Tonight is the third-season premiere of The Blacklist, the popular NBC television series starring James Spader (Avengers: Age of Ultron) as Raymond “Red” Reddington and Megan Boone as FBI agent Elizabeth Keen. Reddington is a master criminal who spent two decades on the run from the FBI, only to turn himself in on Keen’s first day as an FBI agent—specifically so that he could work directly with her. And with his surrender came a special gift: the Blacklist—a list of the world’s most dangerous, and previously unknown, criminals who Reddington wants eliminated or incarcerated…for reasons known only to him, of course.
I’m a big fan of the show (yes, I have other pop-culture interests than Doctor Who, horror comics and novels, and New York Mets baseball), and its return reminded me of the news site Comics for Sinners, and my July review of The Blacklist #1, from Titan Comics. It’s the start of a tie-in series written by Nicole Phillips (script coordinator for the show) and illustrated by Beni Lobel (Constantine, Arrow: Season 2.5), and involves the latest subject on the Blacklist: a terrorist-for-hire who’s made a target of the FBI itself. Head over to C4S to learn more.
