Futurama – Forty Percent Leadbelly

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After meeting a famous folk singer while on a delivery to a maximum security prison, Bender (John Di Maggio) decides to get a duplicate guitar of the man’s famous guitar made and start his own career as a folk singer. Unable to write an authentic folk song, Bender takes Zoidberg‘s (Billy West) advice and live the railroad life (and steal others’ true experiences for his new “original” songs).

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Daredevil #27

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Daredevil #27Picking up with Daredevil confronting both Bullseye and Ikari, Daredevil #27 fills in the blanks to Bulleye’s transformation from hitman to super-criminal genius in a box before the villain spills how he’s put all of Daredevil’s nearest and dearest in danger. Thankfully for Matt Murdock’s loved ones, he has a few friends of his own.

Closing out the arc you’d expect another big battle between Daredvil and Ikari, especially after Lady Bullseye shows up and decrease the chances of Daredevil surviving the night even further. Writer Mark Waid pulls a bit of a fast one here, by Daredevil finding a way to defeat all three villains by using his brains (and leaving Bulleseye even more of a mess than when the issue started).

Daredevil #27 very much focuses on the hero out-thinking his opponents rather than using his enhanced skill-set to take them down. Because of this, and the quick wrap-up, we’re left questioning whether Daredevil can actually beat Ikari and just who that masked man really is. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $2.99]

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Franklin & Bash – Captain Johnny

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Franklin & Bash - Captain Johnny

Rachel (Heather Locklear) makes a bet with Peter (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and Jared (Breckin Meyer) over which of their cases will garner the firm more notoriety. As Rachel defends a self-proclaimed psychic (Fernanda Andrade) who pepper sprayed her boss (Roy Abramsohn) after having a vision he was going to assault her, Franklin and Bash perform a motion sickness demonstration, subpoena a parrot, and invoke Pirate Law while defending a “grossly negligent” commercial fisherman (Matt Battaglia) being sued for $25,000 from the team that rescued him against his will from a storm he did’t believe was dangerous (and cost him his fishing boat only after being forcibly removed from the sea).

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Fatale #15

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Fatale #15After loosing his leg and spending nearly a year in jail the latest issue of Fatale finally picks up the thread of Nicholas Lash‘s storyline. Combing over the edited pages of his uncle’s manuscript in search of answers to the secret of Josephine, the obsessed Lash is finally let out of prison and taken to the courthouse where a madman kills his lawyer and helps him escape, all for her. It appears she hasn’t forgotten him after all.

The rest of the issue takes place years earlier when a member of a struggling band turned bank robber discovers a nude and bloodied Josephine on the side of the road. We get glimpses of what she escaped from, and at least one man still on her trail, but Josephine herself seems lost and confused as to how she ended up naked running through the woods.

I’m happy to see Lash’s return but the length of his story cuts into the opening of Josephine’s new arc which has to spend several pages introducing Lance as well. This means the crux behind the new arc is teased but not really shown. Still, fans of Fatale should enjoy themselves here. Worth a look.

[Image, $3.50]

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