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November 2019
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 Batman, Black Cat, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daredevil, Die, Doctor Doom, Lois Lane, Mystere, Red Sonja, Spawn, Young Justice, the first issues of b.b. free, Dog Eaters, gen:LOCK, Green Lantern: Blackstars, Heist: How to Steal a Planet, Magicians, New Mutants, Niobe: She is Death, Rick and Morty Presents: Unity, Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious, Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince and the Rebel Army, Spider-Man and Venom: Double Trouble, X-Force, Yondu, and the final issues of Care Bears: Unlock The Magic, DuckTales: Silence and Science, Killers, and Space Bandits.
Enjoy issue #284
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Motherless Brooklyn
- Title: Motherless Brooklyn
- IMDb: link
With Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton stars, directs, and adapted the novel of the same name. It’s in his choices, and likely his performance, where you will decide what you think of the film. Moving the events back in time allows the story to be reframed as a noir fitting our detective’s narration and the style of a gumshoe tale.
Motherless Brooklyn is shown from the perspective of private detective Lionel Essrog (Norton). Despite being burdened with tics he cannot control, Lionel is the star of Frank Minna’s (Bruce Willis) P.I. business (and car service). But when something goes wrong on a case it falls to Lionel to step-up and unravel a web of criminal conspiracy and murder.
If you can accept Norton’s showcasing Lionel’s tics the film will likely work for you, as it did for me. The character is fascinating and we do see how his nature helps him in other aspects of his job, while admittedly leading to some problems dealing with people. Norton builds on his performance and the strengths of a novel to create a smart and entertaining film (even if it isn’t quite as clever as it thinks it is).
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Jojo Rabbit
- Title: Jojo Rabbit
- IMDb: link
An irreverent comedy centered around a Nazi 10 year-old (Roman Griffin Davis) whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler isn’t going to appeal to everyone. Writer/director Taika Waititi (who also stars as the Fuhrer) crafts an odd little film about a devout, although not very good, Nazi who completely believes in the propaganda he’s been fed since birth about Jews and the military dominance of the father land despite those around him seeing the writing on the wall that the end of the war is vast approaching.
Waititi, who adapted the story from Christine Leunens’ novel Caging Skies, gets the most out of his young star while surrounding him with an impressive supporting cast who understand the vibe the director is going for in the film. Scarlett Johansson is terrific as JoJo’s mother who is hiding more than a few secrets from her young Nazi son. Sam Rockwell, as a demoted Nazi officer now forced to work with children, sets the tone of the film early on in his presentation to a Hitler Youth training camp. Jojo’s misadventures at the camp do nothing to make him question his belief in the Nazi Party but meeting a girl named Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie) leads to several questions.
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