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 Birds of Prey, Booster Gold, Deadpool, Mega Man, New Avengers, Red Robin, Total Recall, X-Men Legacy, the first issues of 15-Love, American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest, Crysis, Fear Itself: Deadpool, Flashpoint: Citizen Cold, Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman, Hulk-Sized Mini-Hulks, Mystery Men, New Avengers: Nannies and Nazis, The Samurai’s Blood, Screamland, Space Warped, Star Wars: The Old Republic – The Lost Suns, Supreme Power, and the final issues of Annihilators, Love and Capes: Ever After, and The Stand: No Man’s Land.

Enjoy issue #131

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X-Men: First Class

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  • Title: X-Men: First Class
  • IMDB: link

x-men-first-class-posterAfter jumping ship to make a largely forgettable remake of Richard Donner’s Superman, and leaving the franchise in the hands of Brett Ratner, Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men universe as a producer for a relaunch of the series (of sorts).

The newest film, which in some ways feels like a prequel and in others more of a half-hearted full-relaunch that lets part of the original film series stick around, is a period piece set duing the early 1960’s, specifically set around the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

After a short introduction of a handful of the characters as children (including an expanded version of the early footage of Magneto in a concentration camp we saw in X-Men), the film fast-forwards to 1962, where most of the story unfolds.

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Season Finales – The Mentalist

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  • Title: The Mentalist – Strawberries & Cream Part I & II
  • wiki: link

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For three years we’ve seen former psychic and con man Thomas Jane (Simon Baker) help the California Bureau of Investigation solve crimes while hunting down the serial killer responsible for the death of his wife and daughter. The Third Season two-part finale finally brought the pair face-to-face. Caution, spoilers follow.

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The Mission #4

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the-mission-4-coverWhat if someone you never met, walked up to you and demanded you perform unspeakable acts? And the consequences to you and the lives of your family, should yo refuse, would be dire? That’s the basic premise behind The Mission.

The latest issue finds Paul with a much simpler, and he hopes fall less bloody, mission. All he need do is break into the Iroquois County Museum of History and steal a single artifact. Let’s just say things don’t go exactly as planned.

With only two issues to go I have to say I’m a little mystified how Jon and Erich Hoeber plan on wrapping up a series that’s done its best to keep everything close to the vest. We still don’t know who the mysterious man some believe to be the archangel Gabriel truly is, who he really works for, why Paul was chosen for assignments he seems ill-suited for, and who the mysterious “the other side” is as well.

This issue once again gives us an egaging story where Paul finds quickly spiraling far out of his control into a bloody mess. Would we expect anything less from the screenwriters of Red? Worth a look.

[Image, $2.99]

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Deadpool #37

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deadpool-37-coverSporting a serious death wish, Deadpool seeks out to antagonize one of the few creatures in the Marvel Universe who might be able to kill him – The Hulk (the original one, not one of the dozen or so other versions Marvel has running around now).

As an added incentive Deadpool has bought himself some nuclear bombs from the black market in hopes that they’ll help the Hulk decide to give Deadpool the one thing he wants – death.

There’s plenty of action in this issue including some very humorous panels involving Deadpool stuffing grenades down the Hulk’s throat before detonating them. Although the rest of the art is fine, I’m not sold on Bong Dazo‘s take on the Hulk which looks more like a giant green Bane on serious Venom bender than the Hulk.

As an idea, this one works fine for a single issue, although I’m not sure we need to see it continue for another month. Still, there’s fun and plenty of insanity to be had here. And isn’t that what you want from a Deadpool comic?

[Marvel, $2.99]

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