Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – The Asset

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - The Asset

The team heads to Colorado after a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport is attacked by an invisible electrostatic field, allowing an armed group to kidnap a Priority Red asset: Canadian physicist Franklin Hall (Ian Hart). Tracing the equipment used in the attack leads the team to Ian Quinn (David Conrad) who offers the scientist, an old friend and rival, a chance to work on his long theorized Gravitonium-powered gravity-shifting device which, as the hijack shows, is no longer quite so theoretical.

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Green Hornet #6

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Green Hornet #6Reunited once more with the Green Hornet, Kato discovers how his friend has kept busy in the six weeks since their falling out. After hitting up various low-rent locales for protection money and information, the pair final turn their attention the the people actually behind The Voice and the various bombings around town.

Writer Mark Waid continues to play on the subterfuge the Green Hornet creates while masquerading as the city’s most notorious crime boss. Although Kato is still not sure about the lengths Britt Reid is willing to go to in order to sell the charade, he must admit his admiratation with the network the Hornet has been able to put together in such a short time.

The final sequences gives us the Green Hornet and Kato finally confronting the businessmen behind the bombings (featuring a great splash page by artist Daniel Indro), and the comic ends on a cliffhanger as we will soon see just how far Reid is willing to go to sell the Hornet’s act when he is tasked with killing and FBI agent. Worth a look.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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The Blacklist – Wujing

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The Blacklist - Wujing

When a mythical Chinese spy known as Wujing (Chin Han) reaches out to Reddington (James Spader) after coming into possession of valuable CIA intelligence from dead operative, Reddington comes up with a plan to take Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) undercover as a cryptographer to decrypt the message and catch a legendary spy few believe is even real. Surprising everyone except Keen, the plan quickly runs into trouble and calls for an unexpected level of improvisation that nearly gets both of them killed.

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Sleepy Hollow – The Lesser Key of Solomon

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Sleepy Hollow - The Lesser Key of Solomon

Following Jenny Mills‘ (Lyndie Greenwood) escape from the psychiatric hospital, Captain Irving (Orlando Jones) gives Abbie (Nicole Beharie) and Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) 12 hours to find the young woman before he begins a state-wide manhunt. However, Abbie and Ichabod aren’t the only ones searching for Abbie’s sister as the hidden forces have tapped a Hussein (Carsten Norgaard) and two others to find Jenny and something they believe she possesses: The Lesser Key of Solomon capable of releasing 72 demons from Hell.

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Castle – Need to Know

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Castle - Need to Know

With his girlfriend stuck in D.C., Castle (Nathan Fillion) decides to horn in on case of a murdered former child star, but when Beckett (Stana Katic) and McCord (Lisa Edelstein) show up to claim jurisdiction, along with a CIA Agent (James Patrick Stuart) who shows up looking into the death of his asset who was helping him track down smuggled Russian arms, things get complicated. Given that the murder investigation threatens to bring too much attention to an ongoing CIA investigation, Beckett and McCord are ordered to close the case and return to Washington with the murder still unsolved.

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