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Superior Spider-Man Returns

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Superior Spider-Man Returns

Setting up the new volume of Superior Spider-Man, Superior Spider-Man Returns gives us a confused Otto Octavius attempting to put his fragmented memories of his time as Spider-Man together and discovering, while his consciousness was in control of Peter Parker’s body, he may have just completed his life’s work of harnessing the power of a sun. Well… not exactly.

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Loki – Breaking Brad

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  • Title: Loki – Breaking Brad
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Loki - Breaking Bad

Largely ignoring more immediate threats, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) go in search of the missing Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) which leads them to Hunter X-05 (Rafael Casal) who abandoned his hunt for Sylvie to live out his life as a movie star in the late 1970s. The majority of the episode features Loki and Mobius capturing X-05 and then threatening and torturing him for information (showing off a bit of Loki’s more sinister side) before eventually leading to Loki’s reunion with Sylvie and basically lucking into a discovery of just what some members of the TVA are up to. 

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Goosebumps – Say Cheese and Die!

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  • Title: Goosebumps – Say Cheese and Die!
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Goosebumps - Say Cheese and Die!

Inspired by the horror young adult novels from R. L. Stine, Disney+’s new series offers five stories of teens being haunted when a vengeful spirit is unleashed. Giving us boilerplate horror characters without much depth, our teens include the brash jock (Zack Morris), his mean girlfriend (Rhinnan Payne), his longtime female best friend (Isa Briones), and goofy sidekick (Miles McKenna). Taking advantage of a remodeled empty house for a party, one where their new English teacher (Justin Long) is about to move in and has unknowingly awakened the spirit of a high school student who died in the house 30 years earlier, our dumb kids are about to find themselves trapped in situations they can neither explain nor escape.

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Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #1

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Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #1

Taking place in 1940 before Wesley Dodds joined the Justice Society of America, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #1 gives us a Dodds early in his career as the Sandman still struggling to find his place in the world. Haunted by nightmares he doesn’t understand, Dodds’ attempts to help the war effort by selling them on his non-lethal sleep gas lead nowhere. While he is able to put his talents to use taking down gangsters and muggers, he still has yet to find where he, and the Sandman, belong.

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The Fall of the House of Usher – A Midnight Dreary

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  • Title: The Fall of the House of Usher – A Midnight Dreary
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The Fall of the House of Usher - A Midnight Dreary

Using the framework of the works of Edgar Allen Poe as a guide, The Fall of the House of Usher begins with a funeral and a confession. Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood), the CEO of a pharmaceutical company that has skirted and broken laws for decades, invites the attorney who has worked in vain to bring him to justice to his crumbling boyhood home to offer confession and revelation about the evils his family brought upon the world over the past few decades and the evils brought upon them in the past two weeks leaving only Roderick and his sister Madeline (Mary McDonnell) alive.

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