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Killjoys – I Love Lucy

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Killjoys - I Love Lucy

Looking for answers about the yellow goo leads Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), Johnny (Aaron Ashmore), and D’Avin (Luke Macfarlane) to a collector of sorts who lives within a ship disguised as one rock in an asteroid field. Although seemingly wiling to trade Sam Romwell (Keon Alexander) attempts to cheat the Killjoys lead to Johnny and D’Avin being held hostage by his fembots and Dutch dusting off her old assassin skills in a attempt to kill the cheat and take what the team needs from his vault.

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Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1

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Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1 proves to be an intersting way to introduce a streamlined version of Task Force X. Presented from the view of Amanda Waller, who almost has her program decommissioned by the President, the comic focuses largely on the Suicide Squad’s creator offering a job to Rick Flag.

Waller finds Flag rotting in Guantanamo Bay (although he still appears to be a honest man and good soldier who just refused to accept the wrong order). With so much focus on Waller and Flag here we don’t really get much in the way of the team itself who is operating in China to stop a criminal army possessed with super-powers thanks to a meta-bomb created by a kidnapped scientist.

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Batgirl #1

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Batgirl #1The first issue of the new Batgirl solo-series takes Barbara Gordon to Japan on a pilgrimage in search of elite martial artists who can help improve her fighting skills. In Okinawa, Barbara runs into an old friend who it seems has drawn the interest of some unsavory locals as well as meeting the elderly Fruit Bat who, after showing off some still impressive skills, shares some cryptic advice with our heroine.

Batgirl #1 has the right tone I want in a Batgirl series. Sure, it would make much more sense having Stephanie Brown bouncing around as Batgirl (with Babs as Oracle), but the ship apparently has sailed. Japan is an interesting destination to take Batgirl especially as we’re still a bit unsure how much training Barbara got from anyone other than Batman her first go-around as Batgirl.

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Pretty Little Liars – Wanted: Dead or Alive

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Pretty Little Liars - Wanted: Dead or Alive

“Wanted: Dead or Alive” is one of those episodes were you can see the Liars being manipulated and outsmarted by their adversary but they walk right into the new A‘s trap anyway. With a series of phone calls and an attack on Alison (Sasha Pieterse) by a masked individual, A.D. gaslight’s Spencer (Troian Bellisario) and Hanna (Ashley Benson) into digging up the grave of Elliot Rollins (Huw Collins) to convince themselves that the man is actually dead. By the end of the episode A.D. has all the video evidence he/she needs to destroy the Liars once and for all.

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Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth #1

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Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth #1Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth #1 doesn’t introduce us to the new Outlaws, but the issue does catch-up readers on the history of Jason Todd from street urchin to Robin the Boy Wonder to the Red Hood. It also introduces a plot to keep Jason a part of the extended Bat-Family but still separate from its core members. It’s a little odd that both Red Hood and Nightwing are going undercover with underground criminal organizations, but the set-up (at least for me) works far better here than with Dick Grayson.

We’ll have to wait for Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 for the introductions of both Bizarro and Artemis, and the how and why they team-up with the vigilante. While certainly doing its job to reintroduce Jason to the DCU the comic doesn’t do much to explain the set-up of the new series with two of its key figures (and their relationship to Jason) unexplored.

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