Continuum – Minute Man

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Continuum - Minute Man

While trying to hide one Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) from the other, Kiera (Rachel Nichols)  tries to determine which one offers the time-displaced cop her best hope at getting back home. After only a few hours of returning, the future Alec has already made major changed to the timeline beginning with accidentally causing Kellog (Stephen Lobo) plan the assassination of Mr. Escher (Hugh Dillon), who he only learns later is actually Alec’s father. Kiera and the police also must deal with the reunified Liber8 as Garza (Luvia Petersen) returns home to find have made nice, and who Sonya (Lexa Doig) and Travis (Roger R. Cross) have made nice, and who the newly-elected Mayor (Tahmoh Penikett) wants desperately to distance himself from.

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Samurai Jack #7

Samurai Jack #7With Samurai Jack and the Scotsman both turned into females by the Leprechauns the pair’s two-issue gender-bending adventures continue as Samurai Jacqueline and the Scotswoman seek to complete their bargain with the devious imps and confront the giant Cuhullin the Cruel.

Only after confronting the massive creature in battle do Jack and the Scotsman uncover just how much they’ve been played by the evil imps and decide to do what they can to set things right. With the spell broken due to the giant’s wailing breaking the music of the curse (which is only slightly less awkward than it sounds), the restored Jack and Scotsman come up with a plan to help Cuhullin and teach the Leprechauns a much-deserved lesson.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Ku I Ka Pili Koko

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Hawaii Five-0 - Ku I Ka Pili Koko

On a bad tip by an ATF informant (Alvin Joiner) Five-0 helped put in prison, the group is lured into an explosion leaving McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and Danny (Scott Caan) trapped under several feet of rubble. While Catherine (Michelle Borth) and Grover (Chi McBride) help with the rescue effort, Kono (Grace Park) and Chin Ho (Daniel Dae Kim) head back to the prison to find the source of the tip and the reason someone was willing to blow up and entire building to take out members of Five-0.

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All-New X-Men #25

All-New X-Men #25The “monumental” 25th issue of All-New X-Men feels much more like a forgettable annual rather than an important issue of an ongoing comic. Centered around the Beast‘s conversations with an over-talkative Watcher, the framework is a relatively weak excuse to bring in a variety of artists to give takes on their version of various X-Men characters in the present and possible futures (including Magik as Sorceress Supreme) all put in jeopardy by McCoy’s decision to bring the younger versions of his friends into the present.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s some very nice artwork here (highlighted for me by Bruce Timm’s showcasing Jean Grey in her various forms), some of it quite funny, but as a fan of the original idea of The Watcher as a silent observer I’m less than satisfied with this verbose version that even goes so far as to insult the X-Man after speaking his mind. For such a momentous issue All New X-Men #25 can easily be skipped by those not willing to pay $5 for a story that doesn’t do much of anything to further ongoing stories and whose absence won’t be felt going forward if you choose not to read it. Hit-and-Miss.

[Marvel, $4.99]

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Wander Over Yonder – The Birthday Boy

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Wander Over Yonder - The Birthday Boy

Playing on the running gag of the series that Wander (Jack McBrayer) doesn’t understand that Lord Hater (Keith Ferguson) really, really doesn’t like him, “Birthday Boy” finds Wander and Sylvia (April Winchell) invited to Hater’s birthday party inside the villain’s new Doom Arena as a surprise by Peepers (Tom Kenny) in an attempt to try and please his lord.

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