Symbolism in the Dark Knight Trilogy | Part 1 – Batman Begins
Storytellers examines the symbolism in Batman Begins.
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September 2019
Spenser: For Hire – A Day’s Wages
- Title: Spenser: For Hire – A Day’s Wages
- IMDb: link
Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. What starts out as a relatively simple job for Spenser (Robert Urich), looking into who is stealing from a local dress manufacturer (Edward Binns), becomes far more complicated by thief’s death and the business owner’s underworld connections. “A Day’s Wages” returns one of Robert B. Parker’s most notorious characters in crime boss Joe Broz (Raymond Serra) who is slowly squeezing the life out of the business in able to turn a profit with his own scams of selling knock-off merchandise to high-end clientele. The story ties in Hawk (Avery Brooks) by having him perform protection for the victim (Erik King), although it turns out not that well before being sidelined for most of the episode by a deal with Spenser. And with Belson (Ron McLarty) and Quirk (Richard Jaeckel) receiving little more than last-second cameos, the story stays centered on Spenser for nearly the entire episode.
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Batman/Superman #1
- Title: Batman/Superman #1
- Comic Vine: link
- Writer: Josh Williamson
- Artist: David Marquez
The new volume of Batman/Superman launches with Superman being called to Gotham City. A young boy has gone missing and all evidence points to the return of The Batman Who Laughs (Bruce Wayne from Earth-22 who was infected by that dimension’s Joker and has since become a hybrid of the two characters). Loose again on Earth-1, Batman and Superman team-up to find the missing boy and the villain who has teased the idea of turning all heroes into something just like him.
I was never really sold on the character of The Batman Who Laughs, but he’s largely absent here having already put his plan into motion. His choice of a new Robin creates much larger problems for The Dark Knight and the Man of Tomorrow when they realize Billy Batson (and his alter-ego) are now completely insane.
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Carnival Row – Some Dark God Wakes
- Title: Carnival Row – Some Dark God Wakes
- IMDb: link
The best word to describe the first episode of Amazon’s new series Carnival Row is awkward. Attempting to blend fantasy, sci-fi, and a kinda-sorta (but not really) steampunk ascetic around a winding story lacking a true focus offers some interesting ideas but really shows no intention of heading somewhere interesting (at least until its final few minutes). Before we even get to a single scene, a dump of narrative exposition informs us about three different races, a war, refugees, and human smuggling across borders. In the first few minutes we also get refugees fleeing an occupied land and a shipwreck. None of this, however, takes place in the show’s primary setting. Here the shift focuses away from the faerie lands of Tirnanoc to the far more human lands of The Burgue where Inspector Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) is searching for a serial killer. Th premiere also offers glimpses at the charged political climate of the land (a not-so-subtle allusion to the U.S. and its current views on immigration) and, for good measure, throws in the proclivities of a politician’s son frequenting faerie whorehouses.
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Comic Rack
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 Archie, Belle: Oath of Thorns, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Die, Fantastic Four, Immortal Hulk, Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds, Sea of Stars, Star Wars, Supergirl, Underdog and Pals, Usagi Yojimbo, the first issues of Alpha Flight: True North, Batman Vs Ra’s al Ghul, Battlepug, Everything, Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy, House of X, Mystere, Once and Future, Powers of X, Star Trek: Discovery – Aftermath, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order – Dark Temple, Triage, Vampirella / Red Sonja, Web of Black Widow, and the final issues of Oz: Heart of Magic, and Section Zero.
Enjoy issue #275
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