August 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 Action Comics, Amazing Spider-Man, Aphrodite V, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Twelve, Darth Vader, DuckTales, Executive Assistant Iris, Flash, Gasolina, Grimm Fairy Tales, Hack/Slash: Resurrection, Life of Captain Marvel, Lumberjanes, Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, Sentry, Shanghai Red, Wasted Space, the first issues of Astronaut, Batman: Kings of Fear, Cold Spots, Life of Captain Marvel, Punisher, Rogues: The Shadow Over Gerada, Wakanda Forever Avengers, West Coast Avengers, and the final issue of The Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery in Madripoor.

Enjoy issue #229

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Alpha

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  • Title: Alpha
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Alpha movie reviewAlpha is pretty much what you would expect. The screenplay by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt combines well-established tropes of the long road home and a boy and his dog for an inoffensive summer popcorn flick. If director Albert Hughes (who also wrote the original story) isn’t that ambitious, he does succeed in producing a passable tale.

The film’s opening scene introduces us to Kedo (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a young warrior on his first hunt. The son of the chief (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson), Kedo has the burden of the clan’s expectations on him. Separated from his group, and believed dead, an injured Kedo is forced to travel the long distance home alone, that is until he befriends a wolf he names Alpha.

One of the strengths of the film are its visuals, and by this I don’t only mean capturing the wide landscapes for IMAX screens. Hughes frames each shot in a way that the film would work (perhaps better) without any dialogue. His actors are expressive and the basic themes of family, home, friendship, and survival work on a universal level while both the (bland) dialogue and subtitles actually detract from the story.

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Samurai Jack – Episode XII: Jack and the Gangsters

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  • Title: Samurai Jack – Episode XII: Jack and the Gangsters
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Samurai Jack - Episode XII: Jack and the Gangsters television review

Throwback Thursday takes us back to the adventures of the time-displaced samurai and his quest to make his way home. “Episode XII” is an odd episode, even for Samurai Jack. Stumbling into a den of low-level gangsters working for Aku (Mako), Jack (Phil LaMarr) decides to join the group in hopes of being taken his enemy. Prior to getting there, the samurai will get an old school gangster makeover and will have to battle three elemental warriors for control of a gem that offers the user control over water. While not one of the shows’ most memorable episodes, “Episode XII” does offer enjoyable action sequences, the odd styling of Jack dressed in a pinstripe suit, and it’s the closest Jack gets to defeating Aku up until the show’s finale. Only the “help” of his new friends prevents Jack from destroying the evil that is Aku and thus forcing his quest to continue.

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