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Avatar: The Last Airbender – Aang

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Avatar: The Last Airbender - Aang

There were several questions heading into Netflix’s new adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The opening episode “Aang,” covering roughly the first three episodes of the animated series along with a prolonged opening helping set up the world now ravaged by the Fire Nation, answers a couple of the biggest about the series are provided in terms of if it would stay true to the same timeline as the original (it won’t) and if it could convey CGI bending more effectively than the disappointing 2010 movie (it certainly does).

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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – Suit Up!

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Moon Girl - Suit Up!

“Suit Up” serves two purposes. The first is to force Lunella (Diamond White) to deal with the PTSD caused by her cosmic encounter. The second is to get our heroine a refresh on her costume as she and Mimi (Alfre Woodard) visit Mimi’s old science buddies (Jackée Harry and Ann Harada) to develop a new suit for Moon Girl. Highlights of the episode include Mimi’s friends falling for Devil Dinosaur, the over-armored costume of Lunella’s design, and Moon Girl finally learning that no amount of armor can protect her from all threats and its time to start using her brain rather than brawn.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Crash and Burn

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NCIS: Hawai'i - Crash and Burn

Closing out the two-part opening arc, “Crash and Burn” focuses on NCIS and the Coast Guard chasing down the escaped prisoners whose plane was brought down in the ocean. With everyone splitting up, we get several separate threads. Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and Sam Hanna (LL Cool J) take the biological weapons creator whose escape was the point of the crash. Kai (Alex Tarrant) and Jesse (Noah Mills) team with Pike (Mark Gessner) to take down a trio of criminals. Ernie (Jason Antoon) works on finding the hacker. And Lucy (Yasmine Al-Bustami) and Whistler (Tori Anderson) track down an arsonist whose capture reveals another target the team needs to be paying much more attention to.

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Vengeance of the Moon Knight #2

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Vengeance of the Moon Knight #2

Framed in much the same manner as the first issue, Vengeance of Moon Knight #2 gives us Tigra talking things through with Dr. Andrea Sterman while providing a bit more of the new Moon Knight’s confrontation with the inhabitants of the Midnight Mission. By the end of the issue a couple of things are clear, this Moon Knight is certainly capable of holding his own against any of them, and he is not Marc Spector.

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #5

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #5

Wrapping up the five-issue mini-series, Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #5 offers this single-issue epilogue in which weary Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi, and later some of the bandits who worked for Jei, find shelter in an isolated village. At first it appears the trouble the ronin may have to deal with is the bandits who swear they have changed their ways, but plan to stick around to rob the village after the ronin leave the area. However, the real trouble lies elsewhere.

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