Hellboy: The Crooked Man

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  • Title: Hellboy: The Crooked Man
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Loosely based on the three-issue comic of the same name, Hellboy: The Crooked Man was a critical and box office flop attempting to steer into more horror aspects of the Hellboy comics without the humor or charm of the Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman films. The choice allows for the film to go with a lower budget and more of a indie horror movie feel, but ultimately comes off more confused than creepy and more cheap than cost-effective.

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums #1

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Starting a new five-issue story, having been joined by Gen, Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi come across a huge field of the Shogun’s prized plum trees where they fined a burnt-out section of trees and come across some of the Shogun’s guards who allude to mysterious happenings in the area and are immediately suspicious of the three travelers. The tension between the men and Usagi, whose name they recognize, is notable, although circumstances soon distract them from the trio.

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The Mystery of the Dead Man’s Riddle

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  • Title: The Mystery of the Dead Man’s Riddle
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews to search for a dead man’s missing fortune. Hired by the legal heirs of the town eccentric who changed his will shortly before his death leaving his hidden treasure for whoever could find it, the boys start with the clues left by the dead man on a race against other treasure hunters, Skinny Norris, and other members of the man’s family all willing to take drastic action to beat the Three Investigators to the prize.

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Daredevil: Born Again – Optics

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  • Title: Daredevil: Born Again – Optics
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As Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) begins his reign as Mayor of New York City, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) takes on a case involving a good Samaritan attempting to help a man in the subway who ends up being charged with the death of a one of the attackers (who turns out to be a cop). Despite the objections of Kirsten (Nikki M. James), Matt takes the case sure of the man’s innocence. The discovery that Hector (Kamar de los Reyes) is also a street vigilante, known as the White Tiger, now outlawed by Fisk’s new administration, only makes the case hit closer to home.

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Secret Six #1

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The first issue to kick off a new volume of Secret Six doesn’t feel much like a Secret Six comic with the focus primarily being characters not used in any previous series. Set in the aftermath of Absolute Power, the first issue really focuses on, in descending levels of importance, Jon Kent, his boyfriend Gossamer, and Dreamer who arrives to inform the pair Amanda Waller has disappeared. Looking in to where Waller should be, things get Secret Six adjacent with the trio breaking Black Alice out of prison. It’s not until the final panel, however, where the count adds up to six with the cameo appearances of Catman and Deadshot.

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