Mystery

The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #8

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While attempting to eat at one of the few businesses still open on the rundown Gotham Waterfront, the gang runs into a ghost. The search leads Batman and Mystery, Inc. to investigate a former villain lair which has been bought out, along with much of the abandoned land, by a lottery winner with plans for revitalization… or that’s at least what the city wants to believe.

JH Development turns out to be Joker and Harley Quinn constructing a Joker World amusement park which they use to try and kill Batman and those meddling kids. While it’s unclear what the park is for (other than feeding the Joker’s vanity), the creepy super-villain attraction meshes well with Scooby-Doo themes. The villains are caught, and like all classic Scooby-Doo stories, the ghost has a rational explanation as well, leaving Batman the decision of what to do with Joker Land. Thankfully, a little branding goes a long way.

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Only Murders in the Building – Double Time

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – Double Time
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The penultimate episode of the First Season of Only Murders in the Building offers a few surprises as the podcasters face backlash from the neighbors, possible eviction, and Charles (Steve Martin) announcing plans to leave the podcast and spend time with his healing, but not surprisingly not dead, girlfriend (Amy Ryan). While they were able to solve one murder, the trio still hasn’t solved the case that brought them all together.

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The Human Target #1

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As part of DC’s Black Label, the noir-ish The Human Target #1 opens with the death of Christopher Chance in an empty hotel room before jumping back a dozen days to Chance playing the role of Lex Luthor at a LexCorp press event where a terrorist will inevitably attempt to make an attempt on the life of his client.

The sequence, beautifully rendered by artist Greg Smallwood, works well as an introduction to Chance’s line of work by taking the place of his client and putting himself in danger. As the title suggests, Chance makes his life as a Human Target.

The sequence, narrated by Chance, also keys us into a few aspects of an older Chance, less carefree than his early days, and less discerning on his choice of clientele. And that may have just gotten him killed.

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Only Murders in the Building – Fan Fiction

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – Fan Fiction
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The murder is solved, the podcasters record their last episode, the police arrest Teddy Dimas (Nathan Lane) and his son (James Caverly), but what if they got it all wrong? The episode opens with Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) being frightened, threatened, but then released by the podcast’s sponsor who warns them to rule Tim Kono’s (Julian Cihi) death a suicide and move on. Instead the pair regroup with Charles (Steve Martin) to end the podcast on their own terms and catch a killer.

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Silk Stalkings – Witness

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  • Title: Silk Stalkings – Witness
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The murder of the week involving the death of an actor shot in the middle of a cuckold threesome takes backseat to Rita’s (Mitzi Kapture) interest in the 15 year-old homeless girl (J.C. Brandy) who witnessed the body dump. While there is a murder to solve, Rita’s attention is focused on keeping the girl safe from the killer and attempting to get her the help she needs (even after she steals from the soft-hearted detective). Morgan Brittany guest-stars as the woman whose bed the victim dies in while Barry Laws plays her jealous murdering husband. The episode also introduces Kristen Cloke as former model turned clothing designer Annie Overstreet who will stoke Chris’ passions for a handful of episodes before exiting, stage left.

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