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Comic Rack

Alan Rapp / May 7, 2018 / Comics

It’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 Analog, Barbarella, Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Dissonance, Domino, Exiles, Flash, Incredible Hulk, Punks Not Dead, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Rose, Xena, the first issues of Hunt for Wolverine: Adamantium Agenda, Infinity Countdown, Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock, Justice League: No Justice, Medieval Spawn/Witchblade, Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation, Steampunk Glamour Gazette, Venom, Warhammer 40000: Deathwatch, World of Tanks: Citadel, and the final issues of Batman: White Knight, Hungry Ghosts, Rom and the Micronauts, and Spider King.

Enjoy issue #214

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Red Sonja/Tarzan #1

Alan Rapp / May 4, 2018 / Comics

Title: Red Sonja/Tarzan #1
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Writer: Gail Simone
Artist: Walter Geovani

Despite some similarities, Red Sonja and Tarzan aren’t characters that naturally fit together, knowing this writer Gail Simon sidesteps the rather important question of just how these two characters are brought together and instead focuses on the why and the reason for their team-up. The first issue of Red Sonja/Tarzan introduces both characters to a common enemy in the hunter Eson Duul.

We are shown separate sequences of Duul and his men beating a drunken Sonja in the streets and years (and dimensions) away Duul harming the African animals and locals of the area who Tarzan considers family. While Tarzan gets a small victory over the man, it leads to only further trouble with the hunter who pushes back hard against the Lord of the Jungle. It does seem our two protagonists have a common foe.

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Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #43

Alan Rapp / May 3, 2018 / Comics

Title: Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #43
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Writer: Robert Venditti
Artist: Rafa Sandoval

Everything old is new again. The current arc of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps ressurects some of the rivalry the Green Lantern Corps had with the other rainbow lanterns (or even the older issues with the Manhunters) by this time pitting the Corps against the Darkstars. Created by the Controllers, the Darkstars are similar in makeup to the Green Lantern Corps by recruiting soldiers from across the universe. Where the Darkstars differ is in their blunt and brutal form of justice that ends in the same sentence: death.

While the Corps sets out to rescue former Lantern Tomar Tu, what Hal Jordan finds instead of brainwashed hostage is a willing member of the Darkstars (a group far larger in number than the Corps). Instead of a friend in need of rescue, Hal finds a disciple attempting to win the Green Lantern over to his side.

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Usagi Yojimbo: The Hidden #2

Alan Rapp / May 1, 2018 / Comics

Title: Usagi Yojimbo: The Hidden #2 (of 7)
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Writer: Stan Sakai
Artist: Stan Sakai

The second issue of Usagi Yojimbo: The Hidden delves more into Inspector Ishida and Miyamoto Usagi delving into the murder of Christians the night before. Once again we see strong foreshadowing that Ishida’s boss is either culpable in the crimes or at the very least far more interested in finding someone to blame and closing the case rather than uncovering the true motives for the deaths.

Other than Usagi and Ishida stopping a group from killing the gate guards who let in the murder victims and those that pursued them (someone obviously doesn’t want them to report on what they saw), there’s little action in the second issue of the seven-issue mini-series which instead focuses on the pair discussing the crime and searching for clues.

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Comic Rack

Alan Rapp / April 30, 2018 / Comics

This week includes Batman, Captain America, Green Arrow, Koshchei the Deathless, Nightwing, Red Sonja, Sex Criminals, Spider-Man, The Walking Dead, the first issues of Avengers, Coda, Cyber Spectre, Death or Glory, Harley Quinn: Harley Loves Joker, Hunt for Wolverine: Weapon Lost, Jasmine: Crown of Kings, Red Sonja/Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Man, Star Trek: The Next Generation – Through The Mirror, You Are Deadpool, and the final issues of Rogue & Gambit, Transformers Vs. Visionaries, and Venomized.

Enjoy issue #213

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