Comics

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 feet of the master as we look at the new comics set to hit comic shops and bookstores today from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, WildStorm, Vertigo, IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Devil’s Due Publishing, Virgin, and Image Comics.

This week includes Catwoman, Dynamo 5, Ghost Whisperer, The Man With No Name, The New Dynamix, Northlanders, Star Wars: Rebellion, Superman/Batman, Thor, and the first issues of Draonglance: Legends, newuniversal: 1959, Reign in Hell, True Believers, and Wildcats.  Being the fifth Wednesday of the month, it’s a little skimpy on graphic novels but today’s releases do include Batman: Going Sane, Captain Marvel: Secret Invasion, Essential Fantastic Four Vol. 7, Thor by Michael J. Straczynski Vol. 1, and much, much more.

Enjoy issue #81

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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 feet of the master as we look at the new comics set to hit comic shops and bookstores today from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, WildStorm, Vertigo, IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Devil’s Due Publishing, Archie, Virgin, and Image Comics.

This week includes Battlestar Galactica: Origins, Dan Dare, The Exterminators, Invincible, Number of the Beast, Robin, Sonic X, Star Trek: The New Frontier, Uncanny X-Men, Usagi Jojimbo, The X-Files, and the first issues of Ambush Bug: Year None, Skrulls, Two-Face Year One, and War Heroes.  Also don’t forget the truckload of new graphic novels including American Flagg! Vol. 1, Army@Love Vol. 2: Generation Pwned, The Authority: Prime, Complete Popbot, Countdown to Adventure, Howard the Duck Omnibus, Madman Atomic Comics Vol. 1, Mercenaries, X-Men: Endangered Species, and much, much more.

Enjoy issue #80

Check out our special Batman R.I.P. variant cover

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Batman: A Comic History

When you’ve been around almost seven decades you tend to rack up quite the history.  Not to fear Bat-fans!  Your pals here at RazorFine have got you set for Bat-101 with this simple comic timeline capturing everything from the Batmobile’s first appearance, the death of Jason Todd, the creation of the Justice League of America, Batman’s broken back, Barbara Gordon getting shot, Ace the Bat-Hound, and so much more!  Enjoy all the Bat-timeline goodness inside!

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Holy Absolute Awesomeness Batman!

  • Title: The Dark Knight Returns – Absolute Edition
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“Every year they grow smaller.  Every year they hate us more.  We must not remind them that giants walk the earth.”

Frank Miller’s classic The Dark Knight Returns is a masterpiece.  Comic books get a bad rap in our society, but, as in any art form or genre, there are those pieces that perpetuate the mundane stereotypes, and then there are those that transcend.  Dark Knight is the later.

Forty years after the character’s introduction to pop culture, Frank Miller was able to craft something uniquely different, that would not only change the character forever, but begin a tidal wave movement of celebrating the legend of the hero while paradoxically showing the heroes themselves, as real people struggling in a real world.

Miller reminds us of the tortured young boy behind the mask, filled with a vengeful rage that has not yet, and perhaps never will be, quenched.  Batman, more than ever before, took his place as a legend, an icon, a super-man if you will.

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Suggested Further Reading (Dark Knight Edition)

With The Dark Knight hitting theaters this Friday this seemed like a good chance to give you Bat-fans a few selections of graphic novels which tie-into the characters and themes of the new movie.  For the first movie we gave you stories of Batman’s orgin, tales of Ra’s al Ghul and the Scarecrow.  This time we focus on the Joker and the origins of Two-Face.

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