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Published: April 12, 2017, 3:41 a.m.

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Taxes! Death and Taxes! Plus, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, Royals #1, and Lilith Dark #1. We also discuss the age old question, hard shell or soft?

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NEWS\\n
New Warriors headed to Freeform\\n
http://majorspoilers.com/2017/04/06/television-new-warriors-headed-freeform/

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REVIEWS\\n
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Nancy Drew And The Hardy Boys: The Big Lie #2\\n
Writer: Anthony Del Col\\n
Artist: Werther Dell\\u2019Edera\\n
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment\\n
Cover Price: $3.99\\n
Nancy Drew has a killer plan. In order to clear their names from accusations of their father\\u2019s murder, she and the Hardy Boys will have to infiltrate a family of petty thieves \\u2014 by beating them at their own (card) games!

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The classic characters dive deeper into the seedy underbelly of a tourist-town \\u2014 and they begin to find out if they\\u2019re really able to go bad in order to do good.\\n
[rating: 4.5/5]

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MATTHEW\\n
Royals #1\\n
Writer: Al Ewing\\n
Artist: Jonboy Meyers\\n
Publisher: Marvel\\n
Cover Price: $3.99

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THE \\u201cRESURRXION\\u201d OF THE INHUMANS BEGINS!

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A myth from the future. A quest to the far stars. A legend written across galaxies. Guided by the other-dimensional Kree warrior known as Marvel Boy, the Inhuman Royal Family departs on an odyssey across all creation on search for lost secrets \\u2013 and the last hope \\u2013 of their people.\\n
Penned by fan-favorite Al Ewing (The Ultimates, New Avengers, Loki: Agent of Asgard) and drawn by the white-hot Jonboy Meyers (Teen Titans, Spawn), ROYALS is a Marvel-style space epic that takes the Inhuman Royal Family and plunges them into the unknown! The knowledge they seek could change the course of Inhuman destiny, but it cannot be attained without cost\\u2026for at the end of days, the Last Inhuman tells the tale of how seven left Earth for the stars\\u2026but only six return\\n
[rating: 2/5]

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RODRIGO\\n
Lilith Dark #1\\n
Writer/Artist: Charles C. Dowd\\n
Publisher: Alterna Comics\\n
Cover Price: $1.50\\n
Lilith Dark has no time for princess stuff; she\\u2019s far too busy fighting giant monsters and capturing unicorns\\u2026 or at least that\\u2019s how she imagines things. But what if these imaginary beasties, creatures, and monsters were actually real? What then? Printed on nostalgic newsprint with a glossy cover!\\n
[rating: 3/5]

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ASHLEY\\n
MOTOR CRUSH #5\\n
Writer: Brenden Fletcher & Cameron Stewart\\n
Artist: : Babs Tarr\\n
Publisher: Image Comics\\n
Cover Price: $3.99\\n
END OF STORY ARC. END OF VOLUME 1. Domino is forced to make impossible choices and everything falls apart. Featuring part five of ISOLA: PROLOGUE by BRENDEN FLETCHER and KARL KERSCHL, the final chapter of the prelude to ISOLA: ISLAND OF THE DEAD #1, coming soon!\\n
[rating: 4.5/5]

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MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK\\n
http://majorspoilers.com/2017/04/11/major-spoilers-poll-week-taco-tuesday-edition/

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TRADE PAPERBACK DISCUSSION\\n
\\n Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform\\n
While most comic books deal with spandex-suited superheroes saving the day, the protagonists in New York Public Interest Research Group\'s (NYPIRG) "Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform," published in 1977, are the everyday taxpayers who are getting shafted by a tax code increasingly riddled with loopholes that directly benefit the rich. The only full-fledged, full-length comic book we know of that\\u2019s dedicated to the issue of tax reform, "Blood from a Stone\\u201d offers a concise and witty introduction to the history of taxation and the need for progressive tax reform in the United States.

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While the comic is now over 36 years old, it remains strikingly prescient considering that tax reform has once again become one of the dominant topics of debate in Washington. In fact, many of the specific tax breaks called out as in need of reform in the comic, such as the preferential rate for capital gains or accelerated depreciation, are on the top of the list of the breaks that still need to go!

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We are proud to pluck this comic from its obscurity and to post, for the first time since its original release, a digitized copy of this fascinating comic in its entirety. - via TaxJusticeBlog http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2013/09/exclusive_vintage_tax_reform_c.php#.WO0iF1MrIUG

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CLOSE\\n
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