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Smallville Season Eleven: Alien #4

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Smallville Season Eleven: Alien #4Finishing the four-issue mini-series, Smallville Season Eleven: Alien #4 features Superman‘s final battle with the Monitor in Russia, and pits Batman against an evil Joker-Batman version of himself from another Earth who severely wounds Nightwing before his capture.

By the end of the issue Batman agrees to join the Justice League (at least on a temporary basis), the threat from the Multiverse has been dealt with (at least for now), and things can get back to normal (or what passes for normal in the Smallville Universe).

The ease of which Superman beats the Monitor here took me a little by surprise (isn’t this the same guy who was mopping the floor with the Man of Steel just last issue?), but Smallville Season Eleven: Alien #4 ties up all the loose ends (including quite a bit of epilogue involving Bruce finally agreeing to join the JLA), and even gives us a little of Lex being Lex (causing tomorrow’s trouble). Worth a look.

[DC, $3.99]

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She-Hulk #2

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She-Hulk #2Most of the second issue of the new She-Hulk title involves the basic set-up of She-Hulk setting up her new offices. She grabs office space in a building that targets super-powered tenants, hiring an assistant, and does her best to drum up new clients (which isn’t easy as her former firm has spread word about her hotheadedness destroying the partner’s conference table on her way out of the door and poisoned the well against her).

The second-half of the issue involves She-Hulk letting off some much needed steam with Hellcat first at a bar and later, against her better judgement, taking on an A.I.M. warehouse with her drunken (but determined) partner.

Although things don’t exactly go smoothly, the much-needed victory gives She-Hulk exactly what she needed as the misadventures of the lawyering super-hero continue. And by the end of the issue our heroine has her first new client: the son of Victor von Doom. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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Hawaii Five-0 – Ma lalo o ka ‘ili

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  • Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Ma lalo o ka ‘ili
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Hawaii Five-0 - Ma lalo o ka 'ili

What appears to be a simple murder-kidnapping becomes far more interesting as Five-0 discovers the young man (Booboo Stewart) with a criminal record who committed the crimes is actually the young woman’s (Moanie Hara) boyfriend who she is with of her own free will. Discovering a history of abuse between the woman and her father, Five-0 begins to piece together what really went down on the night her father was killed, but they have to scrap all their theories when Kono‘s (Grace Park) digging into the proof of the young woman’s abuse proves that it was all recently fabricated.

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – Dirty Little Secrets

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  • Title: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – Dirty Little Secrets
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - Dirty Little Secrets

Unable to come to an agreement on how best to proceed to stop Jafar (Naveen Andrews), the Knave (Michael Socha) and the Red Queen (Emma Rigby) enlist the help of The White Rabbit (John Lithgow) to help them put together an army to save Wonderland while Alice (Sophie Lowe) and Cyrus (Peter Gadiot) search for the portal to the Well of Wonders and the only creature able to remove the curse on Cyrus’ two brothers (Raza Jaffrey and Dejan Loyola) who remain in the genie lamps in the sorcerer’s possession.

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The Mommy Observation

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Mommy Observation
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The Mommy Observation

After finishing their trip to NASA, Howard (Simon Helberg) takes Sheldon (Jim Parsons) on a surprise visit home. However, when the scientist discovers his mother (Laurie Metcalf) sexual adventures in the middle of his childhood living room it prolongs the bonding time between the two scientists leading to Sheldon confronting, and eventually accepting, what he witnessed.

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