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s4e7—gambling for a shot at revenge and revolt so keep your eyes open and don't get too greedy

By , & foofaraw

August 19, 2024

4 min read

A pretty light week ahead of us so it's the perfect time to hop down into our new comments section and let me know what you've been digging so far this year.

I'm hard at work finalizing the foofaraw zine. I thought I was 99% done two weeks ago, but it's always those final details I spend way too much time on, worried I'll make some big mistake—which will inevitably happen no matter what I do...

📺 New Shows

🎰 Pachinko S2 (Apple) — 23 August

I have to be honest... I didn't finish S1... not due to disliking it, but it ended up becoming an airplane show for me since my wife wasn't interested in watching it. The first two episodes I did watch were super compelling and I heard amazing things about the season as a whole. Catching up so I can watch S2 is high on my list of media to-do's.

*days based on streaming availability for the majority of people*

Wednesday

Sunny (Apple) 1:8
Time Bandits (Apple) 1:9-10
Hard Knocks (HBO) 19:3
Bad Monkey (Apple) 1:3

Thursday

Kite Man: Hell Yeah! (HBO) 1:7

Friday

Lady in the Lake (Apple) 1:7
Rick and Morty: The Anime (Adult Swim) 1:2
Pachinko (Apple) 2:1

Sunday

Last Week Tonight (HBO) 11:22
Industry (HBO) 3:3

🦸 No. 1's

🦡 Wolverine: Revenge (Marvel)

Greg Capullo drawing Wolverine is all I need to hear to be in. Add in the fact it's being written by the architect of all things, Jonathan Hickman, and Marvel can basically have all of my money with this one.

✨ Jenny Sparks (DC)

I normally would skip over something like this, but Tom King and Ryan Sook doing a Black Label book at DC is something that just gets the blood flowing, no matter who they character they are taking on.

🩸 Patra (Dark Horse)

James Robinson, a true old head, is back with a new creator owned comic at Dark Horse. Robinson wrote one of my favorite books back in 2015, Airboy, but I feel like it's been a really long time since he's done something so I'm excited to see what he has in store for us in this supernatural horror book.

🖕 Rick and Morty: Youth in Rickvolt (Oni)

I've never read an R&M book, but since I enjoy the show, seeing Michael Moreci (Barbaric, Roche Limit) is writing this new one, it might finally be the one that gets me to cough a few bucks to check out. (This also follows R&M: Heart of Rickness, which was also written by Moreci)

📝 Other Notable Releases

Black Cloak (Image) #7
Epitaphs from the Abyss (Oni) #2
What We Mean by Yesterday (Fantagraphics) Vol. 1
Thundercats (Dynamite) #7
Local Man (Image) #13
Nightwing (DC) #117
Superman (DC) #17
Ultimate Spider-Man (Marvel) #8
Titans (DC) #14

*movies hitting the big screen this week*

🎥 New Movies

👁️ Blink Twice

Zoe Kravitz makes her directorial debut here and there's a lot of positive buzz about it as she's already hard at work casting her next one.

Blink Twice stars Channing Tatum as a tech billionaire and Naomi Ackie as an unsuspecting woman who, along with her friends, tags along to the billionaires private island. And insanity ensues.

Kravitz also penned the script along with E.T. Feigenbaum who she worked with on the High Fidelity show.

💰 Greedy People

This feels like one of those mid-budget movies that we don't get to see much of lately. Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Himesh Patel star in this police caper / crime comedy in a small town.

📝 Other Notable Releases

And of course, there is the DNC this week. I spent the last few hours checking in and out between some meetings I had—certain parts hit pretty hard for me. I'm excited to see my old governor, JB and the Obamas tomorrow.