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Suicide Squad #6

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Suicide Squad #6 comic reviewWaller sends the Squad to Earth-3 after the captured Bloodsport and his original target Black Siren (although Wallers seems more interested in the latter than the former). Elsewhere, back on Prime Earth, Peacemaker takes a team in search of Swamp Thing in a plot thread that still hasn’t gotten going yet.

The second issue arc offers another appearance of Ultraman, although this time the Squad has a Superboy to help even the odds. The mystery about Superboy comes up again in this issue, and it will likely only deepen with the appearance of an unexpected hero when the the Squad returns home.

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X-Men #2

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X-Men #2 comic reviewCordyceps Jones continues to run bets on who can successfully destroy Earth as another threat hits the planet in the form of an Annihilation Wave (which works as a kind of monstrous blob destroying everything in its path).

X-Men Assemble! Sunfire gets a nice moment here, as do the entire team in the aftermath of the battle as we see a far warmer reception by the locals to the X-Men stepping up to save the day than mutants have generally received in the past.

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Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

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  • Title: Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time movie reviewThe long-delayed final film in the Rebuild of Evangelion film series wraps up the story of Shinji Ikari (Megumi Ogata / Spike Spencer), looming angels, and the end of the world. The film finally sees the light of day more than eight years after the release of the last movie.

As with the other feature film adaptations of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time is beautiful, bizarre, at times haunting, and often confusing. It’s certainly a step-up from the third, and weakest, entry into the franchise, although it does have to work extra hard while relying on quite a bit of monologuing to wrap up the tale.

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Rick and Morty – Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort

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  • Title: Rick and Morty – Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort
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Rick and Morty - Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort TV review

With the rest of the family off on their own vacation, Rick‘s (Justin Roiland) attention turns back to one of the series’ lingering plot threads as he attempts to save the life of his former best-friend Birdperson (Dan Harmon). After removing the cybernetics, Rick enters Birdperson’s mind and attempts to convince his suicidal friend that there is something worth living for. In order to save Birdperson, Rick is forced into asking for help from a younger version of himself as remembered by his friend (who turns out to be far less cynical than the current version of Rick).

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Batman: The Long Halloween (Part Two)

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  • Title: 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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