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Legacies – Everything That Can Be Lost May Also Be Found

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  • Title: Legacies – Everything That Can Be Lost May Also Be Found
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Legacies pulls in several familiar faces from The Originals as Hope’s (Danielle Rose Russell) family makes a concerted effort to reach her humanity. Rebekah (Claire Holt), Marcel (Charles Michael Davis), Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic), and Freya (Riley Voelkel) are all brought back as is the Michaelson family home in New Orleans where the distribution of her father’s ashes becomes the key to giving Hope’s humanity a fighting chance at retaking her body. Fans of The Originals should enjoy the reunions, although I was half-expecting them to find a way to work in the characters who didn’t make it through the show in one form or another. While the episode ends with her humanity restored, her darker self isn’t gone completely suggesting a new status quo for the character moving forward.

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Moon Knight #10

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Moon Knight #10 offers a battle between Moon Knight and Rutherford Winner intercut with scenes of Moon Knight talking over the situation with the pair’s shared psychiatrist Andrea Sterman. At least that’s what appears to be happening. However, things aren’t exactly what they seem.

Pushing Marc Spector down a darker path, we see the Fist of Khonshu in a vengeful mode towards Zodiac and the villain’s latest minion he’s used to screw with our hero. The villain wanted an untethered Moon Knight. Be careful what you wish for.

While the half-black/half-white costume isn’t my favorite (I prefer Moon Knight in all white, be it hero or suit) the art of Alessandro Cappuccio does hide parts of the costume in shadow while highlighting the glow of the white as well. 

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #2

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G.I. JOE battles Cobra Commander‘s army of enhanced Mega B.A.T.s all over the world as G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures continues. Cobra Commander uses a second wish to bolster and prevent the weapons from ever backfiring on him but he learns the hard way of the genie’s tricks as some Joes become impervious to his new weapons with the utterance of a single word.

G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #2 continues the fun of the first episode while beautifully recreating the look from the 80s cartoon. I can almost hear the actors in every panel. Despite the missteps by Cobra in this issue, they earn some big victories over the Joes including taking Duke as a prisoner and managing to use the chaos of the rampaging robots to secure Cobra Commander’s real prize. 

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Wolf Like Me – Episode 5

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  • Title: Wolf Like Me – Episode 5
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The penultimate episode of Wolf Like Me gives us the calm before the storm that, given what we’ve seen foreshadowed in the show already, we know is coming. “Episode 5” explores the relationship between Mary (Isla Fisher) and Gary (Josh Gad) who finally give into their feelings. Gary introduces her to his friends, Emma spends more time with his daughter, and life is good. However…. there is that secret they haven’t yet told Emma (Ariel Donoghue) and a new surprise Mary has in store for Gary. It’s a fun, sweet episode that shows us what can be built on love while laying a cracked foundation of a very big secret.

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Astro City: That Was Then…

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Kicking off Astro City‘s new run at Image Comics (where the comic originally started), Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson return with this one-shot special looking in on the teen heroes on the verge of adulthood on a camping trip in the summer of 1969. Set only weeks after burying the Jayhawks, another teen hero team who fought the good fight in Kansas City for years before eventually falling to a bigoted villain fueled by hatred, the comic features the team coming to terms with the loss and the sudden brutal understanding of how dangerous their profession can be.

As a kick-off point, Astro City: That Was Then… feels a bit odd. It’s really more of a teaser of things to come. Along with the introduction of several new heroes we do see some familiar faces as well and are teased that although the Jayhawks may be dead that doesn’t necessarily mean they are gone. 

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