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Snake Eyes #10

snake-eyes-10-coverThe “Cobra Command” crossover continues as Cobra destroys the opium fields of Nanzhao and Storm Shadow’s ninja teams take out the U.N. trops helping with the civilian evacuation. Realizing there’s no one else for the job Snake Eyes take it upon himself, with Helix in tow, to go deep into the jungles of Nanzhao and find his blood brother.

As Snake Eyes and Helix go deep into the jungles we learn the Storm Shadow’s latest cat-and-mouse game involving Snake Eyes are not part of the new Cobra Commander‘s master plan. Meanwhile, the rest of the Joes at Fort Baxter try to determine Cobra’s endgame and what they are after by depopulating the country, destroying its drug supply, and leaving the highways and utilities intact.

There’s plenty of ninja action here and more than a little foreshadowing that we’re going to get a major throwdown between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow before “Cobra Command” ends. And we’ve still got plenty of unanswered questions as to what the new Cobra Commander is really after and what plans he has for the dirty nuclear bombs Destro is seen unloading in the comic’s final panel. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Safe House

  • Title: Safe House
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safe-house-posterSafe House just goes to show you that Hollywood can find a way to take even one of the most boring jobs of any CIA agent would ever have and turn it into an action thriller with a horde of nameless bad guys who never seem to run out of ammunition.

The first thing you need to understand about Safe House is that very little of the film’s close to two-hour running time actually takes place in a safe house. Ryan Reynolds stars as Agent Matt Weston who has spent the last 12 months keeping an empty safe house in South Africa ready in case the CIA needs to safeguard, interrogate, or house someone in the area at a moment’s notice.

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Glee – The Spanish Teacher

  • Title: Glee – The Spanish Teacher
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To help earn tenure Will (Matthew Morrison) enlists the help of the night school Spanish teacher (Ricky Martin) with a love of music to help the Glee Club with their latest assignment – to perform songs written or performed by Latin artists. Along the way one of Will’s students will teach him an important lesson about teaching which will lead him to make an unexpected change.

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The Lone Ranger #2

lone-ranger-vol-2-2-coverThe second issue of Dynamite Entertainment’s new Lone Ranger series is a little better than the first but it still lacks the fun you’d like in a title centered around the masked man and his Indian companion. Once again the main story has to do with a character other than the Lone Ranger or Tonto, in this case an infamous lawman at the end of his career looking for one more showdown.

The dialogue by writer Ande Parks feels a little more natural than the series first issue. I don’t know that I’m yet sold on the art of Esteve Polls, but if the comic is going to do these mini faux historical tales, heavy on narration and light on action, it might work well enough.

It’s still a far cry from Dynamite’s first Lone Ranger series from writer Brett Matthews and artist Sergio Cariello but the second issue is enough of an improvement I’ll probably pick at least one more issue to see where the Lone Ranger and Tonto go from here. For fans.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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White Collar – Neighborhood Watch

  • Title: White Collar – Neighborhood Watch
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When she overhears a neighbor’s (Joe Manganiello) conversation over Peter’s (Tim DeKay) police scanner Elizabeth (Tiffani Thiessen) begins to suspect he might be planning the burglary of a posh hotel. When she’s unable to convince Peter or Neal (Matt Bomer) about what she overhead she enlists the one person she knows likely to buy into a possible paranoid conspiracy – Mozzie (Willie Garson).

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