March 2011

Cinderella: Fables are Forever #2

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“Fables are Forever” continues as Cinderella deals with the possibility that Dorothy Gale, her longtime nemesis and the greatest assassin of the Fables universe, appears to be back from the dead and back to her old tricks.

I really enjoyed the structure of this comic. The current storyline of protecting Ivan Durak is the least interesting of what is covered here, but the comic is filled with multiple flashbacks involving Cinderella’s previous encounters with Dorothy in the Soviet Union and Thailand which give us a better understanding about both women without giving too much away too soon.

I’ve also got to compliment Shawn McManus’ art which fits the story by perfectly capturing the different locales and time periods the story covers. I particularly like the artist’s closeups on the characters capturing various expressions over the course of the issue. Worth a look.

[Vertigo, $2.99]

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Comic Rack

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It’s a new week so it must be time to talk about comics! 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 offer you this quick list of all kinds of comic book goodness set to hit comic shops and bookstores this week from all your favorite publishers including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, BOOM!, Dynamite, Image Comics, and others.

This week includes Angel, Batman: The Dark Knight, Creepy, Daredevil Reborn, Echoes, Fables, Futurama Comics, Green Hornet, Green Lantern, Hellblazer, Hulk, Invincible, Justice League: Generation Lost, Marineman, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Mass Effect: Evolution, Queen Sonja, Silver Surfer, Spawn, Supergirl, Thor, the first issues of Bartoc, Captain America Comics, FF, Hellraiser, Transformers: Heart of Darkness, Witchblade, X-Men, and the final issues of Batman: Streets of Gotham, Ghostbusters: Infestation, Meta 4, and Ultimate Comics Doom.

Enjoy issue #120

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Paul

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  • Title: Paul
  • IMDB: link

paul-posterSimon Pegg and Nick Frost reunited? And this time the pair are directed by Adventureland‘s Greg Mottola? Sounds promising, doesn’t it? Almost too good to be true? Guess what? It is.

Those hoping for something rivaling the comic brilliance of Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz are bound to be disappointed, but Paul does supply plenty of laughs (and a fair amount of groans as well).

After basking in the nerdom of Comic-Con, Graeme (Pegg) and Clive (Frost) hit the road on a UFO tour of the United States. On the way, as happens only in movies like this, they serendipitously run into the real thing. Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been living in a government facility for decades since he crash landed on Earth. Now he’s escaped, and he’s enlisted these two nerds to get him home.

Along the way the pair will run into a bible-thumping trailer park manager (John Carroll Lynch) and his one-eyed daugher (Kristen Wiig) and have to stay one-step ahead of the government agents (Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Joe Lo Truglio) hot on their trail.

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The Music Never Stopped

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  • Title: The Music Never Stopped
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music-never-stopped-posterWhat is it about music? It can inspire, deeply move and remind us of times long since past. It’s that final piece which is the heart of The Music Never Stopped. We tie memories to sights, smells, and sounds. A familiar song can produce a rush of forgotten emotion tied to a specific moment from our past.

J.K. Simmons and Cara Seymour star as parents who haven’t heard from their son in nearly twenty years. One day the phone rings and they find Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci) in the hospital struggling with the effects of a brain tumor which has left his mind fractured. The memories Gabriel retains are limited and inaccessable, and his illness has created an inability for him to form new permanent memories.

After doing some research Henry (Simmons) enlists the help of a therapist (Julia Ormond) and together they begin to reach Gabriel through the music of his era – the same music which created the rift between father and son years before. When a song he recognizes plays his memory returns, albeit briefly.

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