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Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #11

In a bit of an introspective issue, Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #11 takes a step back after recent events where the members of the Midnight Mission haves won but not without a cost of one of their own with the soul of the Mission being killed in the recent battle. As the group plans to celebrate their lost ally, and the birthday of Marc Spector, we weave through spending a few pages with each member of the group talking about both the Mission and Marc (on a birthday that also so happens to be celebrating the character’s 50 years in comics).

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The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot

  • Title: The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter JonesPete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews on the trail of clues to finding a hidden treasure hidden in riddles taught to a set of parrots. The Three Investigators begin the case when looking for a single missing parrot, one who stutters (thus giving the novel its title) and is owned by a friend of Hector Sebastian (Alfred Hitchcock in the original printing).

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The Librarians – And the House of Cards

  • Title: The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the House of Cards
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Coming back from the retrieval of an artifact, Lysa (Olivia Morris), Charlie (Jessica Green), and Connor (Bluey Robinson) find themselves redirected through the Door to a classic Agatha Christie mansion where a party, and series of murders, are underway. The Christie trappings, the importance of the tarot card reading (both in the real world and inside the prison), and the absence of Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), forcing them to work through the mystery themselves without the knowledge of their Librarian, are a some fun pieces to one of the season’s more memorable episodes.

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Nine Puzzles – Episodes 1 & 2

  • Title: Nine Puzzles – Episodes 1 & 2
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The South Korean mystery thriller introduces us to Yoon E-na (Kim Da-mi), a high school student who walks into her home just minutes after her uncle has been killed. Traumatized by events, and unable to recall anything helpful about that night, young detective Kim Han-saem (Son Suk-ku) assumes she is responsible for the crime. One decade later, with E-Na now working as a profiler for the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency a new murder occurs which will further tie the two together, first because E-Na discovers the body and second because it occurs shortly after she was delivered an unusual puzzle piece delivered to the house just like the one left at the scene of her uncle’s murder.

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps

  • Title: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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The fifth time’s the charm? With the exception of The Incredibles, Hollywood has had a pretty bad record adapting a good Fantastic Four to film. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is easily the best attempt (even if the bar is ridiculously low). The first thing director Matt Shakman, writers Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, and Jeff Kaplan, and producer Kevin Feige get right is capturing the proper setting for a film as we open a world set in the kind of 60s futurism that spawned the original comic book. From its opening moments to its closing credits we believe this is a world where the Fantastic Four could thrive, where a robot like H.E.R.B.I.E. would help babyproof the Baxter Building, where you could see the Fantasticar pass by, and where the fate of the world would rely on a family coming together to save the day. A strong argument could be made that the look of the film is its unsung hero.

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