Alan Rapp

Blindness

  • Title: Blindness
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“That’s impossible, nobody goes blind like that.”

It starts when a single man (Yusuke Iseya) experiences sudden blindness.  The condition quickly spreads around the city, and the government quarantines the infected, forcibly sending all of them to a military controlled facility.

The story has a good concept even if it doesn’t ever develop it fully.  Based on the novel by Jose Saramango there are two main themes at work here.  The first, and less interesting, is how quickly and easily humans devolve into animals given a crisis.  Events in the quarantine facility soon destroy social convention and niceties leading to riots over food, war, murder, and rape.  Not the prettiest of pictures, even for the blind.

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Flash Gordon #1 (of 6)

  • Title: Flash Gordon #1 (of 6)
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“My name is Flash Gordon and I think I’m about to die.”

Recent attempts to revive Flash Gordon for the new millennium have been less than impressive (see the now defunct Sci-Fi Channel original series).  Now Flash is returning to the comic pages with a new series from Ardden Entertainment.

Written by Brendan Deneen with art by Paul Green this first issue reinvents the characters while also returning them to their roots.  Here Flash Gordon is a professor and adventurer, Hans Zarkoff is a mad scientist, and Dale Arden is a agent for the CIA.

Flash is approached by Dale and her gorilla-like partner who believe Hans Zarkoff is working on a Weapon of Mass Destruction.  The truth behind the circumstances is far more complex and Flash and Dale end up with Zarkov in his experimental space ship only to find themselves not in Kansas anymore as they travel through a portal to another world.

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My Name is Bruce

  • Title: My Name is Bruce
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“What the FUCK is that?!”
“That’s Guan-Di.”
“You mean the son of a bitch is real?!”

After a young punk, only after some late night vandalism, mistakenly frees an ancient demon known as Guan-Di, the villagers come up with a plan to save themselves which involves kidnapping a B-movie action star and bringing him south of the border.

Told he’s been hired for a special birthday event Bruce Campbell agrees to play along with the natives only to discover he’s in some deep doo-doo when the real-life demon begins to hack people to pieces.  Faced with hightailing it or becoming the hero he plays in the movies Campbell reluctantly agrees to stay and help.

Those familiar with the ¡Three Amigos! will recognize the basic structure of the tale.  There are some moments of interest mostly displaying Campbell’s initial cowardice and moments of heroism, and an odd secret weapon used to control the hack slashing demon.

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Graphic Novel Goodness

Hey folks, you’ll find the latest comic releases in our Comic Rack, but if you’re just looking to pick up some graphic novels look no further than inside where you’ll find American Dream: Beyond Courage, The Boys Vol. 3, Ghost Whisperer: Haunted, Hellboy Library Edition Vol. 2, The Spirit Vol. 2, Star Trek: New Frontier, Ultimate Iron Man II, and much more!

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Comic Rack

Hmm, we’re about to talk about comics so it must be Wednesday!  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 look at the new comics set to hit comic shops and bookstores today from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, WildStorm, Vertigo, Dynamite Entertainment, IDW Publishing, Archie, and Image Comics.

This week includes Army@Love: The Art of War, The Authority, Batman, Battlestar Galactica: Origins, The Boys, The Helm, House of Mystery, Justice League of America, Marvel Apes, New Exiles, Nightwing, A Red Mass for Mars, Sub-Mariner: The Depths,  Transformers: Saga of the Allspark, Voltron: A Legend Forged, and the first issues of Four Eyes, Terror Titans, Top 10 Season Two, and Vixen: Return of the Lion.  That and much, much more inside the Full Diagnosis.

Enjoy issue #90

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