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The Powerpuff Girls #1

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The Powerpuff Girls #1

A new Powerpuff Girls comic begins here. When Ms. Keane introduces the class to the Highly Intelligent Machine, all the young students take tests to discover their true destinies. This leads to each of the girls to temporarily abandon super-heroics to try out new lives. Blossom becomes a noir-style private eye. Bubbles, in a bunny suit, spends time with animals. And Buttercup becomes a wrestler. While all three enjoy exploring a different destiny, each discovers that something is missing.

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Batman: Caped Crusader – In Treacherous Waters

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  • Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – In Treacherous Waters
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Batman: Caped Crusader - In Treacherous Waters

Bringing together some of the creative minds behind Batman: The Animated Series, mixing them with ideas from co-producer and writer Ed Brubaker, and keeping the noir style and look of that show, but with a darker tone set earlier in Batman’s career centered more around gang violence and corruption than colorful super-villains, comes Batman: Caped Crusader. The first episode of the series sees gang war heating up with someone taking shots at crime boss Rupert Thorne by blowing up his factories. Batman (Hamish Linklater) confronts a corrupt cop eventually leading him to nightclub owner turned would-be criminal mastermind the Penguin (Minnie Driver).

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Nightwing #116

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Nightwing #116

Nightwing #116 quickly skips over the part of this story was most concerned with. We get Dick Grayson’s recovery and the equivalent of a montage to get him out of the country and on his quest to the Himalayas. While his friends are ready to stick up for him an even allow their secret identities to be exposed to save his own, Dick is more concerned with recovering what he’s lost as Nightwing than clearing his name (at least for now) which plays out similarly to the  Bruce’s focus in Batman: Bruce Wayne – Murderer?

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The Inventor

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  • Title: The Inventor
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The Inventor

Even if it does get a bit schmaltzy in its final act ending in a questionable musical number, 2023’s The Inventor still has much to offer in the stop-motion animation that explores the life of Leonardo da Vinci (Stephen Fry) first in Rome and later in France where his experiments and inventions struggle against the expectations and demands of his patrons. Leonardo finds a kindred spirit in Princess Marguerite (Daisy Ridley) who shares his dreams in creating an ideal city, although her brother Francis I (Gauthier Battoue) is more concerned with his inventor creating ways for the king to show off to other rulers.

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Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #4

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Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #4

With the kidnapping of Yukichi the focus of the issue, we get the young boy Isamu getting a meal and payment from Miyamoto Usagi and then agreeing to lead Usagi, Gen, and Stray Dog to their missing friend. The bandits have their own issues to deal with long before the heroes get there as one of their number, believing Inuyoshi isn’t ruthless enough to lead them, attempts a coup. Thanks to Yukichi’s warning, the former samurai survives now further in debt to Usagi’s family.

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