Devil’s Reign: Omega

/ / Comics

Marvel’s event comes to a close with Daredevil alive but Matt Murdock dead to the world as the heroes bury Matt’s brother in his place so he and Elektra can begin their newest crusade against the Hand. Good luck with that.

As for New York, it’s got a new Mayor but even Luke Cage can’t fix things overnight as the Thunderbolts are still at large and vigilantism in the city is still outlawed. Time to get to work Mr. Mayor. Good luck with that.

…

Devil’s Reign: OmegaRead More »

Devil’s Reign: Omega Read More »

NCIS: Hawai’i – Ohana

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Ohana
  • wiki: link

The second-half of the NCIS: Hawai’i season finale features the team searching for the person responsible for the dead spies on both sides of the prisoner exchange leading to increasing tensions between the United States and Russia. The episode ends with a bit of a twist, but since there’s nothing known about the character beforehand it’s a bit of a toothless move that simply used for the sake of having a twist. Along the way another member of the team will be put in momentary danger when he triggers the assassin’s bomb, but once again things are quickly solved as the show moves toward stopping the larger target. That said, the finale does deliver (finally) a reconciliation between Lucy (Yasmine Al-Bustami) and Whistler (Tori Anderson) hopefully leading to plenty more of the couple together next season.

…

NCIS: Hawai’i – OhanaRead More »

NCIS: Hawai’i – Ohana Read More »

Usagi Yojimbo #28

/ / Comics

In their wanderings, Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi come across an art merchant attacked by bandits. Although they are not able to save the merchant, they are able to scare away the attackers and save the merchant’s assistant and the cargo they were delivering, not realizing that the assistant is in league with the bandits.

…

Usagi Yojimbo #28Read More »

Usagi Yojimbo #28 Read More »

Halo – Contact

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Halo – Contact
  • IMDb: link

I’ll be honest, my only real connection with the first-person shooter video game series the new TV-series is based on comes from the popular multi-player mode where I tried my best not to get shot in the back of the head by players who put in far more hours to the game than I ever would. The larger story about super-elite military soldiers versus invading aliens wasn’t really applicable to those scenarios. The series takes the basic mythology of the game and expands on it by adding a layer of class divide all too familiar to fans of dystopian science fiction. The opening episode is really only notable for recreating the look of the video game hero along with its high special effects and high body count of the various Covenant aliens Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and the others of Silver Team will put down.

…

Halo – ContactRead More »

Halo – Contact Read More »

Elektra: Black, White & Blood #4

/ / Comics

Elektra: Black, White & Blood #4 offers three more tales of Elektra in the final issue of the four-issue mini-series anthology, all delivered in black, white, and red. In “Powers You Can’t Comprehend,” my favorite of the three tales, Elektra is hired by the Kingpin to take out a target. What he doesn’t tell her is that target is Ghost Rider which turns to be a harder job to finish than Elektra bargained leading to the assassin reworking the contract with Fisk.

…

Elektra: Black, White & Blood #4Read More »

Elektra: Black, White & Blood #4 Read More »