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The Big Bang Theory – The Complete Sixth Season

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – Season Six
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The Big Bang Theory - The Complete Sixth SeasonThe Big Bang Theory‘s Sixth Season offers Howard (Simon Helberg) time aboard the International Space Station, a girlfriend (Kate Micucci) for Raj (Kunal Nayyar), Bob Newhart in an appearance as Sheldon’s (Jim Parsons) boyhood hero Professor Proton, and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) given the chance to work with Stephen Hawking.

Highlights of the season include a D&D night for our the guys and their girlfriends, a trip to Comic-Con, Alex‘s (Margo Harshman) crush on Leonard which Sheldon handles poorly, Leonard, Howard, and Sheldon attempting to sell science to middle school girls, Sheldon attempting to nurse Amy (Mayim Bialik) back to health, a parking space dispute, Raj hitting rock bottom, Howard and Raj spying on Sheldon, the return of Will Wheaton, Sheldon’s attempt to bond with with Kripke (John Ross Bowie), and in the season’s best episode Sheldon’s discovery of an unopened letter to Howard from his father which brings the whole cast together in one of the series’ best sequences.

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The Shadow #17

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The Shadow #17With The Light still on the loose, The Shadow and Margo Lane work to fit together the various pieces of the puzzle in order to uncover the deadly vigilante’s identity before she kills again.

Although I think The Light storyline should have been wrapped-up here rather than being drawn-out for one more issue, I did enjoy the series spending an entire issue showcasing the deductive skills and process of both The Shadow and Margo Lane including investigating the weapon left by the killer, the impossible hospital murder, and uncovering her connection to the first victim.

By the end of the issue our hero will know the identity of The Light setting up the arc’s final issue next month. From what we’ve seen so far the pair seem evenly matched in both skill, determination, and a belief that their form of brutal justice is for the greater good. Given this it may well be that only one will survive next month’s likely deadly final encounter. My money’s on the guy in the hat. Worth a look.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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Star Wars #9

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Star Wars #9Although we get glimpses of Han and Chewie‘s continued escape from Coruscant and Luke and Wedge fighting off barrage of Stormtroopers while searching for answers on-board the Star Destroyer Devastator (which attracts the attention of a certain Dark Lord of the Sith), most of Star Wars #9 focuses on what Leia finds in the shattered remains of her homeworld aboard a ship hidden in the asteroid field of what once was Alderaan.

After realizing just who the collector of the remaining vestiges of Alderaan truly is, and what he’s responsible for, Leia is left at an impasse as to what do with the shell of the man whose expertise allowed the destruction of her world.

Making Tag Ragaren a sympathetic character is a nice twist for the issue, although I could have done with a little less of Leia’s tale and more of an equal focus on Luke slicing through Stormtroopers with his lightsaber and Han and Chewie continuing to try and evade a some very persistent bounty hunters and make it off the Imperial homeworld in one piece. Worth a look.

[Dark Horse, $2.99]

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Codename: Action #1

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Codename: Action #1Set during the Cold War, the first issue of the new six-issue mini-series from writer Chris Roberson and artist Jonathan Lau is an old James Bond-style spy thriller. Codename: Action #1 introduces us to newly appointed Operative 1001 who will work with the much more seasoned Operator 5 to stop a hidden force pushing the world to the brink of World War III by replacing influential figures on both sides of the Iron Curtain with doppelgangers determined for war.

Codename: Action #1 works as a spy thriller, although I’m not sure how the super-hero element (such as introducing Captain Action at the end of this issue) is going to work without changing the tone of the mini-series.

I have mixed feelings about Jonathan Lau’s art, but the action scenes definitely have a spy flavor to them and work better than the less action-packed panels. With Operative 1001’s graduation assignment, the car chase, and an aerial training manuever by a bevy of French female spies, there’s plenty of action for a comic with the word in its title. Worth a look.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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Graceland – Pawn

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  • Title: Graceland – Pawn
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Graceland - Pawn

Secrets see the light of day in a big way in Graceland‘s First Season finale as Briggs (Daniel Sunjata) pretends to flee the country while hanging around to search for the mysterious Jangles, who he begins to suspect is Charlie‘s (Vanessa Ferlito) new friend the Federale (Vincent Laresca). And when Briggs disappears off the grid Mike (Aaron Tveit) has no choice but to inform the FBI, and the rest of his Graceland teammates, about what it really going on. Some of them take the news better than others.

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