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Well, this week is going to be a littler different at TPL. See, I used to get all the X-Books and other books from another provider (not my LCS) but that is a bridge that has been closed for now. So, I now get all X-titles, FF-titles, DD-titles, Bat-titles and other things that was in the CBCU will now be here! So this week is packed, especially with X-titles! There’s 1 Vertigo title, 2 Wildstorms, 10 DC’s and finally, a whopping 22 Marvels. Math majors will tell you that adds up to 35 total comics, the highest ever for TPL. I have my reading cut out for me. Throw in X-Men Complete Onslaught Epic Vol. 2, a Wizard, and Heroes magazine and you can see how much readin’ I will be doing. Damn. Luckily I am finally done with SJU for the time being and done with lessons so it is smooth sailing! Let’s get through this stack!

Spoiler Alert

The Main Event
-Final Crisis #1- This has been a much hyped event for a while and I was highly anxious to read it. So we start with Metron meeting Anthro and giving him fire, which he uses to stop some attackers (including Vandal Savage) on his village. We go to a detective finding Orion, who warns that “they are in all of you.” Orion dies and the Green Lanterns get a 1011 distress call, for deicide. The detective visits the new question about a missing kid case and she gives him a card for the Dark Side Club (seen in last week’s Flash and Birds of Prey books) so he investigates. It seems to be run by a little guy named Darkseid and you know nothing good can come of that. Mirror Master and Dr. Light team up and take out some C-list heroes to retrieve Metron’s chair as the rest of the Rogues are arrested. Luthor questions Libra’s abilities so he shows them what Human Flame always wanted, Martian Manhunter in his midst being burned to death. The Monitors banish Uotan, keeper of Earth-51 which was destroyed twice in Countdown and the other Monitors are plotting something. Kamandi shows up at the end to see Anthro about the fire given to him as someone wakes up in a new body and sees the news that Martian Manhunter has been killed! As an opening issue, I was impressed. It didn’t have that big shocking moment that most issues try to have but it put a lot of pieces on the table to be built upon. It certainly had an epic feel to it, and Grant Morrison wrote a tightly scripted issue, JG Jones did a nice job on interiors and you have an excellent opening issue after all is said and done. 1/1.

-Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1- Well, this is the first time this title is appearing on TPL, which is the same for all the rest of the X-titles this week, so apologies in advance if I am not up to date with all the storylines. Anyway, a giant bullet has been fired at Earth, with Kitty Pryde inside of it. Colossus is at the planets core with Aghanne who wants to destroy the world, but Ord steps in and sacrifices himself to save his world. The X-Men still have to deal with a giant bullet heading their way. The heroes on Earth think they have it stopped but they are really in some sort of trance (which wasn’t explained all that well). Colossus demands to know the bullets weakness but we don’t know if he’s told. The bullet is already at Earth and nothing (not even a Sentinal sent there) can stand in its way. So Kitty does what she can, she phases the whole bullet through the planet. The bullet is still rocketing into space but no one can catch. Kitty is probably bonded to the bullet and for all intents and purposes is gone forever. Colossus is of course devestated, Beast goes to work with Agent Brand who is actually part alien, Cyclops’ power returns and he needs the goggles again and we end with a shot of Kitty’s bullet flying through sky. This was a very nice way to end Whedon and Cassady’s run. It took its time but in the end it delivered. Kitty is gone but she isn’t lost forever (she’ll crash into the Shi’ar one of these days) and I can’t say this was a let down at all. 1/1.

-Marvel: 1985- I was waiting to read this one. Despite its similarities to Kick-Ass in theme (heroes in the real world) it is actually very different. We look in at a young comics fan in 1985 reading Secret Wars and living with his mother and step father while his father is out of work and in poverty. Comics are his only escape. One day he goes out with his father to an old house that has been bought and finds something odd, someone looking like Red Skull in the window. Later he sees pictures of the Vulture on TV. He investigates the house again and sees Dr. Doom and Mole Man talking together. He runs away in fear and crashes into something he never expected, the Incredible Hulk. This was a very awesome opening, as it was a slow build to the reveal of the heroes and the references to all things 1985 (the comics, the cars, the trends) made this a joy to read. 2/2.

Marvel
-Angel: Redemption #1- As a rule I always pick up X-title mini-series. This is under the Marvel Knights label for some reason. So we start with a girl with stigmata telling of a vision she saw (the X-Men) to a priest and about Angel in particular. The priest kills the girl and her mother and goes off looking for Angel who at this time is alone at a boarding school, doing very well in all his sport events and being accused of using steroids. Warren is scared that he can’t gain weight and has bruises on his back. He wakes one night with a feather on the floor. This was surprisingly well-written and is a nice springboard to Angel becoming Angel with a crazy priest out to get him. One thing that is a little jarring at first is the art. Adam Pollina certainly has a distinct style (the characters are all very lanky looking) but it actually fit the story. Once I got past the first few pages, it wasn’t distracting. 3/3.
-Clan Destine #4- Rory and Pandora are chased by vampires but it was actually in good fun. Sam and Kay send Pandora and Rory with Newton so they can investigate what is happening at home and Newton takes the kids to find Duncan, who is trapped in another world with Excalibur. The world is run by Maximus and the Inhumans. The trio show up on the world and Pandora and Rory are seemingly killed in a blast. Kay and Sam head home where they are attacked by a monster Walter and clones of Rory and Pandora. With one issue left there is a lot of questions unanswered, but damn is it fun to see the original Excalibur again, and I really like this Clan Destine group of character, as they have their own little niche and history in the MU. 4/4.
-Daredevil #107- DD is a little tense since Maya is in a psych ward and even takes his frustrations out on some thugs. Luke Cage comes to him for some help but DD snaps at him and hits him (yeah, he has rock hard skin and DD acted in anger). DD flees and Luke asks Dakota for a favor. It seems Luke has a friend in jail who confessed to three beheadings and is set to be electricuted. He wanted DD to help out and see if this guy was telling the truth. Dakota goes to Foggy for help and then talks to the suspect herself. When she gets beat up because of it she knows something is up. She finds Matt moping, yells at him to tell him to get back into things and he goes to talk to the perp. This was a very interesting set-up, dealing more with the crime/noir aspect Brubaker is good at than anything else. It combines Matt’s talents as DD and a lawyer and reminds me of the Redemption mini-series from a few years back. 5/5.
-Immortal Iron Fist #15- If you were looking for Danny Rand in this issue then keep looking. This deals with Bei Bang-Wen, an Iron Fist from 1827-60. We follow his story of being captured by British troops, meeting an Indian version of the Iron Fist, traveling to free that man’s mentor, getting sliced up by Tiger Jani, being saved by the one he teamed up and going back to K’un L’un. It was a good story but I take an issue with having it in Iron Fist. We expect to see Danny Rand in the title and things like this should be kept to one-shots, or even back-ups in annuals, or back-ups in Iron Fist itself. Not that the story wasn’t interesting, but I like picking up Iron Fist and reading about Danny Rand. Still, I grade on story satisfaction and this was an interesting look at the long and storied Iron Fist past. 6/6.
-King-Size Hulk #1- This is three separate stories of the Red Hulk. The first deals with him killing a Wendigo on his way to Russia (and there is now a whole troop of Wendigo’s), She-Hulk’s side of the fight, and Ross recounting Abomination’s origin. Think of this as a supplement to the ongoing Red Hulk title, one that doesn’t need to be read to follow Hulk, but one that is a good asset to read more into things. There are three issues reprinted as well, Hulk #180-181, which is remembered as Wolverine’s first appearance but also a meeting with Hulk and Wendigo, and Avengers #83, an offbeat Halloween tale. I didn’t get a chance to read those (TPL was too packed this week!) but I’ve read 2 out of the 3 already and I’ll read the Avengers tale when it is reprinted in a Marvel Masterworks Collection. This was a good addition to the Hulk series going on. 7/7.
-Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #36- The FF are on a movie lot filming short films for film students. One has a camera that turns people into the anti-FF. It didn’t work on low power but when the anti-Thing takes it (thanks to Johnny’s idiocy) he makes all the dorks there into evil anti-marvel characters that the FF have to fend off. I liked MA FF for their fun stories but this was just ridiculous. It lacked the storytelling the earlier issues had and missing the fun as well. I have to go no point on this and this is actually being taken off the pull list for now. 7/8.
-Marvel Comics Presents #9- Stacy Dolan makes a surprising discovery in her case. It seems that Jaafar Yoosuf has been controlling people (causing Dolan to kill that man) and he wants to take down the Marvel superheroes from the inside. Machine Man is going crazy, recounting a story of meeting the Hulk (who was badly drawn), saving a woman then being called a monster. MM seems to have a little imaginary Celestial that talks to him, too. Can a machine have a mental disorder? There is a Hulk one-off story featuring, well, I don’t know. It is the end of Hulk world it seems. Finally Weapon Omega finally comes to his senses after Sasquatch shows up and Arachne is coming around on what is happening and figures out something is amiss. Two of the stories (the 12-parters) were really interesting this time around while the others I had no interest in at all. I don’t see this series lasting beyond 12 issues to be honest with you. The two long stories were good, and that earns this a point. 8/9.
-Ms. Marvel #27- Ms. Marvel questions the captured Skrull to get more information on William, the man she had an interest in who she thought was dead. So the Skrull sends her on a wild goose chase. When Ms. Marvel comes back she is very pissed at this Skrull and loses her temper, entering the Skrull’s forcefield prison. The Skrull proceeds to blow up the helicarrier, sending it to the ground with massive casualties. Ms. Marvel turns to Wonder Man for comfort when the call comes in for an Avengers alert. Ms. Marvel is a conflicted character, and Marvel’s female leads are very interesting (like She-Hulk which I will talk about later) with these huge conflicts in their lives. They are far from perfect and as a reader I love reading it. Ms. Marvel is more interesting now than she’s ever been. This was a good Secret Invasion tie-in. 9/10.
-New Avengers #41- This was an interesting one. It focuses on Spider-Man breaking off during the Skrull fight in the Savage Land and runs into Ka-Zar and Shanna. Ka-Zar tells of how Skrulls have been there for a while and were the cause of the explosion way back in New Avengers #1. The fake Captain America shows up at the end of the issue. The writing was actually too humurous for a title in the midst of a huge serious Marvel event (Ka-Zar mentioning they need internet in the Savage Land). Still, seeing the seeds being planted from NA #1. Bendis is finally the roots of storyline first started in Avengers Disassembled. A serviceable issue, with some great art by Billy Tan. 10/11.
-New Warriors #12- The four trapped New Warriors make an escape but can’t quite get out. They put their weapons together and try to leave. Night Thrasher gets lambasted by his teammates for leaving them but he has a plan and they go back to save their friends. Also, Diablo’s book is stolen. New Warriors right now is a title without a direction. It was cool when they were anti-registration but that ship has sailed. Now there are a bunch of X-Men rejects with no powers and no real reason for their own title. I am not impressed so far by New Warriors and look for this title to end by issue #25, if not sooner. 10/12.
-Picture of Dorian Gray #6- Dorian Gray sees the man who wants to kill him (Sibyl Vane’s brother) but he is killed in a hunting accident by mistake. Dorian slowly descends into madness thanks to all the wrong he’s done and he wants to start a new wholesome life. When he thinks he’s started he looks at his portrait again and finds it unchanged. In a fit of rage he slashes at it and when his servants find him later it was Dorian who was killed, but now old and unrecognizable, and his portrait as young as ever. I hated this for the first couple of issues but it was a damn good story from the third issue on and kept my interest. I am kind of interested in reading the novel now. 11/13.
-Power Pack: Day One #3- The Power Pack continue telling their origin to Franklin. The Pack discover their powers for the first time and save their parents. Julie finds out that her father’s boss was in on the abduction and they head home. Unfortunately, the bad guys are following and furthermore, the horse race wants to destroy Earth since they have the anti-matter device. I don’t know how close this is to their original origin but the Power Pack mini-series have been nothing but fun with sharp writing and clean art. 12/14.
-She-Hulk #29- She-Hulk is in prison (again) and tells how she got disbarred. She had to represent Arthur Moore, or better known as Dark Art. Long story short, she got him freed but then he showed that he really did commit the murders. She-Hulk lost it and attacked him and revealed to the world what he did. She ended up disbarred (breaking lawyer-client privacy) and fount out it was all a trick by Moore as he didn’t actually commit the murders. The end of the issue has Bran killing Moore. Another great Marvel heroine that means well but is flawed. Her quick temper caused her to lose the job she loved and now she is on a downward spiral of bounty hunting and frequent jail appearances. It’s just great writing by PAD to make a character we see with flaws like us and great stories coming from them. 13/15.
-Thor #9- Loki starts playing around with the minds of the gods, especially Balder. She convinces him that Frost Giants are about and so Balder goes out (on his own free will granted by Thor) and kills them. He ends up getting arrested. Thor tells him that even though he has freedom to leave, he shouldn’t until the time is right. This plays into Loki’s plans as she tells Balder that’s what Thor wants. She throws a monkey wrench into the works by telling Balder that his father is Odin as well and he’s entitled to the throne as well. There are a lot of parallels you can find here, from just how much free will do we have if the god tells us what to do? There is a fun sub-plot of a regular guy meeting with one of the gods and trying to show them how to play basketball. An issue with Loki cunning and basketball jokes make for a recommendation. 14/16.
-Ultimate Spider-Man #122- We begin with Spider-Man in the hands of Shocker. We fast forward to Shocker appearing and Spidey showing up. To everyone’s surprise, Shocker defeats Spider-Man, unmasks him and in true Bendis fashion they spend the issue talking. Shocker hates being made fun of and he wants back what he lost when he was fired from his job making weapons at Roxxon. Roxxon has a big role in the Ultimate Universe that hasn’t been revealed yet but is hinted at here and all throughout the titles run. So we see Shocker as a villain who hates being made fun of and just wants what was taken from him. Spidey escapes, Kitty Pryde shows up (after MJ asked for help) and the police arrest Shocker. It is just a story that delves deeper into a character we associate as a loser and see exactly why he is a loser. 15/17.
-Uncanny X-Men #498- This is a weird week, three Grant Morrison titles, 2 Bendis titles and 3 Brubaker titles. All the best writers in comics right now and you get 8 comics of them in one week. This was a another CBCU title making its first appearance here and it is in the midst of the 5 part storyline. Scott and Emma investigate a hippie San Francisco that have Angel, Iceman, Hepzibah and Warpath as their members and ready to take out Scott and Emma. The real meat of the story focuses on Wolverine, Colossus, and Nightcrawler captured in a Russian facility. They escape and run into Omega Red. Even though I haven’t read the last 5 issues, I feel like I haven’t missed a thing and that’s a credit to Brubaker. The Choi art was great and you got a very good all around title. 16/18.
-X-Force #4- This is the 4th of a 6-parter and Wolfsbane has just been found by X-Force all drugged up by the Purifiers. Elixer cures her, X-23 questions why they aren’t going after the Purifiers, Wolfsbane wakes up and attacks Angel, ripping out his wings and heading to the Purifiers. The X-Force regroups as we see the Purifiers use the wings (which were made from Apocalypse) and create an army of winged warriors. It seems also that Archangel is returning. Now that, is a cool development. 17/19.
-X-Men: Legacy #212- Charles has lost his memory and is investigating a list of names that seem to have something in common. He runs into Gambit who helps him on his journey. It involves men who worked at the power plant that Charles’ stepfather worked at and we see pieces of the puzzle. Somehow Sebastian Shaw is involved and Charles uncovers an old memory of Mr. Sinister working at the plant! This was another good twist, showing that Mr. Sinister’s schemes run further than we may even imagine. It was like the early 90’s in the X-titles this week, as Omega Red returned, Mr. Sinister is a main player, and Archangel is back in all his glory. 18/20.
-X-Men: First Class #12- This is a sweet tale of Angel going to look for her aunt in a South American country, and finding a hidden city. He enjoys being there since he can actually be himself and not be judged, which Professor X and the X-Men talk about after they went to find him and he stayed. It was a nice story and this is just a fun title, reminiscent of Untold Tales of Spider-Man, where you know nothing major will happen but it is just fun to read. 19/21.
-Young Avengers Presents: #5- This issue focuses on Stature. She is rapidly shrinking since she caused (accidentally) her father-in-law to be badly injured while she was playing super-hero. Eli talks some sense into her, using words he heard from Bucky in the first issue, and she vows to go on. I like the looks at the psyche and thinking of all the members of the Young Avengers. 20/22.

DC
-All-Star Superman #11- Grant Morrison has his second issue of the week on the stands and boy is it a doozy. Lex Luthor is electrocuted but lives thanks to a mix he drank the night before. He now has Superman’s powers for 24 hours and it isn’t good for everyone else. Superman is now very close to dying. He clears things up at the Fortress then flies off in a new outfit to stop something called the Tyrant Sun, a red sun. The sun-eater interferes but TS kills it which pissed off Supes. He defeats the red sun, then runs back to his office dying to open up his final article on Superman dying. Clark collapses, and Luthor shows up with his powers. This has just been one stellar issue after the next and the whole thing concludes next issue. We have seen things start in the first issue that have continued paying off up until now, and this is truly one of the historic runs in Superman history. 2/2.
-Action Comics #865- Geoff Johns handles the writing on this issue which really delves into the psyche of Toyman. Toyman kidnaps Jimmy Olsen after a stint in Arkham. He tells him about his wife, and how her death and selling his company pushed him over the edge. Batman eventually shows up and recaptures him as Superman says he won’t bring him to Metropolis. Turns out that Toyman didn’t have a legal wife, but a robot one. It really showed just how crazy and delusional Toyman is and was a good one-off issue before the new storyline starts. 3/3.
-Batman #677- The third and final of Grant Morrison’s title this week, as he now has three massive, epic storylines on his hand all dealing with a totally different thing. Here, we have Batman looking for information on a new villain named the Black Glove. Dr. Hurt seems to be behind it all and is orchestrating a plan he has been working on for years. So Batman sends out Alfred to look at the movie The Black Glove for research as he brings Jezebel to the Batcave. Jez says that maybe all this Black Glove stuff is really him and could Batman really be going crazy? As he mulls this The Club of Villains descend upon the mansion, knock out Batman, then attack Alfred when he comes home. To add intrigue to the whole storyline, Gordon gets some intel that says that Bruce Wayne may be schizophrenic, and that Thomas Wayne had Martha killed and faked his own death and has a history with John Mayhew and Alfred. Very interesting things are brewing in Batman land. Call it 3/3 for Grant Morrison this week and 4/4 for DC so far.
-Batman: Gotham After Midnight #1- I was debating picking this up, but seeing Kelley Jones (who drew the awesome Batman/Vampire trilogy) on art prompted me to pick it up. This is a multiple chapter book, where Batman stops Scarecrow, learns the Axeman is free and goes out to stop him. He doesn’t like that the criminals are changing their methods, something that diseased minds usually don’t do. A new villain appears, and Batman gets riddled with bullets and seemingly killed at the end. Well, we know that won’t last. The psychology Batman deals with when talking about the villains was enough to make this a winner. 5/5.
-Blue Beetle #27- This one-issue story sees Jaime go out on a date with Traci when they are attacked by a horde of small devils. Jaime stops them but he, Traci and his pals can’t figure out where the things came from. Jaime goes out the next day and finds two bigger devils attacking someone. Jaime stops them, again, and wonders where they are coming from. Finally, he is in school when the biggest one yet shows up. Jaime can’t stop him and the beast almost kills his English teacher until Traci figures it out. There were three guys who found a magic book hellbent on revenge and using a video game character to kill them. Traci stops them but Beetle is worried about not being able to save the teacher if the monsters hadn’t disappeared. Blue Beetle is always fun to read, as Jaime is a relateable character (still answers to his family and goes to school) and now a girlfriend added to the mix adds another layer. 6/6.
-Huntress Year One #2- Huntress tries to free her cousin Sal but is about to be hounded by cops when they get a call and she’s set free. She ends up staying with the Angelos family and meets a Tony, a son of Nino Angelo (a head mafia boss there). Helena finds out that Nino has been raping her 16-year-old cousin and tries to confront him but he tells her if she does anything she will die. So Helena leaves, finds out her cousin was killed in prison, dresses up in a costume and beats up Nino, finds out her inheritance has been plundered, finds the ones who did it, dresses up again, and goes after them at the end of the issue. I like the different layers of Helena we are seeing here, how her troubled life led her to the ways of being the Huntress and why she donned a costume in the first place. 7/7.
-Legion of Super-Heroes #42- The alien destroyers are attacking Rimbor, Ultra-Boy’s homeworld where he is wanted, so a team is dispatched there. They keep the alien destroyers on their feets by varying their attack and eventually defeat them, but not before Ultra Boy is confronted by the police there to arrest him. Meanwhile, a supposed LSH hater shows up asking for help and the rest of the team is sent away. We then see him outside with armored men and he instructs to tear the place down. What a prick. I like the direction Shooter has been going with this, having the LSH fight not only villains but also fighting internal politics. 8/8.
-Shadowpact #25- The Shadowpacts of different times all come together to stop the Sun God, as Blue Devil regains his powers but keeps his soul after his brother kills himself. Really it was a satisfying conclusion to what was a really fun series. I am sad to see it go. 9/9.
-Teen Titans #59- Clock King sells Kid Devil and Miss Martian to Darkseid but he won’t pay until he gets the rest. Clock King is sure that Ravager is dead but we readers know she isn’t since we see her. Robin finds out Clock King has kidnapped his friends and so he and the rest of the Titans show up. For some reason Clock King actually defeats Robin in combat and stands over him with a knife. Taking away from the fact that there is no way Robin would be bested by a dork in clock glasses, it is interesting to see how Darkseid and the Dark Side (haha, get the pun!) Club will play into things. 9/9.

Vertigo
-Northlanders #6- I haven’t been paying attention to the years but this looks like sometime later for Sven the Returned. He continues killing those who attack him when a settlement of men from the south comes to offer their aid in fighting Gorm. They prepare for battle and square off against Gorm’s men. Sven sees Thora (a woman he was sleeping with earlier in the series) who has been punished for sleeping with him. Hakaar comes off his horse and challenges Sven one on one to avoid bloodshed of the other men. They are about to battle when Enna shows up and tells Sven to follow her. She is into symbols and signs and the blackbird following Sven is not there, but hovering over the sky. Sven follows her and they spy Saxons landing on their land. There was a great cover for this issue and what was inside is building up to Sven taking over all of his home (including Gorm) to team-up and stop the Saxons. I really like this Wood mini-series so far. 1/1.

Wildstorm
-Hawksmoor #3- I don’t even get this title but somehow it was in my pull box and I didn’t realize it until I got home. Oh well, it is always nice to have new additions to the TPL family, even if it is only for a week. I have no idea who Hawksmoor is but apparantally he can talk to buildings and structures. He is with a woman, but leaves her after she shelters him. He runs into a dude while trying to find something, they fight, the bad guy has powers that neutralize his, he runs away, Hawksmoor runs aftert him and he runs into a giant machine suit. Interesting. This wasn’t a bad issue. 1/1.
-Number of the Beast #4- Wildstorm goofed big time on this, as pages were reprinted that may have affected the story. I don’t know. Whatever it was, the issue was still decent. We learn a little more about The High, and how he regenerated, and how the number of the beast may have been involved. It appears to be some government thing and the line between real world and dreams is blurred. Anyway, High escapes, the Four Horseman appear, the guy in armor is stabbed, a group of villains find Dr. Sin dead but another Dr. Sin shows up and retrieves a gun where he shoots the high. Weird. So more troops show up at bunker one that needs to be blown up. I hope it isn’t the Command D bunker. Interesting issue and I wonder where they are going with it. It still lacks that epic feel but it is staying more interesting than Armaggedon. 2/2.

Awards
-Book of the Week- Pick any of the three Main Event titles and you have a strong title in the running. Final Crisis lives up to the hype, Marvel 1985 does as well, and Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men (despite its lateness) was awesome. In the end, Final Crisis had the most to lose by being bad, and it wasn’t. It was the start of a great epic story, and Morrison and Jones are going to be lauded for it.
-Disappointment of the Week- There weren’t too many bad issues that didn’t win a point. The MA FF isn’t really considered since it isn’t a mainstream title but New Warriors #12 has to take the award. It may be I still remember and have a fond place in my heart for the 1990’s version of NW and this just doesn’t live up to that standard.
-Cover of the Week- Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 wins the award, John Cassady’s first appearance on the TPL was a good one for him. It breaks Alex Ross’ string of 3 in a row and I just loved the gatefold cover and it was a fit cover for an issue of this magnitude.

-The Bottom Line- The two smaller DC shootoffs continued their hot streaks, (Wildstorm and Vertigo), DC was a perfect 9/9 and a bloated Marvel showing was an impressive 20/22. I can honestly say it was breeze to do this edition this week since I had so much reading these titles. This was just a great, fulfilling week.

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