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The Shadow #23

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The Shadow #23After traveling around the world for answers to the severed finger sent to him, The Shadow returns to New York to find the old acquaintance whose plan to use the ring to impersonate his former colleague and create a new power base in the United States has backfired.

Presented almost entirely from the White Tiger’s point of view, The Shadow #23 fills in the gaps to the man’s story including taking the gem from the jungles of Guatamala, the series of events that lead him to losing one of his fingers while attempting to assume the role of the Girasol, and his attempts to crawl from poverty once more.

The end of the issue wraps up the arc as The Shadow finally tracks down the the White Tiger (which he really didn’t need to leave New York to do), and provides his own brutal justice for the man’s crimes. For fans.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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The Crazy Ones – Danny Chase Hates Brad Paisley

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The Crazy Ones - Danny Chase Hates Brad Paisley

After Zach (James Wolk) over-promises a regional barbecue sauce maker the perfect campaign to promote their “Satan’s Tongue BBQ Sauce,” both he and Simon (Robin Williams) are forced to work overtime to try and deliver. After finally convincing Danny Chase (Josh Groban) to write the jingle things get no easier when he refuses to work for the client’s choice of performer (Brad Paisley) who Danny believes owes him an apology for a slight the country music singer doesn’t even remember.

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Intelligence – Being Human

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Intelligence - Being Human

The First Season finale picks up with a wounded Gabriel (Josh Holloway) being patched up by his mother (Debra Mooney), Riley (Meghan Ory) working on the intelligence delivered by Mei Chen (Faye Kingslee) to warn a Presidential nominee (Bonita Friedericy) of a possible imminent assassination attempt, and a deposed Lillian (Marg Helgenberger) works with Jameson (Michael Rady), Nelson (P.J. Byrne), and Cassidy (John Billingsley) to uncover the truth of Iranian sleeper agents working in high-level positions within the United States Government.

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Rocky and Bullwinkle #1

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Rocky and Bullwinkle #1The first issue of Boom Studios new Rocky and Bullwinkle comic is fun, if not quite as madcap and zany as I would have hoped. In the style of the television show, the two parts of Rocky and Bullwinkle‘s main story (involving Bullwinkle’s accidentally acquiring psychic powers, and Boris and Natasha playing fake psychics) are interrupted by a short Dudley Do-Right adventure involving Snidley Whiplash‘s plan to increase Dudley Do-Right‘s attractiveness to Nell allowing the villain freedom to commit his crimes in peace.

In both the main story and the Dudley Do-Right interlude the villains are defeated by their own actions as Boris and Natasha are unable to keep up their fraud (or kill moose and squirrel), and the horse pheromones Whiplash sprays Dudley lead not only to the villain being captured by the Mountie but also chased down by stampeding mares.

As a fan of the show, and the variant cover by Stephanie Buscema, I’m glad I picked up this okay first issue, but I’m not sure how long I’ll stay with the title. For fans.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Bad Words

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  • Title: Bad Words
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Bad WordsAs with most of the Bad Santa imitators which have popped up in recent years Bad Words is, at best, a mixed bag. Far better than the unfortunate (and best forgotten) Bad Teacher, this film directed by and starring Jason Bateman about a middle-aged man-child entering a national 8th grade spelling competition to deal with his own personal issues certainly provides its share of laughs along the way.

When we first meet Guy Trilby (Bateman) he’s already worming his way into a qualifying round of a local spelling bee with the help of a blogger (Kathryn Hahn) and a loophole in the guidelines which allows anyone who has not yet graduated from the eighth grade entry into the bee.

To call Trilby a self-serving prick isn’t really doing justice to the man determined to make a mockery of the competition on national television much to the dismay of countless parents and those in charge of the spelling bee (Philip Baker Hall, Allison Janney). By the time the film gets around to revealing Trilby’s reasons (which are as self-serving as every other piece of his character) it doesn’t really matter as nothing could possibly justify the actions we witness.

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