Three of Batman’s pals, Green Arrow (James Arnold Taylor), Plastic Man (Tom Kenny), and Aquaman (John Di Maggio), find themselves captured by Mr. Freeze (Di Maggio). To help pass the time each of the characters recounts an early team-up with the Caped Crusader.
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The team gets a new boss in Luther Wainwright (Michael Rady), a young hotshot who seems open (at least initially) to more of Jane’s (Simon Baker) antics than his predecessors. I’ve got to admit I really liked the scenes of Jane and Luther as a pair who respect each other, and even like each other, but don’t trust each other.
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Luther (Idris Elba) was successful in freeing Jenny (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) from the prostitution ring, but that victory came with a price (more than just the nail driven through his hand). The detective finds himself blackmailed by Toby (David Dawson) to procure information about a competitor of the Baba gang. When Luthor is overseen taking classified files from the chief’s office by Gray (Nikki Amuka-Bird) we know things are going to get more complicated before they’re resolved. Then again, this is an episode of Luther we’re talking about, did you expect anything less?
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I’ve never read Matt Fraction’s Cassanova series, but I was intrigued by the cover of issue #2 of Casanova: Avarita, liked what I saw in flipping through pages (including some great art by Gabriel Bà), and since my local comic shop still had a copy of issue #1 I decided to pick them both up. I’m glad I did.
The premise is a little difficult to explain, so bear with me. Casanova Quinn is a former thief who was thrown into a parallel reality and has become an agent of a cross-dimensional spy organization known as E.M.P.I.R.E. (run by his father). His mission is to clean up the mess his displacement has caused by cauterizing timelines by causing spatiotemporal holocausts. Got all that?
In the latest series Casanova has learned the real name of the arch-villain Newman Xeno who put him in this predicament. Armed with that knowledge Cassanova has been jumping realities killing as many versions of Luther Desmond Diamond as he can find. And then a funny thing happens, Casanova decides he kind of likes Diamond and doesn’t want to go on killing him.
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The latest issue of Moon Knight may be the best yet. Echo and Moon Knight sit down to talk after their blowup (you know, when he kissed her and she punched him in the face repeatedly). The pair admit, but do not give into, their attraction to each other, and Brian Michael Bendis makes a ingenious observation about the similarities of the two heroes.
This issue also sees the final fate of the Night Shift. The Los Angeles Kingpin (who is finally revealed in this issue) doesn’t take kindly to failure. The choice of Count Nefaria is an interesting one (to be honest, I’d forgotten he even existed) as it gives Moon Knight an adversary powerful enough to be a threat but C-List enough not to overpower the book.
My favorite part of this issue, however, is when the Avengers (the ones Moon Knight has been hallucinating about for weeks) actually show up to have a talk with him. This provides the week’s best panel as Spidey has a question for Moon Knight about his latest tactics. Best of the week.
[Marvel, $3.99]
