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Smallville – Hothead

  • Title: Smallville – Hothead
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Smallville Saturday takes us back to Clark‘s (Tom Welling) first brief stint on the Smallville football team. “Hothead” also marks the first time an adult, rather than someone closer to Clark’s age, becomes a meteor freak. In this case it’s football coach Walt Arnold (Dan Lauria) whose quick temper and fiery disposition is enhanced by the meteor rocks in his steam room making him a Firestarter. The conflict from the episode comes from father vs. son dynamics with Clark disobeying his father and joining the team, and in a short B-story Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) making a similar bold move against his own father. We also get Chloe‘s (Allison Mack) investigation into the football team discovering the bad behavior of its coach (even before he sets the principal’s car on fire) putting herself, and eventually Clark, in danger.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been rebooted so many times over the years it’s hard to keep track of the number of times they’ve changed since they first appeared on comic shelves in the mid-1980s. The latest iteration of the group found in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is neither the best nor worst version we’ve seen. Presenting a grungier animation, likely in hopes of pulling in comparisons to the Spider-Verse movies (it is not on that level), the script takes various aspects of the Turtles origins, altering and updating them slightly for a familiar and fresh feel for the foursome.

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Smallville – Metamorphosis

  • Title: Smallville – Metamorphosis
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Smallville Saturday takes us back to the second episode of the show’s First Season. While playing on some threads from the first episode, including Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) further attempts to befriend Clark (Tom Welling), and Lana (Kristin Kreuk) discovering the scarecrow prank Whitney (Eric Johnson) played, the main storyline involves the introduction of the show’s second meteor freak in Lana’s stalker Greg Arkin (Chad E. Donella). After being bitten by a swarm of Kryptonite-infused bugs, the entomology nerd gets buff and crazier, taking on increased strength and nefarious designs on his Smallville classmates.

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Moon Knight: City of the Dead #1

Beginning with Moon Knight fighting off a cultish gang after a young boy, Moon Knight: City of the Dead #1 takes Marc Spector to Duat, the City of the Dead, to find and return the boy’s soul to his wounded body. Not a well-known or often used location, the comic takes advantage of the city’s deputation of Duat from the Moon Knight TV-series to explain its existence (although it expands on it much more than what we saw there).

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Red Sonja #1

A new volume of Red Sonja begins here in Vestfold with where the brutal High Priest Thord Varg has taken control following the death of the king. Although the narration from writer Torunn Grønbekk suggests he has no real interest in ruling this particular kingdom, he also has no problem sacrifice babies to the town’s flame and rousing the crowds with speeches of victory over their enemies.

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