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Teen Titans Go! – Be Mine

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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The Shadow #22

The Shadow #22The Shadow‘s whirlwind world tour makes a stop in the jungles of Guatamala where the vigilante’s search for answers concerning the ring will have to be put on hold as The Shadow teaches some cooperate workers that deforesting the land of the Xinca tribe and kidnapping their chief will not be tolerated.

Most of the first-half of the issue is relatively uneventful as the youthful enthusiasm of two of the younger members of the tribe get their elder taken captive. Luckily for them, the legendary protector shows up to dispense a little justice.

By the end of the issue The Shadow is prepared to return to New York which brings up an interesting point. Although it has showed off the character in various locales, while providing bread crumbs to the mysterious vigilante’s past, the trip is actually a complete failure as The Shadow learns nothing of interest in any of these stops. The final stop on his journey is the least interesting of the bunch, so its probably a good time to get him back to New York City. For fans.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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