Alan Rapp

Comic Rack

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It’s a new week so it must be time to talk about comics! Welcome 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 week from all your favorite publishers including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Archie, Dynamite, Image Comics, and others.

This week includes Archie, Batgirl, Batman, BtVS Season Nine, Captain America, Defenders, Demon Knights, G.I. JOE, New Avengers, Planetoid, Queen Sonja, Saucer Country, Scarlet Spider, The Shade, Spider-Men, Swamp Thing, Youngblood, the first issues of Battle Beasts, The Crow, Eerie Comics, Hero: Within I Am Heroic, The Lone Ranger: Snake of Iron, Punk Rock Jesus, Revival, Soulfire: Faith, Space Punisher, and the final issue of The Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred.

Enjoy issue #183

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Rookie Blue – Messy Houses

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Rookie Blue – Messy Houses
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While answering a domestic disturbance call with Diaz (Travis Milne) Andy (Missy Peregrym) is surprised by both an upset 11 year-old boy who called the police to break up his parents’ (Jonathan Goad, Krista Bridges) argument when then pulls a gun to protect them as well as the unexpected reappearance of her estranged mother (Barbara Williams) who forces Andy to deal with years of unresolved issues.

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New Year’s Eve

/ / Home Video
  • Title: New Year’s Eve
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new-years-eve-blu-rayNew Year’s Eve follows the lives of an ensemble of New Yorkers, somehow each of whom find themselves in a series of cliched, sickeningly sweet entanglements or awkward situations that only bad screenwriters can dream up, in the hours leading up to Times Square’s biggest night.

The cast includes a single man (Tad Hamilton) with car trouble dreaming of the woman he met last New Year’s Eve,  a single mother (Sarah Jessica Parker) whose teenage daughter (Abigail Breslin) wants to spend New Year’s Eve with a cute boy (Jake T. Austin) in Times Square, Robert De Niro as a man dying of cancer wanting to see the ball drop one last time and his doctor (Cary Elwes) and nurse (Halle Berry) who try to make his final hours comfortable, and a pair of couples (Seth Meyers, Jessica Biel and Til Schweiger, Sarah Paulson) jockeying to be the parents of the first born baby of the year.

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The Lone Ranger #7

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the-lone-ranger-vol-2-7-coverThe new arc “Native Ground” begins as the Lone Ranger seeks help for his severally injured friend and, through the use one of long flashback sequence (which takes up all but the opening page of the comic), Tonto‘s past is revealed. Alhough it means the masked man gets only a cameo here (the Lone Ranger appears in a total of one panel) I applaud writer Ande Parks’ choice to fill in Tonto’s backstory.

The first issue is little more than an introduction to Tonto and various members of his tribe and the foreshadowing of events that will shatter his peaceful life with his wife and son. We see the Indian as a respected leader of his people, one tired of war with the white man who wants only to live in peace for as long as possible.

Those who don’t mind picking up a comic where the title character barely makes an appearance should consider picking this issue up. I’m not sure there’s enough here to work for an entire arc, but there’s certainly enough to bring me back next month. Worth a look.

[Dynamite, $3.99]

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