Reading this one-shot, I was reminded of how and why I almost bankrupted my parents as a pre-teen fan of the X-books: if you miss an issue or two of one of the ten billion X-titles, you will have no freaking clue what’s going on when you finally do pick up an issue in one of the ten billion X-titles.

I went into From Paris With Love expecting an unimpressive buddy cop comedy, but I left having seen a really fun and sometimes intense buddy cop action flick. Travolta and Meyers have good enough chemistry to make me hope for a sequel.

Unfortunately, NOLA doesn’t live up to its potential. Although the series supplies readers with the elements necessary to create a compelling four-part comic series — protagonist, antagonist, struggle, and revenge — the third issue perpetuates the feeling that something is missing.

The BBC series Robin Hood draws to an end with its third series. All 13 episodes are collected in this new box set, along with several special features.

I am starting to think that fans of the novel will like this version. I am enjoying how different this format is from Blade Runner. The contrast between movie and graphic novel is fun, at least for me. I’m wondering if the novel presents yet another version of Deckart.

For awhile now, fans of the show have been asking for a body swap episode. What we got in “Swap Meat” was half of that, plus questions about whether these two really should be working together again and an interesting Descartean aspect stuffed in there toward the end that fully grabbed my attention in an essentially throwaway episode.

The good news is that, after an extra-long hiatus, Smallville is back. The bad news is that the first new episode is another Green Arrow/Oliver backstory. The silver-lining-news is that, of all the Oliver backstory episodes (and there’ve been plenty lately), this is the least horrible one.

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Jack offers to get Renee out from undercover with the Russians when he goes to Vlad pretending to be the German buyer, Ernst Meyer. Although this episode was Jack-lite, there was enough action to almost compensate. The scenes with Jack are way more alive than scenes without.

Well, the title says it all really. This comic is about embedded journalists in Norman Osborn’s war on Asgard. The interest level on this one can go either way, but for a first issue this is definitely heavy on the “not interesting” side of the scale.