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Atomic Robo (Free Comic Book Day 2014)

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Atomic Robo (Free Comic Book Day 2014)The latest Free Comic Book Day issue of Atomic Robo pits our intrepid science adventurer against the Yonkers Devil in the “smoldering wasteland” of what was once Centralia when Atomic Robo and his team come across both the creature and a college student on spring break who has unknowingly stolen the Devil’s eggs. Offering the share of crazy action and humor the comic is known for, the story should please fans.

Red 5’s Free Comic Book Day issue also includes back-up story featuring Bodie Troll stealing pumpkin’s in No Man’s Patch for Miz Bijou (while also checking out the rumored roots and trash of the forbidden garden of far more interest to the troll). Finally, the issue includes a short tease for Red 5’s new series Haunted featuring Sarah McCallister traversing a world where the walls between Earth and the spiritual world have been torn down. Not surprisingly, the Atomic Robo story is the stand-out although there’s some fun to be had with Bodie’s adventure. Worth a look.

[Red 5, FREE]

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Magneto #3

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Magneto #3Magneto‘s wandering and search for the source of the new Sentinels leads him to an underground facility where several low-budget versions of the anti-mutant weapons are being created. However, the true purpose of the sentinels and the facility itself turns out to be something not dissimilar to the path Magneto himself walked not that long ago.

Comparing Magneto’s own attempts to create a safe haven for his people on Genosha, Magneto #3 showcases humans doing the same thing in an attempt to create a bubble safe from mutants and the outside world. Although the comic skirts the issue a bit, Magneto’s response to the facility (and his own attempts on Genosha) seem to admit a failure of his own long-held beliefs in favor of those of his recently-deceased frenemy Charles Xavier about an integrated world shared by humans and mutants.

With Cyclops‘ team also searching for the truth behind the new Sentinels it will be interesting to see if the two comics converge and what Magneto’s response from, and to, his old team might be. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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Powerpuff Girls #9

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Powerpuff Girls #9After surviving Monster Day, Townsville is in for an entirely different kind of threat which begins when Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttecup‘s favorite boy band The Three Dees comes to town. The Powerpuff Girls’ ecstasy and seeing the threesome in concert, and even meeting them, is short-lived however with the arrival of the Rowdyruff Boys who take over the stage to perform their own kind of music that whips the crowd into a crazed frenzy.

Their hands already full with Brick, Boomer, and Butch, the situation becomes exponentionally more complicated with the arrival of the Boogie Man who has his own thoughts about what the citizens of Townsville should be listening to and is willing to instigate an “all-out disco alien invasion sensation” to prove his point.

The boy band idea allows for some cute moments from the threesome, a cameo from Dee Dee, and even showcases Professor Utonium fan boy nature. It also lets writer/artist Troy Little to bring back an under-utilized villain in the Boogey Man while working the unique threat of the Rowdyruff Boys into the comic for the first time. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Scooby-Doo Team-Up #4

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Scooby-Doo Team-Up #4After three issues featuring Scooby-Doo teaming-up with Batman and Robin, the latest issue of Scooby-Doo Team-Up takes Mystery, Inc. to Titans Tower when Robin contacts the group believing the Teen Titans home to be infested with ghosts.

Featuring the versions of Robin and company from Titans from Teen Titans Go!, the antics of the two franchises fit well together (as the comic remarks how different Robin acts, and looks, when he isn’t hanging out with the Dark Knight Detective). As with all classic Scooby mysteries, the ghosts have rational explanations as Scooby and his friends discover Beast Boy and Cyborg‘s pranks are responsible.

The comic’s back-up story features the Titans being visited by Raven‘s uncle Myron “The Mildly Irritating” who quickly gets on everyone’s nerves but eventually leaves on his own accord as he gets fed up with Daphne constantly attempting to pull his “mask” off and Scooby constantly running him over. Once again, Scooby-Doo Team-Up doesn’t disappoint. Worth a look.

[DC, $2.99]

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Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #4

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Serenity: Leaves on the Wing #4The mini-series continues giving us a glimpse of Zoe‘s new life as a prison of the Alliance while Mal and his crew, with the help of Jayne‘s new friends and the Operative, attempt to make use of River Tam‘s newest restored memories by attacking an Alliance medical research station where she, and several other candidates, were experimented on.

Although they are able to sneak into the facility what they find aren’t so much scared young women in need of rescue but fully-designed super-soldiers, along with the doctor who created them, setting up big trouble for Mal and his group to deal with in the final two issues.

Although Kaylee earns the cover for this issue neither she nor Inara are given much to do other than express the crew’s concern of Mal bringing in the Operative. It will be interesting to see an example of what River was meant to become as next month’s issue will also give us the conclusion of the Operative’s fight with another of his ilk. Worth a look.

[Dark Horse, $3.50]

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