see what will happen to the character next.
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Leverage – The Van Gogh Job
- Title: Leverage – The Van Gogh Job
- tv.com: link
A couple of weeks back I was hard on Leverage for its missed success in attempting a whodunit. This week once again finds the show drifting out of its comfort zone but the results are much more satisfying.
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Green Lantern #67
- Title: Green Lantern #67
- Comic Vine: link
- Writer: Geoff Johns
- Artist: Doug Mahnke
War of the Green Lanterns, thankfully, comes to a conclusion with this issue as the united rainbow lanterns make their final stand against Krona in an attempt to free the various colored entities.
The main story itself, like most of this story are which began back in Blackest Night, is mostly forgettable. However, the issue does delivering a few startling events worthy of notice including Sinestro as a Green Lantern. The sequence which leads to this is as interesting as the panel where the ring chooses Sinestro is shocking. Hal Jordan‘s most hated enemy appears to come to terms with Jordan and in doing so earns back the position which was forcibly taken from him decades ago.
Although Sinestro seems to have earned his way back into the Corps, Hal Jordan’s ring is stripped from the Greatest Green Lantern (again!) when his uses it to commit to cardinal sin of saving the universe, I mean killing a former Guardian.
We’ll have to see how both of these events play out in the DC reboot, but I’m betting Jordan won’t be without a ring for very long. Worth a look.
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