Watson – Lucky

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  • Title: Watson – Lucky
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In an episode that keeps several plates spinning simultaneously, “Lucky” features the return of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle) far sooner than I expected, but again only for a single episode. Spending a bit of time poking around Pittsburgh, Holmes stays with Watson (Morris Chestnut) and offers some advice on the doctor’s latest case involving a man in a coma ward suffering from undiagnosed locked-in syndrome who has witnessed multiple murders by an angel of death over the years. Along with helping the patient, Watson and the team also work to prove there is someone killing end-of-life patients and identifying her before she murders again.

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Bat-Fam – Game Knight

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  • Title: Bat-Fam – Game Knight
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Set in the world of Merry Little Batman, Bat-Fam is the goofiest attempt at a Batman series since the late 60s that seems to be aiming for the Teen Titans Go! audience. The first episode of the series involves Damian‘s (Yonas Kibreab) attempts to win over Wayne Manor’s latest resident 12 year-old former super-villain Claire Selton (Haley Tju). The two bond over the arrival of Alicia Pennyworth (London Hughes) whose business dealings with super-villains Claire finds suspicious.

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The Running Man

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  • Title: The Running Man (1987)
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Set in the distant future of 6 years ago, 1987’s The Running Man starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards, an escaped convict and disgraced former police officer who was arrested for refusing to open fire on an unarmed mob in a totalitarian police state run by lies, propaganda, and brutal force that looks more and more prescient every day. Framed for the murders he refused to commit, Richard is tapped by Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), the host of the world’s most popular reality-TV game show, and forced into competing on The Running Man.

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Planetary #7

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“For me, Jack Carter was London.”

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another adventure of the Archaeologists of the Impossible. After hearing news of Jack Carter‘s death (Planetary‘s stand-in for John Constantine), Elijah Snow and the Drummer accompany Jakita Wagner to the dickish rogue’s funeral. Despite the man’s many faults, Jakita still looks back on him fondly (although the pedestal she places him on will be shaken before the end of the comic).

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