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Larfleeze #6

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Larfleeze #6After being sidelined for the last two issues by the resurrected Orange Lantern Corps, Larfleeze is finally able to break his bonds and turn the tables on his captors after his hallucinatory mother reminds him the rings of his enemies all came from him. After disarming his captors, including the horsey, Larfleeze sticks around to offer some payback and gloating, but rather than kill his the Corps he decides to abandon them on the lifeless planet where they spent the last several days torturing the Orange Lantern.

In danger of stalling with Lafleeze’s capture, the main story picks back up with his release and regaining control of the Orange Energy. As to the Wanderer and Pulsar Stargrave, they spend the entire issue checking out her indecisive old enemies the Council of Ten who have followed her and Laord of the Hunt to this new dimension.

Where the action and humor of the main story picks up (I love the horsey), Stargrave’s tale (which is nothing more than the pair watching an uninteresing group of characters) suffers a bit. Worth a look.

[DC, $2.99]

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – The Magical Place

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – The Magical Place
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“You’d lost your will to live. We tried to give it back.”

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - The Magical Place

Picking up 36 hours after the end of “The Bridge” which saw Coulson (Clark Gregg) captured by Centipede (the group mashing up various tech to create their own super-soldiers who are even more interested in Coulson’s resurrection than he is), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns from hiatus with Coulson’s team working for Victoria Hand (Saffron Burrows) to apprehend a black market supplier (Aiden Turner) with ties to the group. When Hand’s handpicked interrogator (Darren Dupree Washington) proves ineffective, Ward (Brett Dalton) takes the initiative to create a more conducive environment for the man’s cooperation.

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Dead Boy Detectives #1

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Dead Boy Detectives #1It’s kind of like the Hardy Boys if the Hardy Boys were ghosts instead of brothers. Originally created in 1991 by writer Neil Gaiman and artists Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones III for The Sandman, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine earn their own comic as the ghostly youngsters continue to investigate crimes rather move on to the afterlife.

Beginning with saving a troubled young girl named Crystal involved in a bizarre heist media event, the opening arc of the new series will send the Dead Boy Detectives back to St. Hilarions, the academy both children attended (although 75 years apart) and where both met their deaths, in hopes that they might save Crystal of a similar fate.

Although I found the elaborate heist/performance art involving Crystal’s parents that opens the issue a bit hard to follow, Dead Boy Detectives #1 offers up a strong first issue to reintroduce out both characters and give them an excuse to return to school that destroyed and ended each of their lives. Worth a look.

[Vertigo, $2.99]

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The Flash #26

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The Flash #26The Flash #26 kicks off a new arc with a new creative team in writer Christos Gage and artist Neil Googe. It’s going to take a little time for me to get used the drastic artist change (and I’m going to miss those amazing splash pages from Francis Manapul) but issue shows definite promise, even if it does adopt the continuous use of the Flash’s incredibly lame yellow striping on his New 52 costume.

I’ve hated that change ever since DC first showed the design, but Manapul’s choice to show the costume’s grooves as empty except when they were occasionally filled with lightning during the Flash’s heroics helped lessen the horrific and completely unnecessary costume change. I’ll be honest, If I’ve got to put up with those stripes in every panel than this is going to be a problem.

The main story is a mix of fun villain in Spitfire (who feels like a New 52 version of Roxy Rocket to me), the serious murder of Barry’s old mentor, and the dangerous threat of samples of several deadly diseases being stolen.

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The Mentalist – White Lines

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  • Title: The Mentalist – White Lines
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The Mentalist - White Lies

Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) heads to Corpus Cristi to help the FBI solve the murder of five DEA agents by local criminals who may, or may not, be tied to a Gulf Coast drug ring. During the investigation Jane begins dating the former girlfriend (Brianna Brown) of a recently deceased member of the ring which piques the interest, and jealousy, of both Lisbon (Robin Tunney) and Fischer (Emily Swallow).

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