Almost Human – Straw Man

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Almost Human - Straw Man

As Dorian (Michael Ealy) goes through performance assessment involving a panel conducting interviews with the android and his co-workers, he and Kennex (Karl Urban) investigate a copycat killer recreating the serial killings of the “Straw Man” (William “Big Sleeps” Stewart) known for stuffing the bodies of his 21 victims with straw before he was eventually caught and imprisoned by Kennex’s father (John Diehl). After talking to the still imprisoned paranoid schizophrenic, Kennex learns of his own father’s doubts as to the man’s guilt which may have led to the cop’s suspicious death two-weeks following the biggest bust of his career. Which means Kennex and Dorian aren’t searching for a copycat but the original Straw Man (Shaun Smyth) who has returned.

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Super Dinosaur #22

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Super Dinosaur #22The battle for the fate of the Dynamo Dome begins as Tyrannosaurus X and his dyno-soldiers invade just as Derek and Super Dinosaur make it back with the cure to bring Derek’s mother out her long coma and into a world that she may not be quite ready to face.

There’s plenty of action to be found here, along with a new suit of armor for Super Dinosaur, as all the residents take up arms (including Erika and Erin, and their parents) to kick the dinosaurs out of their homes. Fans waiting for an action-packed issue between Super Dinosaur and all of his various enemies will certainly get their money’s worth here.

Ending on a cliffhanger with Mega Raptor defeated, but the fate of Dynamo Dome still in doubt, Derek’s mother makes a dangerous choice that her son may never be able to forgive her for. It will be interesting to see how her actions, both immediate genocidal tendencies and future actions, will effect the dynamic of the book going forward. Worth a look.

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True Detective – After You’ve Gone

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  • Title: True Detective – After You’ve Gone
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True Detective - After You've Gone

After ten years former partners sit down together once more as Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) explains to Hart (Woody Harrelson) what he’s been doing the past two years since returning to Louisiana. Although it takes a little convincing, showing Marty what he found in Tuttle’s (Jay O. Sanders) safe years ago, and appealing to his sense of justice and hatred of any crime perpetrated on children, eventually gets Cohle his partner back as the two begin to sift through years of missing children cases finding those tied to the ministry’s private schools and the mysterious Yellow King.

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Tomb Raider #1

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Tomb Raider #1As someone who hasn’t played the new Tomb Raider game, focused on exploring the origins of Lara Croft, I found Tomb Raider #1 a bit of a tease as it takes place after the events of the recent game which we only see glimpses of in dialogue or dream flashbacks from our heroine’s time on the Japanese island of Yamatai which forged Lara Croft into the adventurous English archaeologist fans have enjoyed ever since the first game was released in 1996.

Picking up sometime after Croft’s life-changing experiences, we see her interactions with two other survivors including a fellow shipwrecked passenger of the Endurance who seems literally haunted by some mystical force surrounding the artifacts which were removed from the island during their tumultuous stay there.

Those who have played the game are obviously going to have a heads-up on the rest of us as it appears we’re only going to learn pieces of Lara’s first adventure through flashbacks and the search for these artifacts (and return to the island?) rather than a straight comic adaptation of the game. For fans

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