Politics is a dirty business. George Clooney returns both behind and in front of the camera as a Presidential nominee whose idealistic #1 staffer (Ryan Gosling) gets approached to work for the other side (Paul Giamatti). Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jeffrey Wright also star. The film is based on the play by Beau Willimon about Howard Dean‘s 2004 campaign. The Ides of March opens in theaters on October 7th.
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, BOOM!, Dynamite, Image Comics, and others.
This week includes Amazing Spider-Man, The Boys, Drums, Flash Gordon: Invasion of the Red Sword, Flashpoint, G.I. JOE, Hulk, Megamind, Moon Knight, Moriarty, Savage Dragon, Scalped, Usagi Yojimbo, X-23, X-Factor, the first issues of Infinite, Kult, Mystic, The Punisher, Severed, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Fun, Zorro Rides Again, and the final issues of Adventure Comics, Batman Beyond, Flashpoint: Batman – Knight of Vengeance, Flashpoint: Secret Seven, Green Wake, Secret Six, Suicide Girls, Superman, and Wynonna Earp: The Yeti Wars.
Enjoy issue #139
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It begins with a cowboy waking up in the desert with no memory of who he is and ends with cowboys and Indians fighting aliens for gold. Yeah, you heard me, gold.
Although I enjoyed it, with a title like Cowboys and Aliens I expected the film to be a little zanier, goofier, and far more of a fun summer popcorn flick. What director Jon Favreau delivers is entertaining, at times, but it also feels unimaginative and uninspired.
After waking up in the desert without any memories, Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) makes his way to the nearest town. Almost immediately he gets into a tussle with the son (Paul Dano) of the town’s wealthiest man (Harrison Ford), is thrown in jail for a train robbery, and shoots down a giant alien spacecraft with a strange metal bracelet attached to his arm. You know, just your everyday activities in the Old West.
When several of the townsfolk are taken Jake is roped into helping rescue them as well as a woman (Abigail Spencer) from his past he thinks may have been taken as well.
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Splitting the story between the perspectives of both Batman and Commissioner Gordon, the latest episode gives us a Joker story that’s not really a Joker story at all.
One issue away from the title’s wrap-up before the massive DC reboot writer Scott Snyder continues the story he’s been weaving for months and brings events full circle.
Someone has targeted the Gordon family using an old version of Joker venom. Batman is hot on the heels of the Clown Prince of Crime but discovers, perhaps too late, that the Joker isn’t responsible for the attack on Barbara’s mother or the imminent attack on Barbara herself.
I have mixed feelings with the art in the issue which is especially inconsistent with regards to both Batman and the Joker, but the story itself, including the reveal, works quite well. It looks like Detective Comics is one title DC plans to let go out with a bang.
[DC, $2.99]
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When seven oil executives are taken hostage in Mexico City, one of whom is a deep undercover CIA operative (Sonya Salomaa) on a time-sensitive mission, Annie (Piper Perabo) is sent down to assess the situation and provide intel for an extraction. Just to makes things a little more interesting, her team includes Joan (Kari Matchett) and Ben Mercer (Eion Bailey).
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