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Uncanny X-Men Annual #1

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Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 comic reviewWelcome back Scott Summers. I’ve made no secret of the fact that my interest in all things X-Men has waned considerably since the death of Cyclops. With the help of the “new and improved” younger version of Cable, Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 puts things right by returning Scott Summers to the land of the living. As with Green Lantern: Rebrith (the Geoff Johns standard for resurrected and redeeming a fallen hero), things get a little tricky and a bit convoluted in explaining how the hero is resurrected. However, at least for now, I’m happy that Marvel long ago abandoned their original mandate of when someone dies in the Marvel Universe they stay dead.

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Comic Rack

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

This week includes Action Comics, Amazing Spider-Man, Betty and Veronica, Crimson Lotus, Detective Comics, Infinite Dark, James Bond 007, Life is Strange, Lone Ranger, Punisher, Rick and Morty, Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, West Coast Avengers, Zorro: Legendary Adventures, the first issues of Fight Club 3, Journey Into Unknown Worlds, Star Trek: The Q Conflict, Wyrd, and the final issues of Marvel Knights 20th, Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying, Raven: Daughter of Darkness, Rick and Morty Vs Dungeons & Dragons, and Rivers of London: Action at a Distance.

Enjoy issue #247

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Black Widow #1

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Black Widow #1 comic reviewDespite her recent death (something which lacks the finality it once meant in the Marvel Universe), Black Widow returns in a new series. Black Widow #1 is a bit of a schizophrenic issue that attempts to honor the character’s past while pushing Natasha in a new direction.

The issue opens with a Black Widow and Captain America team-up versus a Captain America impostor and giant robots whose true goal… um, well is to be the ones who get stopped by Captain America and Black Widow, I guess. After a somewhat icy farewell, Natasha heads to Madripoor looking to get lost and find a new purposes as far away from the Avengers as possible.

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Detective Comics #996

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Detective Comics #996 comic reviewAfter learning nothing of interest from the Arkham Asylum menagerie, Batman‘s investigation into the recent attacks on the close allies of both Batman and Bruce Wayne leads to Paris and a reunion with Ducard who has already figured out the truth of attacks which the Dark Knight Detective won’t piece together until the issue’s conclusion: someone is systematically targeting everyone who had a hand in creating Batman.

While the mystery continues to deepen, and we also see nods to various aspects of Batman’s past (such visiting his old sensei in the Himalayas where a certain flower grows), there are still aspects of the arc I’m not fond of starting with the bizarre Clayface-ish nightmare creature that attacks Batman and Ducard. While there’s obviously someone quite intelligent behind the attacks on those who helped Bruce Wayne become Batman, I’m not wild about his stable of horror movie henchmen.

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Red Sonja #25

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Red Sonja #25 comic reviewA song in the woods and the sound of battle break Red Sonja‘s solitary travels in the latest issue of Red Sonja from writers Amy Chu and Erik Burnham, and artist Pasquale Qualano. The She-Devil makes short work of a pack of thieves attacking a small traveling party, but when the dust clears only one survivor remains.

Despite the pair’s philosophical differences, Sonja takes the job of seeing the last pilgrim to his destination. Running into more trouble while attempting to barter passage across the sea with pirates, Sonja discovers there is more to her charge than meets the eye as the power of his song is able to stop the bloodthirsty mercenaries in their path allowing Sonja to go to work.

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