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Take a Ride on the Silver Streak

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  • Title: Silver Streak
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Silver StreakTaking Alfred Hitchcock‘s concept of a man in far over his head in North by Northwest to absurd levels, director Arthur Hiller’s Silver Streak provided not only an enjoyable comedic thriller but also the first opportunity to pair Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor on-screen together. And, once again proving my Train Theory (that all things being equal, movies with trains are better than similiar movies without), this is still their best collaboration.

When George Caldwell (Wilder) boards the Silver Streak, a train from Los Angeles to Chicago, on his way to his sister’s wedding, looking for no more than two days of relaxation and boredom he has no idea the journey he is actually embarking on. On the train he meets the lovely Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh) and during a romantic night in his cabin a rather drunk and distracted George sees the body of Hilly’s boss Professor Gierasch (Stefan Gierasch) fall from the roof of the train.

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Continuum – Second Wave

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  • Title: Continuum – Second Wave
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Continuum - Second Wave

What should be a big win, the capture of Garza (Luvia Petersen), turns out to nothing but trouble for Kiera (Rachel Nichols) whose idea to reactivate the military-grade CMR chip inside Travis‘ (Roger R. Cross) head based on Garza’s slip of the tongue accidentally leads to Travis being connected to Kiera and Alec’s network. Forcing a shutdown of the connection, Kiera is left without Alec’s help during an attack by a pair of freelancers (Adrian Holmes, Zak Santiago) and is later taken captive by Julian Randol (Richard Harmon)  and his new movement.

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The Shadow #16

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The Shadow #16The Shadow‘s battle against The Light continues as the city’s new vigilante targets Margo Lane as her next victim. Thanks to her quick thinking and the timely arrival of The Shadow, Margo makes it through the night alive and The Shadow learns that all visually evidence to the contrary The Light is flesh and blood who doesn’t react well do a slew of bullets.

I thought this arc started to stall a bit in the last issue but by putting Margo in danger Chris Roberson picks up the pace with a timely rooftop save by our hero and moves the storyline forward to the final confrontation between The Light and The Shadow next month.

The Shadow #16 also includes more flashbacks to The Light’s childhood and training as well as tying that piece of the storyline together with The Light’s first victim in New York whose past intertwines with her own This also gives The Shadow his first real lead to uncovering to the vigilante’s identity. Worth a look.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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Franklin & Bash – Shoot to Thrill

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  • Title: Franklin & Bash – Shoot to Thrill
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Franklin & Bash - Shoot to Thrill

Franklin (Breckin Meyer) and Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) try to help out an old friend (Thomas Lennon) who is charged with assault of a man the bounty hunter recently took down. To win their case against Jared’s old flame Ellen Swatello (Rhea Seehorn), Peter gets shot point-blank with a bean-bag gun in court (but only after Jared chickens out). Although the stunt may get their friend cleared of the assault charges, to save his license Peter and Jared go to work as bounty hunters in an attempt to take down the man (Hart Bochner) responsible for all their friend’s woes.

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Ame-Comi Girls #6

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Ame-Comi Girls #6With the fate of the entire universe at stake Alanna Strange evacuates all life on the planet Earth and gathers its greatest warriors to stand with Hawkgirl against the oncoming force of Sinestra and her legion of Black Lanterns. Although I’m not the biggest fan of the DC’s original Black Lanern arc, writer Jimmy Palmiotti and artist Justin Gray offer their own version of events featuring lots of action.

To help them survive, Power Girl, Supergirl, Batgirl, Robin, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, Steel, and Strange are all gifted white rings by Metra. Even with the power boost the group of heroines still eventually fall to the never-ending onslaught of death causing the New God herself to get involved and create a new stalemate between life and death with the creation of a new crisis.

Things fall apart for me in the final pages where Metra gets directly involved. I would have preferred the ladies to win the day on their own but the (unsubtle) Motherbox metaphor works okay and sets up new possibilities (albeit for a comic whose days appear to be numbered). Worth a look.

[DC, $3.99]

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