Castle – Number One Fan

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  • Title: Castle – Need to Know
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Castle - Number One Fan

Captain Gates (Penny Johnson) calls in Castle (Nathan Fillion) with an unusual situation. A woman (Alicia Lagano) fleeing from the murder scene of her boyfriend has barricaded herself in a dentist’s office with five hostages and the only one she will speak to is the mystery writer. After meeting her face-to-face, Castle discovers the gun-wielding crazy lady has only a single demand – that Richard Castle solve the murder of her boyfriend and prove her innocence. With her fiance occupied talking with his number one fan, the still unemployed Beckett (Stana Katic) convinces Gates to let her work the case.

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Star Wars #10

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Star Wars #10The latest issue of Star Wars touches on all the ongoing stories and Leia comes face-to-face with the man who handed the Empire the weapons which destroyed her homeworld, Han and Chewbacca narrowly escape the clutches of Boba Fett while finally getting out of Coruscant, and Luke and Wedge buy time while preparing their escape from the Devastator after successfully finishing their mission.

In the bowels of the Star Destroyer, Luke and Wedge share a nice moment discussing the still painful losses at the Battle of Yavin and Luke’s not-so-secret relationship with Prithi. The sequence works in reinforcing the time of the current series as well as the emphasizing the losses the Rebellion suffered during their greatest victory.

Prithi may not be able to wait long enough to help her friends escape, but her quick thinking alerts the Rebel Fleet to the impending Imperial attack led by the overconfident Bircher which just may be the key to reuniting the two pilots with their friends. Worth a look.

[Dark Horse, $2.99]

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Astro City #5

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Astro City #5The latest standalone issue of Astro City gives us the return of the Broken Man and his crazy conspiracy-theory wall of clippings, yarn, and thumbtacks. Our host offers us glimpses into three separate stories from the past, but quickly pulls the reader out when he fears we may learn too much too soon.

The Broken Man is one of few pieces of the new Astro City comic that I haven’t been completely sold on. Consistently stepping in to pull the reader out of the story is a little annoying, but writer Kurt Busiek and artist Brent Anderson use that template to lay the groundwork for different stories they aren’t quite ready to fully explore.

The stories break down into a secret government agency in the 1930s dealing with the alien and bizarre, a Kobra-style cult leader in India during the 1940s, and a steam-punk heroine named Dame Progress chasing down a crafty villain whose motives aren’t as black-and-white as she believes. Each story, although truncated, is worth reading.

[Vertigo, $3.99]

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Ultimate Showdown

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  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Ultimate Showdown
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Ultimate ShowdownThe two-disc Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Ultimate Showdown set collects the final dozen First Season episodes of the current Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon including more of the Turtles battling Shredder (Kevin Michael Richardson) and his mutated warriors Dogpound (Clancy Brown) and Fishface (Christian Lanz) as well as the two-part finale “Showdown” where the Turtles attempt to stop the Kraang invasion and the arrival of the Technodrome on Earth.

Other highlights from the two-disc set include Michelangelo (Greg Cipes) fighting off his brothers who have all fallen under the control of a giant wasp, Karai‘s (Kelly Hu) attempt to kidnap April O’Neil (Mae Whitman), Baxter Stockman‘s (Phil LaMarr) Maze of Doom, Donatello (Rob Paulsen) going on a solo rescue mission to save April’s father (Keith Silverstein), the introduction and return of The Pulvirizer (Roger Craig Smith), and Karai and Leonardo‘s (Jason Biggs) failed attempt to work together to stop the Kraang.

[Nickelodeon, $19.99]

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The Mentalist – Wedding in Red

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The Mentalist - Wedding in Red

Hoping to spend a little time further studying one of his remaining six Red John suspects, Jane (Simon Baker) drags Lisbon (Robin Tunney) to Napa to investigate the murder of a wedding party and keep a close eye on Sheriff Thomas McAllister (Xander Berkeley). None of the wedding party, other than the bride’s mother (Christine Dunford), seems particularly sad that the estranged uncle met his end in the lake behind the winery’s chapel. In order to get the two families to honestly open up about what they may know, Jane decides to publicly air the problems the groom’s sister (Lexi Lawson) has with the bride (Erica Piccininni) and the fact that the bride’s mother made out with the groom’s father (Miguel Nájera) the night of the murder.

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