Alan Rapp

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 Aquaman, Archie, Avengers, Bloodshot, Dungeons & Dragons: A Darkened Wish, Flash, Hellmouth, James Bond, Lucy Claire: Redemption, Machine Girl, Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage, Rai, Red Mother, Revenge of the Cosmic Ghost Rider, Spawn, Teen Titans, Undiscovered Country, the first issues of Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, Iron Man 2020, Jessica Jones: Blind Spot, Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Black Cat Strikes, Rising Sun, Rom: Dire Wraiths, Venom: The End, and the final issues of Freedom Fighters, Frozen: True Treasure, and Steeple.

Enjoy issue #291

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Just Mercy

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  • Title: Just Mercy
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Just Mercy movie reviewBased on true experiences of defense attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan), writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton delivers a straightforward biopic that is more about one lawyer’s struggle against a broken legal system than the legal maneuverings of a crafty lawyer. After a brief introduction to the character, the film begins in earnest with Stevenson taking his Harvard education to Alabama to defend those on death row who never received a fair trial.

The film primarily deals with Stevenson’s attempts to earn a new trial for Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) who was convicted of murder on the testimony of one unreliable witness (Tim Blake Nelson) and no physical evidence thanks in large part to the pressure and intimidation of a local sheriff (Michael Harding) whose motives the film never really examines.

Just Mercy is a solid film filled with actors who have given more memorable roles in other movies. Along with Foxx and Jordan we also get Brie Larson as another member of the defense team who helped Stevenson set-up the Equal Justice Initiative offices in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Batman Beyond – Spellbound

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  • Title: Batman Beyond – Spellbound
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Batman Beyond - Spellbound television review

Today’s Throwback Thursday takes us back to the dystopian future of Gotham City. The aptly-named “Spellbound” introduces a new villain to the show in Spellbinder (Jon Cypher) who uses his knowledge of the human psyche and futuristic tech to trap victims in hallucinatory fantasies while tricking them into performing crimes for him. While the episode never really explains why the tech works on Terry (Will Friedle) through the suit, it does allow Terry to fight against the altered reality as Batman and the effect on villain’s other subjects is one of the best parts of the episode including a Raiders of the Lost Ark opening sequence. Along with a pretty good original villain in the mold of a character like Scarecrow, the episode is also notable for Terry’s first meeting (out of costume) with Commissioner Barbara Gordon (Stockard Channing).

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Underdog – Safe Waif

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  • Title: Underdog – Safe Waif
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Underdog - Safe Waif television review

Throwback Thursday takes us back to the misadventures of humble and lovable Shoeshine Boy, better known as everyone’s favorite rhyming canine super-hero Underdog. The first adventure (originally airing on October 3, 1964) features Underdog’s (Wally Cox) attempts to rescue a boy trapped in a bank vault. Setting ongoing themes which would follow throughout the show’s run, Underdog causes quite a bit of damage and panic with his heroics including first destroying the vault of the wrong bank and then setting another bank on fire only to put it out with super-breath which causes tornado-like force that levels most of the building. While none of the supporting characters appear in the first short, we do get the show’s humorous take on the famous crowd reaction to seeing Superman (along with Shoeshine transforming inside a telephone booth) and the show’s memorable theme song.

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