Elementary – The Leviathan

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Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) is hired by the president (Reg Rogers) of a security company renown worldwide as the “world’s foremost maker of bank vaults” to discover how the company’s unbreakable safe was breached leading the the theft of $40 million in diamonds. Despite his initial assessment of needing only an hour to come up with the answer, the case proves to be far trickier than he originally believed. Maybe he should have stayed in bed with those twins (both played by Tonya Glanz) after all.

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Scarlet Spider #12

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Scarlet Spider #12With the events of Minimum Carnage finally done (and best forgotten) Kaine returns to Houston with plans to throw in the towel, stop playing hero, and leave the city for good. His quick getaway is halted by a drunken slumber (which may or may not have been brought on by the telepathic abilities of Aracely) and his hotel being robbed by a gang of machine gun wielding Santas.

I’m glad to see the comic deal with the events of the (again, best forgotten) crossover and move on quickly with Kaine getting some good advice from one of his new friends and then throwing on his costume to kick some serious Santa Claus ass. It’s also nice to see the comic give us a single one-off story rather that jumping directly into a new multi-issue arc.

The comic continues to tease the abilities of Aracely, play on the guilt of our main character, and provide plenty of opportunities to prove to everyone (including himself) that he is indeed a hero. (And the cover’s pretty cool, too.) Merry Christmas. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $2.99]

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #17

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tmnt-17-coverAs Splinter tries to bring his refocus his family after their recent loses, the latest issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brings in our first extended look at Dimension X and the Neutrinos who General Krang is out to destroy.

As you’d expect with any story that features the Neutrinos and Dimension X, this one gets a little weird. For our heroes in half-shell the craziness begins when April reaches out to a fellow Stockton employee who is actually a fugitive Neutrino android in hiding from Krang and his forces. When other Neutrinos show up to take Professor Honeycutt home the Turtles step in to stop what they see as an attack on April and her co-worker.

Although the version of the Neutrinos we see her are far more comfortable with violence than the original characters created for the cartoon, the comic does a good job at dealing with the fallout of the previous issue while spending the proper amount of time introducing the group, without giving too much away too soon, and staring a new arc featuring the Turtles traveling to Dimension X. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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KCFCC 46th Annual Loutzenhiser Awards

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Philip Seymour Hoffman, The MasterEarlier today the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the second oldest critics’ group in the country (of which I am proud to be a member), got together to vote on the 46th Annual Loutzenhiser Awards choosing the best in film we saw this year in 12 separate categories. The big winner of the afternoon was Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master which took home the award for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Screenplay. Best director went to Ang Lee for Life of Pi. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for his performance in Lincoln, and Jennifer Lawrence narrowly beat out Beasts of the Southern Wild‘s Quvenzhané Wallis for Best Actress for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook. You can find the full list of winners inside.

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