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Reviewed this week, in ascending order of awesome:
Thunderbolts #9
Baggywrinkles #4
Legend of Luther Strode #5
FF #7
Wonder Woman #20
Batwoman #20
X-Factor #256
Ultimate Spider-Man #23
Fables #129
Fatale #14
Iron Man #10
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I came across Lucy Bellwood entirely by accident when she followed a terrible alternate Twitter account I do, looked at her profile and realized that she was actually a super-talented human being! I don’t much care about ships but I find her love of them infectious, and will give a shot to anything she does in the future. She is a delight and Baggywrinkles is a delight.
Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves maintain a loose, but effective, grip when it comes to storytelling, with much that could have required the sort of florid explanations common to the first few films actually told in a few images that at first seem incidental but which ultimately add up to something much greater than the sum of those elliptical parts (the best use of this is in Draco Malfoy’s story, which seems, for a long time, to consist of shots of him opening and closing a cupboard). The only place where the storytelling falls down this time is really in regard of the title, as the Half Blood Prince (the previous owner of a potions book that Harry uses to become top of new professor Horace Slughorn’s class) only reveals his identity late in the day, and when he does the revelation falls flat, because it doesn’t seem to mean anything.