Major Spoilers Podcast #717: Trekker

Published: Feb. 22, 2017, 3:57 a.m.

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Mercy St. Clair is Trekker! MST3K is getting the comic book treatment. So is Highlander! And James Bond! Where will it stop!? Find out in this week\\u2019s exciting episode.

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NEWS\\n
MST3K Comics are coming\\n
http://majorspoilers.com/2017/02/17/business-getting-mst3k-merchandise-comics/

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REVIEWS\\n
\\nSTEPHEN \\n
Highlander: The American Dream #1\\n
Writer: Brian Ruckley \\n
Artist: Andrea Mutti \\n
Publisher: IDW Publishing\\n
The cult-classic franchise makes its triumphant return! In the thirty years since its release, Highlander has inspired a cult following and numerous spinoffs with its epic clashes between powerful immortals. Now, The American Dream follows Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod as he navigates through the American Civil War and 1950s Manhattan toward The Gathering in 1986. Reunite with familiar faces, such as Connor\\u2019s secretary Rachel, and meet new immortals, such as Osta Vazilek, but remember\\u2026 There can be only one!\\n
[rating:3/5]

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MATTHEW\\n
SEX CRIMINALS #16\\n
Writer: Matt Fraction\\n
Artist: Chip Zdarsky\\n
Publisher: Image Comics\\n
SEX CRIMINALS is BACK.

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Full sex! Deep crime! Big floppy 16th issue!

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[rating:4/5]

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RODRIGO\\n
James Bond Black Box #1 \\n
Writer: Benjamin Percy\\n
Artist: Rapha Lobosco\\n
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment\\n
The next epic adventure for 007 kicks off in the snowbound French Alps, where Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of an assassin who targets other assassins. This is the first puzzle piece in a larger adrenaline-fueled mystery that will send Bond across the globe to investigate a digital breach that threatens global security.\\n
[rating:2.5/5]

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ASHLEY\\n
FEY WINDS \\n
by: Nicole Chartand \\n
http://www.feywinds.com/\\n
Kit used to live a simple life, an \\u201cinnocent woodland creature\\u201d kind of simple life. But then a curse turned her human, and now, with her adventuring buddies (and their own curses), she\\u2019s on a quest to uncurse herself and her friends (hopefully), find magical treasures (unlikely) and stay ahead of the trouble that seems to be chasing them around the Seven Kingdoms (not gonna happen)\\u2026 and maybe a raid a chicken coop or two on the way!\\n
[rating: 5/5]

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MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK\\n
http://majorspoilers.com/2017/02/21/major-spoilers-poll-week-transformers-best/

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DISCUSSION\\n
TREKKER: RITES OF PASSAGE TPB\\n
Writer: Ron Randal\\n
Artist: Ron Randal\\n
Peerless bounty hunter Mercy St. Clair is enlisted to safeguard a vulnerable young woman en route to her home world, though exactly where she\\u2019s going and why is a mystery. But her need for protection becomes apparent when cyborg assassins look to terminate Mercy\\u2019s ward . . . and Mercy!

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CLOSE\\n
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