October 2012

News and Notes – New York Comic Con

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Geeks of Doom is reporting Agent Phil Coulson will return from the dead as Clark Gregg will reprise his role on Marvel’s proposed S.H.I.E.L.D. television series

Comic Book Resources is reporting Rick Remender and artist Paul Renaud will team-up for Devolution, a new sci-fi series for Dynamite Entertainment

MTV is reporting that director Guillermo del Toro thinks it’s unlikely he’ll ever be able to raise enough money to make his proposed end of the world vision for Hellboy 3 into a reality

Digital Spy is reporting Marvel has plans to relaunch both Guardians of the Galaxy (with Brian Michael Bendis and Steve McNiven) and Nova (with Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness)

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Dial M for Murder

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  • Title: Dial M for Murder
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dial-m-for-murder-blu-rayAlfred Hitchcock‘s 1954 classic stars Ray Milland as ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice who for a year has known about his wife Margot’s (Grace Kelly) affair with an American crime novelist (Robert Cummings). Wanting revenge, and the wealth his dead wife would bring, Tony blackmails a petty criminal (Anthony Dawson) into helping him pull off the perfect murder. When things don’t go to plan Tony rolls with the punches and tries to frame his wife for the first-degree murder of the would-be assassin.

Dial M for Murder delivers several of Hitchcock’s trademark touches including a charming sociopath – even though Milland’s character is trying to bump off Grace Kelly (in her first collaboration with Hitchcock) we somehow don’t begrudge him the opportunity. We also get the central role of a staircase to the plot, and the planning and boasting of a perfect murder.

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The Mentalist – Not One Red Cent

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  • Title: The Mentalist – Not One Red Cent
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The CBI are called in to investigate the murder of a bank employee who was killed during a robbery at the Sacramento Federal Bank which occurred just down the street from where Jane (Simon Baker) was getting a pair of shoes resoled. Lisbon (Robin Tunney) finds herself in  the middle of another CBI/FBI turf war when FBI Agent Mancini (Ivan Sergei) complains to Bertram (Michael Gaston) that the CBI is overstepping their bounds to investigate what he believes falls under his jurisdiction.

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Batman #13

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batman-new-52-13-coverBatman #13 marks the return of the Joker and the beginning of a the new crossover “The Death of the Family.” After missing for a year the Joker returns in style attacking Police Headquarters, retrieving his face and beginning a new murder spree that reenacts his first appearance in Gotham City years ago.

Although Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo keep the Joker mainly to the shadows here, their version of him, the brilliant psychopath with an odd attachment to Batman and a need to create chaos, works quite well. I’m still not a fan of the whole face off idea. One could argue having the face re-stapled to his skull makes the Joker more creepy, but I think it just makes him look like a B-movie horror villain.

I also enjoyed the discussion among the Bat-Family as Batman warns them the Joker has returned but takes it solely on himself to catch him. I’m surprised we don’t get a an appearance from Red Hood (given his history with the madman) but the next four months will give us tie-ins to all the Bat-books including Catwoman, Teen Titans, and Red Hood and the Outlaws.

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