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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, Batgirl, Black Widow, Coda, Daredevil, Detective Comics, Fantastic Four, Fight Club, Flash, G.I. JOE: Sierra Muerte, Go-Bots, Invader Zim, Isola, Providence, Realm, Rick and Morty, Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, SHAZAM!, Skyward, Superior Spider-Man, Spawn, Transformers, The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion, Vader: Dark Visions, Wasted Space, X-Force, Zodiac, the first issues of Bad Luck Chuck, Dial H for Hero, Marvel Rising, Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, and the final issues of Breakneck, Crimson Lotus, and Hellboy and The B.P.R.D.: 1956.

Enjoy issue #254

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Triple Frontier

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  • Title: Triple Frontier
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Triple Frontier movie reviewWe’ve seen military heist movies before ranging from the likes of Three Kings to Broken Arrow. Unfortunately, Triple Frontier is more like the mixed success of the latter (although it lacks its crazy energy) even though you can almost feel its desperation to be compared to the former.

And while the film is likely to earn comparisons to David O. Russell‘s 1999 film by some, they are hardly the same. The comparisons are marginal and incidental involving the basic set-up of the film and its ensemble cast. To put it simply, Triple Frontier is a B-Movie with an A-List cast that often gets in its own way celebrating the soldiers it turns into mercenaries.

The movie stars Oscar Isaac as a former soldier now working in South America as a consultant for Colombian police struggling to take down a drug lord (Reynaldo Gallegos). Learning his target’s location, and the fact that he’s sitting on millions of dollars of drug money, Pope decides to enlist his old Army buddies (Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal) to head into the jungle, kill the target, and keep all the money for themselves.

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The Flash – Time Bomb

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  • Title: The Flash – Time Bomb
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The Flash - Time Bomb television review

Team Flash may have defeated one Cicada (Chris Klein), but a new one has arrived from the future to continue her uncle’s work. “Time Bomb” reveals the new meta-human killer to be Grace Gibbons (Sarah Carter) who has a lifetime of hatred boiling inside her, and her first target is the meta-human (Catherine Lough Haggquist) responsible for her parents’ death. I’ve always like Carter, and her casting helps lessen the disappointing blow that the Cicada storyline is going to continue further into the season after it had apparently finally reached a merciful end. However, the episode’s subplot involving Sherloque Wells‘ (Tom Cavanagh) unraveling Nora‘s (Jessica Parker Kennedy) secret thankfully looks to take precedence for at least the short term.

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Calamity Kate #1

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Calamity Kate #1 comic reviewThe first issue of Calamity Kate introduces us to our title character: a monster hunter from back east with a troubled past who shows up on the door of her college roommate in sunny California after five years without a word. Kate Strand has arrived in Los Angeles to make her fame and fortune as the West Coast’s new premier monster hunter. Often referred to as “Calamity,” it doesn’t take us long to discover why Kate got that nickname.

Writer Magdalene Visaggio and artist Corin Howell set-up the world, our core characters, and the purpose of our hero: setting out to destroy the Seven Fabled Beasts of Yore (from which all monsters apparently come from). Kate fits into mold of a messy hero that certainly knows how to take care of herself on the battlefield but struggles in any other context.

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Bull – Parental Guidance

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  • Title: Bull – Parental Guidance
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Bull - Parental Guidance television review

The latest client for Bull (Michael Weatherly) and his associates is a defendant who is admittedly guilty of the crime he is charged with. A teenager (C.J. Valleroy) who lived nearly his entire life in isolation with his paranoid survalist father is left on his own after his father his killed and he is arrested for shooting at a police officer and social worker who were trespassing on thier property. To win over the jury, Benny (Freddy Rodríguez) works to convince the jury that young man was ignorant of the consequences of his actions, but to win the case they will have to prove just the opposite. “Parental Guidance” offers a clever late twist that rather than sink the lawyers’ case, actually offers them a new avenue to explore and not only get justice for their client but provide for a future for a young man lost in the new world he finds himself in without his father.

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