Alan Rapp

Fairest #2

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After awaking Sleeping Beauty with true love’s kiss (without the love part) the thief and princess (along with their impish friend Jonah Panghammer) find themselves on the run from the reawakened Snow Queen. As Briar Rose and Ali Baba find themselves fleeing into the cold wilderness before the Snow Queen tires of torturing the goblins who held her sleeping body captive and turns her righteous anger their way.

After being captured by Ice Giants and thrown into a sack to be taken back to the Snow Queen the unlikely threesome pass the time as Panghammer tells them the story of the Snow Queen. Well, that is until they find themselves dumped unceremoniously at her feet wanting to hear the end of the tale.

Issue #2 continues to impress, and start to give us a little more insight into Briar and the Snow Queen, but it looks like we’ll have to wait at least one more issue of this opening six-issue arc before we get any real answers. Worth a look.

[Vertigo, $2.99]

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Justice League: Doom

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  • Title: Justice League: Doom
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justice-league-doom-blu-rayDC Comics latest animated feature adapts Mark Waid‘s “Tower of Babel” and pieces of Alex Ross and Jim Krueger‘s Justice as a new straight-to-DVD feature. The plot of the film features Vandal Savage (Phil Morris) putting together a Legion of Doom to take apart the Justice League using contingency plans stolen from Batman (Kevin Conroy).

As Batman finds himself blindsided by Bane (Carlos Alazraqui), Wonder Woman (Susan Eisenberg), Superman (Tim Daly), the Martian Manhunter (Carl Lumbly), the Flash (Michael Rosenbaum), and Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion) all find themselves taken completely out of action by Cheetah (Claudia Black), Metallo (Paul Blackthorne), Ma’alefa’ak (Lumbly), Mirror Master (Alexis Denisof), and Star Sapphire (Olivia d’Abo). It’s the unplanned for appearance of Cyborg (Bumper Robinson) who helps throw a wrench into the plan and save the day.

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In Plain Sight – The Merry Wives of WITSEC

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  • Title: In Plain Sight – The Merry Wives of WITSEC
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Marshall (Frederick Weller) and Mary’s (Mary McCormack) latest witness is a tricky case. John Arnett (Brady Smith) is a pharmacological salesman, with a loving wife (Sunny Mabrey) and two children, who uncovered the truth of a doctor stealing organs from patients under anesthesia, however he’s also John Wilson with a second wife (Stacey Oristano) and daughter.

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Supreme #63

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Of all of Image Comics early to mid-1990’s titles my favorite, by far, was Supreme. Almost two decades before Mark Waid‘s Irredeemable, Supreme was created by Rob Liefeld around the idea of Superman without the patriotism and strong moralistic foundation of a certain Man of Steel.

After appearances in Youngblood, Supereme’s own title begins much like Superman Returns, with the character returning to Earth after years in space to a far more advanced world than that which he left, filled with new super-human heroes and villains, and old enemies.

The character’s origins and were tweaked by several writers over the years including Keith Giffen and Alan Moore. Moore’s take on the character abandoned much of the character’s history and rebooted him as Silver Age Superman for the modern world in tales featuring multiple realities, numerous versions of the character, time paradoxes, the Supergirl-ish Suprema, and even a Supreme version of Hoppy the Marvel Bunny called Oscar the Omnibunny.

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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 Avenging Spider-Man, Batgirl, BtVS Season Nine, Batman and Robin, Cobra, Deadpool, Deathstroke, Doctor Who, Fantastic Four, Grifter, Green Lantern, Haunt, Lord of the Jungle, Mega Man, Scarlet Spider, The Shade, Superboy, Winter Soldier, the first issues of ’68: Scars, Alabaster: Wolves, America’s Got Powers, Bionic Woman, Courtney Crumrin, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Secret, and the final issues of Carnage U.S.A., Dark Matter, Epoch, Infestation 2, Mister Terrific, Northlanders, and Star Wars: Agent of the Empire – Iron Eclipse.

Enjoy issue #171

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