Red Hood and the Outlaws #11

red-hood-and-the-outlaws-11-coverThe team’s outer space adventure continues as Starfire shares with Arsenal and the Red Hood her conflicted feelings for saving a people who sentenced her to a lifetime of slavery. A little more of Kori’s backstory is filled in here along with Starfire’s complicated relationship with her sister (which looks to have big implications for next month’s issue).

There’s really nothing all that interesting about watching these three characters walk around a spaceship and have awkward conversations with one another. Arsenal and Starfire share one nice moment (and it seems apparent that writer Scott Lobdell has decided to put some distance between Jason and Kori, at least for the time being), but Jason’s awkward date problems and the aftermath of a battle we aren’t shown aren’t enough to sell me on this issue.

We also get the continuation of the back-up story featuring Essence hunting down the Untitled (which can’t finish quickly enough for me). Pass.

[DC, $2.99]

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The Newsroom – Amen

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On a chaotic week the News Night crew tries to follow and report on not one but two public protests simultaneously. The first involves the forced, and violent, ejection of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the second is a spontaneous protest of teachers angry at Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker‘s “Budget Repair Bill” and plan to break the unions and strip their collective bargaining rights of teachers and other union members.

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Justice League #11

justice-league-new-52-11-coverIf you were wondering who the strongest member of the New 52 version of the Justice League is this issue will answer your question. And, no, it turns out it’s not Superman. Wonder Woman basically takes down all her teammates on live television… when they offer to help her save Steve Trevor? Yeah, it didn’t make a lot of sense to me either, but then logic hasn’t been the New 52’s strong suit.

After surviving the attack from David Graves the team learns that Steve has been taken and the one-time scribe of their adventures turned crazed super-villain is now targeting Trevor’s sister (who, it turns out, is far from Diana’s biggest fan). The team finally gets their act together to follow Terminus’ trail to Mount Sumeru and the Valley of Souls, but it may already be too late for Steve.

Although we’re presented with a reason for Graves’ behavior the logic is more than a little hard to follow. But hey, if you’ve ever wanted to see Wonder Woman beat the shit out of Hal Jordan this is your comic.

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Political Animals – Second Time Around

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Following up last week’s Pilot, Elaine (Sigourney Weaver) sends the former President of the United States, and her ex-husband (Ciarán Hinds), to negotiate the hostage crisis in Iran, a move the current President (Adrian Pasdar) isn’t all too thrilled with being bullied into making. Elaine allows Susan Berg (Carla Gugino) to make the trip as a member of the press as part of her exclusive on the First Lady, and although she doesn’t change her opinion of Bud, spending some time with him on the plane does make her continue to soften her stance on Elaine.

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Leverage – The Blue Line Job

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The team is hired by the son of a brain-damaged minor league hockey enforcer Craig Marko (Graham Shiels) whose owner (Treat Williams) markets hockey brawls no matter the injury or long term cost to the players, even if that means having the team doctors lie to the players about their health and falsify medical test results.

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