Saturday is Haul Day 42!!

Only picked up comics this week, but it was a good week in that world as some exciting stuff came out.  Afterlife with Archie #8 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla, Rachel Rising #33 by Terry Moore, Rocket Raccoon #11 by Skottie Young, Jake Parker and Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Secret Wars #1 of 8 by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, and Ive Svorcina, The Wicked + The Divine #10 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles, and finally Wolf Moon #6 of 6 by Cullen Bunn, Jeremy Haun, and Lee Loughridge.

Arrow: Season 3, Episode 22

Arrow

Episode Title: “This Is Your Sword”

Channel: CW

Director: Wendy Stanzler

Writers: Ben Sokolowski and Brian Ford Sullivan

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 42 min

Rated: TV-14

Original Air Date: May 6, 2015

“This Is Your Sword” is the next to last episode of this season of Arrow and it's too bad that it took so long to get to this point. The past few weeks have been some of the strongest episodes of the season, and this was no exception. It'll be pretty much impossible to talk about this week's Arrow without spoilers, so be warned.

Diggle, Laurel, and Felicity have gone back to crime fighting in Starling City, having accepted that Oliver is gone. The episode opened with Diggle giving chase to a random perp, who led him to an enclosed area with the rest of his gang waiting. Things look bad for a moment before Laurel makes an appearance with the Canary Cry. I really wish there was another way for them to convey that power on the screen; while it might work on the page it just looks ridiculous on television. Diggle lost it on the last guy and beat him to a pulp. Back at Diggle's, after an awkward attempt at a humorous moment regarding Laurel sneaking in the back to avoid questions from the neighbors, Diggle blew up in anger over Oliver's betrayal.

Back at Nanda Parbat Oliver and Ra's are seen discussing the next part of Oliver's ascension, his marriage to Nyssa and the destruction of Starling City. Oliver left to get some air, and met up with Malcolm for a clandestine meeting. Oliver dropped the facade and revealed that he's thought he'd have more time to bring the League down from the inside, but Ra's is forcing his hand. He and Malcolm hatch a plan to enlist the help of his former friends, and Malcolm departed just before Maseo showed up.

Felicity went to visit Ray again, and it's getting incrementally harder to like her character. She shows up to mope to him for a while, knowing that his feelings for her will keep him from sending her away. He had her sign a document, that is shown to be some sort of transfer of ownership papers. The audience is supposed to believe that the transfer is to Felicity, and while that seems probable I think a swerve might be in store; with Oliver regaining control of his company. Felicity received a text from Malcolm asking for a meeting and surprisingly she went.

The entire team showed up for the meeting with Malcolm, and of course he couldn't convince them of Oliver's plans, because Oliver had been too successful in convincing everyone of his turn. Malcolm breaks out his secret weapon, and it's Tatsu. I'm happy to see Tatsu joining the fray, but I was a little unclear on how her presence suddenly convinced the team to go back to Nanda Parbat. The script was really lacking in that regard, but the action is in Nanda Parbat, so if the team needs to get back there I guess any excuse, no matter how nebulous, is a good one. Tatsu also took a moment to share with Felicity how often Oliver spoke of her during his recovery.

Thea has gone off in search of Roy, who is working as a mechanic under the assumed name Jason. She managed to track him down with little effort and they had a quick reunion. They go back to his place and she presents him with his old vigilante costume, thinking that he could get back to what made him feel alive. She spent the night, but awoke in an empty bed. When she went to his place of employment she was told that he quit and took off, leaving a note for her. I don't know how sudden Colton Haynes decision to leave the show was, but I wish there had been a better way to handle his exit. His final words to Thea didn't really seem like a good way to end things, but he did leave his costume for her, so we'll be seeing Speedy in the near future.

The flashbacks this week were more of the same, A Quest for A Vial. Akio has fallen ill and Maseo and Oliver go to General Shrieve's hideout to get a cure. A cure that they have no proof of, they assume he'll have it anyway. After breaking in they briefly tortured Shrieve and he told them the cure was in a safe. They get it an bring him back to Akio to administer the cure. Akio is already dead and the cure was a rouse. He just wanted them to lead his men to their hiding place so he wouldn't have to hunt them down. It's important to remember that the vials didn't contain what we thought they did.

Another confrontation at Nanda Parbat! Merlyn, Diggle, Laurel, and Felicity team up with Tatsu, who is now in her costume as Katana, to storm the fortress. Felicity tried to hack into the airplane the League is going to use to spread the virus, but she is unsuccessful. Most of the action in this scene is pretty good, but the League of Assassins is more like a collection of Imperial Stormtroopers. At one point Laurel fights three of them at the same time. I'm all right with her taking down street criminals at this point, but there is no explanation for her ability to engage three of the supposed best killers in the world. When the airplane took off all appeared lost until Ray Palmer showed up and managed to bring the plane down. The highlight of this entire sequence was the duel between Tatsu and Maseo. The fight choreography and the final words between them were spot on, and easily one of the more emotional moments of the season. The League overcame its Stormtrooper-itis when reinforcements and Oliver showed up. The entire group was captured Malcolm tried in vain to reveal Oliver's duplicity, but it didn't seem like Ra's bought it. Ra's must have decided that it wasn't necessary to destroy Starling City, the friends of the former Oliver Queen would be good enough, and he broke the vial of Alpha/Omega in their holding cell. The marriage of Al Sah-Him to Nyssa was intercut with shots of Olivers friends apparently dying. I usually don't reference the previews for the next episode, and honestly the trickery out of General Shrieve should have been enough foreshadowing to convince the viewers that none of the rescue squad was in danger, but couldn't the previews be cut in such a way that the tension wasn't immediately sucked out of the end of the episode?

Conclusion: Despite the fact that some of the motivations were quite muddy, with the script doing no one any favors, “This Is Your Sword” finally got this season to where it should have been episodes ago. The action was high quality, and the Maseo/Tatsu drama was some of the best stuff of the season. We all suspected Oliver had bigger plans, now we just have to find out if those plans cost him the friends he's made along the way.

Rating: 8/10

The Flash: Season 1, Episode 21

The Flash

Episode Title: “Grodd Lives”

Channel: CW

Director: Dermott Downs

Writers: Grainne Godfree and Kai Yu Wu

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 43 min

Rated: TV-PG

Original Air Date: May 5, 2015

As the title indicates, the majority of this episode revolves around Gorilla Grodd. Grodd is the product of experimentation by General Eiling and Harrison Wells and their attempts to create a telepathic and telekinetic soldier. Well, Grodd holds a grudge. There have been a rash of gold robberies in Central City and when Joe and the Flash apprehend the culprit he's revealed to be none other than General Eiling. The last we saw of the general he had been taken by Grodd, after being delivered to the sewers by Wells. Grodd has broken his mind and is using him as a puppet, ostensibly on orders from Wells/Eobard.

Grodd was well done, the CGI the best one can expect from a show with such a limited budget. We got our first good look at him after he had kidnapped Joe. This episode had a definite horror movie vibe, and the tension was strong enough that when Grodd was forcing Joe to turn his gun on himself I believed that it might be the end of the line for Joe. Eventually the team figures out a way to stop the psychic barrage that Grodd is capable of and Barry set himself up to deliver another super sonic punch. Amazingly Grodd was fast enough to catch Barry and hurl him away. The device Barry was using to block Grodd's telepathy was damaged during the fight, only Iris talking to Barry was enough to get him to focus through the attack and stop the gorilla. Although the good guys won the day Grodd escaped and will hopefully wreak havoc in the future. Due to the tidbits revealed here and there, and now this episode, Grodd is one of the more developed secondary villains this season.

Speaking of Iris, don't let the help she gave Barry at the end of the episode fool you. She trapped Barry into lying to her again, it should have served as no surprise that with no new information he was going to continue the same lies. When she finally confronted him on it she resorted to that favorite line from our childhoods, she's not angry, only disappointed. Honestly her unwillingness to see the validity of their motivation for lying to her got old pretty quickly. It doesn't take much critical thinking to know that everyone's concerns for her safety were warranted. After some heated discussions with Barry and Joe she finally came around, and I'm glad for the end of that aspect of the story.

The rest of the episode revolved around Eobard and Eddie. It's fun to see Tom Cavanagh really embracing the villainous side of his character. The changes in the way he's playing the character since the big reveal are great. One of my favorite little things was seeing him jump down a number of steps on a ladder. After pretending to be paralyzed for a year he's reveling in his freedom. The way he antagonized Eddie was very effective. First telling him that he's one of the only Thawnes to never amount to anything, and then showing Eddie the newspaper from the future, revealing that Eddie will not be the one to marry Iris. I doubt it's enough to get Eddie to change sides, but the pleasure Eobard takes in torturing him just that little bit was evident. Eobard revealed the next step of his plan when he finished manufacturing what he called a key. He plugged it in to a wall and the camera zoomed out, showing the inside of a particle accelerator. I may have missed something, but it was unclear whether it was the accelerator at STAR Labs or a new construction. If it's a new one then it must be part of his plan for returning to his time, if it's the one in STAR Labs then it would seem that emptying the pipeline of its metahuman inhabitants is the next step in his scheme. Either way I can't wait for the next episode.

Conclusion: Aside from the Reverse Flash, Grodd may be the more well-developed villain on the show, and he's a ton of fun. With Iris finally on board with Barry's secret I have hopes that they'll allow her to move on and contribute more to the show than the obstacle she's been for a while. Wells/Eobard has become even more entertaining with his secret out of the bag, having become a true bad guy. I hope we don't see his demise at the end of the season, I feel like the show would suffer if the threat of Eobard's meddling was somehow snuffed out completely in the future.

Rating: 8.25/10

Gotham: Season 1, Episode 22

Gotham

Episode Title: “All Happy Families Are Alike”

Channel: Fox

Director: Danny Cannon

Writer: Bruno Heller

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 42 min

Rated: TV-14

Original Air Date: May 4, 2015

What's a show to do when it's struggled to tell a coherent story through its first season? Apparently you escalate the violence and continue to make the same mistakes as far as story telling goes, hoping the audience doesn't notice past all the blood flying.

Lets start with Fish Mooney. She made landfall back in Gotham with a new haircut and in apparent good health. Remember her getting shot in the stomach during her flight from the Dollmaker's headquarters? Well, the writers didn't. It's a good thing the crew she escaped with included a surgeon talented enough to save her life while she piloted a helicopter and a stylist capable of giving her new look. Otherwise the audience couldn't have been treated to her triumphant return. Ugh. Fish crossed paths with Selina on her way into town and after Selina gave her some lip, Fish decided this was a child she definitely needed on her crew.

Maroni's men tried to take Falcone out while he was picking up a chicken for dinner. Yeah, that's the errand Falcone is running when the hit goes down. The initial hit was unsuccessful and Falcone ended up in the hospital, strapped to a gurney. Everyone realized that this was the moment to take the throne away from him so he's in a bit of trouble. Penguin and Butch showed up first, but Penguin's desire to gloat caused him to miss his chance at slitting the old man's throat. Gordon arrived, arrested Penguin and Butch, and then decided that having Falcone in charge was the lesser of the available evils. Commissioner Loeb showed up escorting Maroni's men, told Gordon to beat it, and then following Gordon's predictable refusal set Maroni's men on him. Gordon managed to take out five armed men before Bullock arrived and they hustled off with Falcone to one of his safe houses, someplace no one living knows about, with Penguin and Butch in tow. Why did they bring those two? Because even through all of this Gordon won't leave them because they're “in his custody” which felt more than a little ridiculous.

Of course, Fish is waiting for them at the safe house. She and her band of ruffians, with Selina in a prominent role, capture the lot of them and tie them up. Fish promises all of them, save Bullock, death. Then she calls in Maroni to trade Falcone for her old territory back. Selina is perfectly willing to be involved with Gordon's death, which seemed really strange. She scoffed at the fact that they were, “sorta friends,” but her joining Fish's cause was absurd. Maroni showed up, and after a few minutes of being his charming self had the entire meeting looking dangerous. It was around this time that I found Gotham's lack of tension really hitting hard. I knew all of these characters had to survive this encounter, after all they make appearances in Batman's time. How can I feel that any of them is in danger...BLAM. One of the few good choices made in this show so far, Fish shot Maroni in the face. If that's a trend that will continue then we may finally have dramatic moments in store going forward.

In the confusion Gordon, Bullock, and Falcone got away. To be recaptured minutes later by Selina and company. The only purpose to their brief escape was to reveal that Falcone doesn't want to play the game anymore. After all the things Fish did to him this season, and everything he's presumably had to endure climbing to the top of the underworld, this seemed like an odd time for him to take his ball and go home. As he explained to Fish that he was done machine-gun fire erupted and Penguin burst onto the scene mowing down Fish's men. He moved to chase her down and Gordon and friends fled yet again. On the roof of the building Penguin and Fish are locked in hand-to-hand combat until Butch arrives. Apparently the writers did remember that he's supposedly been brainwashed, although there's been no hint that particular story element was still in play for weeks. He ended up shooting them both, then Penguin pushed Fish off the roof and into the ocean. A suitably comic-like ambiguous ending to the villain, just in case they ever want to bring her back. Penguin then annoyingly screamed into the night that he was the King of Gotham.

Over to the slightly less violent happenings. Dr. Thompkins declared Barbara physically healed from her ordeal, but in need of counseling. After a half-hearted attempt at refusing, Leslie agrees to have a sit down with Barbara and help her talk through what she endured. It goes exactly as suspected. Barbara's wide-eyed stare was pretty unnerving during the entirety of those scenes, and when she admitted to killing her parents it wasn't much of a surprise. She then attacked Leslie, who after some rough housing managed to subdue her. Gordon, Bullock, and Falcone walked in just in time to find Leslie over Barbara's unconscious form. Although the 'twist' with Barbara wasn't surprising, I do find it an interesting direction to take.

Bruce finally made some headway in his investigation into his father. After he and Alfred tore apart the late Thomas Wayne's study, Bruce remembered Lucius Fox's words from the episode before and tracked down his father's secret. A remote control that opened a passage into an underground portion of the grounds, hello Batcave. The only other thing of note was Ms. Kringle's discovery of Nygma's clue in her dead boyfriend's good-bye note. She didn't seem convinced of Nygma's professed innocence, and after she left he went off the deep end. Not only does he like riddles, he's also suffering from multiple personality disorder. The crazy went from minimal to extreme in a matter of seconds, which was off putting.

Conclusion: A fitting conclusion to the first season of Gotham, “All Happy Families Are Alike” was just as hit and miss as the entire season, with more misses than hits. The biggest positive takeaway from the episode is that they may finally be willing to deviate from the source material. This should help the series find some dramatic tension, I just wish it hadn't taken this long to get there.

Rating: 6/10

Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 4

Game of Thrones

Episode Title: “Sons of the Harpy”

Channel: HBO

Director: Mark Mylod

Writer: Dave Hill

Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Runtime: 55 min

Rated: TV-MA

Original Air Date: May 3, 2015

Spoiler Alert

Game of Thrones made up for this season's lack of violence thus far. After a meeting between Ceresi and the High Sparrow, during which she seemed to name him High Septon, she also authorized the recreation of the Faith Militant. The Faith Militant was disbanded when the Targaryen's assumed control of Westoros, they were the fighting branch of church. They immediately began trashing everything they saw as blasphemous and assaulting the people they saw as sinners. The most important of those detained by the Faith Militant was Ser Loras, the queen's brother. Margaery tried to convince Tommen to free her brother, but he was unwilling to begin a fight on the steps of the sept. Ceresi is now playing the game at a dirtier level than we've seen, and she's done a lot of dirty stuff over the course of the series.

It looks as though Sansa is going to go along with a wedding to Ramsay Bolton. The entirety of these scenes took place between Sansa and Littlefinger in the crypts of Winterfell. He's going to be leaving her there and returning to King's Landing, a plan that she's not fond of. They also discussed Lyanna, her aunt, and her relationship with Rhaegar Targaryen. The only information we've really gotten up to this point on that situation is that he kidnapped and raped her. A story about which Littlefinger obviously knows more than he's revealed.

Things at the Wall stayed interesting this week. In what was probably the best scene of the episode, Stannis recounted his Shireen's illness and recovery. The writers have done a good job taking a character towards whom the audience as been, at best, ambivalent. It was a touching moment for a character that hasn't had a lot going for him. Melisandre was the latest of Stannis' retinue to attempt to persuade Jon to go south to Winterfell and aid in the retaking of the North. With the failure of her tactics I feel pretty sure in concluding that there is nothing, short of Sansa's presence there becoming known, that will drive him into that particular conflict.

Jaime and Bronn had a decent amount of screen time this week, and while it wasn't highly consequential it was fun. The differences between the two characters give them an entertainment value when they're bantering that keeps things light. They managed to make it to Dorne, but were set upon by soldiers shortly after arriving. Bronn did the majority of the work, although Jaime did managed to kill one soldier; even if he did get lucky for even that to happen. Also in Dorne, Ellaria returned to the Sand Snakes, a fighting unit of Prince Oberyn's female bastards, and readied them for a fight. A significant portion of an upcoming episode needs to focus on Dorne. We were introduced to three of the Sand Snakes in this episode, but we know virtually nothing about them. If the writers want me to care about their claims and grievances than do more than give them four minutes of screen time please.

There was another check-in with Tyrion this week. Very little happened though; Tyrion deduced who is kidnapper was and found out where Jorah was taking him. He had a good chuckle when he learned that Jorah was taking him to the destination he already had in mind. I'm not sure the scenes with these two were really necessary, Jorah ambiguously mentioning that he was taking Tyrion to the queen didn't make anyone think of Ceresi. Show me these two when things actually happen.

Finally, the situation in Meereen is deteriorating quickly. Ser Barristan regaled Dany with a story, the subject of which was Rhaegar, her older brother. It was a dead giveaway that following that deeply personal and humorous story that Barristan's continued presence on the show was coming to an end. I'm not saying that situations like that always lead to a character's death, but much like a cop in the movies mentioning how close they are to retirement, moments like that never help their odds of survival. The Sons of the Harpy escalated the conflict in Meereen by going after Dany's soldiers in much larger numbers that they had previously. A squad of Unsullied, including Grey Worm, was ambushed in an alley and rather easily dispatched by the Sons of the Harpy. While it wasn't a horrible fight sequence it really made me question the prowess of the Unsullied. The majority of them went down with little fight, with only Grey Worm really holding his own. Barristan arrived on the scene and did his best to swing the odds back to the side of Dany's forces. It was for naught as he was finally beaten, Grey Worm arriving just too late to save him. The episode faded to black with both of the men bleeding onto the street, Barristan having seemingly expired.

Conclusion: I think I've finally gotten to the point where I don't compare every episode to the books in my head. Enough has finally been changed that I look at them as separate stories, which is a good thing. Even though this was a stronger week for the events in Meereen it's still tedious. The power plays at the capitol have risen to such a level that I'm actually enjoying those moments nearly as much as the events at the Wall. There were two mentions of Rhaegar this week, leaving me to wonder if there's going to be a big reveal concerning the nature of his relationship with Lyanna soon.

Rating: 8.25/10

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2014)

Producers: Kevin Feige, Victoria Alonso, Stan Lee, et al.

Director: Joss Whedon

Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence and destruction, and for some suggestive comments

Runtime: 141 min

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comic

The Avengers are back, and right off the bat you get to see them in action. The opening sequence reintroduced us to a team that has been working together for a while, and it shows in their tactics. One of the things about the first Avengers that bothered me was the lack of team work. I think there was one instance of two heroes combining their abilities to take down enemies in the first film, there are several in the sequel; serving to highlight their growing familiarity with each other. The initial action sequence also brought to light one of the difficulties of working in such a huge shared universe. At the end of Iron Man 3 Tony retired and destroyed his suits. Here we are in Age of Ultron and he's right back in the thick of things without an explanation for his return. Just an acknowledgment from someone else on the team that this was his return to action would have been preferable to ignoring the situation entirely.

The villain of the film, Ultron, was short-changed in they early development of his character. Upon capturing Loki's scepter from Baron von Strucker, Tony and Bruce decide to use the properties of the staff to create a true artificial intelligence. Their first attempts are unsuccessful and with a celebration looming they leave JARVIS to continue their work. Tony's program and the capabilities of the staff are merged while all of the heroes are occupied and Ultron is born. Ultron and Jarvis have a verbal confrontation as Ultron undergoes a Leeloo-esque education on the state of the world. He immediately decides that the only way to fulfill his mission of world peace is to rid the planet of humans. Ultron goes full Skynet in a matter of moments, and I was left wondering how many Hollywood blockbusters would be entirely different films if the inventors depicted in them had read a little Isaac Asimov.

The new additions to the cast all leave you caring about them. Andy Serkis' brief appearance has me excited to see what he can do in a villainous role in the upcoming Black Panther. The Maximoff twins were manipulated by different villains until they made their way to the light side, and the progression worked with what the audience is told about their lives. James Spader brought equal amounts of humor and a sinister tone to Ultron. I was left feeling as though he had too many jokes and one-liners, although I suppose as a creation of Tony Stark some part of his personality leaking through makes sense. Vision was amazing, a being that possesses that much power but was, as he mentioned, “born yesterday” had to played with a strangely confidence naivete that Paul Bettany conveyed wonderfully. The moment after he was born when he looked at Thor and decided he'd like to have a cape too, so he materialized one out of thin air encapsulated his child-like side.

Most of the preexisting characters are much as we remember them, with the notable exception being Hawkeye. After getting shafted in the character development area in the first Avengers a lot of time is spent making us care about him. He has a personal side the audience never suspected and an entertaining awareness of his own apparent shortcomings in a group like the Avengers. Black Widow was also a recipient of some much needed back story that made me more confident than ever that a Natasha Romanoff led movie could be successful. The romance between Natasha and Bruce Banner was a little forced. Not because I didn't understand the motivation, they both view themselves as monsters in their own way, more because Scarlett Johannson and Mark Ruffalo didn't seem to have much on screen chemistry. The only returning character that rubbed me the wrong way was Don Cheadle's War Machine. I don't know if it was his sullen reaction when his story of taking out a tank wasn't met with guffaws from the Avengers, or something else, but I just couldn't get into his character this time around. Which is strange since I've enjoyed his previous appearances in Iron Man movies. His inclusion in the film felt obligatory since Marvel needs every hero they can find for the upcoming Captain America: Civil War.

Speaking of setting up future movies, for the most part the attempts to do so succeed in Age of Ultron. It wasn't as prevalent as I expected, but the philosophical differences between Tony Stark and Steve Rogers will make for a compelling story. Andy Serkis' Ulysses Klaue will most likely serve as the main villain in Black Panther, and getting some of the development for him out of the way will allow that movie to focus on its hero more. The one swing-and-a-miss I saw in the setups for future films involved Thor, whose upcoming Ragnarok has the potential to really shake-up the MCU. The teases of his future were disjointed and incomplete, giving the audience no idea of what to expect, or a reason to be excited for what's to come.

The final battle was what you'd expect from an Avengers movie. The need to differentiate itself from Man of Steel's disregard for collateral damage got a little old, but served to add a different dynamic to a fight the audience knew the Avengers would win. I had hoped Ultron would provide more of a threat to the team as an individual than he did. We've already seen this group beat down hordes of generic enemies, earlier in this very movie and during the Chitauri invasion from the first film, so I was really hoping for a villain powerful enough to threaten the entire group. None of that is to say that the action was disappointing, it wasn't. There was more teamwork than before and the new characters meant new powers, so there were fresh and inventive ways for the enemies to be ripped apart. I was just looking for something different in the overall type of action we got.

Conclusion: Whereas Avengers was the culmination of Phase One of the MCU, Avengers: Age of Ultron felt more like an intermission. I realize one of the Infinity Stones makes an appearance, and that there was a lot of setup for future movies, but overall it felt more like a standalone movie than the rest of Marvel's recent offerings. It wasn't as dark as the trailers led me to believe, which was a good thing, the humor came at the right times, even if the source of the humor was odd at times. The new characters, and the deeper exploration of some existing ones, left me feeling better about the fate of the MCU after old favorites move on to other things.

Rating: 8/10

Saturday is Haul Day 41!!

With the release of Mad Max: Fury Road less than two weeks away I figured it was a good time for me to revisit the original Mad Max, starring Mel Gibson.  It's been years since I saw this movie and I'm really looking forward to watching it again.

Today was also Free Comic Book Day, and Galactic Quest was hopping.  It was a smallish pull list this week, and here's what I got!  Batman #40 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, Danny Miki and FCO Plascencia, Moon Knight #14 by Cullen Bunn, Ron Ackins, Tom Palmer, and Dan Brown, Postal #2 by Matt Hawkins, Bryan Hill, Isaac Goodhart, and Betsy Gonia, and Princess Leia #3 by Mark Waid, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson and Jordie Bellaire.