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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #289

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #289 offers us a team-up of Agent Helix and Dawn “Snake Eyes” Moreno (are we still calling her Snake Eyes?). The formidable pair are in Louisiana on the hunt for Dr. Mindbender and Cobra’s new the base of Cobra’s new B.A.T. program run by Revanche.

I’m not wild about the art from Casey Maloney. Also, the comic is also mostly set-up, including a lame running gag about the two women making a local cop look like a chump, before finally our protagonists pit their skills against the new androids who prove to be more than capable while also be able to hide in plain sight (which Cobra plans to take advantage of by staffing the B.A.T.s throughout its casinos. The action is fine, once the comic finally gets around to it, but I was hoping for more finally seeing these two pair up.

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The Endgame – Fairytale Wedding

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  • Title: The Endgame – Fairytale Wedding
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The games, and stories, continue in the second episode of NBC’s The Endgame. For stories, we get the almost-wedding of Elena Federova (Morena Baccarin) and death of FBI Agent Val Fitzgerald’s (Ryan Michelle Bathe) mother. For games, Federova’s men kidnap the Secretary of Homeland Security’s son and use evidence from one of the banks to expose her corruption. The show continues the trend of Federova being three-steps ahead of everyone else including Fitzgerald who learns of another connection between the criminal mastermind and her incarcerated husband but still doesn’t know what it means.

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Red Sonja: Black, White, Red #7

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Red Sonja: Black, White, Red follows up one of the strongest issues of the black-and-white anthology with one of its weakest. The most interesting story of the three, “Sonja’s Gambit” involves a drugged Sonja tricked into a game by Queen Thamyris where Sonja finds herself as a figure on a chessboard with other living players forced into a game of life and death. Although it’s not clear if Sonja did obey the rules of the game, exactly, she still manages to win with the help of another pawn.

In a story that has ties to Sonja’s childhood, Sonja fights off werewolves in the forest to return the body of a nun she knew in her youth to be burned in a temple in “Unbowed.” And wounded Sonja makes a stand against a group of barbarians on a snowy mountainside in “Blood on Snow.” 

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The Endgame – Pilot

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  • Title: The Endgame – Pilot
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Feeling like it was inspired more than a little by The Blacklist, the first episode of NBC’s The Endgame introduces us to a super-criminal (Morena Baccarin) in control of a vast global network who allows herself to be captured the the United States Government to further her own plans and put herself in the path of a single agent (Ryan Michelle Bathe). While the heads of the various agencies are at first smug at the prize they’ve snared, they soon realize who is in a trap when Elena Federova (Baccarin) masterminds a number of bank heists across the city while still under FBI lock up.

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Dragons: The Nine Realms – First Flight

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  • Title: Dragons: The Nine Realms – First Flight Part 1 and Part 2
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Well this is an unexpected series? Set more than a thousand years after the various movies and TV-shows that make up the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, comes Dragons: The Nine Realms. Set in present day, our main character is precocious teen Tom Kullersen (Jeremy Shada) who relocates with his scientist mother (Julia Stiles) to the ICARIS research station investigating the Kullersen Fissure which holds a secret no one has guessed: a pathway to a world of dragons. Obviously a modern interpretation of a very familiar character to the franchise, Tom will be the one to discover a dragon and unearth a whole new world. Or, to be more precise, a much older one.

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