Comics

Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #42

Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #42 comic reviewWriter Solly Fisch and artist Dario Brizuela monkey around in the latest issue of Scooby-Doo! Team-Up. I want to know if Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #42 exists solely on a wager about how many DC monkey and ape characters the two could squeeze into a single issue. I’m not saying that’s what happened, or even if it did that it would be a bad thing, it’s just one of the most niche set-ups for this comic I can remember and that’s as likely an explanation I can come with as anything else.

Mystery, Inc.‘s latest case involves the sudden appearance of ape villains under the command of Gorilla Grodd. The super-villains include the Ultra-Humanite, the vampire ape Pryemaul, Monsieur Mallah, Gorilla Boss, Mod Gorilla Boss, and Titano.

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Zorro: Swords of Hell #1

Zorro: Swords of Hell #1 comic reviewZorro: Swords of Hell #1, the first issue of a new four-issue mini-series from American Mythology Productions takes Zorro in a completely unexpected decision. A few years following Zorro’s liberation of the people of Los Angeles from the evil dictatorship, a new threat arises… from the depths of Hell? After a quick introduction summarizing Zorro’s victory, we’re thrown right into a new reality featuring zombie horsemen. Buckle up.

The new series from writer David Avallone and artist Roy Allen Martinez brings in far more supernatural than most Zorro fans are going to be accustomed to with the rising of a zombie army of soldiers who attack the party celebrating Don Diego de la Vega impending wedding. Given the threat, it appears that Zorro must ride again.

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Comic Rack

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 Avengers, Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider, Catwoman, Detective Comics, Domino, Immortal Hulk, Kick-Ass, Outpost Zero, Quantum Age, Robotech, Rose, Supergirl, Venom, Voltron: Legendary Defender, The Weatherman, X-23, the first issues of Artifact One, Black Knight, Dragon Age: Deception, Infinite Dark, Murder Falcon, My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights, Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince, Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation, Spider-Geddon, Tangled: Hair-Raising Adventures, and the final issue of The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV.

Enjoy issue #235

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The Umbrella Academy – Hotel Oblivion #1

The Umbrella Academy - Hotel Oblivion #1 comic reviewThe Umbrella Academy – Hotel Oblivion #1 launches a new seven-issue mini-series featuring the grown version of the child heroes created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bà. The name of the latest mini-series appears to come from the name of Sir Reginald Hargreeves‘ solution to housing the powerful enemies defeated by the heroes he created. The opening pages of the first issue give us a glimpse of the Hotel Oblivion from the perspective of a new tenant while most of the rest of the issue is set aside to check in on the various members of the Umbrella Academy who have once again separated and gone their own way.

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Archie Meets Batman ’66 #3

Archie Meets Batman '66 #3 comic reviewWith Batman still in Gotham City dealing with the Bookworm, a subplot that takes up more pages than I expected (but without it the Caped Crusader wouldn’t be included here at all), Robin and Batgirl have made their settled into their undercover roles in Riverdale to see what the fuss is all about.

Thanks to the Siren, the dastardly the Joker, Catwoman, the Riddler, and the Penguin now have control of the adults of Riverdale. Now if they could just get rid of those meddlesome kids!

By the end of Archie Meets Batman ’66 #3 both Robin and Batgirl will run across a few clues to make an educated guess about the city’s new visitors and the hamburger-starved Jughead will get a far closer look at the town’s new Joker Burgers than he had planned.

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