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Moon Knight Season (Series?) Finale (Disney+): The ending of Moon Knight seemed like it was going to be a tough plane to land, however the show does an excellent job of resurrecting Marc/Steven, turning Layla into the Scarlet Scarab, and having a fight between both Amit and Khonshu and Marc/Steven and Arthur Harrow. The show sets up next season (or next appearance of Oscar Isaac as Moon Knight, maybe in the Halloween Special that is impending) pretty well and introduces Jake Lockley as the newest personality within Marc. The only issue is that Jake is never seen fighting and the resolution of the fight between Marc and Arthur is resolved via a lost time scenario and the rethread of Marc asking Steven if it was him who did it. It is an anticlimactic ending to an otherwise great finale.
The Girl From Plainville Finale (Hulu): The Girl From Plainville finally comes to an end with a final episode that explains Michelle’s conviction and what she did in Conrad’s final hours that lead to his suicide. Ultimately the finale illustrates that the show did have pacing issues, stemming from the eight-episode order when seven-episodes would have been more than sufficient. It ends up making the show drag and leaves one episode that is almost pointless if not for some developments that are required to explain key aspects of the legal proceedings.
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Ordinarily this section of the article is about movies, television, or other media that is available easily to stream on the internet included in normal streaming services. This week will be a bit of a departure as two comic book legends have died within the last two weeks. This past Saturday George Perez passed after a battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 67 and last weekend Neal Adams died at the age of 80. Based on the top movies of this year at the box office so far, to not mention their impact on the industry would be a disservice to both their legacies.
Adams started at Archie Comics before doing some iconic work in the 1970s for DC Comics. His Green Lantern and Green Arrow team-up comics in 1971 were some of the first attempts to have comics tackle real world issues. The most memorable of this was the two-issue mini-series “Snowbirds Don’t Fly” which featured Green Arrow’s ward Speedy become addicted to heroin. His work with both the Green Arrow and Batman formed the characters into what they are today, reshaping both their images into how they are still portrayed. If it was not for his revitalization of these characters, Batman as a character would not have the longstanding theatrical staying power that he does, and the Green Arrow would not have been a strong enough backbone to build a television universe on.
Perez’s work alongside Marv Wolfman on New Teen Titans
in the ‘80s caused them to be given carte blanche to reshape the DC Universe with the first full-line maxi-event Crisis on Infinite Earths. Famously, this comic destroyed the DC multiverse, merged everything into one timeline, and killed off some famous characters like The Flash and Supergirl who’s comics were declining in sales. If those two were not enough, he moved onto doing a now classic run on Wonder Woman before crossing the street to Marvel comics and working on Infinity Gauntlet which would later be (loosely) adapted at Marvel Studios into Avengers: Infinity War.
In honor of these two industry titans, consider picking up (either on comiXology or at Barnes and Noble or your local comic book store) one of their collected works. For Adams, there is a collection of Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics that collects Green Lantern #76-87 and 89, and The Flash #217-219 and 226. For Perez there are the obvious collections of Crisis on Infinite Earths #1-12 and Infinity Gauntlet #1-6, however there is also the collection The New Teen Titans Vol. 1 that is worth a look as well.
