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Transformers #9

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Transformers #9

The ninth issue of the new Transformers series gives us the space bridge and new characters from Cybertron taking their first steps on Earth. The most notable of these is Shockwave, one of my favorite Transformers, who certainly retains the ruthlessness from previous incarnations of the character although this version is more fiery and outspoken and a bit less cold and calculating than the original. The bridge also provides a way to get Elita One and Ultra Magnus into the Earth storyline, as well as the Combaticons who are chasing them.

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The Magnificent Seven

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  • Title: The Magnificent Seven
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The Magnificent Seven

While not on the level of the film which inspired it, The Magnificent Seven amps up the humor to provide one of the most beloved Hollywood westerns which itself has been remade, adapted, and repackaged in TV and movies ranging from Three Amigos to Ocean’s Eleven. Adapting Seven Samurai to the Old West, we get an outlaw leader terrorizing a small village just south of the border. Heading north to buy guns, instead the three villagers return with seven gunmen to fight off Calvera’s (Eli Wallach) men.

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Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #3

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Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #3

The third issue of Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow shows off the intellect and ruthlessness of Jimmu and his army who successfully take down a convoy outside of town. Only two members of the group, jumping off a cliff, manage to survive. As for Yukichi, his situation doesn’t change as he remains a prisoner of the bounty hunters (although his location is learned by the young boy who isn’t above trading that information for profit, especially given how the bounty hunters treated him).

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Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger

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  • Title: Monk – Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger
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Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger

Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). A couple of subplots weave into the story of “Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger” involving Monk struggling to pay Sharona (Bitty Schram), who ends up quitting and working in a lamp store for a brief time, and a police officer who flees the scene of the crime and becomes known as “Fraidy Cop” (Jonathan Rannells) by the local media. These two threads each cross over into the main mystery involving a billionaire philanthropist (J.C. MacKenzie) attempting to mug an ex-cop (Peter Onorati) and his date in a parking lot.

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