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Star Wars #21

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Star Wars #21Star Wars #21 breaks from the formula of Marvel’s main Star Wars comic. Moving away from the adventures of the core characters from the original Star Wars trilogy, the latest issue focuses instead on Sgt. Kreel and his new squad of elite Stormtroopers tasked with finding and eliminating Rebel insurgents throughout the Empire.

The latest issue is more a military comic with the squad learning to trust their new commander while performing their orders from the Emperor. While Stormtroopers have gotten a bad name (given their inability to hit anything resembling a target), writer Jason Aaron and artist Jorge Molina show that this is a different breed of soldier than those other walking targets seemingly trained solely to be shot down by the Rebellion.

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Killjoys – Schooled

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  • Title: Killjoys – Schooled
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Killjoys - Schooled

Taking a trio of gifted Westerley children to a school located on a space station is just the cover Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), John (Aaron Ashmore), and D’Avin (Luke Macfarlane) need to track Khlyen‘s (Rob Stewart) final message before the destruction of Red 17. However, once they arrive it doesn’t take the Killjoys long to realize something is very, very wrong with the school as its only surviving student (Ricardo Hoyos) will risk everything to make it off the station alive. Of course having the same bizarre murderous memories in his head D’Avin is unable to make sense of, and seeing the rest of his classmates murdered, does help explain the kid’s distrust of every adult aboard the station.

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Star Trek Beyond

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  • Title: Star Trek Beyond
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Star Trek BeyondThe third time’s the charm. After a lackluster first film and a clusterfuck of a sequel, the rebooted franchise finally gets it right with Star Trek Beyond. No longer awkwardly straddling the original and new continuities, the latest Star Trek film offers a wholly original story and the first really good movie in the Star Trek franchise in 20 years.

Opening with a humorous scene of Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) struggling with a delicate diplomatic mission which plants the first seed of the story, Star Trek Beyond really gets going when Kirk and the Enterprise are tricked into a rescue mission that leaves the Enterprise in pieces and most of its crew prisoners of a warmonger known as Krall (Idris Elba) who is after an ancient weapon which could change the balance of power in the galaxy.

While not offering much of the bigger themes of the original series’ best episodes, director Justin Lin (Fast & Furious) does deliver one hell of an action film (which looks even more impressive in IMAX 3D) that is still driven by the core relationships of its characters. For those of us dissatisfied with the recent additions to the franchise, this is the movie we’ve been waiting for.

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The Freemaker Adventures – Race on Tatooine

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  • Title: LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – Race on Tatooine
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The Freemaker Adventures - Race on Tatooine

Taking a job as a pit crew for a pod race on Tatooine, the Freemakers are unaware they are walking into a trap set by Graballa the Hutt (Dana Snyder) and his bounty hunters Dengar (James Patrick Stuart), Baash (John DiMaggio), and Raam (Danny Jacobs). Zander (Eugene Byrd), Kordi (Vanessa Lengies), and Rowan (Nicolas Cantu) work to stay one-step ahead of the bounty hunters, even going so far as to join the pod race.

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Killjoys – Shaft

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  • Title: Killjoys – Shaft
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Killjoys - Shaft

On their first off-the-books mission for Turin (Patrick Garrow), Lucy and her crew head into the Badlands to investigate a distress call from three Killjoys who found something inside a mine that the RAC wants covered up. With the help of Alvis (Morgan Kelly), the team investigates the situation only to leave with more questions than answers. In the episode’s B-story Pawter (Sarah Power) finds a way to use her captor’s medical condition against him and create an avenue of escape.

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