Invincible – It’s About Time

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Invincible - It's About Time television review

The first episode of Invincible, adapted from the comic series of the same name, introduces us to teenager Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun). The son of the world’s most powerful hero, Mark finally gets his own powers as “It’s About Time” works as an origin story for the hero who would come to be known as Invincible. It’s not until the end of the episode that the darker themes of the comic are touched on as Mark’s father Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons) lures the world’s greatest heroes into one location and murders them setting up a mystery and eventual confession which will lead Mark to find his own place in the world.

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Batman: The Long Halloween (Part Two)

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Batman: The Long Halloween (Part Two) DVD reviewBatman: The Long Halloween (Part Two) concludes the two-part adaptation of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale‘s thirteen-issue maxi-series. Part Two races through the remainder of the story with more villains, more holidays, flashbacks to a young Bruce Wayne, the birth of Two-Face (Josh Duhamel), and (when it remembers to get around to it) the final unmasking of the Holiday killer. The adaptation takes a more definitive approach to Gilda (Julie Nathanson), playing off the heavy foreshadowing from Part One.

The movie jumps around a bit, and with so much focus on Bat-villains such as Poison Ivy (Katee Sackhoff) and Scarecrow (Robin Atkin Downes) who both put Batman out of action for a bit (seriously, Batman gets his ass handed to him quite a bit here), the actual Holiday mystery gets buried. The script also dives into a bit more of the mobster plot, and its ties to the Wayne family, along with the reveal of Catwoman‘s (Naya Rivera) interest in the Falcone family.

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