June 2014

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #34

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #34The latest issue of IDW’s current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles run introduces the beloved character of Metalhead seen in both the original and current cartoon. Choosing the make the Turtle-shaped robot created by Harold after his run-in with Baxter Stockman, Metalhead is introduced to Donatello, April, and Angel for the first time when the robot goes haywire and starts attacking them.

Redesigned to give the robot a vehicle mode, which is kinda spiffy, Metalhead proves more than a match for Donnie and is only stopped by Angel borrowing Harod’s Exo-Suit (shocking the scientist and playing on the comic’s long-running theme of characters being more than they initially appear).

Given the damage the robot sustains it may be a few issues before we see Metalhead return, but his introduction continues to deepen and enrich the current landscape of the Turtles and should please fans of various earlier versions of the character. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Longmire – Of Children and Travelers

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Longmire - Of Children and Travelers

While doing double-duty keeping the Red Pony open while Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) rots in prison where his arrival has not gone unnoticed by the incarcerated former Tribal Sheriff Malachi (Graham Greene), Walt (Robert Taylor) investigates a dead 17 year-old Russian hitchhiker (Mary Elise Hayden) strangled and left under a bridge. Walt and Vic (Katee Sackhoff) talk to the woman’s American adoptive parents who were happy to get rid of her and an Arizona rehabilitation facility where she spent the last six weeks before running away but the truth to her death is lies in-between.

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Dexter’s Laboratory #2

Dexter's Laboratory #2Dexter awakes to a brand-new world discovering his latest invention, the Dream Wish-O-Tron 5000, has actually worked. In his sleep reality has been rewritten and the child genius finds himself in a world without a sister. Finally, Dee Dee is gone!

Given the freedom to pursue his scientific genius without needing to hide it from the prying eyes of his parents or his meddlesome sister, Dexter quickly finishes building all his remaining inventions. And then he runs into a problem as, much to his surprise, Dexter discovers without the struggle to overcome Dee Dee’s interventions he has no inspiration.

In your basic “be careful what you wish for” storyline, Dexter’s Laboratory #2 also sets up IDW’s big summer event as Dexter creates a dimensional portal to find his sister, even in he must travel through all the other Cartoon Network properties to do it! Worth a look.

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