Sunday, 29. October 2006, 05:14:09
A Team, Mr T
Have you ever aked yourself this question
What Would the Punisher Do? (or The Executioner, or The Destroyer, etc)
Well it appears that Mr T has a brand new show in the US - I PITY THE FOOL where Mr T helps people.
I saw this on the news the other week and the news suggests that Mr T offers people an A Team approach to their problems and really could we ask for more? (well except for Dwight Shultz and Dirk Bendict to show up).
Mr T seems to think that Dr Phil is a fool (whom of course he pities)and that the people that Dr Phil helps are fools too.
Hopefully this show will come to Australian Television so I can watch it.
Over the next few weeks I'll be reviewing a few Mr T related items including Mr T's animated series from the 80's, Mr T's comic from the 90's, as well as several A Team related items. I'll be mixing it in with other reviews such as The Death Merchant's other book, The Death Wish series and a new source of Aggressor Information I've found.
Brad
Sunday, 15. October 2006, 04:28:21
Novel, Rogue Angel
Well I am rather grooving to this new series from Gold Eagle Books.
The heroine of this piece is Annja Creed and Solomon's Jar is the second in the series (I will be reviewing the first, Destiny, shortly) Annja is an archeologist, unlike Indiana Jones or Sydney Fox, she isn't working in at a University not is she independently weathly like Lara Croft, she works as a presenter/expert for the cable show
Chasing History's Monsters
, I've seen similar sorts of things on The History Channel.
Annja is a very special girl because she has Joan of Arc's sword and her destiny is to protect the innocent (and this is explained more in Destiny) which gives the series a Tomb Raider meets Witchblade type of feel.
In this installment Annja hears about the possible discovery of Solomon's Jar, which according to the Bible King Solomon's imprisoned all the demons of the world, making it kinda like Pandora's box. So she hops on a plane to see if it is the real thing and starts to discover dead bodies - something is killing anyone who had possession of the Jar. Could it be demons?
Travelling around the world, Annja keeps bumping into Aidan Pascoe, an English archeologist who is also chasing the Jar.
There are also several rival groups after the Jar -including the Russian Mafia, an English cult and a Hollywood film star.
Who gets the Jar in the end? I'm not telling but it's not who you might think and we discover that an old enemy of Annja's is backing one of the groups.
Rogue Angel is certainly an enjoyable series with a super natural flavour. Annja is growing into her destiny to face these challenges and she struggles with questions of does she punish the guilty or protect the innocent?
Sunday, 8. October 2006, 12:51:30
Aggressors, Penetrator, Novels, Dracula
The first of my October Halloween series of The Aggressors meet the supernatural. In this adventure of the Penetrator Mark Hardin meets Vlad Dosadan Magarac, Count Dracula. Magarac claims to be a descendant of the original Count Dracula, who was cruelly defamed by Bram Stoker. Upset by this, Magarac has decided to use a vibrating weapon to set off earthquakes which activates a volcano chain.*
The Penetrator arrives to stop this madman, who claims to be a true vampire. He discovers that several bodies have turned up around the site of the first tremors totally drained of blood.
As if this isn't bad enough the Mafia has also arrived to stop Magarac who is disrupting their activities and there is an uprising of the local indians. The Penetrator is certainly a busy boy.
After wiping out the mobsters, who decided that killing The Penetrator would be a nice side benefit to their mission. Mark manages to subdue the Indian rebellion by getting them to help him storm Magarac's headquarters.
There is nice touch where a corrupt ATF agent working for Magarac is killed by the attacking forces is surprised that The Penetrator and his allies have automatic weapons because automatic weapons are illegal in that state.
Magarac flees and is followed by the Penetrator and the pair eventually battle using chainsaws in a forest. The image of the Pentrator and the black cloaked vampire dueling with chainsaws lopping tree limbs struck me as a very cool image and would be cool to see on film. This was the one image I had kept from my first reading of this book two years ago.
**Spoiler** to head just highlight the next bit.
Not surprisingly Magarac is killed by impalement on one of the lopped tree branches through the heart.
**End Spoiler**
So it is never clarified if Magarac is a real vampire or just one sick puppy.
A very groovy work.
* This was the same weapon seen in Penetrator #21 The Supergun Mission, now nowhere is this explained in the book. Whilst the footnote can be overused by other writers (Joseph Rosenberger to name one) it can be really handy to direct us to other books like in this case.
WIDGETIZE