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 Amazing Spider-Man, Analog, Catwoman, Doctor Strange, Event Leviathan, Hawkman, Loki, Red Sonja, Robotech, Silver Surfer: Black, Supergirl, Sword Daughter, Usagi Yojimbo, Wonder Woman, the first issues of Absolute Carnage: Scream, Age of Conan: Valeria, Conan the Barbarian: Exodus, Gwenpool Strikes Back, Punisher: Kill Krew, Reaver, Titans: Burning Rage, Watcher, White Trees, and the final issues of Life & Death of Toyo Harada, My Little Pony: Spirit of the Forest, Punk Mambo, She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot, Symbiote Spider-Man, and Unnatural.

Enjoy issue #272

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Dora and the Lost City of Gold

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  • Title: Dora and the Lost City of Gold
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold movie reviewI wasn’t expecting too much from a live-action adaptation of Dora the Explorer, but I will admit that I was pleasantly surprised by what I found in Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Far from perfect, the film does have charm and enough brains to both celebrate and poke fun at the educational animated series which spawned it by having Dora (Isabela Moner) raised by her parents (Michael Peña and Eva Longoria) in the jungle helping to explain her quirks (such as talking to her backpack or making up songs about the most mundane things). Although ultimately not as successful, it’s tone and humor reminded me of 2007’s Nancy Drew.

In Moner the film’s producers chose wisely. She’s just sweet, honest, and precocious enough to make us buy this version of Dora who is forced to leave the jungle and stay with family while her parents go off on their latest adventure in search of a lost city. The film offers not one but two fish-out-of-water plots as happy-go-lucky Dora struggles in the city to fit in before she, her cousin Diego (Jeff Wahlberg), and two new friends (Madeleine Madden and Nicholas Coombe) are kidnapped back to the jungle by treasure hunters seeking the lost city.

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Warehouse 13 – Buried / Reset

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  • Title: Warehouse 13 – Buried / Reset
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Warehouse 13 - Buried / Reset television review

Throwback Thursday takes us back to a top-secret storage facility in South Dakota known as Warehouse 13. The two-part Second Season finale offers the discovery of the lost Warehouse 13 and the inevitable betrayal of H.G. Wells (Jaime Murray). Looking the bizarre sudden mummification of college students halfway around the world sends Pete (Eddie McClintock), Myka (Joanne Kelly), Helena, and Valda (Mark Sheppard) in search of the lost Warehouse 2 whose reemergence is slowly destroying Mrs. Frederic‘s (CCH Pounder) connection to the current Warehouse. The first episode features plenty of tomb traps and riddles for the team to decipher, the loss of one of their own, and Helena’s betrayal by grabbing an immensely powerful artifact which could threaten the world. Helena’s quick departure means very little time to search the ancient Warehouse and its contents, but it does allow for Pete to try (and fail) to use a flying carpet and his more successful use of the Wings of Daedalus.

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Kung Fu Panda – Blade of the Red Phoenix

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  • Title: Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny – Blade of the Red Phoenix
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Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny - Blade of the Red Phoenix television review

After opening with a sequence involving Po‘s (Mick Wingert) vision of two dragons battling, and a visit from Oogway (Piotr Michael), “Blade of the Red Phoenix” sends Po and his students back into the cave where the four young Pandas discovered their power in search of a scroll which may help unlock the secrets to their powers and which Jindiao (Steve Blum) covets to complete his plans. As with the earlier episodes of the series, “Blade of the Red Phoenix” showcases one character further unlocking his powers. Here it’s Fan Tong (Makana Say) who conjures a sword using chi of Red Phoenix to vanquish the demon sent by Jindiao to capture the scroll. The greater control of his powers also unlocks part of the scroll, foreshadowing all may be revealed when all four students are ready.

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