The Rubber Band

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The Rubber Band

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a New York City brownstone. In only the third of the Nero Wolfe mysteries, author Rex Stout is in top form. It’s a complicated case Nero Wolfe accepts in The Rubber Band. First, it involves a female client (notably not his preference). Second, it’s not one situation for which she needs Wolfe’s help, it’s several. One involves a debt owed to Clara Fox and others by the Marquis of Clivers which she hopes Wolfe to be able to help successfully obtain. The second involves a theft of a large sum of money where all evidence points to her as the thief (including the money later being discovered in her car). And the third involves a pair of murders of the people Clara represents owed an equal share of the Marquis’ debt.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Serve and Protect

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NCIS: Hawai'i - Serve and Protect

While Lucy (Yasmine Al-Bustami) is assigned to protect one of the daughter (Masha Mashkova) of a Russian oligarch, and one of the visitors for a peace summit, Hanna (LL Cool J) reads Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) in to one of of his super-secret squad’s assignments, this one involving Alexi Volkoff (David Meunier). Tennant quickly  finds the right lever to get Hanna the information his team needs leaving the majority of the episode to focus on the Lucy storyline. We also get Kai (Alex Tarrant) running into an old friend in a Canadian reporter (Peyton List) he was involved with during his time in Afghanistan who in turns out might be able to help NCIS learn Tatyana’s true purpose on the island.

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Green Lantern #9

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Green Lantern #9

Hal Jordan‘s isolation on Earth comes to an end with a discovery of a hidden Power Battery on the planet. Hal’s journey, the discovery of the battery, and trading in for a new ring (charging it with a familiar oath), is helped by the appearance of Tom Kalmaku (whose role with the New Guardians is referenced). Breaking out of the Earth’s atmosphere, Hal returns to Oa where we also get an appearance by Jo Mullein who appears to be the one behind the Lanterns’ rebellion of the United Planets.

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X-Men ’97 – To Me, My X-Men / Mutant Liberation Begins

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X-Men '97 - To Me, My X-Men / Mutant Liberation Begins

Resurrecting the 90s X-Men cartoon, X-Men ’97 returns much of its voice cast and core characters to continue its storylines following the death of Charles Xavier. There’s quite a bit to praise in the opening two episodes of the series. As a huge fan of Cyclops (Ray Chase), I’ll start with the much maligned X-Men’s field leader who gets to kick a serious amount of butt stopping a terrorist group known as the Friends of Humanity who are kidnapping mutants and have access to Sentinel technology. A character Fox struggled with in various live-action adaptations is given a great showcase here. Cyclops is also navigating a world without his mentor one the eve of the birth of his son both of which alter his role towards the rest of the X-Men.

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Fables #162

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Fables #162

Fables comes to a close… again. Fables #162 wraps up “The Black Forest,” the twelve-part return to the Fables Universe for Bill Willingham. Although its various epilogues tease additional stories for some of the separate characters, Fables #162 does feel like a finale. Our catalyst to the end of Peter Pan comes in the form of the new Jack in the Green who finally catches up with the villain and uses her arrow not to kill Pan but to release Tinkerbell from his control damning him to a far worse fate than death.

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