MANIFEST *Warning: Spoilers Ahead* Well, looks like Cottonmouth (CM) played his ‘get out of jail free’ card. Scarfe’s little book of goods on him wasn’t enough to keep him in jail and prosecute him without Scarfe alive to testify to it. CM feels invincible and even sets a parlay with Luke…
Posts from October 2016
TV Review: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Episode 6
SUCKAS NEED BODYGUARDS *Warning: Spoilers Ahead* This episode opens with a voice over of a call-in talk radio show discussing Luke Cage and if he’s good or bad for Harlem. Most of the callers seem to agree that he’s good with the announcer seeming to be on that side as…
TV Review: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Episode 5
*Warning: Spoilers Ahead* JUST TO GET A REP Episode 5 gets back to the main story line and starts off with Cottonmouth in his club listening to a rapper sing a song that, I’m assuming is called ‘Long live the chief’. They cut back and forth between the song at…
TV Review: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Episode 4
*Warning: Spoilers Ahead* STEP IN THE ARENA We finally get to see Luke’s origins in this episode. We find out that Luke was previously a cop named Carl Lucas who got sent up on a trumped up charge because he pissed off the wrong people. Right off the bat he…
TV Review: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Episode 3
*Warning: Spoilers Ahead* WHO’S GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT So, after the first two episodes I’m cautiously optimistic about this season. But I still am stymied as to who will prove to be a challenge to Luke. He could snap Cottonmouths neck without skipping a beat. He seems to be going…
I’m a Runner
I am a runner. 10 years ago I wouldn’t have said that. I’m 45 years old now and when I was in my teens, twenties and early thirties, I had no desire to jog. Just wasn’t my thing. One reason was because I’d always had bad knees and I’d been…
TV Review: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Episodes 1 & 2
*Spoilers ahead* MOMENT OF TRUTH / CODE OF THE STREETS I never really read Luke Cage when I was collecting and reading comics. I stayed mostly with the ‘X’ titles (X-Men, X-Factor, Wolverine, Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, X-Factor, etc.), Thor and some others. I had heard about him but didn’t…