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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #290

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Set immediately after the Battle of Springfield, G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #290 offers another single-issue spotlight. This time around the subject of the issue is the elite Russian special mission force the Oktober Guard. The severe injuries to the team’s sniper in Springfield offers a look back in flashbacks to the origin of their transformation from regular soldiers to cyborgs.

In order to save one of their own, the Oktober Guard will need to raid Revanche and steal the robotic parts needed. Sadly, the group doesn’t realize they are walking into a trap before it is too late. While the Guard manages to make it out alive with the parts the came for, Revanche isn’t too worried about the theft as their control of the parts within the soldiers gives them an advantage for the future.

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Dragons: The Nine Realms – Fault Ripper

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  • Title: Dragons: The Nine Realms – Fault Ripper
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The six-episode First Season of Dragons: The Nine Realms concludes by turning its attention to the earthquakes that have been rocking the the ICARIS research station since the show began. While the adults come up with a plan to collapse the fissure, our intrepid dragon riders discover the source of the quakes is a burrowing Fault Ripper dragon. With all the kids of ICARIS now having their dragons, this episode acts as the first real mission for the group working together for a common goal while still keeping their secret from their parents.

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Elektra: Black, White & Blood #3

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Three more tales of Elektra through the years, all presented in black, white, and red, are collected here. My favorite from Elektra: Black, White & Blood #3 is “Weapons of Choice” which sees Elektra, when still working as an assassin for the Hand, attack the Red Room whose students at the time included Natasha Romanov. This is a thread that I’d like to see pulled on and a rematch of the pair, at some point, on more even terms.

In a bit of a flashback to her past, “Split” catches up to pre-assassin Elektra breaking out of the asylum she’d been locked away in with the help of Typhoid Mary. And in “With a Passion” Elektra’s love/hate relationship with Daredevil is examined as are Matt Murdock’s failed attempts to save the woman he loves.

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Parallels – Hard Awakening

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  • Title: Parallels – Hard Awakening
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The French teen sci-fi series makes its way to Disney+. The opening episode, “Hard Awakening,” introduces us to four teens hanging out one night in some kind of abandoned bunker (which still has electricity) in the middle of the forest. The best way to put it is “something weird happens” and Sam (Thomas Chomel) finds himself alone in the creepy bunker with a strange old man (Omar Mebrouk) who is actually the future version (but with only present memories) of his pal Bilal (Timoté Rigault) whose mother works at some kind of research facility (perhaps some kind of particle accelerator) which was running during the incident.

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The Lost City

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  • Title: The Lost City
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There’s a scene in The Lost City where romance cover model Alan (Channing Tatum), his hired mercenary (Brad Pitt), and captured romance novelist Loretta (Sandra Bullock), who is tied to a chair inside a wheelbarrow, are all racing from the background explosions of the jungle encampment of a rich madman (Daniel Radcliffe) while pop music plays. That scene perfectly incapsulates the kind of dumb fun The Lost City provides.

The setup involves archeologist turned romance novelist whose novels are all based somewhat on historical locations and treasures. She’s kidnapped by a rich billionaire from a book signing (wearing a ridiculous costume she’ll be forced to keep for nearly the entire film) who believes she may hold the key to finding the real treasure she has written about in her schlocky romance series for years.

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