Magneto #2

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Magneto #2Following the clues left behind from the Omega Prime Sentinel who someone designed and left as a trap for those like him, Magneto travels to a tent city of the disenfranchised living in constant fear of some unknown agency which occasionally will kidnapping members of the group for their experiments.

The fear, hopelessness, and poverty of the tent city brings back memories of Magneto’s own childhood and the lessons he learned from the Nazis which the mutant puts to good use to get the answers he needs from the shadowy group that shows up one night seeking new laboratory rats for their anti-mutant experiments.

Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Gabriel Hernandez Walta weave a strong story balancing Magneto’s own past with his current circumstances reminding us where Magneto came from while demonstrating that the former super-villain may not have changed as much as Cyclops and the X-Men had hoped. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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Hawaii Five-0 – Ho’i Hou

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Ho’i Hou
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Hawaii Five-0 - Ho'i Hou

Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) and Jerry’s (Jorge Garcia) high school reunion turns deadly in Hawaii Five-0‘s “fan episode” where several elements of the murder of the week were voted on by the show’s fans include the unusual “death by stiletto.” Learning that the victim had never returned to the island after graduation until the day she died, which also included a trip to the bank to withdraw $200,000 to anonymously pay for the surgery of a woman she had never met just hours before her murder.

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Detective Comics #30

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Detective Comics #30Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato’s run on Detective Comics begins here with the beginning of a new arc that focuses on organized crime in Gotham City and Bruce Wayne‘s new business venture to help rehabilitate the city’s East End with crusader Elena Aguila rather than go for a far more lucrative option of re-developing the area.

Manapul and Buccellato offer as much Bruce Wayne as Batman here, showcasing the Dark Knight’s takedown the Kings of the Sun dealing drugs and kidnapping young children off the streets of Gotham. The main action of the issue comes from this part of the story where Buccellato colors Manapul’s beautiful art in blues and grays offering a similar, yet different, look to the pair’s relaunch of The Flash.

For a story that deals in organized crime, white slavery, gangs, Bruce Wayne still mourning the loss of his son Damian, and the crime boss The Squid feeding one of his soldiers to his pet, Detective Comics #30 is less dark and gloomy than you might expect offering a nice mix of story and action to start of the pair’s run on the title. Worth a look.

[DC, $3.99]

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The Shadow #23

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The Shadow #23After traveling around the world for answers to the severed finger sent to him, The Shadow returns to New York to find the old acquaintance whose plan to use the ring to impersonate his former colleague and create a new power base in the United States has backfired.

Presented almost entirely from the White Tiger’s point of view, The Shadow #23 fills in the gaps to the man’s story including taking the gem from the jungles of Guatamala, the series of events that lead him to losing one of his fingers while attempting to assume the role of the Girasol, and his attempts to crawl from poverty once more.

The end of the issue wraps up the arc as The Shadow finally tracks down the the White Tiger (which he really didn’t need to leave New York to do), and provides his own brutal justice for the man’s crimes. For fans.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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Continuum – Minute by Minute

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  • Title: Continuum – Minute by Minute
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“Time travel is Pandora’s Box.”

Continuum - Minute by Minute

And you thought things were complicated before. Season Three begins with Kiera (Rachel Nichols) imprisoned by the Freelancers and Alec (Erik Knudsen) successfully travelling one week into the past in hopes of preventing Emily‘s (Magda Apanowicz) death. Given the unique situation the leader of the Freelancers (Rachael Crawford) offers Kiera a truce, explaining that the self-appointed “guardians of history” are not time travelers themselves, although they are descended from one who started their order more than 1,ooo years ago.

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