May 2014

Elementary – Paint It Black

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  • Title: Elementary – Paint It Black
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Elementary - Paint It Black

In an episode of that marks Lucy Liu‘s directorial debut, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Mycroft (Rhys Ifans) are forced to work together when Watson (Liu) is abducted by members of the French criminal organization having clandestine meetings in his New York restaurant. In exchange for Joan’s safe return, Mycroft agrees to deliver them a missing banker and a list of secret accounts he stole shortly before his disappearance that everyone, including the NSA, would like to get their hands on.

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Dexter’s Laboratory #1

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Dexter's Laboratory #1Continuing to grow Cartoon Network presence in their comics, the first issue of the new four-issue mini-series introduces the characters from Dexter’s Laboratory into the IDW universe. Fans of the show and those, like me, with only vague memories Genndy Tartakovsky‘s cartoon which ran for four season is the late 90s and early 2000s should enjoy themselves here.

After his sister Dee Dee destroys yet another of his experiments, Dexter comes up with a new plan and wastes no time to create his newest invention which he believes will fulfill his wishes while he dreams and get rid of that pesky sister once and for all.

With the opening issue ending on a cliffhanger as Dexter tries out his invention for the first time we’ll have to wait another month to discover its fallout. The tone and pace Derek Fridolfs and Ryan Jampole and create here is a hellova lot of fun while crafting an intriguing idea for a story that I’ll definitely come back for more of. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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The Proton Transmogrification

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Proton Transmogrification
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The Big Bang Theory - The Proton Transmogrification

Although Sheldon (Jim Parsons) initially appears unaffected by the news that his childhood idol Professor Proton (Bob Newhart) had died, the scientist finds his own way to work through the loss inspired by the man’s funeral taking place on Star Wars Day. As Raj (Kunal Nayyar) and Howard (Simon Helberg) continue to celebrate without him, the physicist locks himself in his bedroom where he is visited in his dreams by and Obi-Wan version of the former science celebrity who, despite not knowing anything about Star Wars, eventually helps Sheldon admit and work through his grief.

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Star Trek – The Man Trap

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Star Trek - The Man Trap

In the first episode of the series to air on television the USS Enterprise makes a routine stop at planet M-113 for Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) to give a yearly physical to scientist Robert Crater (Alfred Ryder) and his wife Nancy (Jeanne Bal), who happens to be former flame of McCoy. Odd instances begin almost instantly as all three members of the landing party see different version of the professor’s wife. Where Kirk (William Shatner) sees a middle-aged woman, Bones is surprised by a woman who hasn’t aged a day, and crewman Darnell (Michael Zaslow) sees an entirely different woman (Francine Pyne) altogether.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures #10

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures #10When Spider Bytez starts kidnapping people from the surface and dragging them down into his lair the Turtles hop into action, but are soon caught like flies in his web. Thankfully Michelangelo‘s plan to cover himself in pizza, based on his presumption that the disappearances are he result of the Kraang working with ghosts and Big Foot, proves to be the key to getting the Turtles out of another sticky situation.

Mikey slips out of the webs and distracts the villain, allowing Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo time to escape and free the hostages before taking Mikey’s lead and further infuriating Spider Bytez with a few insults of their own.

The goofy adventure (set bizarrely around Valentine’s Day for a late April comic) is fun while highlighting another of the Turtles’ weirder villains. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures #10 also includes a Mikey back-up story where the Turtle’s one-track mind races his brothers into a desperate situation (which turns out to be pizza). Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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