The newuniversal historical one-shots continue with this look back at the first heroes adapted by the newuniversal structure thousands of years ago including Starr the Slayer, ruler of the prehistoric city of Zardath.  Check out our review inside the Full Diagnosis.

Hey folks, you’ll find the latest comic releases in our Comic Rack, but if you’re just looking to pick up some graphic novels look no further than inside where you’ll find Clandestine: Blood Relative, Doctor Fate: Countdown to Mystery, Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician, Counter X Vol. 2, Invasion, Iron Manual, Nemeisis Archives Vol. 1, and much more!

Hmm, we’re about to talk about comics so it must be Wednesday!  Welcome to the RazorFine Comic Rack boys and girls.  Pull up a bean bag and take a seat at feet of the master as we look at the new comics set to hit comic shops and bookstores today from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, WildStorm, Vertigo, IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Devil’s Due Publishing, Archie, and Image Comics.

This week includes The Authority, The Boys, BtVS Season 8, Detective Comics #848, Invincible Iron Man, Manhunter, Transformers Movie Prequel: Saga of the All-Spark, Veronica, the first issues of Criminal Macabre: Cell Block 666, El Diablo, Fringe, Marvel Apes, The Roberts, Secret Six, Spooks: Omega Team, Sub-Mariner: The Depths, X-Men: The Return of Magik, and the final issues of Angel: After the Fall and Battlestar Galactica: Season Zero.  That and much, much more inside the Full Diagnosis.

Enjoy issue #86

Ian’s moved back to the land of Jayhawks meaning he won’t be penning many new movie reviews for a few weeks, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to leave you loyal RF readers without something to raise hell ‘bout.  Today he gives us his favorite films of the summer that was 2008.  Who could possibly be number one?

Universal Pictures is releasing a special Sing-Along Edition of Mamma Mia! in select theaters across the country today (click here for theater info).  Now you can go to your local theater and sing along with the film.  Find out how the experience rates, compared to the film itself, inside the Full Diagnosis.

You may notice sometimes we don’t have a review for every movie that comes out on a given week.  Sometimes it’s because of scheduling conflicts, or movies being screened the same night and time at different theaters.  Sometimes we may have trouble staffing a screening.  Or sometimes a film is out in limited release before we get a chance to see it.  But sometimes it’s because the studio decides not to screen the film for critics before dumping it on the unsuspecting movie going audience.  (Seriously, how bad has a film got to be to deny critics to view it?  Think about this The Condemned, Because I Said So, License to Wed, A Sound of Thunder, Over Her Dead Body, and countless others were all screened for critics).

Today you won’t see a reviews for the Vin Diesel in Babylon A.D. distributed by 20th Century Fox, MGM‘s campus comedy College, or Disaster Movie from Lionsgate.  All three studios, obviously deeply afraid of the poor quality of their films and possible public ridicule, refused to screen them for critics.  Unable to review the movies, we decided to review the studios by awarding them each our Scaredy Cat Award for being too afraid to take even the smallest bit of criticism.

A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty Hi-Yo Silver!  The Lone Ranger, with his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful maksed rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States.

After a brief hiatus the Lone Ranger and Tonto return to action in this latest issue from Dynamite Entertainment.  With them comes the return of the masked man’s arch-nemisis - Cavendish!  Check out our review inside the Full Diagnosis.

With the first season now complete we look back at USA’s In Plain Sight starring Mary McCormack as a US Marshall dealing with her protectees, and her even more screwed-up family life.  It’s not one of USA’s best original shows, but it has shown some promise.  Check out our review of its first season inside the Full Diagnosis.

Wow!  An action/spy thriller distilled through the lens of an art house flick.  Don Cheadle heads this impressively strong film about terrorism, and the lengths people will go to in order to commit, and to stop, it.  Oh, and it’s got one of the best twists I’ve seen on film since that little kid saw dead people.  Traitor is simply a must-see.

Hmm, we’re about to talk about comics so it must be Wednesday!  Welcome to the RazorFine Comic Rack boys and girls.  Pull up a bean bag and take a seat at feet of the master as we look at the new comics set to hit comic shops and bookstores today from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, WildStorm, Vertigo, IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Devil’s Due Publishing, Archie, and Image Comics.

This week includes Army of Darkness, DMZ, Justice Society of America, Star Wars: Rebellion, Wildcats, X-Men: Legacy, the first issues of Final Crisis: Superman Beyond, Guerillas, Marvel: Your Universe Saga, newuniversal: Conquerer, and the final issues of Catwoman, Project Superpowers, The Secret History of The Authority: Jack Hawksmoor, and Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment.  Also don’t forget the truckload of new graphic novels including America’s Best Comic Primer, The Astounding Wolf-Man Vol. 1, Daredevil by Brain Michael Bendis Omnibus Vol. 1, Metal Men, Roy Rogers Archives, She-Hulk Vol. 6: Jaded, Suicide Squad: From the Ashes, and much, much more.

Enjoy issue #85