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Annotations for Trinity issue #27

Comics Should Be Good!

- 12 hours and 42 minutes ago

I’m helping my pal Tom Bondurant out with annotations for the latest issue of Trinity. I’ll also be hosting Tom’s annotations for Trinity for the rest of the month until he and the Blog@ crew get set up in their new digs.

This issue seems a bit light on trivia (like last issue, as well, really), but we shall see what we shall see!

SPOILERS FOLLOW!

LEAD STORY

“Time to Suit Up” was written by Kurt Busiek, pencilled by Mark Bagley, inked by Art Thibert, colored by Pete Pantazis, and lettered by Pat Brosseau; Rachel Gluckstern, associate editor; Mike Carlin, editor.

In Brief: Charity and Rita discuss their next step while Morgaine and Konvict strike up a bargain.

Page 1

The book opens in the Arctic, where Konvict is on his way to meet up with Morgaine, who summoned him last issue. Morgaine and Enigma are in the Harteigen Mountains in Norway, and Konvict was in Mass-a-chu-setts, so he’s made up a lot of ground already.

We cut to Opal City, the home of Starman, where Rita and Charity O’Dare are dealing with the magic energy from last issue.

Page 2

We get a reminder that Charity is a fortune teller. Charity was an older DC character that James Robinson made into a supporting character in the pages of Starman, ultimately marrying her off to one of the O’Dares - a family of Opal City residents who were major supporting cast members in Starman.

Rita, our Tarot-reading heroine, is worried about the Worldsoul, the living embodiment of Earth, which is in bad shape due to the disappearance of the Trinity.

Page 3

St. Roch was the home base of Hawkman during Geoff Johns and James Robinson’s Hawkman series from a few years back. Carter Hall’s museum, Stonechat House, is in St. Roch.

The bad guys remind me of the Millenium Giants, but they are probably just nameless extra-dimensional bad guys.

The heroes on this page, courtesy of Tom’s annotations for previous issues, are:

â€“ Vibe, a/k/a Paco Ramone, was created by Gerry Conway and Chuck Patton and first appeared in the aforementioned Justice League of America Annual #2. Vibe was killed in the line of duty in JLofA vol. 1 #258 (January 1987). He was survived by a brother, Joey ... I mean, Armando, who also became a superhero (Reverb, then Hardline) with similar vibratory powers.

â€“ Space Ranger, a/k/a Rick Starr, was created by Edmond Hamilton, Gardner Fox, and Bob Brown, and first appeared in Showcase #15 (July 1958). It’s a little surprising to see him in this context, since (in regular continuity) he lives in the 22nd Century. Either this is an ancestor or time travel was involved; and he’s visited our time previously, so it’s not out of the question.

- Triumph’s pedigree is a little tough to figure out. Wikipedia credits Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, and Howard Porter with creating him. The Unofficial Triumph Chronology gives his first appearance as Justice League Task Force #16 (August 1994), which was written by Waid and pencilled by Sal Velluto. However, his 3-part “origin story” â€” the first one I remember where he really played a major role â€” was written by Christopher Priest and appeared in the September 1994 issues of the League’s books (Justice League America #92, JL Task Force #17, and Justice League International vol. 2 #68). Triumph, a/k/a Will McIntyre (sometimes MacIntyre), was a superhero with energy-based powers who, but for a quirk in the timestream, would have been a founding member of the Justice League. That’s right, he was the Sentry before the Sentry was cool. Also, he’s usually drawn with blond hair.

â€“ Skyrocket, a/k/a Celia Forrestal, was created by Kurt Busiek and Tom Grummett for their original super-team The Power Company. She first appeared in the Power Company preview story in JLA #61 (February 2002).

- The Flash (Wally West) you all know.

Page 4

The Heywood Corps are a reference to Hank Heywood, Sr., a Golden Age hero known as Commander Steel who had powers due to mechanized components. He used those same components to keep his grandson alive (and also to make his grandson the hero known as Steel). Here, Heywood is using mechanized components to create the Heywood Corps of cyborg heroes.

Page 5

Carter Hall watches as various heroes try to stop the invasion of multi-dimensional baddies.

The heroes on this page are pretty straightforward - Luthor, Atom-Smasher, Power Girl, Hawkgirl and Black Orchid.

The only one I am unfamiliar with is Sky-Knight. Anyone know who Sky-Knight is?

Page 6

I don’t think we need annotations for Konvict meeting up with Enigma and Morgaine.

Page 7

Morgaine is most likely discussing her communication with Konvict in last issue’s second story, where Konvict discovered that the human he killed is alive in this reality.

Page 8

So we finally have a name for Konvict! Xalitan Xor, Warhound of the First Array!

Xalatan is a brand name prescription eyedrop. Xalitan’s eyes are so red he could probably go for some eyedrops.

Xalitan Xor is a pretty cool name - suitably pompous.

Page 9

Here we learn that the Trinity being taken from reality is not the ONLY thing messing with the Worldsoul. The Worldsoul could probably heal from simply the Trinity being yanked from it, but Morgaine and her terrible trio are still messing with reality, so it is like a wound that keeps getting poked at, never allowing it to fully heal.

Page 10

Here Rita confirms that the bad guys need her, so she and Charity have to figure out what to do next.

Page 11

I don’t think I need to annotate Carter’s nice speech debating whether it is a smart idea to risk this reality for a possible better reality.

Page 12

The Thanagar outfit that Gangbuster gives Carter here - where is it from? It looks different than Hawkman’s standard outfit.

In any event, there is a Troika once again - Morgaine, Enigma and Xalitan Xor!

SECOND STORY

“Here and There and Everywhere” was plotted by Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza, scripted by Nicieza, pencilled by Scott McDaniel, inked by Andy Owens, colored by Allen Passalaqua, lettered by Pat Brosseau; Rachel Gluckstern, associate editor; Mike Carlin, editor.

In Brief - The Trans-Volitional Man, Swashbuckler, Primat and the Tattooed Man escape captivity just in time to be recruited by Morgaine for her army.

Pages 1-2

This is the return of the Dreambound, first with Michael Cannefick, the The Trans-Volitional Man, who we first met in Trinity #8. We get some background info on Michael here.

Page 3

Here we see Michael slowly connect with the previous reality and his fellow Dreambound (nice little touch - unbound dreams, dreams…bound).

Page 4

We see Primat, also of Trinity #8, who was previously shown to be quite the reader, so it makes sense that she’d be reading in jail.

Page 5

Here is Swashbuckler, who first popped up in Trinity #9, working for Morgaine.

Page 6

Mark Richards, the current Tattooed Man, first showed up in Green Lantern Vol. 4 #9, by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver and Prentis Rollins. Richards was a former U.S. Marine who became a hit man, who claimed he was “redeeming” the sins of the men and women he killed. He showed up in Infinite Crisis as a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains, and he recently popped up in Final Crisis in a nice story with Black Lightning in Final Crisis: Submit.

Page 7-8

Here we see the others use Richards to bring back Hemi Kiwara, also introduced in #8, who was transformed in #10 to Sun-Chained-In-Ink, thus completing the four Dreambound members.

Page 9

Morgaine brings them back into the fold.

Page 10

Now we see the Dreambound leading the new army, including a number of major villains like Doctor Polaris, Eclipso, the Brain, Poison Ivy, Parasite, Gorilla Grodd, Ace from the Royal Flush Gang - who are the other three guys?

Okay, that’s it!

Tom, come back, Tom! This is hard!!

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Banks urged to pass on historic cut

Guardian Unlimited

- 14 hours and 13 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/24045?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Banks+urged+to+pass+on+historic+cutch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Interest+rates+%28Business%29%2CBank+of+England+%28Business%29%2CRecession+%28UK%29%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2COil+and+gas+companies+%28Business%29%2CManufacturing+sector+%28Business%29%2CHouse+prices+%28Money%29%2CMoney%2CBusiness%2CEconomic+policy%2CEconomics+%28Business%29%2CPoliticsc5=Personal+Finance%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CProperty+Mortgages+and+Interest+Ratesc6=Ashley+Seager%2CLarry+Elliottc7=2008_12_05c8=1129242c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Interest+ratesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FInterest+rates" width="1" height="1" //divpBritain's bailed-out high street banks risked the wrath of the government last night after they refused to pass on to all their mortgage customers the full benefits of the Bank of England's decision to cut borrowing costs to the lowest level since 1951./ppDespite joint pressure from Gordon Brown and the chancellor Alistair Darling to match the one percentage point reduction in the bank rate to 2%, both the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Halifax said their standard variable rates (SVR) would not be reduced by the full amount. /ppHalifax, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, said it would trim only a quarter point off its SVR home loan although customers on tracker mortgages would receive the cut in full, worth pound;82 a month on a pound;150,000 mortgage. RBS said it would "strike an appropriate balance" between the needs of borrowers and savers, but would pass on the cut in full to business customers./ppThe cuts in mortgage rates were triggered by the announcement from Threadneedle Street that it had cut the bank rate to its joint lowest in history in an attempt to prevent the economy sliding deeper into recession./ppDarling said last night that borrowing costs had come down by a total of three percentage points in two months. "This will help people and businesses - and I want to see these cuts passed on." /ppThe chancellor met bank chiefs yesterday to flesh out plans to offer up to two years' holiday on mortgage payments if homeowners fell into difficulties./ppThe move from the Bank of England was widely expected after a run of poor data from every part of the economy this week suggested Britain was tipping into a longer and deeper recession than the chancellor predicted in last week's pre-budget report./ppBrown welcomed the decision and predicted the cut would not be the last. "They made the right decision. If the banks pass the interest rates on, it's a benefit to homeowners across the country," he said. The prime minister also stepped up the pressure on the bank's monetary policy committee (MPC) to cut rates further in the coming months. "Interest rates could continue to come down. If you've got a period when inflation comes down, you've got to do different things." /ppTUC general secretary Brendan Barber said ministers should get tough with high street banks if they refused to pass on the rate cut. "This decision was spot-on. The Bank of England could not be clearer about what it expects the high street banks to do. The government must now pull every lever of influence to get banks lending. If that doesn't work, radical measures will be needed straightaway. The alternative is a wave of bankruptcy and redundancy."/ppThe Halifax said its decision to cut its SVR from 5% to 4.75% was the result of balancing the interests of customers with "the commercial imperative of managing its business in a sustainable and prudent fashion"./ppFollowing the market mayhem this autumn, the taxpayer now owns almost 60% of RBS and is likely to have a stake of nearly 50% in the country's biggest commercial bank once the merger between Lloyds TSB and Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is completed. The high street banks believe they are receiving mixed messages from Whitehall, with ministers urging them to both increase their lending and to run their businesses profitably so that they can repay state loans./ph2Rewind to 1951/h2pIt was the year Britain returned Winston Churchill to office aged 77, Newcastle United beat Blackpool in the FA Cup, and free spectacles and false teeth on the NHS were halted. Pendlebury delivered the famous line "It's a good job we're both honest men" in The Lavender Hill Mob - a cinema ticket to see Alec Guinness and Sid James cost 2d, or 21p today, a Morris Minor around pound;520 (pound;12,000). Some goods were still rationed, and a loaf of bread cost 6d. The year was 1951, and it was the last time the Bank's base rate was 2%. It was also the year that Gordon Brown was born.br /strongJo Adetunji/strong/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interestrates"Interest rates/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/bankofenglandgovernor"Bank of England/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/recession"Recession/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/oilandgascompanies"Oil and gas companies/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/manufacturing"Manufacturing sector/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/houseprices"House prices/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/economy"Economic policy/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics"Economics/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PWi05E3YD8FH5vkX9Uo5DOMoCXg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PWi05E3YD8FH5vkX9Uo5DOMoCXg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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British Museum announces Indian garden exhibition

Guardian Unlimited

- 14 hours and 14 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/46008?ns=guardianpageName=Art+and+design%3A+British+Museum+breaks+up+midwinter+gloom+to+forecast+an+Indian+summerch=Art+and+designc3=The+Guardianc4=Museums+%28Art+and+design%29%2CExhibitions%2CArt+%28visual+arts+only%29%2CArt+and+design%2CCulture+section%2CUK+newsc5=Art%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Maev+Kennedyc7=2008_12_05c8=1129178c9=articlec10=GUc11=Art+and+designc12=Museumsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FArt+and+design%2FMuseums" width="1" height="1" //divpIn the bleak midwinter, the British Museum yesterday announced a blaze of colour and perfume to come: an Indian garden blooming in paint on its exhibition walls, and in reality in a scented garden around a fountain and lotus pool which will be created in its rather grim Bloomsbury forecourt./pp"In some magical way I can't quite get my head around, the garden will also cover a geographical spread from the foothills of the Himalayas to the lushness of the rainforest," curator Richard Blurton promised./ppThe task of creating the perfumed garden in the pigeon-haunted surroundings of the museum's front doorstep, plagued by the eternal reek of frying onions from the burger stalls outside the gate, falls to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which will be celebrating its own 250th anniversary./ppBlurton has to concentrate on getting onto the gallery walls sequences of ravishing paintings from the Jodhpur court, never seen before in the west, ranging from scenes of luxurious opulent life in the palaces, to a mystical series created for a 19th-century ruler who turned over political power to an ascetic sect. /ppBlurton calls the pieces "a voyage from mundane certainty to supra-mundane speculation"./ppAs well as a haven for stressed city dwellers and visitors, the garden will highlight the use of plants in Indian food and medicine - such staples as chili, aubergine and tomatoes are all New World imports - and the perils of habitat and species loss from development pressures and deforestation of the subcontinent./ppThe exhibition, and the films, plays, music recitals, food tastings and other events being organised around it, will also flag up the importance of Blurton's own little kingdom, a department which is one of the richer but less known in the museum./ppAlthough the Indian sculpture gallery is one of the largest in the building, many visitors never reach it. "The trouble is we are right at the back of the building, and I think a lot of visitors have lost the will to live before they get to us," he said yesterday. "But the collection is probably the most important outside India, and in its range and variety, from the Old Stone Age to the present day, probably the greatest under one roof in the world."/ppThe paintings, all created by court artists for three generations of 18th and 19th-century rulers of Jodhpur, are the first major loan exhibition to come to Bloomsbury directly from India./ppAlthough fabulous jewel-like miniatures are the most famous Indian royal paintings, some of the Jodhpur pieces are over a metre wide. Blurton said it is still not clear how they were displayed - whether they were hung on a wall like western art, or held up one at a time to delight a lounging maharajah and his intimates./ppThe most intriguing are the 19th-century mystical works made for Man Singh. "It is clear that these are internal landscapes, using blocks of intense colour in reflections on the experience of meditation and spiritual thought," Blurton said. "The use of pulsating brilliant colour recalls the Rothko chapel - but much of their meaning is still hidden from us."/ppThe Indian garden will feature scented plants, including frangipane, sandalwood and jasmine. "Very heavily scented jasmine," Blurton, who is also worried about the frying onions, said./ppIt will replace a Chinese garden, also created by Kew, installed to coincide with the terracotta warriors exhibition, one of the most successful in the museum's history./ppThe 55 paintings will come from the Mehrangarh museum in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, which was established by the present maharajah, H H Gaj Singh II. More paintings are coming from the National Museum of India in Delhi, and from the British Museum's own collection./ppNeil MacGregor, director of the museum, said: "There is an enduring fascination with the rich diversity of the art and culture of India. Garden and Cosmos epitomises this diversity through the polarities expressed in the paintings, focusing on both the external courtly life of pleasure on the one hand, and an internal life of devotion and speculation on the other." /pp· Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, at the British Museum, May 28 to August 23. India Landscape, May 2 to September 28, British Museum forecourt, free./ph2Culture of import/h2pstrongAt the British Museum this summer:/strong/pp· Bollywood film seasonbr /A first for the museum/pp· Indian Summer Latebr /Night of Indian performance, dance, music, and food/pp· Lunchtime lecturesbr /In the new garden, by museum curators and Kew gardeners, on Indian medicinal plants, horticulture, landscapes and ecology/pp· Painting and printing workshopsbr /Recreating traditional Indian craft techniques/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/museums"Museums/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/exhibition"Exhibitions/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/art"Art/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iSpmiRbOHHcAu3owARuMtMiwna0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iSpmiRbOHHcAu3owARuMtMiwna0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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PlayStation Store Update

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- 14 hours and 54 minutes ago

Hey, everyone. It’s time again for the weekly PlayStation Store update.
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Episode 07 (December 2008) of Qore: Presented by the PlayStationÃ‚Â®Network is being offered to all PSN account holders, 18 and older, for free! (*PSN registration required. user responsible for internet fees.) Download now to see what all of the excitement is about!
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Sweet Sounds of the Original citeBottle Rocket/cite Soundtrack

Listening Post

- 17 hours ago

It may not have been as polished as his later works Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums, but Wes Anderson's film debut, Bottle Rocket, brimmed with a beautiful brand of naivete not concentrated as strongly in his later films.

One reason for this is the film's excellent soundtrack. Anderson's movies tend to feature top-notch tunage, but there's something about those Bottle Rocket songs and Mark Mothersbaugh instrumentals that gives us that "so fresh" feeling.

But before Bottle Rocket was a feature-length film, it was a 13-minute short film (trailer), with completely different music that Anderson had hoped to use in the feature, only to be told by the studio that the film should not feature jazz.

To coincide the release of the Bottle Rocket Criterion Edition, which includes the original short film version, Fantasy Records collected the songs from its soundtrack and will release them digitally on December 9, when the Criterion edition of the film will be released.

"I was listening to a lot of jazz at the time, especially Coltrane's albums on Blue Note and Sonny Rollins' A Night at the Village Vanguard," stated Anderson. "I was inspired by the use of American jazz in French new wave movies like Breathless. I still love this music... The studio didn't want us to use jazz in the feature version. We didn't license a lot of this music at the time because we couldn't afford it."

Time heals all wounds. Here are two songs from that soundtrack, courtesy of Fantasy Records, available here as QuickTime streams:

Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Skating" (from Peanuts, aka Charlie Brown)

Zoot Sims - "Jane-O"

Other songs included on the short film soundtrack include Artie Shaw's "The Chant," Sonny Rollins' "Old Devil Moon," Chet Baker & Art Pepper's "The Route," Duke Ellington & John Coltrane's "Stevie," Art Blakey covering Horace Silver Trio's "Nothing but the Soul" and the Vince Guaraldi Trio's "Happiness Is."