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Batman #28

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Batman #28Although I’m a huge Batman fan, with distasteful odor of Death of the Family still palpable even today, I decided to give Scott Snyder’s Batman title a wide berth for an entire year, only checking in to look at the Damian remembrance issue ten months ago.

Over the past year I’ve picked up and dropped various of the other Bat-titles but haven’t come back to Batman. This month’s issue reminds me why, but it also offers a glimmer of the promise that the New 52 hasn’t quite stamped everything once enjoyable about Bat-titles completely out of the DCU.

I have to start with Harper Row, who apparently is Batman’s new partner and a better acrobat than Dick Grayson. Other than the asshole New 52 version of Shazam she may be the poster child for everything wrong with the state of the current DCU. The edgy street kid who disobeys Batman and even USES GUNS (which doesn’t bother the Dark Knight) is a perfect example of DC Editorial’s forced gritty vision that has turned off so many readers from their books.

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Teen Titans Go! – Be Mine

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  • Title: Teen Titans Go! – Be Mine
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Teen Titans Go! - Be Mine

St. Valentine’s Day doesn’t go as planned for any member of Titans Tower. As Starfire‘s (Hynden Walch) literal misinterpretations of the holiday’s traditions leads to trouble for Robin (Scott Menville), Cyborg (Khary Payton) is unable to spend any time alone with Jinx, and after Beast Boy (Greg Cipes) learns that Terra (Ashley Johnson) has been trapped in a garbage dimension he goes about freeing his one true love who sadly only cares about exacting revenge on Raven (Tara Strong) and all of the Titans.

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RoboCop Redux

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  • Title: RoboCop (2014)
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RobocopReleased in 1987, RoboCop holds a special spot in the pantheon of 80’s action movies for anyone who has seen it (and its various lesser sequels and spin-offs). Written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner (by far the best script either has done), director Paul Verhoeven‘s satirical, violent, and over-the-top tale of a critically wounded Detroit police officer turned into the first cybernetic soldier by an ominous corporation with its own agenda gets an obligatory, and completely unnecessary, remake. Thankfully this one fares better than the last Verhoeven film Hollywood decided to remake.

Missing the original’s biting wit (none of those terrific commercials this time around) or primal sense of justice and revenge, and substituting a PG-13 gruesomeness for the original’s R-rated violence (meaning we get a much smaller body count but several shots of scientists poking around inside of the still-human pieces of our hero), the new film makes several interesting choices that allow the story to take a slightly different path than the original.

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Superman – Identity Crisis

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  • Title: Superman: The Animated Series – Identity Crisis
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Superman - Identity Crisis

With a new Superman now out on Blu-ray and DVD every now and then I’ll continue to take a look back at the hero’s more memorable moments on both the big and small screen. “Identity Crisis” takes the opportunity for Superman: The Animated Series‘ to offer its own take on Bizarro‘s (Tim Daly) origins by having the odd creature be the first (and by the end of the episode the only surviving) clone of Superman (Daly) created by Lex Luthor (Clancy Brown) as part of his plan to create his own army of Supermen.

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Intelligence – Patient Zero

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  • Title: Intelligence – Patient Zero
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Intelligence - Patient Zero

Following an outbreak in Texas, Gabriel (Josh Holloway) and Riley (Meghan Ory) head down south in search of patient zero who Gabriel discovers bears an uncanny resemblance to a murderer (Ronnie Gene Blevins) executed by the state only one week before the spread of the virus. Not only is the killer still alive, but they learn he some kind of a connection to the Pentagon’s secret biological weapons program which will do anything (including risk the lives of thousands) to keep the truth from coming to light.

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