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G.I. JOE: The Cobra Files #1

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G.I. JOE: Cobra Files #1The newest of IDW’s G.I. JOE titles centers around Chameleon, a former agent of Cobra now working for the good guys in an usual JOE team which includes Flint, Lady Jaye, Clockspring, and another former member of Cobra who tried to kill Chameleon several times in the past – Tomax.

Based out of Tomax’s casino the group works covertly to take out Cobra threats around the world. In this first issue the JOEs successfully liberate enslaved children in Vietnam and then, based on Tomax’s intel, turn their attention to the former head of Cobra’s amphibious assault squadron – Copperhead. This mission doesn’t go according to plan when the Chameleon is forced to kill Copperhead and almost dies herself from the wrong end of a shotgun held by the former Cobra agent’s son.

G.I. JOE: Cobra Files assembles an unusual assortment of characters for this team. I’m not sure there’s enough to keep me coming back every single month, but I may pop in from time to time to see how Chameleon and her team are fairing. For fans.

[IDW, $3.99]

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XIII – Defender

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XIII - Defender

Framed by his mysterious double for both the bombing of Synequanon and the attempted murders of both Vargas (Bruce Ramsay) and Jones (Aisha Tyler), the former who is being tortured for information by the U.S. Government while the later is in surgery to save her life as episode opens, XIII (Stuart Townsend) is unable to convince Betty (Roxane Mesquida) or the other surviving members of The Veil of his bizarre story of brainwashing, doppelgangers, and an elaborate frame that has him hunted by Synequanon and the U.S. Government. Searching for XIII, Amos (Greg Bryk) begins looking into Betty, her murdered brother, and the stolen Synequanon documents that got him killed.

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Community – Intro to Felt Surrogacy

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Community - Intro to Felt Surrogacy

After the Study Group returns from their forest adventure in an uneasy silence and missing Pierce (Chevy Chase), Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) forces the group into puppet therapy with his collection of puppets in each of their likenesses he just happened to have on hand. The episode’s flashbacks are told entirely through showing the Greendale Six as puppets (while real-life actors fill in other roles), sometimes in song.

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Nashville – My Heart Would Know

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Nashville - My Heart Would Know

Learning of Lamar’s (Powers Boothe) heart attack Rayna (Connie Britton) is forced to withdraw from the sold out New York City concert and fly with her daughters (Lennon Stella, Maisy Stella) back home to Nashville. In the hospital with her sister (Judith Hoag) and Watty (JD Souther), Rayna learns a little more about both her parents and the struggles that they kept from her. Meanwhile her sister makes a few discoveries of her own including finding out Teddy’s (Eric Close) girlfriend (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) was responsible for leaking the story of Teddy and Rayna’s divorce to the press.

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Winter Soldier #17

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Winter Soldier #17After uncovering the identity of the “Electric Ghost” a pissed off Winter Soldier realizes why Nick Fury wanted him on this assignment as the last time Bucky saw the woman responsible for terrorist attacks around the world he was still brainwashed and working for the Russians and she was a young girl whose parents he had just murdered in front of her.

Once Fury fills him in on how bad things have gotten thanks to this Russian-bred madwoman enhanced by the same Cosmic Rays which gave the Fantastic Four their powers, Bucky and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Joe Robards have no choice but to risk their lives by heading into space, sneaking aboard the woman’s cloaked satellite and eliminating the threat once and for all.

After the heavy set-up, questionable plot choices, and goofy island of assassins, writer Jason LaTour finally seems to be settling down with the character. Winter Soldier #17 has a Bond-like quality (even if that Bond is Moonraker), that fans of the character may enjoy. For fans.

[Marvel, $2.99]

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