What do the cops in this town even do? Besides murder people, I mean. Impressions: The show was not exactly subtle before, but this episode took things to pretty ridiculous extremes. It's hard to understand this setting where magic powers existing and secret X-Men and X-Mafias fighting a secret war are all secret while […]
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Whole lotta people tripping to their deaths here. Impressions: This was a lot bloodier than I was expecting, although to be fair, since the promos had mostly…
High Card #15 — Intelligence Failures
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High Card #06 — Who’s Who
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High Card #02 — Clobbering Time
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High Card #10 — Management By Child Murder
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