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Morning Glories #18

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morning-glories-18-cover“P.E.” continues, and although we don’t get any answers about the school and its mysterious ways we do learn a little about Abraham‘s group working against Morning Glories Academy. The issue is centered around Jun (really Hisao) who gets into another fight with his brother Hisao (really Jun) but is rescued by a childhood fried, Guillame.

As Guillame and Jun reconnect and kill time in a way that would be sure to make Bill O’Reilly shout down the evil homosexual comic book agenda of Image Comics, we also get flashbacks to Jun and Guillame’s time together as children growing up in Abraham’s compound.

Although the issue doesn’t really move the plot forward it does cement a couple of important points (other than Jun’s sexual preference). One, we know Jun isn’t alone working for Abraham. And two, we discover which other member of the new Morning Glories recruits is not only part of the group but in charge of their mission. It’s not who you expect. Worth a look.

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Fatale #5

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fatale-5-coverHank wakes bloodied, chained, and with odd symbols carved into his chest. He’s a guest of the Satanic cult deep below the bowels of the city. Their Bishop plans to use him as a sacrifice to, as he puts it, “help me see my god again.”

Jo finds herself betrayed by her former lover Walter Booker who has found a way to lessen her hold on him and now it seems he plans to turn her over to the very people who he saved her from all those years ago, but appearances aren’t all that they seem.

Issue #5 concludes the series’ first arc “Death Chases Me.” And although Hank is saved from the cult and makes away safely with Josephine it’s clear evil has only been stymied, not stopped. As to whether Hank’s life is better today than before he met the woman he loves with all his heart, well, that’s a little murky as well.

Credit to Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips for delivering a noir/horror thriller that it appears is only getting started. Bring on Book Two. Worth a look.

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Chuck Versus the Fifth (and Final) Season

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  • Title: Chuck – The Complete Fifth Season
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chuck-season-five-dvdThe final season of Chuck finds the Intersect in the head of Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez) and our super-CIA spies entering the private sector as Carmichael Industries. As Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) enjoy married life, Casey (Adam Baldwin) gets a girlfriend (Carrie-Anne Moss) and goes to jail with Lester (Vik Sahay).

This year’s missions include a computer super-virus, the return of old foes Decker (Richard Burgi) and Shaw (Brandon Routh), and an even deadlier new one in Nicholas Quinn (Angus Macfadyen). We’ll also learn Sarah’s darkest secret and meet her mother (Cheryl Ladd), Chuck will briefly return to his hacker roots, and two members of the team not named Chuck will have adverse effects from the Intersect as the super-computer begins to melt their brains and alter their personalities. And in the series’ final arc Chuck finds himself at war with a wife who doesn’t recognize him and a vengeful former spy who wants the Intersect for himself.

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Scandal – The Trail

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  • Title: Scandal – The Trail
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While Gideon (Brendan Hines) and US Attorney David Rosen (Joshua Malina) both separately investigate Amanda Tanner’s (Liza Weil) past and the events surrounding her apparent suicide, the episode gives us flashbacks to the contentious Presidential campaign between then Governor Grant (Tony Goldwyn) and the current Vice President (Kate Burton), including the first meeting between Olivia (Kerry Washington) and the man she fell for, and helped get elected President of the United States, on the campaign trail.

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Person of Interest – No Good Deed

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  • Title: Person of Interest – No Good Deed
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The latest number turns out to be a secretive and solitary analyst (Jacob Pitts), who works for an investment firm which is actually an undercover secret government SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) and NSA listening station. After asking the wrong questions he finds himself framed as a drug dealer, suspended from the NSA, his security clearance revoked, and an government trained assassin (Marc Menchaca) has been dispatched to finish the job.

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