May 2018

Comic Rack

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Comic RackIt’s a new week so it must be time to talk about comics! Welcome back 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 month from all your favorite publishers including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Archie, Dynamite, IDW, Image Comics, and others.

This week includes Amazing Spider-Man, Cyber Force, Daredevil, G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero, Grass Kings, Hack/Slash: Resurrection, Saga, Spider-Gwen, Super Sons Dynomutt Special, Sword of Ages, the first issues of 2021: Lost Children, Blackwood, Harbinger Wars 2, Judge Dredd: Under Siege, Lando: Double or Nothing, Last Siege, Man of Steel, My Little Pony: Ponyville Mysteries, Valiant High, and the final issues of Barrier, Bloodborne, Grimm Fairy Tales: Dance of the Dead, Justice League: No Justice, Lockjaw, Lucas Stand: Inner Demons, and You Are Deadpool.

Enjoy issue #217

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Solo: A Star Wars Story

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  • Title: Solo: A Star Wars Story
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Solo: A Star Wars Story movie reviewIn many ways Solo: A Star Wars Story is the antithesis of Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi. Solo plays things ultra-conservative, continually dumbs down the plot for the audience, and relies heavily on nostalgia. The result is a fun, if flawed and unambitious, film that offers fans the Cliff’s Notes version of Han Solo‘s (Alden Ehrenreich) past.

Star Wars fans will know the planet Corellia. Aside from being the homeworld of Han Solo, the planet played a major role in various storylines of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Solo: A Star Wars Story is the first Star Wars film to give fans a glimpse of the world… and it’s about and underwhelming as possible. It doesn’t help that the only scenes we get involve a young Han, saddled with a Dickensian backstory which turns him into Oliver Twist, working along with other local younglings as a thief.

If the film has a major flaw its the first 30-45 minutes which struggles mightily to set-up the story and at times is borderline bad. Thankfully, once Han makes some new friends and the heist plot is introduced, things begin to pick up.

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Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #18

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Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #18 comic reviewThe arrival of Mysteria, the daughter to classic Spidey-villain Mysterio, who has now been hired by the same casino he is working for prickles Ben Reilly‘s Spidey-Sense to the level that he decides it is time to call in some back-up. Enter Kaine and Dusk. Unfortunately, neither prove to be all that helpful with the illusionist actually makes the casino disappear (by temporarily displacing it in another dimension).

I’m still a bit confused by the inclusion of Mysteria and Mysterio (the retired villain who Reilly threatened just a few issues back). Just what exactly are the father/daughter team up to? And how does temporarily loosing a hotel and casino fit into their plans? Hopefully the fallout of their “trick” will lead to some answers.

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