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Ame-Comi Girls #6

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Ame-Comi Girls #6With the fate of the entire universe at stake Alanna Strange evacuates all life on the planet Earth and gathers its greatest warriors to stand with Hawkgirl against the oncoming force of Sinestra and her legion of Black Lanterns. Although I’m not the biggest fan of the DC’s original Black Lanern arc, writer Jimmy Palmiotti and artist Justin Gray offer their own version of events featuring lots of action.

To help them survive, Power Girl, Supergirl, Batgirl, Robin, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, Steel, and Strange are all gifted white rings by Metra. Even with the power boost the group of heroines still eventually fall to the never-ending onslaught of death causing the New God herself to get involved and create a new stalemate between life and death with the creation of a new crisis.

Things fall apart for me in the final pages where Metra gets directly involved. I would have preferred the ladies to win the day on their own but the (unsubtle) Motherbox metaphor works okay and sets up new possibilities (albeit for a comic whose days appear to be numbered). Worth a look.

[DC, $3.99]

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Perception – Neuropositive

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Perception - Neuropositive

Kate (Rachael Leigh Cook) enlists the help of Daniel Pierce (Eric McCormack) after hearing the hazy confession of a terminal cancer patient (Matthew Holmes) who admits to a 20 year-old hit-and-run that left a young girl dead on the side of the road but can’t tell her any more about where the crime took place. All he knows is the accident was connected to a series of bank robberies he made during that time period. Kate finds the likely victim, but after the man’s brain tumor goes into remission he suddenly changes his story and decides he hallucinated the entire thing.

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Daredevil #29

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Daredevil #29With his childhood bully shot in front of him in the middle of a courtroom full of witnesses (by the judge no less!) Daredevil leaps into action. However, locked inside the Federal Building unable to tell friend from foe (as the Sons of the Serpent seem to have agents everywhere) the man without fear tries to keep everyone alive and sort out the situation before it escalates even further.

I found last issue’s late twist a little hard to swallow, but writer Mark Waid uses the set-up to put our hero in a situation where he doesn’t know who he can trust as even some of the police, those just trying to do their jobs, become obstacles as well after seeing the vigilante pummeling another cop.

Even if Daredevil gets out of the situation a little too cleanly (you’d think there would be a mountain of red tape to cut through after things died down) Waid delivers a tense issue that also foreshadows Murdock’s new temporary partner. I know I have my guess as to her identity. What’s yours? Worth a look.

[Marvel, $2.99]

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Pretty Little Liars – Into the Deep

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Pretty Little Liars - Into the Deep

As everyone reels with news of Mona (Janel Parrish)confessing to the murder of Detective Wilden (Bryce Johnson), Paige (Lindsey Shaw) decides to throw Emily(Shay Mitchell) a surprise birthday party. However the birthday girl isn’t in a partying mood after a professional swimming coach (Kamar de los Reyes) confirms her worst fears that even if her injury heals there’s no chance for her to get back into shape soon enough to earn a swimming scholarship for next year.

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Covert Affairs – Rock A My Soul

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“You will never loose me by telling me the truth.”

Covert Affairs - Rock A My Soul

Joan (Kari Matchett) moving up in the world means new challenges for her a raise for Auggie (Christopher Gorham) who takes over as the Intern Head of the DPD. Annie (Piper Perabo), meanwhile, puts Teo’s (Manolo Cardona) intel to good use and goes undercover as the new neighbor to a pair of Chinese spies (Constance Wu, Johnny Wu) with ties the the ALC currently living in Washington D.C. who Annie tails to a secret meeting with Henry Wilcox (Gregory Itzin).

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