2.5 Razors

Supergirl #29

Supergirl #29Set prior to last month’s issue of Red Lanterns where Kara started the process of beginning to control the rage unleashed by her newest jewelry accessory, Supergirl #29 picks up with the newest Red Lantern completely out of control and her former roommate, who is secretly the Silver Banshee, stepping in to try and stop Kara’s rampage.

Supergirl #29 struggles with selling the idea of Kara as a Red Lantern. While I think ultimate result of her time as a Lantern may help the overall development of the character and lead her to come to terms with feelings she’s suppressed and ignored since her New 52 introduction, I’m not all that keen on watching the journey itself unfold.

Despite once again floating the idea that no Red Lantern can ever remove their ring and survive (something Guy Gardner has already accomplished) we know Kara’s days as a Red Lantern are numbered, and unless someone is going to do full issue of a Kara and Dex-Starr team-up I’ll probably wait until this journey is over before picking up another Supergirl comic. Hit-and-Miss.

[DC, $3.99]

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Intelligence – The Grey Hat

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Intelligence - The Grey Hat

When virus takes down the power grid of the entire West Coast Gabriel (Josh Holloway), Riley (Meghan Ory), and Nelson (P.J. Byrne) head to Los Angeles to track down a teen hacker going by the name of Cortez (Octavius J. Johnson) who created the worm but is unaware it is being used by Ukrainian terrorists who threaten to melt down a nuclear reactor if one of their own isn’t released from prison.

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Intelligence – Cain and Gabriel

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Intelligence - Cain and Gabriel

When an evil super-genius (Alan Ruck) hacks the protected WITSEC database and begins blackmailing former criminals into his complicated terrorist plot involving releasing a weaponized toxic gas in San Fransisco, Gabriel (Josh Holloway) and Riley (Meghan Ory) take a trip to the golden state along with a concerned Lillian (Marg Helgenberger) whose estranged daughter (Laura Slade Wiggins) has made the Bay Area her home. More concerned with protecting her daughter than warning her, Lillian spends much of the episode frozen in indecision while Gabriel and Riley hunt for the puppet master through his blackmail victims.

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Mind Games – Asymmetric Dominance

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Mind Games - Asymmetric Dominance

Hired by a lifetime executive about to be overlooked for the job as the company’s new CEO (Becky Ann Baker), Ross (Christian Slater) and Clark (Steve Zahn) are hired to make sure that doesn’t happen. Using Asymmetric Dominance (which gives the series’ second episode its name), the group adds a third candidate to the final pool in an attempt to make their client stand out from the pack as the obvious choice. Clark’s public display almost looses the firm the account they desperately need to stay afloat, but that’s nowhere near the problem they run into when their decoy refuses to play the game.

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Community – Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality

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Community - Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality

The night doesn’t go as planned for anyone as “Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality” features several forced pairings in an episode with several fun moments but doesn’t ever quite click (although it does offer some fun character interactions along the way). With the departure of Donald Glover, it appears Buzz Hickey (Jonathan Banks) has been drafted into duty as Abed (Danny Pudi) new sounding board as the pair bond over the course of the evening when the whackadoodle faces Hickey’s consequences for accidentally destroying several of the professor’s cartoon duck drawings.

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