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, BOOM!, Dynamite, Archie, Image Comics, and others.

This week includes Doc Savage, Flash, Halcyon, Incredible Hulks, New Avengers, Queen Sonja, Red Robin, the first issues of Archie & Friends Double Digest, Captain America and the Korvac Saga, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Little Sisters Of Eluria, Lady Mechanika, John Byrne: Next Men, Let Me In: Crossroads, Starborn, Wildstorm Presents: Planetary Lost Worlds, and the final issues of John Constantine: Hellblazer – City Of Demons, Muppet Sherlock Holmes, Tiny Titans/Little Archie, and True Blood.

Enjoy issue #108

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Inception still dreamy on DVD

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Inception
  • IMDB: link

“All that we see or seem,
Is but a dream within a dream.”
–Edgar Allen Poe

I thoroughly enjoyed Christopher Nolan‘s Inception in theaters earlier this year (read the review). His exploration of dreams within dreams and a journey of one tortured soul (Leonardo DiCaprio) to make his way home by implanting a single idea into the dream of a stranger (Cillian Murphy) resonates as well on DVD as it did on the big screen. Out next week on DVD and Blu-ray it’s a great addition to your library.

The one-disc DVD is a little scant on extras (to put it midly). It does contain four short featurettes (averaging three minutes a piece) which include snippets from Nolan, DiCaprio, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, editor Lee Smith, cinamatopraher Wally Pfister, and stunt coordinator Tom Struthers, examining the aspect of dreams and the possibilities of the human mind, the japanese castle sequence, the paradoxical pemrose stairs, and the freight train barreling down the the middle of a busy street. Each of these is quite good but not quite enough to satisfy.

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Conan the Cimmerian #25

/ / Comics
  • Title: Conan the Cimmerian #25
  • Comic Vine: link
  • Writer:Timothy Truman
  • Artist: Tomás Giorello

I’ve never been the biggest reader of fantasy. Although I’ll dabble from time to time I’m much rather to pick up a sci-fi novel than something dealing with witches, warlocks, barbarians, or elves. And it terms of comics I prefer my heroes clad in spandex rather than loincloths.

So even though I’m a fan of the first Conan film (let’s not talk about the second, okay?) I’ve haven’t spent much time reading Dark Horse Comics latest comic which wraps up with this final issue. Maybe I should have spent a little more time with the barbarian.

It’s far from great, but this issue is well told from the perspective of Conan’s companion Olivia as they journey through the jungle. Conan faces off against a “Great Ape” (and slices off its arm in true Skywalker fashion) before taking possession of a pirate ship and its crew. So.. the next comic is going to be Conan the Pirate? Now that I think about it, maybe I’ve given Conan just the right amount of attention. What can I say, I prefer my barbarians to have Mok sidekicks and fabulous Sun-Swords. Hit-and-Miss.

[Dark Horse $2.99]

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Coming Soon

/ / Film News & Trailers
  • Title: Cowboys & Aliens
  • IMDB: link

From director Jon Favreau, and based on the graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, comes this tale of a drifter (Daniel Craig) suffering from  amnesia who wanders into Absolution, Arizona where he’s wanted for murder by the town’s leader (Harrison Ford)… That is until a new threat appears from beyond the stars wishing to enslave the 19th Century Old West for their own nefarious purposes. Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine, Clancy Brown, and David O’Hara also star. The shootin’ starts next July in theaters everywhere.

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