There are a few more Spider-Men since the last time I checked in with Ultimate Spider-Man. Peter Parker is still our main Spidey, who attacks the Kingpin and Mister Negative, while thw workings of Otto Octavius (our second “Superior” Spider-Man) broadcast Ben Parker and J. Jonah Jameson‘s truth about the Kingpin to the city.
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Set around the final baseball game to be played at Soldiers Field in Douglas, Massachusetts before the field is to be demolished to make way for a new middle school, Eephus offers a look at the relationships of a group of mostly middle-aged men (many of who have been playing weekend baseball for decades). Eephus is part hang-out film, with the various conversations, disputes, and antics both on and off the field, and part nostalgic longing for a world being pushed aside by the passage of time.
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The second and third episodes of The Mighty Nein continue to introduce most of the remaining core charactrs and put them on a path that will converge at the Fletching & Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiosities. We meet the young sailor Fjord Stone (Travis Willingham) whose ship and entire crew are killed by a sea monser. Brought back to life by something deep underwater with glowing eyes, Fjord finds himself alive, on shore, and with a set of new magical sword and powers to explore. He won’t be the last character we’re introduced to touched by some unknown powerful force.
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the television detective who always had one more thing to ask. The first episode of Columbo to air (outside of the two pilots which have notable differences to the ongoing series of TV-movies), hits the ground running with most of the staples of the show including showing us the murder by the guest-star Jack Cassidy, as one-half of a writing team who kills off his partner (Martin Milner). Believing he has gotten away with the perfect murder, our killer isn’t ready for the rumpled detective to take the scene with a series of innocuous questions eventually finding the evidence to get his man.
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Coming out of Critical Role, and with more than a passing resemblance to The Legend of Vox Machina (and taking place in that same world), the opening episode of The Mighty Nein begins bringing together a part of mismatched adventurers who will be called upon to save the world. The show kicks off with the theft of a religious artifact by magician assassins known as Volstrucker which raises the already tensions between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty to the brink of war.
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