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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – The Complete First Season

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Season One
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - The Complete First SeasonContinuing the adventures began in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. suffers a bit from having to play with last year’s toys and deal with the fallout of the planned Marvel feature film releases rather than make any real strides on its own. Thankfully thee release of Thor: The Dark World and especially Captain America: The Winter Soldier bolstered the season’s second-half, giving it new life to end the show’s First Season on a string of strong episodes.

Without question Clark Gregg is the show’s star. Reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson, returned from the dead in a mysterious manner (which turns out to be somewhat disappointing once revealed), Coulson puts together his own strike time including two military specialists in Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) and Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), a pair a bickering scientists (Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge) and a computer hacker (Chloe Bennet) they adopt in the first episode. Throw in an old S.H.I.E.L.D. tricked-out cargo jet, and the team is ready for action.

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Magneto #8

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Magneto #8Continuing the trend of the comic in recent months Magneto #8 features an increasing number of flashbacks and panels from Magneto‘s complicated past narrated through the current version’s search for justice. The latest issue also offers up another group of mutant killers and traffickers for Magneto to track down leading to S.H.I.E.L.D. finally catching up with the vigilante and the reveal of the less-than-noble goal of Magneto’s quest.

Personally I’m all in favor of Magneto being reinstated back to full strength, but evil Beast storyline already opened the door for that as a possibility (only to be immediately ignored by every X-book afterwards). The choice offered here takes the character down a darker road which may offer some intriguing storylines but probably doesn’t serve the character all that well in the long run. If Magneto is restored to full power (whatever costs may be involved) the question then becomes where does he fit in the larger X-Men and Marvel universes? For fans.

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The Top Ten Movies of 2014 (so far)

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The Top Ten Movies of 2014 (so far)

We’ve hit the halfway point of the year and, as has become the custom, that means it’s time to look back on the best movies of the year so far. This year’s list includes three animated films, two sequels, the return of a beloved television character, a latest (and in one case the last) from few big name directors, and a pair of small indie films topping the list of what has been a pretty damn good first-half of the year at the movies.

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Beginning of the End

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Beginning of the End
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Beginning of the End

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. concludes its First Season with an increasingly erratic John Garrett (Bill Paxton) surviving the infusion of the single does of Raina‘s (Ruth Negga) replicated drug while Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team survive the arrival of the Centipede warriors long enough for Skye (Chloe Bennet) to implant her Trojan Horse inside HYDRA‘s network and follow them back to the head of the snake. By the end of the episode Garrett will be defeated although its unclear how many other heads the secret organization may have had which means we might see some form of it resurface next season.

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