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Captain America #1

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Captain America #1

Captain America #1 is a bit all over the place. I’d call in a day in the life of a super-hero, except the comic covers multiple days decades apart. The current story focuses on Steve Rogers figuring out ways to make a difference when not dressed in a spangly outfit by buying the crumbling building of his youth and doing upgrades to prevent people in the neighborhood from getting evicted. It’s a nice idea, but I’m not sure where the story goes from here.

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The Lost City of Z

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  • Title: The Lost City of Z
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The Lost City of Z

2016’s The Lost City of Z is a stylish period drama set in the early 20th Century centered around the life and explorations of surveyor Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) who grew obsessed with discovering the ruins of an advanced civilization hidden deep with the Amazon jungle. The film does capture the drive behind exploration. Despite the personal cost to his family life, and the dangerous conditions of each expedition, the film sells us on Fawcett’s obsession and eagerness to return to the Amazon to prove his theories which were initially dismissed by other explorers of the time.

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Bob’s Burgers – Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral

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  • Title: Bob’s Burgers – Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral
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Bob's Burgers - Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral

Bob’s Burgers begins its Fourteenth Season with a showdown between Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda (John Roberts) and the kids who refuse their parents’ request to do chores. After emotions escalate after dinner (at one point Linda cancels Christmas!), the parents bring in their children into the bedroom for a bedtime story set in the Old West which only continues the conflict between Gene (Eugene Mirman), Tina (Dan Mintz), Louise (Kristen Schaal) and their parents before their impasse eventually works itself out.

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Sherlock Holmes #1

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Sherlock Holmes #1

This isn’t your Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. The comic opens with the death of the great, great grandson of Sherlock Holmes and his wife orphaning their young daughter Spencer who is unaware of her family’s heritage but will become so when the story jumps to the present where a long lost uncle arrives just after her 18th birthday with a grand tale to tell and a search for her father’s missing gemstone.

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