Marvel’s Rocket and Groot

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Marvel's Rocket and Groot television review

Over a series of one dozen short one and two-minute adventures, Rocket Raccoon (Trevor Devall) and Groot (Kevin Michael Richardson) attempt to put together 3,000,000 credits to buy a new ship. Although the shorts are connected with the common theme of earning money, each adventure is self-contained as the pair race Blackjack O’Hare, steal a golden egg, and cash-in on a series of bounties (including one for Groot himself). The moral of the story is obvious to the audience before our heroes, whose work provides them with rewards less grand than they were expecting, but while it lasts it’s a fun ride.

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The Wild Storm #3

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The Wild Storm #3 comic reviewIf I’m listing out my favorite female comic heroes it’s almost impossible for me not to put Jenny Sparks in the top spot. Created in 1997 by Warren Ellis as a character for Stormwatch to not much acclaim, two years later with the launch of The Authority the character gave us one of the best, albeit short-lived, runs before her death which left a hole in the title subsequent stories were never able to properly fill.

The Spirit of the 20th Century, Jenny Sparks was a force of nature. Born January 1, 1900 and dying exactly 100 years later (right after killing God and cursing people who don’t understand how a millennium works), Jenny Sparks burned brightly and was gone.

As part of Warren Ellis’ new self-contained series The Wild Storm, Jenny Sparks is re-imagined for the 21st Century. Gone is the blond ponytail, foul mouth, and Union Jack tee. Slipping through the electrical networks of the world to come and go as she pleases, it’s hard to tell how much of the original character’s personality we’ll see in this new version which seems to be a blend of the original and her successor Jenny Quantum.

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The Blacklist – Dembe Zuma / Requiem

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The Blacklist - Dembe Zuma / Requiem television review

The Blacklist‘s two-episode mid-season premiere sets up the next big threat to Raymond Reddington (James Spader). While the first episode deals primarily with the red herring that is Dembe‘s (Hisham Tawfiq) apparent disloyalty, the second episode features on the back story of Mr. Kaplan (Susan Blommaert), including the events which led her into the lives of all the show’s major players. There’s quite a bit of history rewriting here which I’m not 100% certain would hold up if you went back an re-watched the show’s First Season. That said, events here do help explain how Kaplan (played in the flashbacks by Joanna Adler) got her chosen name and profession, and why she was so willing to betray Red for Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone), who she has apparently known for quite some time.

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iZombie – Eat, Pray, Liv

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There’s actually quite a bit going on in “Eat, Pray, Liv” which is held together by the Liv (Rose McIver) becoming more zen after ingesting the brain of a murdered self-help guru, eventually helping Babineaux (Malcolm Goodwin) solve the man’s murder. The awkwardness between Ravi (Rahul Kohli) and Peyton (Aly Michalka) isn’t improved by Ravi admitting his true feelings or strong-arming Blaine (David Anders) to try the experimental memory cure now that Major (Robert Buckley) is on borrowed time.

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X-Men: Blue #1

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X-Men: Blue #1 comic reviewI’ve been of the opinion that the time-displaced team of original X-Men has long outlived its usefulness. Brought to the present by the Beast in an attempt to control Cyclops, their purpose for being in their own future died with Cyclops (and most of my interest in the X-Men).

X-Men: Blue reuintes the original team, who got scattered a bit in recent events. Back together with Jean Grey in command, the team has a new mission statement (but sadly no X-23, whose relationship with Angel was one of the few bright moments to come out of the group’s time-travel misadventures). X-Men: Blue #1 sees the team take on Black Tom Cassidy (who apparently isn’t as 70s singer-songwriter) and the Juggernaut, the later being the more interesting battle of the two. Ending the fight to send one of their oldest enemies to Hell, it appears the Beast has learned something from his older self about moral ambiguity.

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