June 2018 – Page 4 – RazorFine Review

Stellar #1

Alan Rapp / June 25, 2018 / Comics

Title: Stellar #1
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Writers: Joe Keatinge
Artist: Bret Blevins

As with old sci-fi paperbacks, sometimes a cool cover and an intriguing title is all you need. Stellar #1 from writer Joe Keatinge and artist Bret Blevins fits into sci-fi fantasy with space-bound bounty hunters and soldiers dropping from the sky like kamikaze comets. Transformed as a weapon in intergalactic war but now working as a bounty hunter, the first issue introduces us the formidable Stellar who mirrors the broken landscape which she drags her reluctant bounty across.

We get a pretty basic bounty hunter story set against the interesting alien backdrop. From what we see of her, Stellar wouldn’t be out of place in any number of other sci-fi settings from Star Wars to Firefly.

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Abduction As Romance

Alan Rapp / June 25, 2018 / Essays

Pop Culture Detective uses the recent film Passengers as a starting-off point to discuss the movie trope of Abduction As Romance.

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Take Two – Pilot

Alan Rapp / June 25, 2018 / Television Reviews

Title: Take Two – Pilot
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The first episode of Andrew W. Marlowe‘s Take Two feels more like Castle‘s troubled final seasons that the glory days of his previous series. Basically swapping the two main roles, Take Two casts Rachel Bilson as an actress recently out of rehab who enlists the help of private investigator Eddie Valetik (Eddie Cibrian) to help her land a role. Tagging along with Eddie, Sam (Bilson) proves useful to the case of a missing person on multiple occasions (and even eventually earns Eddie’s grudging respect).

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Comic Rack

Alan Rapp / June 25, 2018 / Comics

It’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 Batman Beyond, Blackwood, Descender, Doctor Aphra, Dodge City, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, Lucy Dreaming, Man of Steel, Moon Knight, Old Man Hawkeye, Prisoner, Red Sonja, Rick and Morty, Robotech, Scooby-Doo Team-Up, Sex Criminals, Silencer, Thor, Wicked + The Divine, X-Men: Blue, the first issues of Bedtime Games, Charlie’s Angels, Modern Fantasy, Multiple Man, Sentry, Shadow Roads, Vampirella: Roses for Dead, and the final issues of Astro City, Bane: Conquest, Legenderry Red Sonja, and Motherlands.