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Buffy the Vampire Season Eight #40

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Buffy Season Eight has been an adventure. Almost twice as long as its original intended length, the story has meandered a bit on its way to giving us some great (and less than great) moments over the course of 40 issues.

The conclusion of “Last Gleaming” finds the Buffy and the Scoobies alive (with one big exception), but trapped in a world without magic. The world was saved both from a demon horde and the creation of a new reality but the line of Slayers has been severed as has any connection witches like Willow had with magic.

As final issues go this one’s not half-bad. I grew a little weary of Season Eight, especially when Twilight was revealed to be Angel and he and Buffy started going hot and heavy again. Thankfully, this final issue gives us an end free of the insanity that plagued the final ten issues of this season.

This feels like Buffy again, and sets down the events that lead to Fray as well as foreshadow the fallout which is sure to come in Season Nine (set to begin this summer).

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White Collar – Burke’s Seven

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  • Title: White Collar – Burke’s Seven
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White Collar returned last week with a strong mid-season opener which answered several questions (such as what happened to Mozzie, and who wants the music box) as well as unite several supporting characters to come to Peter’s (Tim DeKay) defense after he’s framed for a crime which would ruin his entire career.

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Darkwing Duck #8

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The conclusion of “The Crisis on Infinite Darkwings” is as crazy as it sounds as various versions of Darkwing Duck from every different parallel world (my favorite might be The Doctor Darkwing) band together to stop the “uber evil” of Paddyquack and the giant version of Negaduck from destroying St. Canard.

Taken from film, television, comics, and even (gasp!) classic literature, there’s a variety Darkwings adding the zaniness paying homage to everything from The Wizard of Oz to Davy Crockett. And, in true Darkwing style, all of his city saving antics only bring more people to distrust his intentions. I’m a little disappointed with the apparent end of Gosalyn‘s adventures in the Gizmoduck armor as “Gosmoduck,” but that’s really my only complaint.

Crazy fun all around, and once again the comic delivers with yet another very cool old school Batman-inspired variant cover (this one by Diego Jourdan).

[Boom $3.99]

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The Love Car Displacement

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Love Car Displacement
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Last night’s episode of The Big Bang Theory found Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Penny (Kaley Cuoco), Raj (Kunal Nayyar), Howard (Simon Helberg), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch), and Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) all on the road to a science symposium at an exclusive spa.

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Batgirl #17

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Batgirl and Robin, together again. YES! I just love Stephanie and Damian together.

The pair team-up to solve a case of missing children which leads Damian to go undercover as a regular kid (much to the delight of Batgirl). We get the regular barbs between the two on a fire escape in front of a low level thug, but there’s also a nice realization by Batgirl when she sees Damian doesn’t know how to be a kid. He doesn’t know how to play. Her attempt to remedy this in the comic’s final page is priceless.

There’s also a good opening dialogue between Damian and Alfred, who Damian has come to accept as “an adequate servant,” and the random panel of Stephanie’s dream mumblings about killing Abraham Lincoln. Throw in a high speed chase involving a school bus, which Damian stabs (successfully) and attempts to drive (a little less successfully), and you’ve got everything you need for a great read!

[DC $2.99]

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