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Nova #8

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Nova #8An Infinity tie-in issue, Nova #8 focuses on Sam Alexander still trying to get a handle on his powers as the new Nova and being approached by Speedball and Vance Astrovik (the less interesting version of Vance Astro) about joining their new team. After turning down the Avengers, Sam isn’t all too keen on hitching up with a teen group although the pair’s experience of working with a previous Nova does pique his interest.

The issue also sets up next month’s one-on-one between Nova and Thanos‘ new pet Kalendra (slave assassin of Thanos’ lieutenant Promima Midnight) who the Mad Titan has sent after the new Nova to help quell his bad experiences with the old one.

Although the issue is an Infinity tie-in, I was able to follow the story easily without having to pick up Marvel’s latest event comic. Nova #8 continues the mix of action and humor that served the title well, but Kalendra is going to have to do more to impress me than what we get here if she’s going to be a major threat to Nova next month. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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There’s never a need to Edit Emma Watson

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There's never a need to Edit Emma Watson

Emma Watson is The Edit Magazine’s October cover girl. In her interview, the actress discusses becoming passionately involved in all her endeavors, her desire to work with strong directors such as Sophia Coppola in The Bling Ring and Darren Aronofsky in the upcoming Noah, the pressure and challenges of walking the red carpet, and Eco-Age’s Green Carpet Challenge which produced the environmentally friendly gowns for her cover shoot. You can find the rest of her pics inside.

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Person of Interest – Nothing to Hide

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Person of Interest - Nothing to Hide

Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Shaw (Sarah Shahi) work together to protect the latest number, a data broker (David Alan Basche) who mines and sells information on consumers to big business who has just become the target of someone systematically destroying his life including using his company’s former victims whose publicly-aired dirty laundry destroyed each of their lives.

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G.I. JOE: Special Missions #7

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G.I. JOE: Special Missions #7The latest issue of G.I. JOE: Special Missions finds Zartan in on the run in the middle of the Australian Outback from both the JOEs and the Dreadnoks, who he abandons to pursue his mad dream of using the genetic information on the MARS device to populate the planet with an infinite number of Zartan clones.

With action both back at the Dreadnok base and in the various pursuits, as the JOES and Dreadnoks fight amongst themselves for who will get to Zartan first, G.I. JOE: Special Missions #7 is filled with a good amount of action and is available with a Torch variant cover (c’mon, you know you want one).

Zartan’s mad plans are (thankfully) short-lived and we won’t have to suffer through a battle of clones. But his abandonment of the Dreadnoks also suggests that might not be seeing them again going forward (and least not under his command). I’ve got to admit, this makes me a little sad. For fans.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Fatale #17

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Fatale #17Split into two-halves, the latest issue gets us caught up on Nicolas Lash‘s run from the law with his murderous new protector Nelson whose crazy antics and secrets have Lash wondering whose side the man is really on.

The second-half of the issue continues the amnesiac Josephine‘s stay with the rock band who begin showing strain based on her presence including taking unnecessary risks and sole male member of the band who has not shared her bed to demand his turn. Although Josephine’s memory may not have returned, by the end of the issue she will realize just how much power over men, and their life and death, she possesses.

Writer Ed Brubaker continues to gather the storm clouds as well as Josephine’s unsheilded presence comes to the attention of not one but two separate enemies both obsessed with finding her. A really strong issue with great use of foreboding and more top notch art from Sean Phillips. Worth a look.

[Image, $3.50]

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