Smallville Season Eleven: Detective

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Smallville Season Eleven: DetectiveWhen the news first broke that Bryan Q. Miller was introducing Batman to the Smallville Universe and bringing Stephanie Brown with him I was excited. DC Editorial decision to substitute Batman’s partner for Barbara Gordon (who they were currently pushing as part of the New 52 reboot) had just the adverse effect. So I’d stayed away from the storyline until I recently picked up the collected trade paperback. Sure, I’d rather have Steph than Babs, and this version of Batman’s costume is a little too much like Knight for my liking, but it’s still pretty good.

The story centers around Batman and Nightwing coming to Metropolis in search of Joe Chill as the Dark Knight Detective has finally got a lead on the man who murdered his parents. Offering us the first meeting between Batman and Superman, in classic comic fashion as the pair fight before later cementing their friendship, the storyline also features Mister Freeze and the Prankster who team-up to take down the heroes with Kryptonite bullets and an insidious plan using the likeness of one of comic’s greatest heroes as a ploy to steal weaponized drones.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mazes & Mutants

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  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mazes & Mutants
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Mazes & Mutants

And then there was that time the Turtles went LARPing. Fascinated with roleplaying game they discovered in the trash, the Turtles decide to dress up as their characters and continue their roleplaying adventure in the sewers. After being exposed to a mysterious mist Leonardo (Jason Biggs), Raphael (Sean Astin), Donatello (Rob Paulsen), and Michelangelo (Greg Cipes) find themselves trapped in a very real dungeon filled with traps, monkey goblins, a dragon, and Sir Malachi “the sparrow wizard” (Paul Reubens) who has captured “princess” April (Mae Whitman) and taken over the Leonardo’s adventure to create a new quest for the Turtles.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Makani ‘Olu a Holo Malie

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Makani ‘Olu a Holo Malie
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Hawaii Five-0 - Makani 'Olu a Holo Malie

As Danny (Scott Caan) leads the team to investigate the murder of an organ courier whose cargo was stolen and must be recovered in less than 24-hours if there is any hope to save the life of a dying man, McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) accompanies Catherine (Michelle Borth) on a rescue mission to Afghanistan after the son of the family who nursed her back to health and protected her years ago is kidnapped by the Taliban.

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Elementary – Paint It Black

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  • Title: Elementary – Paint It Black
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Elementary - Paint It Black

In an episode of that marks Lucy Liu‘s directorial debut, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Mycroft (Rhys Ifans) are forced to work together when Watson (Liu) is abducted by members of the French criminal organization having clandestine meetings in his New York restaurant. In exchange for Joan’s safe return, Mycroft agrees to deliver them a missing banker and a list of secret accounts he stole shortly before his disappearance that everyone, including the NSA, would like to get their hands on.

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Dexter’s Laboratory #1

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Dexter's Laboratory #1Continuing to grow Cartoon Network presence in their comics, the first issue of the new four-issue mini-series introduces the characters from Dexter’s Laboratory into the IDW universe. Fans of the show and those, like me, with only vague memories Genndy Tartakovsky‘s cartoon which ran for four season is the late 90s and early 2000s should enjoy themselves here.

After his sister Dee Dee destroys yet another of his experiments, Dexter comes up with a new plan and wastes no time to create his newest invention which he believes will fulfill his wishes while he dreams and get rid of that pesky sister once and for all.

With the opening issue ending on a cliffhanger as Dexter tries out his invention for the first time we’ll have to wait another month to discover its fallout. The tone and pace Derek Fridolfs and Ryan Jampole and create here is a hellova lot of fun while crafting an intriguing idea for a story that I’ll definitely come back for more of. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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