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Detective Comics #1100

  • Title: Detective Comics #1100
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An oversized issue celebrating Batman, Detective Comics #1100 includes four separate stories from four separate creative teams. The opening silent story presented without dialogue (and featuring the Dark Knight Detective’s use of sign language), “Lost & Found,” features Batman coming across a hearing-impaired kid and helping him find his missing dog (with a little help from Ace the Bat-Hound) taken by some gangbangers. A terrific tale from writer Tom Taylor and artist Mikel Janín, it’s the standout story and is worth the price of the issue all on its own.

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The Residence – Dial M for Murder / Knives Out

  • Title: The Residence – Dial M for Murder / Knives Out
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Beginning with the Australian delegation, Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba) continues to interview staff and guests piecing together a timeline of the night while looking for motive. The Foreign Minister (Brett Tucker) explains how he happens to be wearing a dead man’s shirt while also revealing some other activities he got into with the chef (Mary Wiseman) who had plenty of confrontations with everyone that night including the victim. The awkwardness of the situation allows Cordelia to pressure the Australians into helping lock down the White House and sniffing out what really happened to the head usher (Giancarlo Esposito).

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The Secret of the Old Clock

  • Title: The Secret of the Old Clock
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to River Heights, Illinois and the first ever mystery solved by teenage detective Nancy Drew. Taking in upon herself to find a missing will of the recently-deceased eccentric Josiah Crowley that friends and family believe he left before his death, rather than see his estate go to the snobbish Topham family, young Nancy takes the case. Learning a bit about Josiah Crowley from the man’s friends, Nancy becomes convinced a new will exists leading to an encounter with thieves after sneaking away from a summer camp and the discovery of an old clock which holds the truth Nancy seeks.

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Nine Puzzles – Episode 5

  • Title: Nine Puzzles – Episode 5
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Episode 5 primarily deals with Yoon E-na (Kim Da-mi) and Kim Han-saem (Son Suk-ku) working the poisoning of a factory worker whose son died in an industrial accident a year prior. Although the pair solve the case, E-na isn’t troubled by motives she doesn’t understand. In terms of the larger puzzle mystery, the episode will also start a trend of one or the other visiting Miyoung (Aria Song) while attempting to connect the various puzzle victims together. Their work on unmasking the unlikely killer in the poisoner case finally finishes building trust between the pair leading to them to look at the larger case in earnest together while working out of Han-seam’s apartment. And while their connection still isn’t clear, although a big clue will be discovered next episode, E-na deposits a theory as to why the seemingly unrelated victims may have all been targeted.

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The Sandman – The Ruler of Hell / More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold

  • Title: The Sandman – The Ruler of Hell / More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold
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“The Ruler of Hell” and “More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold” conclude the season’s first arc with Morpheus‘ (Tom Sturridge) journey to Hell going not at all how he thought. Finding the realm empty and a weary Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) abdicating their throne, inspired by Morpheus leaving his own realm, Dream becomes responsible for finding the next ruler of the Realm (and there are many who want the job from Norse Gods to Faerie Folk to demons to invisible entities in a box). 

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