With Peter (Tim DeKay) taking the week off for Elizabeth’s (Tiffani Thiessen) birthday Neal (Matt Bomer) teams up with his former girlfriend, insurance investigator Sara Ellis (Hilarie Burton), who believes her boss (Bailey Chase) might be involved in the unreported theft of a missing Stradivarius.
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A US Marshall (Jon Olson), and old friend of Danny’s (Scott Caan), is killed on a plane while transporting a prisoner (Theo Rossi) to Hawaii. At first Five-0 believes the prisoner killed the Marshall before making his escape when the plane touched down. The truth, however, is far more complicated.
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Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips continue their noir horror tale with a second issue that focuses solely on the 1950’s storylines where Hank Raines finds himself falling more and more under the influence of the beautiful Josephine while her husband, Detective Walt Booker, continues his investigation into an occult murder for his own nefarious purposes.
The second issue continues to impress, although I was a little disappointed to find the modern Nicolas Lash story wasn’t woven into the the story.
We get mysterious symbols, betrayal, murder, marital infidelity, forbidden passion, police corruption, secret meetings, secrets, cult members speaking in tongues, lies, and more foreshadowing that monsters in this world are lying in wait just under the surface waiting to strike.
If you have any interest in pulp and noir tales, with a little horror thrown in, here’s a comic you really should enjoy. I would have like more of Nicolas’ story here as well, but I can wait until next month. Worth a look.
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Writer Ed Brubacker is the man responsible for returning Bucky Barnes from the dead and creating the character of the Winter Soldier. The last volume of Captain America saw Bucky slowly regain his memories after been brainwashed as a Soviet assassin kept in deep freeze for years. His stint filling in as Captain America was the best Cap storyline anyone has done is some time.
Once again Bucky’s been brought back from the dead in a new series penned by Brubacker that puts the Winter Soldier and the Black Widow on a mission to track down other Soviet sleeper soldiers as he tries to redeem himself for some of the damage he did while working for the KGB.
As a first issue it works well, and I’ll stand by my statement that Brubaker seems more interested in telling Bucky stories than Cap stories right now. I don’t doubt that in time this could become Brubaker’s best monthly title.
I’m less sold on the art by Butch Guice. Although it certainly fits the feel of the comic, it’s just not a style choice that I’m overly fond of.
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With regionals fast approaching and the rivalry with the Worblers heating up (cultivating in an Michael-off in and underground parking garage as both groups perform “Bad“) the reunited New Directions finds their muse in Michael Jackson.
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