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Deadpool: Black, White, & Blood #1

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Deadpool: Black, White, & Blood #1 comic reviewFollowing in the footsteps of Batman, and other heroes who have gotten their own black-and-white anthology series, Deadpool gets three tales in Deadpool: Black, White, & Blood #1 which feature the wisecracking hero’s wacky adventures in three colors. In “Red All Over,” Deadpool calls Honey Badger for help in wrangling a zombie zebra (or as Wade names it a zombiebra) and have a heart-to-heart with the CEO of the company creating undead killing machines.

“Hotline to Heaven” involves Deadpool’s overreaction when discovering he can’t stream an old Bea Arthur movie and his quest to find a copy of the film. Deadpool is invited to check out Omega Red‘s new home in “Born in the USZORSUSR” only to see Ursa Major show up in an attempt to take over Omega Red’s “utopia” in the Canadian wilderness. Poor Canada.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Paranormal Hacktivity Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Paranormal Hacktivity Job
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Leverage: Redemption - The Paranormal Hacktivity Job TV review

With the boys out of town, “The Paranormal Hacktivity Job” offers an all-girls episode as Parker (Beth Riesgraf) finds a client (Gillian Saker) scared out of her home by a pair of con men (Mike Massimino and T.C. Matherne). Using the bar as bait for another of their swindles, Sophie (Gina Bellman) tempts the pair in to use the high-tech haunting techniques allowing Parker to explain the pair’s actions to their client. The Halloween episode offers a late twist with the arrival of an assassin (Matt McTighe) whose fear of ghosts, and the methods already deployed in the bar (raised one-hundred fold), become tools to take down another criminal as well and stop an assassination.

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What If…? – Episode One

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What If...? - Episode One television review

Since it first debuted back in 1977, Marvel Comics’ What If…? has asked the question what might have happened if events had turned out differently. With decades of comic history to pull from, the on-again/off-again series examined both big and large changes and what ripples they might have caused. The Disney+ series takes the concept and applies it the MCU (meaning it has far less history to diverge in creating alternative timelines). The first episode asks the question of what might have happened if Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) had received the super-soldier serum rather than Steve Rogers (one of the most prominent characters not voiced by the actor who played him in the films)? It turns out to be a fun idea that the series will repeat in the next episode which uses a very similar set-up of swapping characters.

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The Suicide Squad

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  • Title: The Suicide Squad
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The Suicide Squad movie reviewWriter/director James Gunn‘s sequel to 2016’s Suicide Squad is bonkers. If Legends of Tomorrow ever makes it to the big screen, I’d expect it would look something like this (with a far smaller body count, to be sure). Bringing back a handful of the stars from the first film, with some notable absences, the story this time follows a more straightforward Task Force X plot of the criminals turned black ops soldiers by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) sent overseas to a foreign country to cause some mayhem under the radar. Oh, and then the movie throws in Starro. Starro!? Did I mention this movie is bonkers?

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Kung Fu – Transformation

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  • Title: Kung Fu (2021) – Transformation
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Kung Fu - Transformation television review

The season finale returns Nicky (Olivia Liang) back to the Chinese monastery and a final confrontation with Zhilan (Yvonne Chapman) who has also learned this is the location of the forge where the weapons were imbued with power. We do get some final twists here as power isn’t in the forge and the power of the weapons eventually dispersed equally between Nicky and Zhilan. Nicky’s choice to release the power into the world, rather than horde it for her own use, proves to be the key to defeating Zhilan. However, the series (now renewed for a second season) does tease a new enemy for Nicky in Russell Tan (Kee Chan) who is just as obsessed with getting his hands on the power as Zhilan ever was.

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