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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Once Upon a Time – There’s No Place Like Home

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  • Title: Once Upon a Time – There’s No Place Like Home
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“It was the honorable thing to do.”

Once Upon a Time - There's No Place Like Home

The season finale offers a variation of events already presented as Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin), and Prince Charming‘s (Josh Dallas) early-days banter has begun, but this time around the pair is enlisted by Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) to help free Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) from Regina‘s (Lana Parrilla) dungeons and retrieve the missing ring. With the help of Red Riding Hood (Meghan Ory, who we might see more of next season with news that Intelligence has been cancelled), the group breaks into the dungeon in time to find Emma breaking out with a woman (Christie Laing) she decides to free laying the groundwork for new trouble next season.

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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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Once Upon a Time – Snow Drifts

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  • Title: Once Upon a Time – Snow Drifts
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“It’s a miracle the timeline hasn’t imploded already.”

Once Upon a Time - Snow Drifts

In the calm before the storm of the first-half of Once Upon a Time‘s Third Season finale Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) struggles with telling Henry (Jared Gilmore) she has decided to take him back to New York, Regina (Lana Parrilla) and Robin Hood‘s (Sean Maguire) romance progresses, Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) and Belle (Emilie de Ravin) begin making wedding plans, and Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) prepare a naming ceremony for their new baby boy. However, all that is put on hold when the town discovers that Zelena (Rebecca Mader) is dead and her time vortex has been opened (fulfilling her dying wish with the remainder of magic stored in the witch’s locket).

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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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