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Black Cat Annual #1

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Black Cat Annual #1Annual issues of ongoing comic titles are often quite hit-and-miss. Thankfully, Black Cat Annual #1 proves to be better than most as Black Cat gets out of New York on a much needed vacation only to be coerced into helping local heroes in Korea. It seems a local crime syndicate has gotten control of South Korea’s most powerful hero Taegukgi and is threatening to unleash the hero on Seoul.

Working with Felicia are the agents of Tiger Division who include a spy, pop-star, wild man, merlin, robot, and something Felicia cannot categorize. The group is led by White Fox who uses Suicide Squad techniques to ensure Felicia’s help (also giving the cat an idea on how to neutralize the situation when the heroes come across the super-villain mind-controlling their hero). There’s also a mercenary death cult (because, why not?).

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Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two #1

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Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two #1 comic reviewBatman: The Adventures Continue, um, continue in a new volume. Writers Alan Burnett and Paul Dini, and artist Ty Templeton, all return for the first issue of Season Two which introduces the Court of Owls to the expanded DC Animated Universe. Issue #1 focuses on a Talon killing Mayor Hill and doesn’t get too bogged down in the backstory of the secret organization who created zombie soldiers to rule Gotham City from the shadows.

Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two #1 also brings in Deadman, who up until this point has yet to meet Batman (confirming events from this comic take place before the Justice League Unlimited episode “Dead Reckoning,” while also creating a continuity error as the episode states Batman originally met Deadman while helping the spirit solve his own murder).

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Leverage: Redemption – The Too Many Rembrandts Job

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Leverage: Redemption - The Too Many Rembrandts Job TV review

It’s been more than eight years since the final episode of Leverage aired. The core cast, last seen in “The Long Good-bye Job,” all return for the new series with one notable exception. The choice to move forward without Timothy Hutton, whose character acted as a central spoke all the other parts of the show played off of, leaves a large hole at the center of the new series which Leverage: Redemption honors in its first episode. “The Too Many Rembrandts Job” opens with Sophie (Gina Bellman) long out of the game still mourning the loss of Nate who died one year earlier. Hoping to raise their friends spirits, Parker (Beth Riesgraf), Eliot (Christian Kane), and Hardison (Aldis Hodge) attempt to lure Sophie into a small museum theft. At first uninterested, Sophie notices a man in need of help leading to the band coming back together for “one job.”

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The Flash – P.O.W.

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The Flash - P.O.W. television review

Godspeeds from the future are wreaking havoc on Central City searching for August Heart (Karan Oberoi) who is trapped in the present but without any memory of who he is or why the Godspeeds want him. Barry (Grant Gustin) also discovers his wife’s grip on the timeline is in jeopardy as his fears nearly consume him about the uncertain future of his family. However, the episode is most memorable for it’s guest-stars. First, we get John Diggle (David Ramsey) showing up with A.R.G.U.S. tech to help fight the Godspeeds (and running from a destiny that was teased in Arrow‘s finale) and, helping to set the stage for next week’s 150th episode, we get the return of XS (Jessica Parker Kennedy) and the introduction of Impulse (Jordan Fisher).

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Black Widow #8

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Black Widow #8 comic reviewBlack Widow, Yelena Belova, and Anya Corazon continue their investigation into Apogee and The Olio. Spider-Girl’s time as a spy comes to a sudden end when she’s forced to reveal herself to prevent others from ingesting the serum which can give volunteers super-powers but ultimately killed Gumby (something Lucy still hasn’t worked through).

Black Widow #8 offers another solid issue filled with some fun humor (I particularly liked Anya’s musings of being a spy and the back-and-forth between the Widows when Natasha saves Yelena from the Olio). While Elena Casagrande’s art is certainly acceptable and fits the story, I will admit that I’m missing the more stylish art of Rafael de Latorre more and more as we get further away from the comic’s first arc.

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