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Tomb Raider: Inferno #1

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Tomb Raider: Inferno #1 comic reviewThe first issue of Tomb Raider: Inferno takes Lara Croft‘s search for answers about the mysterious organization known as Trinity into the frozen unknown where Trinity has uncovered the legendary Tomb of Eden. This time, however, not only is Trinity prepared for Lara’s interference but they’ve been patiently awaiting it.

Tomb Raider: Inferno #1 features quite a bit of set-up and tease. By the end we know that Trinity was expecting our heroine to crash their party, and that Lara (even knowing it was a trap) came anyway. As to just what “the resting place of God” refers to… well, that is still to be revealed. For a series that can go off the deep end sometimes, here’s hoping Eden proves to be at least partially grounded in something resembling reality.

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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #38

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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #38 comic reviewIt’s interesting that Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #38 has a similar set-up to Super Sons/Dynomutt Special #1 which featured Dynomutt asking for help when the Blue Falcon started behaving erratically. While Super Sons/Dynomutt Special #1 went for a gritty feel that didn’t really fit the characters, Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #38 features a more all-ages story that involves the criminal Manyfaces masquerading as Blue Falcon to ruin the hero’s reputation (and not being possessed by an evil spirit, and Dynomutt believes).

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Hawkman #1

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Hawkman #1 comic reviewHawkman has a long and convoluted comic history. The new series from writer Robert Venditti and artist Bryan Hitch hopes to add to the character’s history while making some sense out of the reincarnated warrior who has been everything from an Egyptian prince to a space cop from Thanagar. The best attempt to merge and make sense of the character’s colorful backstory was in JSA more than 10 years ago, but attempts to make the character a mainstay in the DCU since then have had mixed success before fizzling out.

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Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #19

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Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #19 comic reviewWhile Kaine attempts to keep everyone in the hotel and casino, who have been transported to an alternate dimension by Mysteria, safe from the murderous creatures, our other Scarlet Spider confronts Mysterio and his daughter to discover what the hell is going on.

It turns out Mysteria needed the hotel to vanish in order to get to a hidden temple beneath its foundations. Planning to murder her father and claim a demon’s power as her own, things don’t exactly go as planned for Mysteria (although Mysterio does get to play the role of a menacing Spidey villain for a few panels). With Mysterio’s defeat, things appear to be wrapped up a bit neatly… although it looks like his not-so-dead daughter may not be quite done yet.

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Matt Houston – Killing Isn’t Everything

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Matt Houston - Killing Isn't Everything television review

Our Throwback Tuesday post takes to Los Angeles where a Texas oilman would spend his abundant free time solving crimes. Like many of the episodes in the series, “Killing Isn’t Everything” centers around a friend of Matt Houston (Lee Horsley) getting into trouble and asking for his help. This time around it’s Randy Haines (John Beck), the quarterback of the California Bearcats who becomes the subject of one murder investigation and the attempted victim of another murder after the team’s owner turns up dead. The murder mystery works better than the blending of stock football footage with Houston’s investigation which not only will save his friend from being convicted of one murder by becoming another victim of a killer with a personal grudge.

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