Operation Mincemeat

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  • Title: Operation Mincemeat
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The more outrageous the lie, the more likely it is to be believed. Operation Mincemeat offers us a look at the 1943 deception operation instrumental to getting the Allies back in the fight. The group led by Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) was tasked with convincing Germany the Allies would invade Greece instead of the more logical location of Sicily. Their lie involved the creation of a solider who didn’t exist, a dead body, fake papers, and a lot of luck.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #1

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  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #1 (of 4)
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  • Writer: Erik Burnham
  • Artist: Tim Lattie

While not nearly as fun as G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures, the first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #1 follows the same basic formula while attempting to recreate the enjoyment of a classic cartoon in comic form. Offering a single tale, the first issue of the four-issue mini-series gives us the misadventures of Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael who become trapped in a VR training program.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Sudden Death

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NCIS runs into dead ends while investigation the death of a sailor, and older brother to a star high school football player (Kainalu Moya) whose family is under the thumb of a local group of gangsters expecting to skim money from the kid’s promising football career. With a community to scared to talk, Kai (Alex Tarrant) turns to an old friend (Jonah Ho’Okano) for help.

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Werewolf by Night

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  • Title: Werewolf by Night
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Based on the on-again/off-again horror comic from Marvel Comics that found its longest run in the 1970s, Werewolf by Night offers an hour of Disney-fied horror (i.e. bloodless and never quite creepy enough) by brining together a collection of monster hunters on the Bloodstone property in a race to kill a monster and claim the price of the recently deceased Ulysses Bloodstone (a robotically-animated corpse adding to the goofiness of the proceedings) – the Bloodstone.

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