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Avengers #1

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The new volume of Avengers launches with the team fighting Terminus intercut with events of the past few days in which Carol Danvers has assembled her new team. Avengers #1 is a fun issue, providing some action with the current battle (with admittedly a mostly throwaway baddie) while providing more character beats and humor in the flashbacks. With the assembly of the team being my favorite aspect of the issue, my only real concern is what the comic looks like without that interwoven story as the team moves onto various threats.

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The Secret of the Haunted Mirror

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  • Title: The Secret of the Haunted Mirror
  • wiki: link

Throwback Thursday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads to investigate the history of Mrs. Danley’s giant Spanish mirror which others are attempting to buy and steal from her, and in which she keeps seeing the ghostly face of its former owner. Learning of the attempted theft, and existence of the mirror, while collecting items for the Jones Salvage Yard, the mystery is simply too much for Jupiter, Pete, and Bob to ignore, especially after Jupiter sees the ghostly figure for himself.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #2

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  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #2
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  • Writer: Stan Sakai
  • Artist: Stan Sakai

The second issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen picks up immediately from where the first issue ended in the classic hero misunderstanding with the friends mistakenly taking the newly arrived Turtles for the Kappa who have been terrorizing the area. This provides the only real action of the issue which ends with the arrival of Miyamoto Usagi, introducing Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael to his friends.

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The Muppets Mayhem – Can You Picture That?

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: The Muppets Mayhem – Track 1: Can You Picture That?
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The opening episode of The Muppets Mayhem introduces us to Nora (Lilly Singh), an aspiring low-level music executive for a dying record company, who discovers the label owns the rights to a never-recorded album by Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. Still rocking after all these years, the band has the popularity Nora needs to make a mark in the music industry. Although the wandering band agrees to make the album, wrangling the travelling insanity of the Electric Mayhem turns out to be a bigger challenge than Nora expected.

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