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Psych – Deez Nups

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Psych - Deez Nups

On the eve of Lassiter’s (Timothy Omundson) hastily thrown together wedding to Marlowe (Kristy Swanson), Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) procure a party bus and along with Henry (Corbin Bernsen), Woody (Kurt Fuller), and Lassie’s best friend Stumpy (Pete Gardner) kidnap the detective for his bachelor party on the road to the casino resort. Meanwhile Juliet (Maggie Lawson) and Chief Vick (Kirsten Nelson) get roped into Marlowe’s bachelorette party thrown by her friend from prison, Big Wendy (Cocoa Brown).

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Green Hornet #1

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Green Hornet #1Writer Mark Waid launches a new Green Hornet series for Dynamite Entertainment and the first issue is a must-read. Set in November of 1941, Green Hornet #1 reintroduces the characters of the Green Hornet and Kato while providing narration from a far older version of Britt Reid looking back at the heyday of his career as he fought crime both as the owner of the Daily Sentinel and as a masked crime fighter masquerading as a crime lord.

The first issue deals with Britt Reid taking on both a corrupt State Senator and the Governor while the Green Hornet works at night to clean up the streets. Waid works in language of the time while allowing an older Britt to explain the basis of the Hornet and his world. Artist Daniel Indro adds some nice touches of his own by working several Daily Sentinel headlines into the comic to help tell the story.

Waid is a great storyteller and, together with Indro, has found a new character to revitalize. Fans of the character should enjoy this fresh, yet certainly old-school, retelling of the Green Hornet’s adventures. Best of the week.

[Dynamite Entertainment, $3.99]

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Nova #2

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Nova #2The first issue might have been a little too much set-up, but Nova #2 is a hell of a lot of fun. Sam Alexander wakes up in the hospital to find the fictional characters from his father’s bedtime stories, Rocket Racoon and Gamora, standing at his bedside. Like any rational teenage hit with a crazy ass situation, Sam freaks the hell out (especially after the “talking raccoon” tries to shoot him).

Later that night, after initially deciding to get rid of it, Sam puts on the Nova Corps helmet keyed to his father’s DNA, becomes the new Nova, and watches the final message from his father. The rest of the comic features Sam processing all that has happened over the past few days and experimenting with his new powers before crash landing on the moon at the feet of a Watcher.

Once again Ed McGuinness delivers some great art (although I like my Rocket Raccoon a little more cute and less feral) with so much of the heavy lifting done last issue Jeph Loeb writes a much tighter story with some great humor.

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Elementary – Deja Vu All Over Again

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Elementary - Deja Vu All Over Again

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) finds himself forced into taking a case involving the assistant (Geneva Carr) of one of his father’s lawyers who fears that her missing sister (Victoria Cartagena) may have been killed. Showing no interest in the case, Holmes hands it off to Watson (Lucy Liu) to solve on her own. Meanwhile, Holmes begins his own investigation into the murder of a young woman (Roxanna Hope) pushed in front of a subway train around the same time six months ago.

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Doctor Who – Planet of the Dead

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Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who we continue to look back at some old episodes of the series including the second of five Doctor Who specials that ended David Tennant‘s run as the immensely popular Tenth Doctor. The episode is also notable for being the 200th of the series (well, sort of), one of the few episodes featuring The Doctor traveling without a companion, the first episode to be filmed in high definition, one of the only episodes of the entire series where the TARDIS never materializes and the inside of the TARDIS is never shown, and the only one to be co-written by Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts.

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