Alan Rapp

Alex Rider – Mirror

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  • Title: Alex Rider – Mirror
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Alex (Otto Farrant) gets the attention of the hacker Smoking Mirror (Tom Mothersdale) who he unwittingly helped escape from Department of Special Operations. The hacker arranges a meet with the boy, leaving the security of his hacker collective not aware has already been compromised as Gregorvich (Thomas Levin) is hot on his trail. Smoking Mirror mistakenly believes Alex can bring him in, not aware he’s on the outs with the Department, but Gregorvich shows up and kills him, and nearly kills Alex as well until he recognizes him.

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Once and Future #22

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Now the enemies of not one but two resurrected King Arthurs, our intrepid heroes Duncan, Bridgette, and Rose race to the secret armory of William Shakespeare (yeah, you read that right, THAT William Shakespeare) while being chased by Yvain and his giant fire-breathing lion (which turns out to be just as cool as it sounds, even if there’s no big payoff to his appearance) while the Grail Castle is attacked by a giant. Thankfully, Bridgette has plans to cover both situations. Unfortunately, neither are necessarily good plans. 

Once and Future #22 starts off with a bang while also catching up a little with Zombie King Arthur, whose plans aren’t going as well as he had hoped, and offering the return of Duncan’s mother (but what role is she now playing in the constantly evolving story?). 

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Hit-Monkey – Legend of the Drunken Monkey

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  • Title: Hit-Monkey – Legend of the Drunken Monkey
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Here’s the episode where Hit-Monkey discovers the highs and lows of both casinos, which Bryce (Jason Sudeikis) correctly defines as both the happiest and saddest place on Earth, and alcohol as the trail from General Kato leads to an underground casino, bad decisions, too much alcohol, and another trail of bodies. While there’s not much in terms of story development, there is some crazy drunken monkey and some trademark late bloody action.

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