Comic Rack

Hmm, we’re about to talk about comics so it must be Wednesday!  Welcome to the RazorFine Comic Rack boys and girls.  Pull up a bean bag and take a seat at the master as we look at the new comics set to hit comic shops and bookstores today from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Wildstorm, Vertigo, Dynamite Entertainment, IDW Publishing, and Image Comics.

This week includes Battlestar Galactica, Gen13, Green Lantern, Grifter and Midnighter, Madman Atomic Comics, Martha Washington Dies, Omega Flight Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Beyond, and the first issues of Fantastic Five, and Green Arrow: Year One.  Also don’t forget the truckload of new graphic novels including The Art of Bone, The Artist Within, Clubbing, Intersections, Madman Gargantua, Showcase Presents: Batgirl Vol. 1, Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters, X-Men: Phoenix – Warsong,  and much, much more.

Enjoy issue #29

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Fifth ‘Potter’ Fails at Charms

  • Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • IMDB: link

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was all wrong, it felt more like a James Bond movie than one about a teenager trying to surpass some nasty obsticales just to grow up.  So it’s with a melancholy tone that I tell you that this next Potter film is better than the last, but still falls far short of these stories’ potential.

When Warners Execs signed Alfonso Cuarón to direct the third Harry Potter film, The Prisoner of Azkaban, they managed to commit the single best and worst action in the history of Harry Potter films.  The single best action, because Cuarón has a thorough and energetic love and understanding of the quirky world of Harry Potter, and it showed in the film.  It was the single worst action because two films afterwards, it’s now seeming that Cuarón may be the only man for the job, casting a shadow darker than a Dementor’s over the rest of the franchise.  This fifth installment is a large step above that last chapter, but still shows a deficiency at performing charms.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • IMDB: link

Harry Potter finally gets a little style. Harry Potter’s 5th installment of the film is well balanced in acting, technique, mood and storyline, and is a complete joy to watch. I found myself more enthralled in the characters and their relationships with one another instead of being completely bashed with one special effect after another like the 4th film. The Order of the Phoenix kept a great balance with their computer-antics and maturity of characters. Harry has his first kiss, Ron is no longer the complete blubbering idiot, Hermione isn’t so girly and winy and plenty of screen time for characters that had such small parts in the past. Getting a few extra storylines from other characters like Sirius Black, Fred & George Weasley, Neville, Luna and Cho makes the film feel more complete and a whole than just focusing on Potter’s little group. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the best of the 5 to date.

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