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Psych – The Eighth (And Final) Season

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  • Title: Psych – Season Eight
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Psych - The Eighth (And Final) SeasonThe final season of adventures for fake psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and his best friend pharmaceutical salesman Burton Guster (Dulé Hill) offers Psych a chance to go out in style beginning with Shawn and Gus’ trip to England featuring the return of notorious art thief Pierre Despereaux (Cary Elwes) in the season premiere, and end with a finale that offers new beginnings in San Fransciso for most of the core characters, a proposal for Juliet (Maggie Lawson), appearances by Billy Zane, the real Val Kilmer, and Bud from The Cosby Show, and Shawn struggling with saying goodbye to his best friend.

Highlights of the season include Lassiter‘s (Timothy Omundson) struggles with impending fatherhood, Gus’ obsession with the murder of a man whose life mirrors his own, a 60s flashback episode with the cast playing new roles, Shawn and Gus going into the food truck business, murder at a paranormal consultant convention, and Gus’ attempts to solve his fear of loosing Shawn in dream therapy.

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Once Upon a Time – It’s Not Easy Being Green

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  • Title: Once Upon a Time – It’s Not Easy Being Green
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Once Upon a Time - It's Not Easy Being Green

After the Wicked Witch of the West (Rebecca Mader) reveals her true parentage to Regina (Lana Parrilla) and the entire town she challenges her half-sister to a duel. Given enough time to prepare, and discover that Zelena speaks the truth, Regina chooses to give her heart (literally) to Robin Hood (Sean Maguire) allowing the Evil Queen to keep safe the one item her sister is truly after. By the end of the episode the town will still be in the dark but the audience will understand what kind of spell she’s collecting ingredients for and what the Wicked Witch has in mind.

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Magneto #2

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Magneto #2Following the clues left behind from the Omega Prime Sentinel who someone designed and left as a trap for those like him, Magneto travels to a tent city of the disenfranchised living in constant fear of some unknown agency which occasionally will kidnapping members of the group for their experiments.

The fear, hopelessness, and poverty of the tent city brings back memories of Magneto’s own childhood and the lessons he learned from the Nazis which the mutant puts to good use to get the answers he needs from the shadowy group that shows up one night seeking new laboratory rats for their anti-mutant experiments.

Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Gabriel Hernandez Walta weave a strong story balancing Magneto’s own past with his current circumstances reminding us where Magneto came from while demonstrating that the former super-villain may not have changed as much as Cyclops and the X-Men had hoped. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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Hawaii Five-0 – Ho’i Hou

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Ho’i Hou
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Hawaii Five-0 - Ho'i Hou

Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) and Jerry’s (Jorge Garcia) high school reunion turns deadly in Hawaii Five-0‘s “fan episode” where several elements of the murder of the week were voted on by the show’s fans include the unusual “death by stiletto.” Learning that the victim had never returned to the island after graduation until the day she died, which also included a trip to the bank to withdraw $200,000 to anonymously pay for the surgery of a woman she had never met just hours before her murder.

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Detective Comics #30

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Detective Comics #30Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato’s run on Detective Comics begins here with the beginning of a new arc that focuses on organized crime in Gotham City and Bruce Wayne‘s new business venture to help rehabilitate the city’s East End with crusader Elena Aguila rather than go for a far more lucrative option of re-developing the area.

Manapul and Buccellato offer as much Bruce Wayne as Batman here, showcasing the Dark Knight’s takedown the Kings of the Sun dealing drugs and kidnapping young children off the streets of Gotham. The main action of the issue comes from this part of the story where Buccellato colors Manapul’s beautiful art in blues and grays offering a similar, yet different, look to the pair’s relaunch of The Flash.

For a story that deals in organized crime, white slavery, gangs, Bruce Wayne still mourning the loss of his son Damian, and the crime boss The Squid feeding one of his soldiers to his pet, Detective Comics #30 is less dark and gloomy than you might expect offering a nice mix of story and action to start of the pair’s run on the title. Worth a look.

[DC, $3.99]

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