Scooby-Doo! – Don’t Fool with a Phantom

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  • Title: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! – Don’t Fool with a Phantom
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! for another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. “Don’t Fool with a Phantom” was the final episode of the Second Season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and the last new episode of the show for 8 years until the characters returned in the Fall of 1978. Opening with the gang performing in a dance contest on The Johnny Sands Dance Game Show, where they appear to be the only contestants, the dancing is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a Wax Phantom who superstitious states could the creation of Mr. Grisby (Don Messick), a wax sculptor with a grudge against the station although the true culprit is merely attempting to put suspicion elsewhere while carrying out his plan.

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Red Sonja #9

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Taking place mainly aboard a pirate ship, where Sonja and Sitha swipe and stab at everything that moves including the imposing Captain Eustachius Krancher before eventually fleeing the cursed waters and arriving on land, Red Sonja #9 continues Red Sonja’s journey to see her new ward safely home (which has turned out to be anything but a safe journey).

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The Blacklist – Marvin Gerard, Conclusion

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  • Title: The Blacklist – Marvin Gerard, Conclusion: Part 1 & Part 2
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Season Nine of The Blacklist concludes with a two-part finale revealing Reddington‘s (James Spader) lawyer Marvin Gerard (Fisher Stevens) to be the man behind Elizabeth Keen‘s death and the recent attempts to steal Red’s criminal empire from under him. The first episode fills in the gap explaining reasons for Gerard’s choices, mostly jealousy over Red giving away what Gerard saw as rightfully his, through a series of flashbacks while Reddington and the task force both search for the man only to get in each other’s way. The two-parter ends in typical Blacklist fashion with Red getting his revenge while still helping the show reset the status quo and, as a bonus, lay the foundation for next season’s threat.

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Halo – Unbound

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  • Title: Halo – Unbound
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Master Chief’s (Pablo Schreiber) life on the run comes to a quick end. In “Unbound,” Master Chief takes Kwan (Yerin Ha) to an old friend (Bokeem Woodbine) who escaped from the UNSC to live in an asteroid field. Leaving Kwan their at the end of the episode and returning to Dr. Halsey (Natascha McElhone) with only minimal more information about the artifact, Chief ends up back where he started except now he’s a prisoner who the UNSC cannot trust. Ending the character’s self discovery without much self discovery feels like a wasted opportunity leaving his future in doubt and abandoning Kwan’s story altogether.

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Usagi Yojimbo: Lone Goat and Kid #5

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The fifth issue of Usagi Yojimbo: Lone Goat and Kid reprints the story “The Way of the Samurai” in which the choice to save a messenger on the road leads to an encounter with the famous General Oyaneko. While on a walk through the town, Oyaneko tells Miyamoto Usagi of his service to Lord Higashi and the troubles of later serving the Lord’s son Hirone leading him to be assigned as an administrator for a peaceful town and a slow death far from the action of his youth.

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