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uneminuteparseconde · 7 years ago

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Des concerts à Paris et autour

Juin 06. John Russell + Michel Doneda & Lê Quan Ninh – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 07. Fantazio : “Seul avec Bashung” – Galerie Hus 07. Morkobot + Térébenthine – Cirque électrique 07. The Space Lady + Richard Pinhas + Moon Gogo – Petit Bain 07. Didier Wampas + Thomas de Pourquery + Ignatus + Joseph Racaille + Trotski nautique + Gontard ! chantent Jean-Luc Ténia – théâtre de verre Co-Arter 08. Jefferson Lembeye – Arts factory (gratuit) 08. Bisou de Saddam + Bracco + City Dragon – L'Omadis (gratuit) 08. Deux boules vanille + Tout est beau + Partout Partout – La Java 08. Primal Scream – Gaîté lyrique 08. Soror Dolorosa + Schonwald – Bus Palladium 08. Sida + Cellular Chaos – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 08. Phase fatale + Rendered + Sarin + Schwefelgelb – Nuits fauves 09. Grand gala Marwanny + Trotski nautique – Chair de poule (gratuit) 09. UVB76 – La Petite Halle (gratuit) 09. Sylvain Chauveau : musique live pour “Histoires vraies” de Cécile Loyer – musée Guimet 09. Blurt – Espace b 09. Le Ton mité + Yama Warashi – Le Zorba 09. Jordan + Mnemotechnic + Computerstaat – Le Klub 09. Schonwald + Ubikande – La Mécanique ondulatoire 09. Maud Geffray + Chloé + Voiron + Casual Gabberz + Philipp Gorbachev + Krampf – Gaîté lyrique 09. Four Knobs + UVB 76 – Maison populaire (Montreuil) (gratuit) 09. Oiseaux-Tempête : cinéconcert sur les films d'As Human Pattern (fest. Côté court) – Ciné 104 (Pantin) 09. Skinny Puppy + Carpenter Brut (fest. Download) – Base aérienne 217 (Brétigny/Orge) 09. W.LV.S (The Driver & Electric Rescue) + Madben – Rex Club 10. Walking idiot(s) – Chair de poule (gratuit) 10. Molécule + NSDOS + Chloé – Maison de la radio 10. M!R!M – Supersonic 10. Somaticae + Docteurlamort + Gauchoir – L'Époque 10. Maoupa Mazzocchetti + Krikor + Jan Melnick + Moyo – La Java 10. Postcoïtum : cinéconcert sur "Like a Teen Spirit" d'Emilie Aussel (fest. Côté court) – Ciné 104 (Pantin) 10. Mesparrow (fest. TaParole) – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 10/11. Richie Hawtin + Flying Lotus + Jon Hopkins (dj) + Moderat + Motor City Drums Ensemble + Recondite [+ A Tribe Called Quest : ANNULÉ] + Solange + Nicolas Jaar + Parcels + Jessy Lanza + Action Bronson + Anderson Paak + Abra... (We Love Green) – Bois de Vincennes 11. Inhalt + Poison Point – La mécanique ondulatoire 11. Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka Spel – La Cigale 12. Slip : cinéconcert sur "Corps à corps" (fest. Côté court) – Ciné 104 (Pantin) 14. King Dude + Suzie Stapleton – La plage de Glazart (gratuit) 14. Charlemagne Palestine – musée d'Art et d'Histoire du judaïsme 14. Futurs morts + La Fiole + Hinterheim – La Comedia (Montreuil) 15. PAL + Blason – Zorba 15. Tinfoil + Head Front Panel + Emmanuel + Parfait – Nuits fauves 15. Arlt + Bégayer (fest. TaParole) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 16. Brandt + Tonnerre + Besoin Dead – Supersonic (gratuit) 19. Disposition Matrix + Scenes from Salad + DRK + The Bunny Tylers + vs Class of 69 + Erik Minkinnen – Ourcq blanc 16. Warum Joe + Asphalt + Last Night + Police Control + Colombey – La Station 16. Abstrakt Keal Agram + Mont Analog + Bornor (Mowno 20 ans) – Petit Bain 16. Telemark + Kurt – Le Jardin d'Alice (Montreuil) 16. Xosar + Paulie Jan + UVB 76 – Petit Bain 16. Abdulla Rashim + Untold + Clara 3000 + Renaat – Rex Club 17. Isaac Delusion + L'impératrice + Pépite + Faire – jardin Villemin (gratuit) 17. Minifer + Pituitary Hunter + Fusiller + Minitel + Clark Gable – Ourcq blanc 17. Electric Electric + It It Anita + La Jungle (Mowno 20 ans) – Petit Bain 17. Zaltan b2b Raphaël Top-Secret b2b Nico Motte + DK + Alek Lee + Geena + Epsilove + Toulouse Low Track b2b Iueke – La Station 17. Winter Family + Chris Imler + Maulwürfe + Infecticide + dj El Xuxulero (Cheveu)... – Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (gratuit) 17. Miossec (fest. TaParole) – La Parole errante (Montreuil) 17. Kode9 + Mad Rey + Mezigue + Neue Grafik – Concrete 20. Stranded Horse + Halo Maud + Buvette + Rubin Steiner + Yeti Lane + Petit Prince (36 H Saint-Eustache) – église Saint-Eustache (gratuit) 20. DJ Shadow – Elysée Montmartre 21. Palatine + JP Nataf & friends (36 H Saint-Eustache) – église Saint-Eustache (gratuit) 21. Bitpart + Trotski nautique – Le Super coin (gratuit) 21. Polar + Powrtoch – jardin des îles|Parc de La Villette (gratuit) 21. A lot of V + Andcl + Scenes from Salad + Auxland – Lazer Quest|Carbone 17 (Aubervilliers) 22. Joëlle Léandre & Mike Ladd – Galerie Hus (sur résa) 22. MCMLXXXV + Volcan + Zaltan + Andy Bradin + Leopolda – La Station 22. Pfirter + Lewis Fautzi + Pearl + Krÿst – Nuits fauves 22. Miley Serious b2b Qoso – La Java 23. Damien Dubrovnik + Internazionale + Ligovskoï + Dasein – Gaîté lyrique 23. Jad Wio – Grand Bouillon (Aubervilliers) (gratuit) 23. Jesse Osborne-Lanthier + Fawkes + Moyo – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 23. Murcof & Vanessa Wagner – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 23. Ludwig von 88 + Stylnox + Julie Colère (festival CNT) – La Parole errante (Montreuil) 24. No Balls + Darfour + Saurien – La Mécanique ondulatoire 24. Pali Meursault + Tomoko Sauvage + Moshe O'Grady + Pauline Drand + Jonathan Walsh... – La Générale 24. Burning Heads + René Binamé + Mr Bidon + El Comunero (festival CNT) – La Parole errante (Montreuil) 24. Alessandro Adriani + Jasss + December + Maoupa Mazzocchetti – Batofar 24. Louisahhh + Dusty Kid + Arnaud Rebotini – La Clairière 24. Miss Kitttin + Raven + Pussylicious + Dechargeurs + Reno + Crame – À la folie 25. Matt Elliott (fest. BD6Né) – médiathèque Marguerite Duras 26. The KVB + Motorama + Lea Porcelain – tba 26. Street Eaters + Bitpart + Belmont Witch + Stalled Minds – La Comedia (Montreuil) 26>28. Zëro : concert littéraire "Pasolini" avec Virginie Despentes & Béatrice Dalle – Maison de la poésie 28. Blondie – Olympia 29. Sam Fleisch + Percolator – Olympic café 29. Sathönay + :such: + Casio judiciaire – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 29. 999999999 + Alien Rain + Regal + Parfait – Nuits fauves 29 > 02.07. Belmont Witch + Mariachi + Ella a. Thaun + Nana Benamer + Sleep Loan Sharks + Big Meufs + Miaux + Méryll Ampe + Félon + Las Kellies... (fest. Comme nous brûlons) – La Station 30. Tropical Horses + Marietta – Petit Bain (gratuit) 30. Geneviève Pasquier + Position parallèle + Black Light Ascension – Le Zèbre de Belleville 30. Jean-Luc Guionnet & Eric La Casa : "Home" – Théâtre studio|La Muse en circuit (Alfortville) 30. Objekt + Rrose + Paula Temple (Macki music fest.) – La Machine 30. Pantha du Prince + Efdemin + Jacques Bon – Rex Club 30>10.07. Air + Metronomy + Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales + Savages + Devendra Banhart + Michael Kiwanuka + Tindesticks présentent "Minute Bodies" + James Vincent McMorrow + Lady Sir (Rachida Brakni & Gaëtan Roussel) + Kate Tempest + Calypso Valois + The Color Bars Experience joue Nick Drake (fest. Days Off) – Philharmonie

Juillet 01. Ke/Hil + Kommando + Tunnels of Āh + AntiVallium – Le Zèbre de Belleville 01/02. Soichi Terada + Antal b2b Hunee + San Proper + Margie + Renart + Mézigue + Rendez-vous... (Macki Music fest.) – parc de la mairie (Carrières/Seine) 02. The Color Bars Experience joue Nick Drake (Days Off) – Salle de répétition|Philharmonie 02. Tindersticks : cineconcert sur "Minute Bodies" de Suart Staples (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 03. Plattenbau + Badbad – La Pointe Lafayette 03. Metronomy + Denai Moore (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 04. Savages + Kate Tempest (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 05. Group Doueh & Cheveu – Institut des Cultures d'Islam 06. Devandra Banhart + Lisa Hannigan (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 06. Mikky Blanco + Rebekka Warrior + Moor Mother + Easter + Smerz (Loud & Proud) – Gaîté lyrique 06. Nur Jaber + Candency + MCMLXXXV – Nuits fauves 06>09. Asia Argento + The Penelopes + The Charlatans + The Legendary Tigerman + Andy Votel + Nathan Fake + Yolk + Kid Chocolat + Lydia Lunch... – Salo 07. Duchess Says + Mountain Bike – La Station 07. The Queer Icons + Deena Abdelwahed (Loud & Proud) – Gaîté lyrique 07. Ancient Methods + Marie Davidson + Voiski + Varg + Exal + BLNDR + Carl Craig + Marcel Dettmann + Nina Kraviz + The Martinez Brothers + Jackmaster + Levon Vincent + Konstantin + Peggy Gou + Hugo LX + Codex Empire (Peacock Society) – Parc floral (Vincennes) 07. Bryan's Magic Tears + Guili Guili Goulag + Tritha Electric + Stratocastors + Gloria + Tomaga + Le Villejuif Underground + Last Night + Hey Colossus + Cocaine Piss + Nova Materia (La Ferme électrique) – La Ferme du Plateau (Tournan-en-Brie) 08. Do the Dirt + En attendant Ana + Delacave + Daikiri + Housewives + Mendelson + The Limiñanas + Fai Baba + Sister Iodine + Snapped Ankles + Pogo Car Crash Control (La Ferme électrique) – La Ferme du Plateau (Tournan-en-Brie) 08. Sourdure + Piu Piu (dj) + N.M.O. + Danny L. Harle (dj) (Siestes électroniques) – musée du Quai Branly (gratuit sur résa) 08. Yves Tumor + Chino Amobi + Tami T + Big Dipper + Kiddy Smile + Jennifer Cardini + Honey Sound System + Venus Xgg (Loud & Proud) – Gaîté lyrique 08. Air (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 08. Dixon + Kaytranada + Apollonia + The Black Madonna + Moodymann + DVS1 + Midland + Romare + Tommy Genesis + Avalon Emerson + Jlin + AZF + Raheem Experience + Fils de Vénus + Bamao Yende + TGAF (Peacock Society) – Parc floral (Vincennes) 09. Carl Stone (dj) + Manu le Malin (dj) (Siestes électroniques) – musée du Quai Branly (gratuit sur résa) 09. Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 10. RY X + C Duncan (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 10. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 14. Hørd – Le Klub 15. Blawan – Rex Club 19. Molecule – Safari Boat 21. Hocico + Shaârghot – Petit Bain 21. Couteau latex + PUFF + Stratocastors – La Mécanique ondulatoire 22. Kumisolo + Karaocake – Point FMR 23. 1919 + Poison Point – Le Klub

Août 04. Molly Nelson + The Beat Escape – Point FMR 04. Truss + Subjected + BLNDR + Hemka + KVD + Scry b2b Aspect + Théophiluss b2b Charlie Oohlala + Kairos – La plage de Glazart 05. Kobosil + UVB + VSK + Remco Beekwilder + Casual Treatment + Keikari – La plage de Glazart 25. Converge + Havok + Gorguts + Revocation – Trabendo 25>27. PJ Harvey + The XX + At the Drive In + Franz Ferdinand + Cypress Hill + Ty Segall + Rone + The Kills... (Rock en Seine) – Parc de Saint-Cloud 29. The Psychedelic Furs – Elysée Montmartre

Septembre 21. Ennio Morricone – Bercy Arena 22. She Past Away + Qual – Petit Bain 24. Sylvain Chauveau – tba 26. Sylvain Chauveau – Balades sonores 27. Sigur Ros – Grand Rex ||COMPLET|| 28/29. Sigur Ros – Grand Rex

Octobre 02. Spectres + Pure Mania + Youth Avoiders + Pierre & Bastien – La Mécanique ondulatoire 03. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Zénith ||COMPLET|| 04. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Zénith 13. Zëro + Heliogabale – Batofar 14. Wardruna – La Cigale 19. Nosfell – Café de la danse 20. Gary Numan – Trabendo 23. Mogwai – Grand Rex 24. The Dream Syndicate – Centre Barbara FGO 28. Peter Hook & The Light – Le Trianon

Novembre 02>04. The National + Run The Jewels + Ride + Talaboman + Badbadnotgood + The Blaze + Polo & Pan + Jungle + Feel my Bicep + Isaac Delusion + Sylvan Esso + Cigarettes after Sex + This is the Kit + Sigrid... (Pitchfork fest.) – Grande Halle de La Villette 07. Godspeed you! Black Emperor – Elysée Montmartre 15. Igorrr – La Maroquinerie 17. Trisomie 21 – La Machine 21. Sun Kil Moon – Gaîté lyrique 21>24. Pierre-Yves Macé & Joris Lacoste (festival d'Automne) – Espace Pierre-Cardin 27. Marilyn Manson – Bercy|Arena

Décembre 7>16. Peter Rehberg + KTL : musique pour “Crowd” de Gisèle Vienne (festival d'Automne) – Théâtre des Amandiers (Nanterre)

2018

Janvier 30/31. Pierre-Yves Macé & Joris Lacoste (festival d'Automne) – L'Apostrophe (Cergy-Pontoise)

en gras : les derniers ajouts / in bold: the last news

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i-am-very-very-tired · 8 years ago

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Whenever anybody asks about black women in comics, the immediate response is to bring up Storm. But Storm isn't the only black woman to rock superpowers and a costume. Here are 20 other black female characters in superhero comics who deserve more love and attention. Monica Rambeau (codename: Spectrum) was a lieutenant in the New Orleans Harbor patrol of the Coast Guard when she was bombarded with rays from space which gave her the ability to turn into any form of energy, and shoot energy at people. The first of a few peace officers to appear on this list — because for some reason a not insignificant number of these black women characters either come from law enforcement or the sciences. It would be interesting to see if this was simply to avoid the idea of stereotypes, or if their creation correlated with higher instances of black women going into law enforcement and science-focused careers. Monica is one of my favorite heroes, mainly because of her snarky, take-no-bullshit attitude, a trait she has in common with a quite a few other women on this list. She has a long history in comics including a stint as the leader of the Avengers. Fierce and powerful, she's been forced to change her name a number of times because people keep taking hers — she's gone from Captain Marvel to Photon to Pulsar to Spectrum. She originally changed her name from Captain Marvel to Photon so that Captain Marvel's son Genis-Vell could use the codename. Only to run into Genis-Vell a little later and find out that he had performed a name change of his own... to Photon. She was not happy. But that's how cool she is, everybody wants to bite her style. She also had a friendly/caustic conversation with Carol Danvers when she decides to transfer from using Miss Marvel to Captain Marvel. My only wish is that they would go back to her original afro hairstyle, which was awesome. ARC TO READ: Check her out in the Nextwave a 12-issue Limited Series written by Warren Ellis. It's a biting satire of superheroes, and teams where everyone is likeable exactly because they are so unlikable. Keep an eye out for the scene where Monica's remembers what being on the Avengers was like. CURRENTLY? Leading the Mighty Avengers field team. Anissa & Jennifer Pierce (codenames: Thunder & Lightning respectively) are the daughters of famous hero Jefferson Pierce (codename: Black Lightning), who really did not want his daughters to follow in his footsteps. He made them promise to graduate from college before they used their powers to become heroes. Anissa graduates with a pre-med degree, and later that same day her father walks in on her trying on her costume. Becoming a hero with no parental support led to a hard road and a number of near-fatal injuries for Anissa. Jefferson sees this and to make sure his younger daughter Jennifer actually has guidance, and signs her up for the Justice Society of America as a teenager. Even though they're sisters, their powers could not be more different. Anissa controls her density to the point of making herself invulnerable and creating shockwaves by stomping her feet or clapping her hands. She ran with The Outsiders for years, and eventually ended up in a steady loving relationship with Grace Choi (another of my favorite characters), which her father had some issues accepting at first. Jennifer, meanwhile, can turn herself into a being of sentient energy allowing herself to fly and shoot powerful bolts of electricity. The sisters rarely interact with one another, Jennifer was busy dealing with learning how to control her powers and Anissa's initial storyline revolved around her dad's disapproval of her choices and tension on the team with Grace (who she originally hated). Both girls are rather unique in being black second generation heroes. Rarely did black supers of their father's generation get a relationship that lasted long enough to produce children. Their interactions are an interesting insight in black superfamilies which you don't get a lot of outside of old Milestone comics. ARC TO READ: Catch Anissa in the One Year Later arc where the Outsiders are presumed dead. It starts with Outsiders vol. 3 #34 and reveals Anissa's relationship with Grace. Or catch the angry sibling beatdown between the two sisters as one defends their father and the other tries to arrest him which starts in Outsiders vol. 4 #32 BONUS ARC TO WATCH: The 2 DC Nation shorts featuring Thunder as a teenager and Lightning as a tween both ready to be heroes already are some of the better animation DC has done. You can see them on Youtube. CURRENTLY? In limbo. Since both The Outsiders & JSA currently don't have regular books coming out. Amanda Waller (codename: N/A) is a BAMF, period. And I mean the old-school Amanda Waller of size, accept no substitutes. Waller fought her way out of the Caprini-Green projects after the murders of her husband and daughter. A completely normal human, if completely normal humans have a titanium will and a cunning political mind, she chose to get into politics to change the world. With her "by any means" attitude she quickly rose through the ranks and transitioned into the shadow government. She is known as The Wall, and while it might have started as a fatphobic joke it stuck and became a point of pride because there is no one, literally no one (even Batman), who can work around or through Waller when she puts her mind to it. This is not to say she hasn't been tricked before but it happens rarely and she always, ALWAYS has a contingency plan. The 2011 reboot of DC slimmed her way down and came under heavy fire from fans not only because most of the character redesigns were pale copies of the originals but also because people saw her as one of the few characters of size in comics that wasn't defined by it. She is sort of the Nick Fury-analogue in of DC, except willing to do much darker deeds for what she considers the greater good. This has caused some to view her as a villain, in fact she ranks on a few "greatest comic villains of all time" lists but in reality The Wall is only always doing what she thinks is best. She's one of the better, if not the best, morally ambiguous characters in the DC Universe. ARC TO READ: Suicide Squad vol. 1, the original late 80's run with The Wall in total command. You can also see a lot of slick, determined Waller in Checkmate! vol. 2 CURRENTLY? In limbo. The new volume of Suicide Squad premieres this month but it seems unknown whether it will feature Waller or not. Charlotte "Charly" Beck (codename: Friction) was part of the Marvel Imprint - New Universe in the late 80s. In New Universe people were spontaneously developing abilities and many voluntarily checked themselves into clinics devoted to helping them...supposedly. Charly was in a college ballet class when suddenly she suffered an intense migraine and everyone around her started slipping and sliding. She had developed the ability to control friction, eliminating it entirely or allowing her to stick things to each other. She checked herself into the Center for Paranormal Research and was assigned a therapy group with other people who had suddenly developed powers - DP7 (also the title of the comic). The thing I loved about Charly and DP7 was that it was a super comic in that there were uncontrollable powers, shadowy conspiracies, and fighting for what was right but it also wasn't a traditional super comic in that none of their emotional/non-super problems went away or got shoved to a backburner because of they suddenly had powers. In fact often having the powers exacerbated the issues they were already having. For example, Charly's attempt at romance with a member of her therapy group who couldn't see himself with a black woman. This leads to a short stint in a militant black therapy group dedicated to fighting the racism present at the institute. The portrayal is not very nuanced but it was an interesting attempt at trying to talk about race in comics. DP7 also dealt with issues of domestic abuse, self-sacrifice, families of choice and emotional betrayal. I was actually a huge fan of a lot of the comics under the New Universe imprint, there was a revival called newuniversal in 2007 but it didn't last very long and to be completely honest lost some of the humanity that shone in the originals. ARC TO READ: Just start at DP7 #1 and read it all the way through. CURRENTLY? In limbo. DP7 was cancelled in '89 as was most of the New Universe creations however an alternate universe version of Charly did make an appearance in the Marvel title Exiles in 2006 so there might be some hope for her. Celia Windward (codename: Jet) is chosen alongside nine other people by the Guardians of the Universe (yes, the same ones who created the Green Lantern Corps) to be the next variation of their race, the New Guardians (which they take as their team name). They were granted immortality and each has power over certain fundamental forces of the universe. Celia was able to control electromagnetic energy. It's easy to dismiss her and her team, especially after they fought Hemo-Globin the "AIDS vampire" (yeah there's no excuse, none) and he infected Celia and Gregorio, the only openly gay member of the team (and arguably DC comics first gay hero). So yeah, that's some messed up BS, no one is arguing different but the team also actually dealt with some pretty heavy moral issues. They discussed how to achieve peace if you use force, they even flirted with the idea of giving up violence/fighting for good. It was also one of the more diverse teams in DC comics and they actually tried to deal with how people from such disparate backgrounds live and work together. So yeah there's a lot to recommend the series...if you can get past the whole 'AIDS vampire' thing which admittedly is a pretty high hurdle ARC TO READ: Millenium #1, the initial appearance of the New Guardians for sure. CURRENTLY? She died in New Guardians but since DC comics destroyed their long company history and recreated everyone she's been shown alive as leader of the Global Guardians. Which means maybe Gregorio will make a reappearance as well but the one great thing about the DC reboot - no more 'AIDS vampire' *poof* he never was! Philippus (codename: N/A) is an Amazon and over 3,000 years old. Queen Hippolyta's most trusted advisor. She was one of Wonder Woman's main trainers growing up and loves Diana like a daughter. She has held the title of Regent and Queen of the Amazons multiple times previously - when Hippolyta has stepped down or been stripped of her title. Phillipus is one of the most knowledgeable warriors in the world due to her extended age and training. Intensely loyal to Hippolyta and later (after Hippolyta's death, which is all kinds of dead potential lesbian wrong) admits to being in love with the queen for most of her life. She not only shows us that not all the amazons are white but is also devoted to the Amazon nation, going so far as asking permission of Hippolyta to injure Wonder Woman in training, to teach her a lesson in humility so she would be a better leader in the future. Sadly after Gail Simone left the Wonder Woman series the Amazons Attack miniseries happened (and the less said about it the better) and the Amazons began to be written as man-hating, antisocial sneaks. Sigh. ARC TO READ: Unfortunately Philippus has never been a main character but "Stoned" starting with Wonder Woman vol. 2 #206 is I believe when she becomes co-leader of the Amazons. Also any Wonder Woman run that Gail Simone wrote is guaranteed to be awesome and probably has Philippus being badass and terrifying, just like I like her. CURRENTLY? Deceased. :) Unfortunately there was a general de-powering/de-awesomeing of the Amazons before her death so it was a pretty ignominious/shameful death for a character with such a long history. Mari Jiwe McCabe (codename: Vixen) is originally from the African comic book nation of Zambesi. After the death of both her parents Mari takes the Tantu Totem that her family has always protected, which gives her the ability to mimic the powers of any animal that has ever existed on earth. The source of her powers has been played with and revamped a number of times, from being alien in nature to mystical. My personal favorite origin is the one that links her and Animal Man to the West African god Anansi. She became a model by day and superhero by night (modelhero? supermodelhero?). One of the most iconic moments in her history for me is when she's on a photo shoot on an island, goes on a swim and surfaces to find all her friends and co-workers killed. She goes on a full on rampage and kills the drug kingpin who murdered her friends in vengeance becoming afraid she's losing herself to the animals she channels she joins Suicide Squad for a while. This means she was under the leadership of another woman on this list, Amanda Waller. Vixen should get a special place in history because thanks to the source of her powers and his weakness toward magic she is one of the few beings in the universe who has cut Superman. ARC TO READ: Start with Justice League of America vol. 2 #1 and check out her plotline as her powers change completely and she's no longer able to take power from animals but instead steals the abilities of her fellow metahumans instead. Also the miniseries Vixen: Return of the Lion which is about Mari returning to her home village for the first time since she left to find and punish her parents killers. CURRENTLY? In limbo. She was a member of The New 52 Justice League for a short while until she was injured and became comatose. We've at least gotten confirmation she's not in the coma anymore. Martha Washington (codename: N/A) is the creation of Frank Miller. WAIT, don't skip the entry! Because I don't think I'm exaggerating at all by saying she is the most well rounded (perhaps only well rounded) female character Miller has ever created. She has emotions, drive, strength, the story allows her to be a hero and the conflict feels vibrant and real - the things that Miller often receives praise for. Like another woman on this list, Amanda Waller, she grew up in Caprini-Green though in the future and escapes it by joining the military. Martha Washington's life is a map in fucked up shit. Finding out that the powers that be truly don't care for anyone but themselves, facing multiple betrayals, becoming a hero, simply surviving, everything has been a struggle. The core of her story is about being a person who actually cares for others, who still has compassion and going up against a world that has mostly forgotten how to be a community or care for one another. Martha is that soldier who actually joined up to help others and her nuanced view of the world means she often has problems with the things she's asked to do and often goes off book. Most arcs will make you cry at one point or another but all of the despair and sadness is buoyed by the hope Martha brings. No matter how dark the situation Martha will not give up and it inspires others to do the same. I adore Martha, in fact I named my first Mass Effect player character Martha and altered her to look like her as well. When I think good, thrilling military science fiction she's one of the first characters to come to mind. Martha Washington is not really a superhero comic as much as a military-science fiction hero comic. Martha's stories are told in a number of limited series and one shots from 1990 - 2007 ARC TO READ: The first 4 issue miniseries, 'Give Me Liberty'. See how Martha grew up and joined the military. I pretty much guarantee you won't be able to stop with just the one miniseries. CURRENTLY? She's dead but unlike most of the women on this list it was after living to 100 and inspiring others to keep fighting for the freedom of others. So a rare "happy" death. Dr. Cecilia Reyes (codename: N/A) never had a codename because she's a doctor dammit! Cecelia was recruited into the X-men though very reluctant to join she turned them down a couple times first. Even after she joined she used her medical skills more than her power, which is a psionic shielding that protects her whenever she feels threatened. Dr. Reyes doesn't have great control over her powers in the beginning mostly because she really has no interest in training with them being much more focused on healing others on the team. Although this might also have to do with the fact that the shielding is psionic so she feels all the hits she takes even if there's no physical effect. This seems like a pretty fucked up consequence of a power, I mean sure you survive but you still feel all the pain. That's sucktastic! In many ways I love her because she's the first X-men team member whose powers doesn't form the majority of their identity/personality. She doesn't deny she's a mutant but it doesn't form the whole of her perception of who she is which is a perspective continually lacking in the X-men. Unfortunately Marvel didn't really know what to do with her and the more they shied away from her ambiguous attitude towards heroics and her focus on medicine and kept trying to make her into a warrior the more they lost what had made her unique. ARC TO READ: "End of Days" X-Men vol. 2 #100, Cecelia uses her powers in a way that changes her forever. CURRENTLY? In limbo. She returned to help the X-Men find the first five new mutants born after M-Day and has popped up here and there but hasn't had many prominent storylines in the last few years. Mercedes "Misty" Knight (codename: N/A) retired from the police force after she lost her arm trying to disarm a bomb and get it away from the crowd. Refusing a desk job she started a detective agency with fellow former officer Colleen Wing. They became known as the Daughters of the Dragon both for their ferociousness and their training in martial arts. At some point Misty gets a bionic arm. It's never really clear who gave her the original but every scientist in the Marvel Universe has taken a turn improving or replacing it including - Dr. Reed Richards and Tony Stark. Misty has long had an on-again off-again relationship with Danny Rand a.k.a. Iron Fist for years which has led to the Daughters of the Dragon teaming up with Heroes for Hire a number of times. In fact later on Misty took over Heroes for Hire, increased the roster and took on a management role. One of the reasons Misty is badass and interesting is that she is completely human, yes she has the bionic arm but it doesn't shoot plasma or give her magnetic powers, she's a former policewoman running with A-class heroes and able to hold her own. I choose to ignore the time her hair was drawn as an afro with straightened bangs and spit curls. Any artist who plans to draw a black woman's hair, please do some research! Ask a black woman. Anything! ARC TO READ: World War Hulk Aftersmash #1 in which Misty deals with the decisions she made during World War Hulk, the guilt and the repercussions. CURRENTLY? In limbo. Recently Misty Knight was part of the Fearless Defenders but unfortunately the book was cancelled in December 2013. Raquel Ervin (codename: Rocket) was a poor black girl who dreamed of being the next Toni Morrison. Unfortunately she didn't believe that she had the talent so instead she got involved with crime. It was while robbing a house with a group of friends that her life turned around. She realizes that the man who owns the house is an alien and convinces him to become the superhero Icon and take her on as his sidekick Rocket. He gives her a belt which allows her to control and direct kinetic energy, this grants her a number of abilities including flight, super strength, a forcefield and more. Originally she was a part of Milestone Comics which featured African-American heroes and freely discussed race. Raquel dealt with a lot of issues that poor of color communities deal with all the time. This includes becoming arguably the first teenaged mom superhero and helping her friend Flashback kick her drug addiction. There was very little stigma attached to either of these moments, the focus being how to deal with problems and overcome them rather than the 'suffering porn' so evident when many characters of color are given such storylines. Soon after becoming Rocket, Raquel discovers she's pregnant with her ex-boyfriends child. And while she does retires for a time while pregnant she returns to being Rocket again after giving birth to the child, Amistad Augustus Ervin - named after the famous slave-trading ship and her heroing partners' human alias. Since the Milestone universe has been folded into the main DC universe nothing much has been done with her but we do know she is still Icon's sidekick and has teamed up with the Justice League when needed. ARC TO READ: Start with Icon #1. I was going to recommend the whole pregnancy storyline but that starts at #3 so why not just start from the beginning? CURRENTLY? In limbo. She's made appearances in the mainstream continuity but no one seems to have done anything with her in quite a while. Ce'athauna Asira Davin aka Chante Giovanni Brown (codename: Queen Divine Justice) thought she was just a normal girl living in Chicago with her grandmother. In actuality she was heir to the leadership of the Jabari tribe which Black Panther had outlawed years ago because of their support/sheltering of the White Gorilla cult. She was recruited to become one of Black Panther's bodyguards/ceremonial wives, only then did she learn she was Wakandan by birth. She has no powers to speak of but has been trained in Wakandan fighting styles and has boots with vibranium soles that allow her to stick to walls and other feats. Eventually Man-Ape, Black Panther's old enemy tells her the truth about herself and her origins. Man-Ape introduces her to what remains of the Jabari clan, who view her as queen and tells her of Black Panther's role in her early life. She even learns that her grandmother isn't her grandmother at all but a trusted agent of Black Panther meant to keep watch over her. Normally this would be an excuse to turn a hero into a villain, luckily Queen is a nuanced enough character that this doesn't make her Black Panther's enemy. She does leave his service though and go to confront the woman who raised her. She knows nothing is black & white. Also the issue where she talks Hulk down and then talks to him about disenfranchisement and not smashing the property of the poor is perfection. ARC TO READ: "Seduction of the Innocent" & "Gorilla Warfare" in Black Panther vol. 3 #31 - 35. Queen learns the truth and confronts the liars in her life. CURRENTLY? In Limbo. She is still chief of the Jabari tribe as far as I can tell but her appearances have been almost non-existent for the past few years. Jelene Anderson (codename: Adept) is from Strikeforce Morituri, an alternate universe with the Marvel continuity in which an alien menace known as The Horde is attacking Earth and winning. The Morituri process is invented which will grant great powers to those biologically compatible with the process, enough to fight the aliens but it's also guaranteed to kill the subject within the year. One of the things that sets Jelene apart on this list and in comics in general is her strong belief in/connection with God. Jelene, in fact volunteers because of her strong religious convictions and maintains that conviction throughout her life. Unlike many stereotypes of christian characters, especially black christians, she was open-minded, friendly, non-judgmental and formed bonds with many of her teammates who don't share her values. The Morituri process granted her the ability to analyze any given situation and figure out the the needed neutralizing countermeasures even to the point of her own body producing chemical compounds to counteract poison. Her ability was one that looked like it might turn the tide in the war as she was able to analyze schematics of the Horde and after a little time understand them perfectly. During a raid in which a fellow Morituri, Marathon with whom she had been forming a romantic bomb used his own death to slow down her pursuers her own death finally caught up with her. The Morituri process killed by ramping up the individuals powers to the Nth degree. For Jelene this meant she started to exhibit actual full on cosmic awareness before going peacefully, content with what she had done in her time on earth. ARC TO READ: I want to recommend that people just read the entire run of Strikeforce Morituri because it's fantastic but at least read the first 13 issues. CURRENTLY? Deceased :( Victoria Ngengi (codename: Flint) is probably the toughest one on this list, and I mean sheer physical ability to take punishment. She's been burned by Xenomorph blood and survived, hell she got burned with the blood because she burst one apart - With. One. Punch. And yes those are the Xenomorphs from Aliens. She's invulnerable, the Xenomorph blood was the first thing to hurt her in years, and she has super speed but only in terms of reaction time and personal movement, so she can dress and undress so fast no one sees but can't run at the speed of sound. She became a part of Stormwatch young, after losing her parents to violence in Kenya and years as a ward of the Kenyan state. Unlike many of her Stormwatch compatriots Victoria did not have a darker outlook on life, she was an idealist through and through, working to make the world a better place. Stormwatch was based on a space station and when they notice an asteroid heading for earth they intercept. That's when they run into the Xenomorphs. Almost the entirety of her team is killed by Xenomorphs and originally everyone believes she was the only one to survive. She gives testimony as to what happened on the space station in front of the senate. She only survives because when the Xenomorph blood burns her she becomes disoriented and fell back into a lifepod which activated. She feels intense guilt about this but channels it into her work. She joins the mostly unpowered Stormwatch Achilles and tries to improve the world, eventually falling in love, marrying and then divorcing the team leader. She then rejoins Stormwatch Prime and then the whole world goes to shit with "World's End". ARC TO READ: There's a ton of Stormwatch you could read but I'm actually gonna recommend the wildC.A.T.s/Aliens one shot where Stormwatch gets taken down and the entire run of Stormwatch Achilles where she really shines. CURRENTLY? In limbo. I don't think anyone has seen Flint since Authority: World's End but that was previous to Wildstorm being folded wholesale into the DC main universe so there's hope she'll turn up again! Destiny Ajaye (codename: N/A) is the newest girl on this list. Some of us have been waiting for this miniseries for six years. The book Genius was one of two winners of Top Cow's Pilot Season back in 2008. The original Issue #0 had with the support of comic book heavies like Warren Ellis who wrote a whole blog urging people to vote for Genius. After much delay the entire 5-issue mini-series was released this past August. Destiny's power? She the best military mind of our generation. Genius presupposes that every generation has a military genius born into it: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Napoleon, and now a 17 year old black girl in South Central Los Angeles. She's had the ability to think/see many steps ahead since she was a child and she's grown up seeing the injustice all around her. Finally Destiny decides to do something about it. Tired of police brutality, racism and corruption Destiny unites the gangs active in her neighborhood and secedes the three blocks they live in from the United States. One of the most interesting series to come out in the last few years, trust me you want to read this. ARC TO READ: Just read the whole Genius limited series, it's only 5 issues. CURRENTLY? Renewed for a second limited series, YAY! Karen Beecher (codename: Bumblebee) initially dressed in costume to provide an anonymous villain to provoke the Teen Titans because she believed they were taking her boyfriend, a member, for granted. When she finally revealed the ruse she was asked to join the team herself. While at first Karen was a more support character to her boyfriend Mal she slowly grew into a hero in her own right. And in my opinion a MUCH better here too, in my opinion. Admittedly I like Karen a little more than her presence merits because Teen Titans were my team growing up. She's most closely aligned with the Titans oft-restarted and never really successful west coast division (the stint where the entirety of the The Titans moved wholesale to San Francisco doesn't count, 'cause that was the main branch). A scientist, originally her powers stemmed from a suit she created which allowed her to fly and fire energy blasts but thanks to some random space energy (Note: if you didn't know randomly space energy can do anything - kill, grant powers, steal powers, mutate someone, revive someone - it all seems to depend on the color and made up name of the energy) has gained the ability to shoot energy blasts and fly without the aid of her suit. The downside is she's also been shrunk down to six inches tall and is stuck at that size. She has to take a daily medication to make sure her heart does not fail because of her tiny size. She eventually leaves The Titans and joins Doom Patrol, with her now husband Mal. The leader of Doom Patrol, the Chief, is working on growing her and she gained an inch and now stands at seven inches. ARC TO READ: It's hard with Karen because she so rarely got a main storyline but I would say the 22 issues of Doom Patrol vol. 5 is when she really shines, and also divorces her deadweight husband. CURRENTLY? In limbo. With Doom Patrol canceled in 2011 Karen is MIA. Is she now eight inches tall? Inquiring minds want to know! Dr. Beth Chapel (codename: Dr. Midnight) was a simple a medical student, whose mentor happened to be a doctor and a superhero - Dr. Charles MacNider aka Dr. Mid-Nite. After MacNider's death Beth is blinded by an oxygen explosion in her hospital and discovers she has the same ability as MacNider, in darkness she can see in with perfect clarity though she's blind in light. I don't think the question of why an ordinary oxygen explosion would have this effect is brought up beyond *shh, it's comics*, which is good enough for me! She tried out for the team Infinity Inc., along with Yolanda Montez (codename: Wildcat). The interesting part of Infinity Inc. is it was mostly made up of legacy heroes, the children (biological and adopted) of silver age heroes like Hawkman, Green Lantern, Hourman, Wildcat and more. Beth is different from most of them because the connection she has with her predecessor, Dr. Charles MacNider aka Dr. Mid-Nite, is a caring mentor-student one rather than parental. Unlike the other doctor on this list, Dr. Cecilia Reyes, Beth wanted to be a hero but she also continued in her profession as a doctor wearing special lenses that allowed her to see in sunlight to do both. She pretty much exemplifies the complaints of disabilities being used for show or power without any actual thought to disabled people and how they live every day lives. Characters are rarely shown living with their disabilities and in fact their powers allow some work around so it's like they have no disability at all. And yeah...that's Beth. I enjoyed her time on Infinity Inc. though. She was often the voice of reason and the one who tried to talk her teammates out of rash and really just stupid decisions. Her interracial relationship with Hourman is also of note not only because it's a bit of a rarity in comics when it comes to black superheroes who are often just paired with the nearest other black hero (for example: Black Panther & Storm) but also because the interracial nature of their relationship was acknowledged but not focused upon as the only thing about their relationship. This makes her subsequent death all the more disheartening. Along with Yolanda Montez (again), she and a number of other heroes were recruited to fight Eclipso. They were all killed by the villain. ARC TO READ: You can just read the whole run of Infinity Inc. which is awesome or if you want the death arc go for Eclipso vol. 1 #11 - 14 CURRENTLY? Deceased :( This was before the DC reboot though, so the death probably isn't canon anymore...hopefully. The final two entries are questionable because the fact they are black is not definitive. Priscilla Kitaen (codename: Voodoo), in so many ways she is the most stereotypical character on this list - the teenage sexpot stripper with a heart of gold who loves to wear revealing clothing and seduce men for information. Now none of those things are objectively bad but it's a default when it comes to women in comics. It's unfortunate because the moments when she is just a character in her own right are amazing. Priscilla came into her power when it was discovered she had Kheran ancestry. Recruited onto a team of other full and partial Kheran people stranded on earth she fought in a shadow war against the Kherans historic enemies - the Daemonites, also stranded. The Daemonites can possess everyday people easily and Priscilla has the power to not only see beyond the surface but also to exercise a Daemonite from its host. The reason she's in the questionable section of this list is because the fact that she is part African-American is only brought up when they need to justify something like her learning/dealing with the religion of Vodun and almost completely ignored otherwise. There's also an unfortunate coincidence (I'm giving them the benefit of a doubt) that in addition to being the only part brown person on the team she's also the only one who is part Daemonite. Okay so if there's all these negatives why is she on this list? Priscilla is actually - if you tally all of her powers or potential powers from her Kheran ancestry, her Daemonite ancestry, her psychic abilities, her military training and her vodun training - potentially one of the most powerful heroes in the DC universe. They very rarely acknowledge her powerful nature long term but she's basically and immortal, psychic, warrior-vodun priestess which is kinda awesome. Also because at the hands of talented writers she becomes an amazing character. When she discovers the cause she's been fighting for all this time is false and the Kherans back home are pretty much racist and privileged. She's the first to rebel, even against people she considered friends and mentors. This marks her departure from the wildC.A.T.s, unable to trust most of them again and though she's returned a couple times since it's never permanent. Priscilla is one of those characters you love for her moments of awesome and because of what she could be. ARC TO READ: WildC.A.T.s vol. 1 #21-#27 The storyline where they return to Khera, some deep moments of politics, betrayal, friendship and tradition. CURRENTLY? Since Wildstorm has been folded into the main DC universe she had her own series that lasted 12 issues and has been popping up here and there in other comics. Pantha (codename: N/A) was an experiment by the Wildebeest Society. In an attempt to create host bodies strong enough to host the evil spirits who possessed their leader, Jericho (it's a long unsatisfying story, just go with it). Pantha was the only experiment to survive initially. She had no memory of her past even had no idea if she had started as a human or a panther which is I hesitate to put her on the list at all. However a number of other sources list her as a black woman which I hope is based on an alternate version of Pantha we meet in Booster Gold named Rosabelle Mendez, who was a vet student kidnapped and sold to the Wildebeest Society by Max Lord. Though this can probably be taken as her canon origin I'm a purist and if it's in an alternate world it's always questionable. Either way Pantha was an awesome character, completely antisocial and violent she was more interested in discovering what was done to her and clawing the responsible parties eyes out than making friends. The draw of her character was seeing her grow and change while never losing her edge. She came to care for a couple of people but overall was disdainful of company and thought people were betrayers and a waste of time. by the hands of crazy superboy. One of her biggest changes came with the last Wildebeest experiment they managed to save Baby Wildebeest, who was a child but when angered could grow to tremendous size and strength, imprinted on Pantha as Mama. Though she wasn't happy with it she eventually came to care for Baby and formed a relationship with russian superhero Red Star. She eventually moved to Russia with him and Baby. Then her and Baby died :( ARC TO READ: The New Titans #109 -111 the search for who she really is continues CURRENTLY? Deceased :( (along with Baby Wildebeest) :(((( This is the death I'm saddest about because both of their deaths were such throwaways. You know how every comic fan has that one ignored character that if they ever got to write for comics they would choose to write? Mine is Pantha. So final sign off is this: #BringPanthaAndBabyWildebeestBack!

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peggydugginsmuso-blog · 7 years ago

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Recapping Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 13

While not the most overtly action packed, aside from a gruesome arm wrestling win by Evil Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), Part 13 displayed numerous scenes of utter depression and heart break that ultimately made for an hour of television that felt as emotionally exhausting as an hour of therapy. While one side of the brain is busy trying to tally up all the many ways and instances in which actual cherry pie has had the ability to save actual lives so far in The Return, the other half is occupied with reaching for meaning in clues dropped by Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn), whose performance here was far more vulnerably unhinged than the violently unhinged one given in her return to the world of Twin Peaks in Part 12. Although, hearing her say things like I'm not sure who I am, but I'm not me, and realizing that she's forgotten how to get to the Roadhouse, a place she must have been to at least a thousand times in her young life, you have to wonder if we, even after 13 parts, are right in our assumptions of what she's returned to.

Have you noticed that the town we know as Twin Peaks is the only location in The Return to not be given setting text? Any time we're taken to Buckhorn, South Dakota, Las Vegas, or, in tonight's installment, Western Montana, we're told exactly where we are by text on the screen but not for the location of Twin Peaks. It would be easy to assume that's because we are all very familiar with the scenery of Twin Peaks and don't need a written reminder that that's where a scene is taking place. Or a more complicated explanation could be that Twin Peaks is not now, and has never been a true place in the way that we initially imagined. We could all very well be in the process of learning that Twin Peaks is more of a realm, or an idea, which, given that viewers of Lynch's work are often told not to look for concrete answers in it, but simply enjoy the experience of watching it is some first rate meta shit.

Part 13 begins with the Mitchum Brothers (Jim Belushi and Robert Knepper) along with Dougie/Cooper, doing a conga line through Lucky 7 Insurance in celebration of the Mitchum's getting away with a hefty insurance pay-out, and Dougie/Cooper making it back from the desert alive - thanks to that good 'ol life saving cherry pie. They dance their way to Bushnell Mullins' (Don Murray) office and the brothers give their thanks in the form of three gifts: a box of Montecristo No. 2 cigars, monogramed diamond cufflinks, and the keys to a brand new BMW convertible. Over at the Jones residence, Janey (Naomi Watts) is signing for her family's reward from the Mitchums, an extremely elaborate jungle gym for Sonny Jim (Pierce Gagnon) - who I still firmly believe is the host for The Giant - and a white BMW wrapped in a blood red bow. Looking from the jungle gym to the car and back again, Janey is glassy eyed with love and appreciation for a life that is not hers. The closer she gets to Dougie/Cooper, the sadder it is when we imagine how she'll react when she learns that he isn't her husband, and that her actual husband was turned into a gold marble. I mean, how would *anyone* react to learning that? We barely even know what *that* means. But hey, maybe Janey isn't real either. Maybe none of this is real. Maybe we've all just been staring at a slice of cheese for 13 weeks while hooked up to milky pods and tubes like in the Matrix. Nothing is off the table here.

Over in Western Montana, Evil Cooper catches up to his double-crossing cohort Ray Monroe (George Griffith), who shot and left him for dead in Part 8. He pulls his commandeered black pickup truck into the main entrance and is then instructed via telecom to get in an elevator. Once on the main floor, he's greeted by Ray, and a bunch of other criminal types, including (though he doesn't see him at the time) Richard Horne (Eamon Farren), who is very likely his spawn. Evil Cooper is told that he has to arm wrestle the crew's boss and that if he wins, he'll be boss (which he doesn't give a shit about), but if he loses, he has to follow the current boss' orders or risk death. He tells them that if he wins all he wants is Ray, and then proceeds to toy with the boss for a bit - letting him kind of win, and then kind of lose - before putting the hammer down and finishing things off by basically punching through the guy's face.

Naturally, the crew turns over a now terrified Ray and Evil Cooper puts him down with a bullet to the leg and then wrings him for information. Ray sings pretty quickly and reveals that it was, in fact, Phillip Jeffries (David Bowie) who hired Ray to kill Evil Cooper because he's after something that's inside him (BOB?), and that he was told to put the jade Owl Cave ring on his finger after he died. Pulling the ring from his pocket Cooper makes him put it on his own finger, gets a more specific answer as to where to find Jeffries (some place that's not a real place called The Dutchman's), and then shoots Ray in the head. Once dead, the Owl Cave ring falls off his finger and we see it land on the floor of the Black Lodge, where it originated from and has been a harbinger of death on behalf of ever since. Evil Cooper now has the coordinates he's been after, which a pre-dead Ray produced from his pocket, and a better idea of where to find Jeffries. This is ramping up to a battle of epic proportions. Who's gonna play Jeffries though? No stand-in for Bowie will do.

At the Las Vegas police department, Dougie/Cooper's fingerprints, swiped from a mug he was drinking in the waiting room, come back as belonging to someone who escaped from lockup in South Dakota who's also an missing FBI agent, aka Cooper. Unfortunately for Dougie/Cooper, they take the results as a computer error, crumpling them up and tossing them in the trash. Behind the building, where the dirty cops of Las Vegas take their smoke breaks, Dougie/Cooper's co-worker Anthony Sinclair (Tom Sizemore) asks a cop he's in cahoots with, along with Duncan Todd (Patrick Fischler) in a string of insurance frauds how to poison someone without it being detected. He was given one day to do away with Dougie/Cooper once and for all by Todd and this poison has his name on it. Later, in the lobby of their office complex, Sinclair grabs Dougie/Cooper as he comes in for work and pulls him aside for a coffee at the Szymon. Distracted by cherry pie (more lifesaving pie), Dougie/Cooper leaves his co-worker with the opportunity to dump poison in his mug, but when he returns he starts playing with the huge dandruff flakes on Sinclair's shoulders, which he takes as an act of kindness in the form of a massage, and runs away with the poisoned cup to dump it in, of all possible places, a urinal in the men's room. He breaks down and confesses his crimes to Mullins, who let's him know that he's off the hook as long as he testifies against Todd, which he agrees to do. Something tells me that Sinclair is not gonna be around much longer.

We end in Twin Peaks (or is it?) proper where a series of back-to-back heart aches take place. Shelly (Mdchen Amick) gets a call during her shift at the RR from her distraught daughter Becky (Amanda Seyfried) who is upset that her shitty husband Steven (Caleb Landry Jones) hasn't been home in two days. Shelly starts to brush her off saying it's busy at the diner, but then backtracks and asks her to come in for some you guessed it life saving cherry pie. Also at the RR is Norma (Peggy Lipton), once again going over paperwork in her office/booth; Big Ed Hurley (Everett McGill), who makes his first appearance here, sitting across from Norma; and Bobby (Dana Ashbrook), who came in to see Shelly and winds up eating dinner with Big Ed. We quickly learn that Ed and Norma are no longer romantically tied when a business man with way too white of teeth comes in and kisses Norma. He seems to run the diner's finances (which is now a franchise) and has some ideas to make the flagship store more profitable, which Norma shoots down. Nearby at Nadine's (Wendy Robie) store, Run Silent, Run Drapes, she receives a visit from Dr. Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn), who compliments her window dressing - ahem, one of his own Dr. Amp's shit digging shovels - and it looks like romance might be brewing. And then, it's a banner night at the Palmer residence where we find Sarah (Grace Zabriskie) draining her vodka supply while watching a black and white boxing match that keeps repeating the same series of moves on a loop. Sad upon sad upon sad, and then it gets worse.

Yes, Audrey Horne is still pleading with her husband (?) Charlie (Clark Middleton) to tell her what someone named Tina told him on the phone in Part 12. She's shaking, on the verge of tears, and coming more undone by the second when she breaks and tells him that she feels like she's someone else, and somewhere else. The delivery of the cryptic, almost poetic message is reminiscent of other Audrey-isms; you know, like, Do your palms ever itch? Charlie reminds her that she had intended to go to the Roadhouse to look for her lover Billy, and when she asks him how far the Roadhouse is, we really know something is wrong. I'm not sure who I am, but I'm not me, she says. To which Charlie replies, Are you gonna stop playing games, or do I have to end your story too? Audrey wants to know what story that is, and we're left wondering the same. Is Charlie some sort of sadistic psychiatrist taking advantage of his wife's weakened mental state to use her as a puppet in the play of her own life? A much larger story is at hand here, and it'll be super interesting to see how it works out. Audrey makes mention of the story of the little girl who lived down the lane. Could this be in reference to the little girl in Part 8? The one that the BOB/frog entered? So many possibilities.

To further these possibilities, and give an example for how Lynch's work is like a reflective pool, we see a love sick Ed Hurley at his desk in the Gas Farm as the credits roll. He's eating soup and drinking coffee while staring out the window facing the street, and for awhile, we think that's all that's gonna happen, but then he picks up a small piece of folded paper, sets it on fire, and watches it burn. His face has an expression on it that's a mix of sinister and sad. My editor (who stays up till the whee hours of the morning fixing my typos in these every week) believes that piece of paper to have been a note to Norma that Ed writes and destroys every night, abandoned and forlorn. I never even considered this to be a possibility, never really figuring Big Ed for the note passing type, and focused on the fire. The Log Lady (Catherine E. Coulson) has been telling us that there's fire where you are going, and I think we just need to train our eyes and minds to see past the smoke to find it.

DAMN FINE QUOTES

I haven't slept for weeks. I vomited blood. I can't live like this. Anthony Sinclair

Those drapes are completely silent. Nadine Hurley

I'm not sure who I am, but I'm not me. Audrey Horne

NEXT WEEK ON TWIN PEAKS

- Do we ever get more info on Richard and Linda?

- Where's Laura?

- Richard seemed super interested in seeing Evil Cooper in that warehouse. Is there some generationally evil teaming up about to happen?

- Do we get to see what Jeffries is up to?

TONIGHT AT THE ROADHOUSE

Fucking James Hurley with that fucking song.

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It was a Monday night in Ottawa and all through the city not a creature was stirring…except for a sold out crowd at the Algonquin Commons Theatre who packed the house for our favourite Canadian Kid, Brett Kissel and his Ice, Snow and 30 Below tour.

Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

There’s no question that country music fans in Ottawa love Brett Kissel. I think it’s safe to say that Brett Kissel loves Ottawa too as he’s performed in Ottawa more often than most other Canadian country artists, 3 times in as many months including ringing in the New Year on the steps of Parliament Hill.

I’ve had the pleasure of covering a lot of shows at the beautiful Algonquin Commons Theatre over the last several years but I can’t recall a single show that got as loud as the crowd did last night for Brett. That sold out crowd was hungry for country music and that’s exactly what they got.

Country music tours have been following a bit of a “lather, rinse, repeat” theme over the last several years. Where the same headliners tour with a similar rotation of opening acts, Canadian country music has been no exception to this. When Brett first announced this tour many of us were expecting one of his Invictus Mates or Warner label mates to join him on his tour much like in the past. But Brett had other plans and we, for one, couldn’t be happier. Emerging artists are the lifeblood for any musical genre and for an artist of Brett’s calibre to open up his national tour to some of Ontario’s rising stars was extremely generous.

Abby Stewart

Abby Stewart at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

The night started out with a performance by a young lady we’ve been talking about for a number of years now, Abby Stewart. Hailing from Kingston, Ontario Abby is loaded with so much talent it’s a treat to watch her hone her skills show after show. Every time I see her perform she moves the bar just a little bit higher.

Abby Stewart at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Last night Ottawa was in for a special treat as Abby was joined by her good friend, Beamer Wigley, for a few songs. Beamer flew in from Calgary especially for the show after having spent Sunday at the Alberta Country Music Awards, where his single “Meteorite” was nominated for Song of the Year. Beamer treated the crowd to a performance of his latest single “Boombox” before the duo, who has been busy of the last few months writing together in Nashville, performed a few songs together. The closed out their set with a chillingly tight performance of Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson’s hit “Don’t You Wanna Stay”. Take my word for it and keep your eye on these two because in the coming years you’ll be hearing their name’s a lot more often…count on it.

Brett Kissel

Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Brett Kissel hit the stage next and didn’t miss a beat kicking the show off with the first single off of ‘Pick Me Up’ “Airwaves”. The fuse was lit and the crowd was on fire. Every Brett Kissel show is a special event for the audience, something has to be said about the special bond he has with his fans. It goes without saying that most artists love their fans but Brett shares a deeper connection with his and I believe that’s part of what makes his performances so magical.

Tough People Do and I Didn’t Fall in Love with Your Hair

Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Like most country music shows there was also a lot of deep emotion packed into last night’s performance. Brett lost his grandparents in 2011 to a two-vehicle crash in Alberta as they were enroute to watch him perform. Everything about this event speaks to the character of Brett Kissel, who kept a scheduled performance 2 nights after the accident but ended up having to cancel halfway through telling the crowd that his heart was willing, but his body just couldn’t do it. The event led Brett to write and dedicate the song “Tough People Do” for his grandparents. It was the first of two very emotional moments throughout the night that strengthen the bond between Brett and his fans, no doubt that Brett leans on his fans for strength in tough times and his fans draw strength from Brett to deal with their own tough times.

Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

The second of the two emotional moments came with Brett’s performance of his single “I Didn’t Fall in Love with Your Hair”. The song rings true for anyone with a loved one battling cancer and it’s clear that it has become an anthem for the philanthropic side of Brett who spoke highly of his support for the Canadian Cancer Society during our interview earlier in the day. The song is from the perspective of the partner of someone battling this horrible disease which, as Brett says, has touched far too many of us. The eyes welled up with tears and the room lit up with cell phone lights as Ottawa joined in chorus to sing this incredible song.

Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Brett wasn’t going to let the night end on a sombre note as he quickly picked up the pace and brought the party back by paying tribute to some legends. First he started with one of his idols Johnny Cash for which he went into the crowd and stood on a railing and sang “Ring of Fire” before returning to the stage for John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” and then capping it off with Garth Brooks’ “Baton Rouge” (“Baton Rouge”, incidentally is one of three songs Brett picked when answering a fan question asking which three songs Brett would chose if he could only sing 3 songs for the rest of his life.)

What would a Brett Kissel show in Ottawa be without a visit from his friend and fellow member of Invictus Entertainment Jordan McIntosh? Jordan was in the building and joined Brett to perform “Raise Your Glass”. As the night wound down Brett ended the show, or did he, the way it all began…with “Started with A Song”. But the crowd had other plans and they let him know to the extent that, I’m certain, a poor student in a residence nearby was having issues studying because of all the racket coming from the Theatre.

Brett and his band returned to the stage and delivered exactly what the crowd wanted….3, 2, 1! It was the perfect note to end the night on because I can assure you that I, as well as everyone in that sold out theatre, will be counting down the hours until we get to see Brett Kissel again! Something tells me he’ll be back in Ottawa again very soon, would love to see Brett on a stage at RBC Bluesfest this summer which has already seen performances by Tim Hicks and Dallas Smith.

Brett hits Sherbrooke, Quebec tonight for his only stop in La belle province. Local boy, Jon MacAulay, will be joining Brett tonight. Jon is a guitarist/singer from the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. His repertoire combines elements of folk, blues, and jazz. Visit his website to learn more: www.jonmacaulaymusic.com

Following Quebec Brett jets off to Nova Scotia for 4 nights before heading slightly west for 2 shows in New Brunswick and then back east to wrap up his tour in beautiful Prince Edward Island.

Brett has taken the time to build a roster of emerging artists that he would like to introduce to his fans so we’d like to take a moment and introduce them to you. Rounding out Brett’s east coast dates are:

Chelsea Atkinson January 26, 2017 Astor Theatre Liverpool, NS

Chelsea is a 16 year old singer/songwriter from Nova Scotia. Check out her Facebook or Twitter profiles to watch this emerging artist get the opportunity of a lifetime, to open for Brett Kissel

Amanda Riley January 27, 2017 Mermaid Imperial PA Centre Windsor, NS

Riley hails from Chester, Nova Scotia where she is known as “the little girl with the big voice”. She gained nationwide popularity as a finalist on CMT’s “Big In A Small Town”, and has shared the stage with Aaron Pritchett, Charlie Major, Deric Ruttan and Dean Brody. She was recognized as one of Ole’s top 8 singer/songwriters during CCMA week in Halifax in September 2015. She also had the privilege to open the MDM Recordings Showcase during CCMA week and has been a featured artist on George Canyon’s ‘ Down East Country’ radio and television program several times. www.amandarileymusic.com

Bailey MacKinnon January 28, 2017 Glasgow Square Theatre New Glasgow, NS & January 29, 2017 Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre Port Hawkesbury, NS

Follow Bailey and her journey on Twitter

Tyler Deveau February 1, 2017 Capitol Theatre Moncton, NB & February 2, 2017 Fredericton Playhouse Fredericton, NB

By the age of two St. George New Brunswick’s Tyler Deveau was singing along to George Strait on the radio. After winning Country 94’s annual talent search in 2013 in Saint John, he is now laying the groundwork to make his dream of being a professional country music artist come true.

This win gave him the resources and opportunities to pursue his music career further, allowing him to fly to Nashville to meet with a top label A and R manager and well as co-write with top songwriters in the business, which have had songs cut by Luke Bryan, Toby Keith, Dustin Lynch, and Cole Swindell. tylerdeveau.com

Trinity Bradshaw February 3, 2017 Harbourfront Theatre Summerside, PE & February 4, 2017 King’s Playhouse Georgetown, PE

Trinity should be no stranger to our readers. Trinity Bradshaw became the youngest winner of the Summerside Festival Talent Search in PEI and performed twice at the East Coast Music Awards before moving to Calgary in 2010 where she soon won SUGAR CRISP ‘s national songwriting contest, and the Amp Radio Rock Star contest. She was Alberta’s 2014 representative in the CCMA Spotlight contest, and Winner of the 2014 Boots & Hearts Canadian Emerging Artist Showcase. www.trinitybradshaw.com

Naturally for more details on Brett Kissel and to follow his own journey and see what he’ll follow up his current tour with visit him at www.brettkissel.com

Special thanks to Warner Music Canada for inviting my boys to join me at the show, without a doubt it’ll be something they won’t forget for a very long time.

All photos by Scott Martin Visuals for Sound Check Entertainment

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Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Abby Stewart at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Abby Stewart at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Abby Stewart at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Brett Kissel at Algonquin Commons – photo credit to Scott Martin Visuals

Ottawa gets loud as Brett Kissel brings Ice Snow and 30 Below to Algonquin It was a Monday night in Ottawa and all through the city not a creature was stirring...except for a sold out crowd at the Algonquin Commons Theatre who packed the house for our favourite Canadian Kid, Brett Kissel and his Ice, Snow and 30 Below tour.

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