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The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #11

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The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #11

Taking place entirely in the Gotham City Public Library, The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #11 features both Mystery, Inc. and Commissioner Gordon stopping by on his daughter Barbara‘s first day at the library. The first day turns out to be an eventful one when Grotesque and some of henchmen dressed up as ghosts arrive. The ghosts, in simple sheets, are pretty low-tech for for a Scooby story and the structure of the tale doesn’t leave room for some of the basic Scooby-Doo beats.

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The Jackal

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  • Title: The Jackal
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The Jackal

Sometimes movies just don’t quite work. Wayback Wednesday takes us back to a film that fits that category. 1997’s adaptation of The Day of the Jackal has a talented cast in Bruce Willis as the infamous assassin, Richard Gere as an IRA terrorist let out of prison to help hunt him down alongside Sidney Poitier and Diane Venora, and smaller roles from the likes of Mathilda May, J.K. Simmons, Jack Black all of which helped propel the film to box office success. But despite that talent on-screen, the story of hunting down the world’s greatest assassin just can’t hit the bullseye.

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Batgirl #1

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Batgirl #1

The new volume of Batgirl, centered around Cassandra Cain, kicks off an arc featuring Lady Shiva‘s arrival in Gotham City and her warnings that neither she nor her daughter as safe from a cult of assassins. Focused primarily on Batgirl’s distrust of her mother, things pick up with the arrival of wave after wave of assassins and Cassandra discovers her mother is telling the truth (if not the whole truth) about an apparent shared enemy. 

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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Everything Is Not What It Seems

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  • Title: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Everything Is Not What It Seems
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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - Everything Is Not What It Seems

Serving as a spinoff for Wizards of Waverly Place, the new series catches up with Justin Russo (David Henrie) as an adult living without magic. The premiere, “Everything Is Not What It Seems” introduces Justin’s wife (Mimi Gianopulos) and sons (Max Matenko and Alkaio Thiele) who are ignorant of magic. Guest-starring for the premiere, Alex (Selena Gomez) brings a talented but wild wizard named Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) who needs a new teacher and very quickly exposes Justin’s children to magic with a prank that releases a Floogie monster in the family apartment.

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – C13v3rGr186

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – C13v3rGr186
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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory - C13v3rGr186

“C13v3rGr186” steps away from the current storyline of the new island to fill in the gap of Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly) starting with the events that occurred prior to the attack and also what happened to Brooklyn after she was saved by Ronnie (Carmen Moore). Much of this we’ve seen before, or has been directed alluded to. We see her visit to Kenji’s father with the added context of what she was after, the misunderstanding with Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams), and the night she lost her arm. Although considering letting the others know she’s alive, Brooklyn ultimately decides to keep it a secret to protect them and play on the advantages of being dead as she goes after the Broker on her own in a storyline which will eventually get away from the writers but starts with just being a very questionable decision.

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