Alan Rapp

Morning Glories #22

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morning-glories-22-coverSurprisingly the latest issue of Morning Glories doesn’t jump to the storylines of other characters this month (as has been the series’ formula), instead we pick up from last month’s issue as Hunter, Jun (really Hisao) and the new kids attempt to stop an all important sacrifice. At least I think that’s what they are doing because, not surprising at all, the comic gives us scant information or true motivations on what is really happening.

The comic jumps around a bit from the current situation to flashbacks from the Morning Glories Academy two years ago. In the flashbacks we see another student who has had their “eyes opened” as Jade did a few issues back. The current storyline also reinstates the idea that for students at the academy time and space aren’t really an issue as Hunter and his new friends find themselves using Sumerian ruins to travel through time to save Abraham.

We get a tease that we’ll learn what Hunter is actually good at in this issue, but other than an ability to get shot we don’t really get an idea what his special gift might be. For fans.

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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
  • IMDB: link

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
  • wiki: link

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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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