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SHAZAM! #15

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SHAZAM! #15

Billy‘s internal battle versus the Captain comes to an end, and it’s a good thing because the world being invaded by monsters needs all the heroes it can get. The finale of the arc reveals that the Captain is just an older and wiser, but not necessarily more intelligent, version of Billy Batson. Realizing he’s been fighting himself, and not some entity created by the gods, Billy speaks the magic word and gets back to work and helps push the invading monsters back to the underworld.

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The Old Man – VIII

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  • Title: The Old Man – VIII
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The Old Man - VIII

The Old Man returns for its Second Season with Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) and Harold Harper (John Lithgow) attempting to work together. Having successfully infiltrated Afghanistan, things quickly go wrong leaving them with few allies to find and save Emily (Alia Shawkat). The episode stays with the old couple pairing of the two, and sharing thoughts on Emily and the steps Dan went to to hide the truth from her, with the action coming from dangers they run into including a friendly face who turns out to be anything but and nearly ends the pair’s adventure before it gets started. Good stuff here, although Emily’s own thread isn’t picked up on just yet and I do miss Amy Brenneman.

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Star Wars #50

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Star Wars #50

This volume of Star Wars comes to a close not with the adventure relating to saving Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt (which was teased at the end of Star Wars #49) but instead a story told by master to apprentice. Framed during Luke Skywalker‘s teaching of Ben Solo, the Jedi Master (potentially already aware of the darkness within him) tells him a story of the Rebellion coming across a weapon prior to the events of Return of the Jedi which could have killed the Emperor (and also anyone connected to him over the course of time).

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Star Trek: Prodigy – First Con-tact

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  • Title: Star Trek: Prodigy – First Con-tact
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Star Trek: Prodigy - First Con-tact

Star Trek Sunday gives us another episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. “First Con-tact” introduces DaiMon Nandi (), the Ferengi conwoman who raised Dal R’El (Brett Gray) and convinces him to help her in what she describes as a victimless scheme of acquiring a valuable gem from a nearby world. Under the guise of first contact, our rag-tag crew and Nandi encounter the harmonic aliens of the planet who need the crystals to survive. Out for herself, Nandi steals one of the crystals almost getting away with the theft and revealing Dal wasn’t kidnapped. She sold him into servitude. 

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Batman: Caped Crusader – Moving Target

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  • Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – Moving Target
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Batman: Caped Crusader - Moving Target

An attempt on Jim Gordon‘s (Eric Morgan Stuart) life sends Batman (Hamish Linklater) to prison in an attempt to get the hit called off and with a warning for Barbara (Krystal Joy Brown) and to visit the prison in an attempt to get Muller (Peter Jessop) to call of the hit leading to an unexpected discovery: Jim isn’t the target. While the action is good, and the twist works well enough with Barbara revealed to be the target even one of the police detectives is willing to kill for, “Moving Target” is the most forgettable episode of the season. The point of the episode, so to speak, is to provide Barbara a new perspective as to what someone deserves. 

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