First Look
- Title: The Power of Glove
This new documentary takes a look back at the legacy of Nintendo’s Power Glove.
Astro City #2
- Title: Astro City #2
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- Writer: Kurt Busiek
- Artist: Brent Anderson
Telling peripheral stories to the larger than life heroic adventures in a world populated with super-powered heroes and villains has always been a strength of Astro City. The latest issue gives us a peek at the life of Marella Cowper who answers an innocuous ad for a data position and finds herself working in the super-secret Honor Guard Emergency Contact Line.
Once again the series thinks outside the box to examine the needs of a world filled with super-heroes. A specialized communication hub to prioritize dangers, the regular people needed to staff it, and the precautions to keep its existence and location secret, are fleshed out in this single issue that offers enough possibilities to become its own spin-off. With the need for heroes to only make cameos this would actually make for a cool TV series.
Presented completely from Marella’s point of view, we get her initial awe at her new job, the driven nature and yearning to get that one call to help save the world, and finally the acceptance and understanding of her small role in the larger picture. Without doubt, Astro City #2 is one of the best comics I’ve read this year. Best of the week.
[Vertigo, $3.99]
Continuum – Second Truths
- Title: Continuum – Second Truths
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Kiera‘s (Rachel Nichols) life gets even more complicated when Carlos (Victor Webster) begins an investigation into the case of a serial killer (Paul Jarrett) whose murders continued up until 2018 and were still unsolved in 2077. Even with remembering only vague aspects of the case she studied from the future, Kiera has no explanation for the incredibly accurate guesses which leads to the arrest of the killer and the rescue of his latest intended victim (Kimberly Sustad).
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures #1
- Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures #1
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- Writer: Kenny Byerly
- Artist: Dario Brizuela
Based on the current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, this new series jumps right into the action with April heading out on patrol with Donatello for the first time after showing progress in her training as a with Splinter. Although Leonardo raises concerns that April isn’t ready, Donnie underplays the dangers of scrounging in the military junkyard that ends up with April captured and the rest of the team called into to free her (without alerting the United States Government to the fact that human-sized talking ninja turtles exist).
Fans of the current show should feel right at home here as writer Kenny Byerly is one of the staff writers for the cartoon and artist Dario Brizuela stays true to the character designs of the cartoon while also giving them a little more two-dimensional comic book style. The interactions, the occasional wide-eyed blow-up moments, are all carefully recreated here.
It’s nice to see the comic giving April such a large role in the first issue, as well highlight the character’s tendency to get in over her head as well as her ability to prove her doubters wrong.
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Graceland – O-Mouth
- Title: Graceland – O-Mouth
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After watching Eddie (Sheaun McKinney) blow his own brains out on Bello’s (Gbenga Akinnagbe) orders, Mike (Aaron Tveit) continues to work his way closer to California’s primary heroin supplier, both for Graceland and to test Badillo’s (Pedro Pascal) theory that Briggs (Daniel Sunjata) is taking a cut of heroin busts for himself for purposes unknown. Working his way into Bello’s trust by playing on the supplier’s love of cowboys and old western movies, Mike earns a new prestigious spot in the organization as the man’s bodyguard. Mike, much to Paige (Serinda Swan) and Tuturro (Manny Montana) amusement, also continues his burgeoning relationship with Abby (Jenn Proske) who now believes the undercover agent is a pilot thanks to Tuturro talking his friend up in the local bar.
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