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Esquire names Scarlett Johansson the Sexiest Woman Alive

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Scarlett Johansson the Sexiest Woman Alive

For the second time, Esquire has named actress Scarlett Johansson the magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive. In her interview the actress discusses her trouble with parables, graphology, the busiest year of her life, her Broadway run of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Don Jon, her need for a vacation, and plans for the future. You can find the pics and a behind-the-scenes video of her photo shoot inside.

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Person of Interest – Lady Killer

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Person of Interest - Lady Killer

When Reese (Jim Caviezel) and enlists Finch (Michael Emerson) discover their latest number, a womanizing playboy (Warren Kole), may not only be a stalker but also a serial killer, the pair enlist the help of Shaw (Sarah Shahi), Carter (Taraji P. Henson), and Zoe (Paige Turco) to set a trap with the three women as bait. After the investor chooses Carter the group discovers their number isn’t the perpetrator but the intended victim of the father (Ron Raines) of the one-time love of the young man’s life to protect a nine-year-old secret.

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – The Asset

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - The Asset

The team heads to Colorado after a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport is attacked by an invisible electrostatic field, allowing an armed group to kidnap a Priority Red asset: Canadian physicist Franklin Hall (Ian Hart). Tracing the equipment used in the attack leads the team to Ian Quinn (David Conrad) who offers the scientist, an old friend and rival, a chance to work on his long theorized Gravitonium-powered gravity-shifting device which, as the hijack shows, is no longer quite so theoretical.

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Green Hornet #6

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Green Hornet #6Reunited once more with the Green Hornet, Kato discovers how his friend has kept busy in the six weeks since their falling out. After hitting up various low-rent locales for protection money and information, the pair final turn their attention the the people actually behind The Voice and the various bombings around town.

Writer Mark Waid continues to play on the subterfuge the Green Hornet creates while masquerading as the city’s most notorious crime boss. Although Kato is still not sure about the lengths Britt Reid is willing to go to in order to sell the charade, he must admit his admiratation with the network the Hornet has been able to put together in such a short time.

The final sequences gives us the Green Hornet and Kato finally confronting the businessmen behind the bombings (featuring a great splash page by artist Daniel Indro), and the comic ends on a cliffhanger as we will soon see just how far Reid is willing to go to sell the Hornet’s act when he is tasked with killing and FBI agent. Worth a look.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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The Blacklist – Wujing

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The Blacklist - Wujing

When a mythical Chinese spy known as Wujing (Chin Han) reaches out to Reddington (James Spader) after coming into possession of valuable CIA intelligence from dead operative, Reddington comes up with a plan to take Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) undercover as a cryptographer to decrypt the message and catch a legendary spy few believe is even real. Surprising everyone except Keen, the plan quickly runs into trouble and calls for an unexpected level of improvisation that nearly gets both of them killed.

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