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Jenny Sparks #5

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Taking break from the standoff between Jenny Sparks and Captain Atom, Jenny Sparks #5 works as something of an origin issue offering flashbacks to both Captain Atom’s origins and to Jenny Sparks’ recruitment by Superman and Batman. The latter provides the big laughs of the issue while the former helps reintroduce the character of Atom and restate the challenges Jenny has in dealing with him through her discussion of one of the hostages whose cancer he cured.

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Blink

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  • Title: Blink (2024)
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After learning that three of their four children suffer from a degenerative eye condition which will gradually leave them blind, a family sets off around the world to pack a lifetime of experiences and wonders in a single year. The documentary from Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher chronicles the French Canadian family’s travels across the world through a variety of locales balancing the emotions of wonder and awe with fear, sadness, and impending loss.

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Too Many Cooks

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  • Title: Too Many Cooks
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to another mystery with New York’s famous detective Nero Wolfe. Initially released in six issues of The American Magazine, which coincided with a 12-city tour across the Northeast and Midwest, Too Many Cooks was then collected and published for the first time in 1938. The fifth of Rex Stout’s novels has some peculiarities which make it standout of the series. First, not a single scene of the entire story takes place within the confines of the New York City brownstone. Second, Wolfe is shot over the course of events forcing him to solve a crime he had already decided to ignore.

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Arcane – Paint the Town Blue

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Paint the Town Blue
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Fast-forwarding an indeterminate amount of time (weeks? months? a year?), Zaun has become occupied by the Piltover and Noxian forces harassing the citizens of the undercity searching for Jinx (Ella Purnell) who has retreated from the public eye with Isha (Lucy Lowe). Despite the pleas for Jinx to return, she remains missing until her precocious ward forces her hand by getting kidnapped at a rally along with several others in the undercity leading to Jinx to stage a rescue with Sevika (Amirah Vann) shocking her with the discovery of just how much her legend has grown in her absence.

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Powerpuff Girls Winter Snowdown Showdown #1

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Just in time for Christmas comes this holiday one-shot featuring the girls on their best behavior at holiday time while also splitting up to find the perfect Christmas gift for the Professor. Having promised to try to watch the violence and property damage (for both their dad and Santa), the girls find themselves in some unfamiliar territory as Blossom deals with the Rowdyruff Boys, Bubbles runs into trouble with Princess Morbucks, and Buttercup runs into Santa-dressed MoJo JoJo. The Professor also gets an unwelcome visitor of his own as well.

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