Alan Rapp

Far Sector #12

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Far Sector #12 comic reviewSojourner Mullein‘s mission at the far edge of space concludes in the series’ final issue. The City Enduring is on fire, and with only a limited charge left in her ring the Green Lantern has to attempt to bring peace before the civilization destroys itself.

In the end, it’s Sojourner’s words which prove to be the most powerful weapon in her arsenal as she is able to convince the leader of the fleet to stop the orbital bombardment of their own people. The issue ends with an unexpected amount of epilogue, with the Green Lantern remaining in the city to watch it begin to heal and the civilization begin to rebuild. She is also able to find a moment of happiness with one of her new friends before moving on to her next adventure in the current Green Lantern title.

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Loki – The Variant

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  • Title: Loki – The Variant
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Loki - Episode 2 television review

Loki (Tom Hiddleston) gets a job. For an episode that is mostly Loki doing office work, the second episode of Loki shouldn’t be nearly as entertaining as it is. However, this is Loki we are talking about. If the first episode of the series was all about Loki learning about, and trying to escape from, the Time Variance Authority, the second episode of the series is about Loki’s attempts to work with them to track down a different variant of himself who has been leaving a string of dead agents across time. Loki’s attempts to prove himself have mixed results, but he does discover the other Loki is hiding at the horizon of large disasters allowing for the introduction to the episode’s big bad.

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Legacies – This Feels a Little Cult-y

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  • Title: Legacies – This Feels a Little Cult-y
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Legacies - This Feels a Little Cult-y television review

Josie (Kaylee Bryant) tricks Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) into joining her to check-in on Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) at a witch’s retreat. Josie’s idea is to help Hope get over the loss of Landon (Aria Shahghasemi). However, the cultish nature of the retreat soon suggests that there may actually be danger to save themselves from. Sibylla Deen guest-stars as Andi, the witch in charge of the retreat who is revealed to have ties to Triad Industries and is gathering enough witches to complete a summoning ritual. It’s fun seeing the three young women together again, as they have been separated by many of the recent storylines, and there’s plenty in the witches getting drugged (including, at one point, believing they were all being turned into pandas).

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We Are Lady Parts – Play Something

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  • Title: We Are Lady Parts – Play Something
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We Are Lady Parts - Play Something television review

The first episode of Peacock streaming’s new series We Are Lady Parts is an unexpected joy. “Play Something” introduces us to Amina (Anjana Vasan), a young woman seeing the last of her single friends become engaged. A talented guitarist, but burdened with stage fright that ends in projectile vomiting, Amina teaches guitar to children while hoping to find a good husband. Elsewhere, the all-female Muslim punk band known as We Are Lady Parts (Sarah Kameela, Juliette Motamed, and Faith Omole along with their manager played by Lucie Shorthouse) begins a search to add a lead guitar player to the group. The two stories converge when Amina chases a cute boy straight into the group’s auditions. Although I can see Amina’s condition becoming something of a running gag that may get tiring over the series’ run, the first episode is more clever than I was expecting the sitcom set-up to be.

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