Spider-Man, The Incredibles, and more: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week
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Monday
- Happy Labor Day from The A.V. Club
- A history professor is haunted by a dark past in Walter Mosley’s John Woman
- The first biography of Fred Rogers is touching, but treats its subject with kid gloves
Tuesday
- Mayans, Maniac, Murphy Brown and all the new shows to watch in September
- Reporting from the set of The Purge with reality knocking on the door
- My Struggle comes to an end, and 4 other books to read in September
- Life sucks and then you fight a supervillain in the new Arkham-indebted Spider-Man game
Wednesday
- Game of Game Of Thrones thrones: 43 big upcoming fantasy and sci-fi shows
- Red Dead, Tomb Raider, and Smash Bros.: Here are the games to play this fall
- The battle for baby-boomer relevance pits Paul against Paul
Thursday
- The Predator leads a Shane Black monster squad, plus 22 other movies coming this September
- Spider-Man’s J. Jonah Jameson finds his true calling as a blustering right-wing podcaster
Friday
- The Incredibles didn’t need comic-book source material (or origin stories) to do superheroes right
- Spiritualized’s grand goodbye, Joey Purp’s live-wire mixtape, and more new music reviews
- Toronto opens with the unofficial Braveheart sequel/rebuttal that no one needed
- Who deserves to win an Emmy this year?
- War hasn’t changed much in the Battlefield V beta
- Ghosts of the past make The Immortal Hulk a riveting superhero horror story
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