Pretty Little Liars – EscApe From New York

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  • Title: Pretty Little Liars – EscApe From New York
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Pretty Little Liars - EscApe From New York

Picking up immediately following the closing events of last season’s finale, the Fifth Season premiere opens with the Ezra (Ian Harding) rushed to the hospital after the shooting where Alison (Sasha Pieterse) and the Liars put together a quick plan to draw out A. Although they manage to get their enemy out of the hospital, they aren’t prepared for the number of hooded crazies who actually show up loosing their chance to grab A. With Aria (Lucy Hale) at the hospital waiting for Ezra to pull through surgery, Alison, Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Hanna (Ashley Benson), and Emily (Shay Mitchell) hole up in an old theater where Ezra once took her foolishly believing they might be safe for the night.

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Magneto #5

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Magneto #5It’s not every day Magneto makes a new friend, but then again it’s not every day the master of magnetism catches someone following him for unknown purposes and chooses not to react rashly. With a complicated past tied to his own (which Magneto isn’t yet aware), Briar Raleigh offers the once self-appointed savior of Homo Superior vital intelligence on his enemies. Given the fact that the young woman’s injuries were initially caused by one of Magneto’s attacks it’s unclear just what Briar’s true purposes are, where she’s getting her intel, or who she is working for.

Although I liked the idea of Magneto walking the Earth like Caine from Kung Fu, Briar’s introduction does open the comic to several new possibilities. The introduction of an unknown quantity not only gives someone for Magneto to interact with but offers an ongoing mystery about her motives. I’m on the fence about giving the reader much more information about the girl than the title character receives, but I’d suspect Magneto has his own suspicions which will serve him well. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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24: Live Another Day – 5pm – 6pm

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  • Title: 24: Live Another Day – Part 7
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24: Live Another Day - 5pm - 6pm

The season’s seventh episode sends Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) and Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski) into a British hospital in an attempt to find Simone (Emily Berrington) and get the severely-injured young woman to turn on her mother Margot Al-Harazi (Michelle Fairley) before Margot makes good on her threats and begins bombing civilian targets with the drones under her control.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #34

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #34The latest issue of IDW’s current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles run introduces the beloved character of Metalhead seen in both the original and current cartoon. Choosing the make the Turtle-shaped robot created by Harold after his run-in with Baxter Stockman, Metalhead is introduced to Donatello, April, and Angel for the first time when the robot goes haywire and starts attacking them.

Redesigned to give the robot a vehicle mode, which is kinda spiffy, Metalhead proves more than a match for Donnie and is only stopped by Angel borrowing Harod’s Exo-Suit (shocking the scientist and playing on the comic’s long-running theme of characters being more than they initially appear).

Given the damage the robot sustains it may be a few issues before we see Metalhead return, but his introduction continues to deepen and enrich the current landscape of the Turtles and should please fans of various earlier versions of the character. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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