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G.I. JOE #2

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gijoe-2-coverCobra Commander may be dead, but that doesn’t mean COBRA is going away quietly. With Duke stuck in Washington for a series of bureaucratic meetings, COBRA sets out a two-pronged attack. The first sends in two of their best agents to infiltrate the Pit and the second attempts to take out the Joe’s leader in the nation’s capital.

Zartan creates all kinds of chaos here (although it’s a little unclear if the Joes know about him or he’s being reintroduced as a new character) taking out members of the team to assume their identities with one purpose – to silence the COBRA prisoner. As to what Storm Shadow‘s true mission is, I guess we’ll have to wait for that to be revealed next month.

Meanwhile Duke and Dial Tone fight their way out of a government facility, not knowing who to trust. Anyone could be an agent of COBRA. Remember, it’s not paranoia if they’re really after you. Although I’m not totally sold on Javier Saltares’ artwork, writer Chuck Dixon gives us pair of strong stories. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Ultimate Spider-Man #160

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ultimate-spider-man-160-coverI’ve largely stayed out of Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Universe. The revamped look at classic heroes never really caught my fancy. The one exception to this was Ultimate Spider-Man, which I read sporadically for a short while before eventually moving on to other titles.

The Ultimate Universe has gone through quite a few shakeups in recent years including the deaths of numerous heroes. This issue, however, delivers the death of the hero with the longest running on-going Ultimate title – Peter Parker.

Of all the choices involved in this version of Peter the best was took keep his youth intact throughout his run. This Peter never graduates high school, and after the events of this issue it’s clear he never will. This also makes his death, at such a young age, much more tragic.

I liked this Spidey, but I was far less impressed with the Ultimate version of the Green Goblin, who plans the villain of this issue. After taking a bullet for Captain America in the previous issue our wounded hero makes his way to Queens to save his loved ones from the Goblin’s latest attack. He’s successful, but at a high price.

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Megamind: Bad. Blue. Brilliant. #2

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megamind-2-coverApe Entertainment’s second issue of this Megamind mini-series gives us three more tales including the continuation of “Minion’s Day Off” where Megamind has unintentionally activated and unused plan of evil to shoot Metro City into space. Whoops! Where’s Minion when you need him? Limboing on the beach, obviously.

In “Bad Minion, Bad” one new experiments goes awry when his newest machine (designed to turn evil people good) has an unexpected effect on Minion – who becomes the new master villain of Metro City. With the help of Roxanne, Megamind tries to track down his sidekick and even attempts to replace him (in an effort to make him jealous), but in the end must face the new master of crime in battle.

The final short tale involves a field trip of school children accidently setting off various inventions in Mega Mind’s lair. Much like with the first issue of the series (but thankfully without a high school story this time around), this one should provide some fun to fans of the character – even if it is grossly overpriced for a comic aimed at younger readers. Worth a look.

[Ape Entertainment, $3.95]

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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, Image Comics, and others.

This week includes Amazing Spider-Man, Detective Comics, Drums, FF, The Goon, Gotham City Sirens, Hellraiser, Kung Fu Panda, Last Mortal, Scalped, Super Dinosaur, Uncanny X-Men, The Walking Dead, Wonder Woman, the first issues of All-Winner’s Squad: Band Of Heroes, Brilliant, Captain America: America’s Avenger, Flashpoint: Hal Jordan, Flashpoint: Project Superman, The Iron Age, Marvel Zombies Supreme, Witch Doctor, and the final issues of Captain America: First Vengeance, The Lone Ranger: Death of Zorro, and Transformers: Heart Of Darkness.

Enjoy issue #134

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Gene Colan draws the Batman’s rogues gallery

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On Friday we were saddened to learn that artist Gene Colan passed away from complications with liver disease. Although most will remember him for his work on several Marvel titles including Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula, Howard the Duck, and Doctor Strange, (not to mention doing the art for Iron Man #1), I’ll remember Gene Colan most fondly for his work on a DC title in the early-to-mid 1980’s.

During my early years of reading comics Colan took over the artist duties of a title I never missed – Detective Comics. His run climaxed in his second to last issue (Detective Comics #566) in which he was given the opportunity to draw most of Batman’s current Rogues Gallery. Although the story itself was weak (Batman and Robin attempting to decipher a mysterious message by going through Bat-computer files of their most nefarious foes) it did offer Colan to go out on a high note.

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