Shipping this week we have House of M #5, a Fantastic Four “House of M” tie-in, and Essential Daredevil Vol. 3, DC’s Villains United and Rann/Thanagar (both 4 of 6) plus #0 and 1 of the new Supergirl series, Dark Horse’s Concrete Vol. 1, and more.
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Most of this episode takes place four years before the pilot, as Jade plays hardboiled detective. All of this, of course, connects to the current story, likely in more ways than we realize.
Part two of the double feature is the recent remake of
The Stepford Wives.
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This week’s double feature is the two versions of Ira
Levin’s novel, The Stepford Wives.
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Episode 6 of 9 for this season airs tonight. What are
your thoughts?
nkuzmik
writes, Just saw Thursday night. While I wasn’t
expecting much other than a rewrap of a familiar man
v. machine-out-of-control story, paired with flying
that would make Maverick and Ice wet themselves I was
pleasantly surprised. I totally did not expect them
to go in the direction they did. Not having seen
it myself, I’m not sure which direction nkuzmik is
referring to. Is it possible that this movie has more
going for it than the ads would indicate?
And people still laugh about as much as they ever did…. If a bunch of them are lying around the beach, and one of them farts, everybody else laughs and laughs, just as people would have done a million years ago.
–Galapagos
Vonnegut wrote his best novels in the 1960s; his work started to founder in the 1970s. Critics often called his 1985 novel, Galápagos a comeback. Uneven but often brilliant, it would prove one of his last really good books.
In short: the future of humanity falls in the hands of the people who most likely would have been voted first off the island.
With only four theaters running this film, I don’t
know how much discussion we’re going to get. However,
since I love the director (Kar Wai Wong), but my local
theaters aren’t among the illustrious four, I thought
I’d point the movie out and try to get some feedback
from anyone I can.
There are some excellent DVDs coming out this week,
many of which were just barely edged out as the Pick
of the Week.
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This
week’s shipping list includes a few items of note,
such as Serenity #2 (which will get its own
review, but I’ll be out of town for the weekend, so it
won’t be right away), and New Avengers #8
(which continues the Sentry arc.) Also
shipping today are the first issue of the
1602 sequel (which Gaiman is not involved in;
I’m waiting for reviews before I decide if I’ll get
the TPB), some House of M tie-in material,
Ultimate Spider-Man #81, Marvel
Visionaries: John Romita Sr., and New
Avengers Vol. 1: Breakout (which I also need to
review; shaky start to the arc, but it pulls itself
together as a means to launch the series). DC is
offering The Return of Donna Troy #3 (of 4),
DC’s Greatest Imaginary Stories TPB,
Justice #1 (of 12), and Sandman Presents
Thessaly: Witch for Hire in TPB form.