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The Locomotive Manipulation

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Locomotive Manipulation
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The Big Bang Theory - The Locomotive Manipulation

Amy‘s (Mayim Bialik) plans for the perfect St. Valentine’s Day dinner backfire when she books dinner for herself, Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Howard (Simon Helberg), and Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) on a restored classic locomotive. Knowing Sheldon’s love of trains, Amy hopes the setting will spark actual romance but she doesn’t take into account Sheldon making a new friend as obsessed with trains as he is.

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Larfleeze #7

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Larfleeze #7Finally freed from his imprisonment at the hands of the resurrected Orange Lantern Corps, Larfleeze sets out to find his missing butler while causing more chaos and trouble and pissing off yet another member of the Laord of the Hunt‘s family.

It’s good to see Larfleeze free an back causing mischief again (even accidentally saving an entire planet from the influence of Dyrge of All Sorrows). We also learn that Larfleeze’s ring, like those of the Green Lantern Corps, can speak. But it turns it out doesn’t think much more of its master than anyone else in the universe.

Already at seven issues, the opening arc is beginning to drag a bit, but by the end of the issue Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis finally bring the various threads of the storyline together by uniting the Laord, the Wanderer, Errata, and Dyrge all against a greedy ring-slinger and hopefully laying the ground work for a new arc and the eventual appearance of G’nort in a couple of months. Worth a look.

[DC, $2.99]

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Beware the Batman #4

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Beware the Batman #4Obviously set to be released after an episode of Beware of the Batman that never aired, Beware the Batman #4 features a two version of Man-Bat long after Batman‘s unseen first meeting with scientist Kirk Langstrom and includes Barbara Gordon working with Team Batman as Oracle.

Despite building on events and relationships that neither the show nor the comic have covered, the latest issue works well enough playing on a familiar storyline of Batman and Man-Bat working together to find someone else who has been exposed to the serum and transformed into a Man-Bat (in this case the young student Barbara had been tutoring).

With the show not returning to the air in January as scheduled I have a feeling these gaps in continuity could continue which may be why DC has decided to end the comic series after issue #6. As to the fate of the cartoon, given that neither DC nor Cartoon Network have discussed it in months, one has to wonder if it will meet a similar fate. Worth a look.

[DC, $2.99]

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – T.R.A.C.K.S.

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – T.R.A.C.K.S.
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - T.R.A.C.K.S.

Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team go after Ian Quinn (David Conrad) by tracking his $10 million purchase from Cybertek Technologies on a train through the Italian countryside. Breaking up into pairs, Ward (Brett Dalton) and May (Ming-Na Wen), Skye‘s (Chloe Bennet) and Fitz (Iain De Caestecker), and Coulson and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), all board the train undercover as passengers hoping to nab Quinn when he shows up to take possession of his recent purchase. Unluckily for the team, the team chooses to trust the wrong man (Carlo Rota).

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Worlds’ Finest Annual #1

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Worlds' Finest Annual #1Before they were Power Girl and the Huntress on another Earth they were Supergirl and Robin. More times than not comic annuals aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Overpriced and often featuring multiple disjointed stories from more than one creative group, the standalone issues often don’t even fit into the series’ current storyline.

With the Huntress and Power Girl, however, there’s an entire vein of tales left untapped from their time as Robin and Supergirl from Earth-2. Other than a few short flashbacks, we’ve seen little of the heroines original time as heroes before becoming trapped on an alternate Earth.

We get three separate tales. The first gives us Robin’s first outing as Batman‘s partner. The second involves Kara enjoying a little normalcy before being unable to save her date for the evening. And the third story combines the first two as Helena and Power Girl work together to take on an evil Amazon (with an unusual connection to Wonder Woman) who is to blame for Kara’s recent misfortune. Despite the $5 price-tag, it’s still worth a look.

[DC, $4.99]

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