Jesse Custer continues to act like a general horse’s arse while facing his past demons and recognizing his immediate adversary, Odin Quincannon. Meanwhile, our resident hedonistic vampire manages to be more of a Christian than the titular preacher.
The Mascot makes another gratuitous cameo, but Eugene, the angels, and the Cowboy all remain conspicuously absent this week.
The latest crew reach the International Space Station.
While back on Earth, robots walk like drunks:
The Pokémon Go app leads to fun for gamers, except when they discover dead bodies and encounter lurking muggers.
and cosplayers attend SF Cons and…
“You broke my kid’s art thing!”
This one’s late, and not even a review. “Sundowner” begins with an entertaining and quite ridiculous fight scene in which the bodies of three of the participants pile up. The episodes contrasts this insanity with scenes involving Tulip and Emily, and then Tulip and Cassidy. We also have a good deal of the backstory explained (assuming we’re hearing from reliable sources). Things are actually happening. Many of these are not nice things, however. Our titular Preacher is either seriously overwhelmed by his pride, or by the thing that possesses him, “Genesis.”
And his powers may be greater than we realize.
The episode leaves us with Jesse doing something really dangerous.
Belated comments?
Noel Neill, an actress whose career intertwined with the Man of Steel’s, died July 3 at the age of 95.
Neill was the first actress to play Lois Lane in a live action film, the 1948 Superman serial. She reprised the role in Atom Man vs Superman, and later took over the role from Phyllis Coates after the first season of The Adventures of Superman. She also made cameo appearances in Superman (1978) (as Lois’s mother), the late 80s / early 90s Superboy series, and Superman Returns (2006). She also had small roles in a couple of Hollywood classics, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and in at least one other TV show with “genre” connections, The Lone Ranger. Although she mostly retired after The Adventures of Superman, her role as Lois kept her in fandom’s eye.
The 2010 tribute is courtesy of CapedWonderJim:
The big news: Juno is entering orbit around Jupiter, after a five-year journey. NASA’s mission page is here; Tweets are here.
More science-related news and video below.
We’ll give you Con and Cosplay content later this week!
The Legend of Tarzan opened this weekend to very mixed reviews. I’m sure I’ll catch it sometime, but really, what’s the point of revisiting Tarzan yet again? This is the weekend to be swinging free in the real world, with American Independence Day, Canada Day, and many a Pride Festival and EDM event all happening. You’ve also got Cons in Washington, DC (Escape Velocity), Miami (Supercon), Baltimore (Counterpoint), and Portland (Westercon).
But we must have a Summer Weekend Review, and so, hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin’ daddies, lend a lobe and dig this gig from 1959.
“May I have a moment to myself, please?”
–Jennifer Goines, before her conference with Jennifer Goines
The apocalypse is so much more challenging when everyone is crazy and factions are splintering.
The series takes a break next week, with two more episodes before the season ends. This episode sets up the likely plots for each of those episodes
“I need a new briefcase anyway”
–Miles Person (Ricky Mabe)
We feared things wouldn’t end well in the 1800s, and we knew something would go horribly amiss with Odin Quincannon.
“You can’t see the future that’s coming.”(239)
Madeline Ashby’s most accessible novel to date sends a young, unaugmented security agent on an increasingly bizarre mission in a town built on a Maritime oil rig.
“Nefarious characters coalesce around you like bum-hairs in a drain.”
–the eloquent Agent Gale (Jay Karnes)
Cole faces betrayal and the loss of an old friend as our characters deal with a Nazi and the Nazi origins of Olivia and the Witness.
Tomorrow belongs to….?