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Nobody Lives for Ever

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Nobody Lives for Ever

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mid-80s and a British spy with a license to kill. The fifth of John Gardner‘s James Bond novels, and what many argue was his best, Nobody Lives for Ever hit shelves between Roger Moore‘s last role as the spy in A View to a Kill and before audiences got their first look at Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights. That timing allows one to play a little with who you see cast in this version of James Bond. While absurd in places (what Bond isn’t?), the novel offers a hell of an intriguing premise by making Bond the hunted when the dying head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. puts an open bounty out for the spy’s head.

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Alex Rider – Revenge

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Alex Rider - Revenge

Spending as much time with Alex (Otto Farrant) as with The Department, “Revenge” begins to reveal secrets of the season. Having been shaken by recent events, Home Secretary Laura Kellner (Shelley Conn) wants to give in, but the government also want The Department to stall for as long as possible which makes SCORPIA‘s 3-day deadline before another demonstration of Invisible Sword problematic. Despite being ordered to stand down, The Department keeps investigating what exactly killed the first Invisible Sword victims. Mrs. Jones (Vicky McClure) and Smithers (Nyasha Hatendi) find traces of gold in their blood, and a dispersal device is discovered in the locker room leading to an understanding of how SCOPRIA managed their first show of force but not how to stop them from using the technology again in the future.

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Fallout – The Target

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Fallout - The Target

“The Target” introduces us to Dr. Siggi Wilzig (Michael Emerson), teasing his importance and knowledge, and working as the catalyst to also bring our three main characters together for the first time in Filly. Lucy (Ella Purnell) is the first to come across the scientist, first camping on the road, and later in the town which will also see the arrival of the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) and Maximus (Aaron Moten) wearing the armor of Knight Titus which he will claim as his own after choosing not to save the knight from his preventable run-in with a mutation he had planned to blame his squire for.

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Shōgun – A Stick of Time / The Abyss of Life

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Shogun - A Stick of Time / The Abyss of Life

Things get even worse for Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) and his followers as his attempt to form an alliance with his estranged brother (Eita Okuno) ends in betrayal and in the death of his son (Yuki Kura). With Toranaga apparently willing to give up the fight, John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) finds himself released from his service but with nowhere to turn. His attempt to reconnect with his fellow sailors end disastrously leading him to attempt to cultivate a new partnership with Yabushige (Tadanobu Asano) who initially refuses but, given his lord’s refusal to fight on, eventually accepts.

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Wonder Woman #8

Wonder Woman #8

After the odd interlude last month, Wonder Woman #8 returns to the Sovereign storyline with Diana a prisoner of the group’s creepy leader who attempts to the reeducation of Wonder Woman through a Lasso of Lies. Diana’s story is divided in to the reality with her fighting the visions and listening to the religious dribble of the villain instructing a woman on her proper place and the 50s style visions of her attempting to be the perfect wife.

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