Monday, August 12, 2024

DC Comics Shipping from Lunar Distributors for August 14, 2024

DC COMICS:

100 Bullets Brother Lono The Deluxe Edition HC, $34.99
Absolute Power Task Force VII #4 (Of 7)(Cover A Pete Woods), $3.99
Absolute Power Task Force VII #4 (Of 7)(Cover B Steve Beach Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Absolute Power Task Force VII #4 (Of 7)(Cover C Belen Ortega Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Absolute Power Task Force VII #4 (Of 7)(Cover D Stephen Platt Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Absolute Power Task Force VII #4 (Of 7)(Cover E John Timms Connecting Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Absolute Power Task Force VII #4 (Of 7)(Cover F Dan Mora Foil Variant), $6.99
Action Comics #1068 (Cover A Eddy Barrows & Danny Miki), $4.99
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Action Comics #1068 (Cover C Terry Dodson Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Action Comics #1068 (Cover D Frank Cho Swimsuit Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Action Comics #1068 (Cover E Salvador Larroca Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman And Robin #12 (Cover A Simone Di Meo), $4.99
Batman And Robin #12 (Cover B Juan Ferreyra Card Stock Variant), $5.99
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Batman And Robin #12 (Cover D Simone Di Meo Batman 85th Anniversary Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Batman And Robin #12 (Cover E Vasco Georgiev Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman By Paul Dini Omnibus HC (2024 Edition), $125.00
Batman Detective Comics Volume 2 Gotham Nocturne Act I TP (2022), $19.99
Batman Gotham By Gaslight The Kryptonian Age #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Leandro Fernandez), $4.99
Batman Gotham By Gaslight The Kryptonian Age #3 (Of 6)(Cover B Francesco Francavilla Card Stock Variant)$5.99
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Batman Superman World's Finest Volume 3 Elementary TP, $17.99
Blue Beetle Volume 1 Scarab War TP (2023), $19.99
DC Vs. Vampires World War V #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Otto Schmidt), $4.99
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DC Vs. Vampires World War V #1 (Of 6)(Cover D Homare Foil Variant), $6.99
DC Vs. Vampires World War V #1 (Of 6)(Cover E Riley Rossmo Card Stock Variant), AR
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Detective Comics #1000 The Deluxe Edition HC (2024 Edition), $24.99
From The DC Vault Death In The Family Robin Lives #2 (Of 4)(Cover A Rick Leonardi), $4.99
From The DC Vault Death In The Family Robin Lives #2 (Of 4)(Cover B Dan Mora Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Gotham City Sirens #2 (Of 4)(Cover A Terry Dodson), $3.99
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Gotham City Sirens #2 (Of 4)(Cover F Daniel Hillyard Card Stock Variant), AR
Green Lantern #14 (Cover A Ariel Colon)(Absolute Power), $4.99
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Green Lantern #14 (Cover E Chuma Hill Card Stock Variant)(Absolute Power), AR
House Of Secrets #92 Facsimile Edition (2024)(Cover A Bernie Wrightson), $3.99
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House Of Secrets #92 Facsimile Edition (2024)(Cover C Blank Variant), $4.99
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MAD Magazine #39, $5.99
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Outsiders #10 (Cover B Gleb Melnikov Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Primer Clashing Colors #2 (Of 3)(Cover A Nicoletta Baldari), $4.99
Superman Lost TP, $24.99
Wonder Woman The Adventures Of Young Diana TP, $16.99

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Dynamite Entertainment Shipping from Diamond Distributors for August 14, 2024

DYNAMITE

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Image Comics Publishing Shipping from Diamond and Lunar for August 14, 2024

IMAGE COMICS

DIAMOND DISTRIBUTORS:
JUN240485 BLOODY DOZEN TP $14.99
APR240432 HOUSES OF THE UNHOLY HC $24.99
MAY248377 SEX CRIMINALS THE COLLECTED LETTER DADDIES TP $24.99

LUNAR DISTRIBUTORS:
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Department Of Truth #23 (2nd Printing Cover A Martin Simmonds), $3.99
Domain #2 (Of 5)(Cover A Rachael Stott), $3.99
Domain #2 (Of 5)(Cover B Eren Angliolini), $4.99
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Falling In Love On The Path To Hell #3 (Cover B Mike Hawthorne), AR
Geiger #5 (Cover A Gary Frank & Brad Anderson), $3.99
Geiger #5 (Cover B Gabriel Rodríguez & Brad Anderson)$3.99
Geiger #5 (Cover C Gabriel Rodríguez & Brad Anderson Foil Variant), AR
Houses Of The Unholy Hardcover Bookplate, AR
Houses Of The Unholy HC$24.99
Invincible Volume 4 TP (New Edition), $14.99
Killadelphia Deluxe Edition Volume 2 HC, $34.99
Napalm Lullaby #6 (Cover A Bengal), $3.99
Napalm Lullaby #6 (Cover B Zach Howard), AR
Precious Metal #3 (Of 6)(Little Bird Series)(Cover A Ian Bertram), $5.99
Precious Metal #3 (Of 6)(Little Bird Series)(Cover B Daniel Warren Johnson), AR
Rifters #3 (Cover A Chris Johnson), $3.99
Rifters #3 (Cover B Greg Hinkle), $3.99
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Transformers #11 (Cover C Karen S. Darboe Connecting Variant), AR
Transformers #11 (Cover D Ludo Lullabi), AR
Transformers #11 (Cover E Wes Craig), AR

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Marvel Comics Shipping from Diamond Distributors for August 14, 2024

MARVEL COMICS

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Advanced Comics Review: "BIG GUNS STUPID REDNECKS #2" Does it Bigly

BIG GUNS STUPID REDNECKS #2 (OF 3)
BAND OF BARDS

STORY: Austin Allen Hamblin
ART: Mariana Meira
COLORS: Mariana Meira
LETTERS: John Ira Thomas
EDITOR: Chuck Satterlee
COVER: Marcus Jimenez
VARIANT COVER: Scott Twells
Color, $4.99 U.S. (October 2024)

"BIG GUNS STUPID REDNECKS #2" is currently available for preorder at your local comic book shop with the "Final Order Cutoff" (FOC) date being the end of August. The comic book arrives in December 2024.

Big Guns Stupid Rednecks is a three-issue miniseries written by Austin Allen Hamblin and drawn and colored by Mariana Meira.  Published by Band of Bards, the series focuses on a retired lawman who fights to the death in order to entertain an alien television audience.  Letterer John Ira Thomas completes the series' creative team.

Big Guns Stupid Rednecks focuses on Clint, a retired police detective who was investigating a string of unexplained disappearances in the southern part of the United States.  One of the missing was Clay, Clint's younger brother by twelve years.  The search resulted in Clint being abducted... by aliens.  Intergalactic cable's biggest hit show is “Big Guns Stupid Rednecks,” and the alien producers need a steady supply of rednecks, which they get by kidnapping humans.  Clint is the latest combatant.

Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #2 opens with current BGSR champion, Clint, dispatching another redneck.  Clint maintains a behind-the-scenes diary of the show.  He struggles to please Oweful, the alien creator of BGSR, while still fighting for his life in the arena.  Oweful wants bigger ratings, and comes up with the “Big Guns Stupid Rednecks” championship to juice the ratings.  Little does Clint know that someone is conspiring behind his back, nor does he know that there is a huge surprise in store for him.

THE LOWDOWN:  Series writer Austin Allen Hamblin hooked me up with a PDF review copy of Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #2.  It is the second Band of Bards publication that I have read.

I continue to be pleasantly surprised by Big Guns Stupid Rednecks.  Hamblin has recreated some of the irreverent and edgy humor that readers found in such venerable sci-fi/fantasy anthologies as Heavy Metal and 2000AD over the last five decades.  Hamblin offers science fiction with no problem in loving the flavors that fantasy can add to it.

Mariana Meira's art is stylish and visually appealing.  Her storytelling is solid and captures the exciting nature of Hamblin's script.  Meira's menagerie of alien beings also recalls the early years of Jaime Hernandez's Locas stories in Love and Rockets.  It is in that strangeness of aliens that meets with the strangeness of outsider humanity.

I hope Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #2 ends up being an unexpected hit, the same as I hope that the first issue blows up when it is shortly released.  Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #2 is not perfect, but it is perfect for a comics market that needs an injection of cool weirdness.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of outrageous sci-fi comedy and of 2000AD will want to give Big Guns Stupid Rednecks a try.

A-

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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Sunday, August 11, 2024

Review: "THE HAUNTED MANSION" 2003 is Perfect for a Family Fright Night

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 2 (of 2004) by Leroy Douresseaux

The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Running time:  88 minutes (1 hour, 28 minutes)
MPAA – PG for frightening images, thematic elements and language
DIRECTOR:  Rob Minkoff
WRITER:  David Berenbaum
PRODUCERS:  Don Hahn and Andrew Gunn
CINEMATOGRAHER:  Remi Adefarasin (D.o.P.)
EDITOR:  Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
COMPOSER:  Mark Mancina

COMEDY/FAMILY/FANTASY/HORROR

Starring:  Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Wallace Shawn, Dina Waters, Marc John Jefferies, and Aree Davis

The Haunted Mansion is a 2003 American supernatural horror-comedy film directed by Rob Minkoff and starring Eddie Murphy.  Released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film is loosely based on the Disney theme park attraction, “The Haunted Mansion,” which first opened at Disneyland in 1969 and at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida in 1971.  The Haunted Mansion the movie focuses on a realtor and his family who are summoned to a haunted mansion where they must learn lessons about the importance of family if they want to escape.

In the film, The Haunted Mansion, Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) is a workaholic real estate agent.  He is allegedly part of a team, Evers & Evers, with his wife, Sara (Marsha Thomason, the British actress who played Martin Lawrence’s love interest in Black Knight).  However, you’d hardly know that they are a team because Jim spends so much time away from Sara and their children.  And since Sara (as many movie wives do) complains that he spends too much time away from the family, Jim decides to take the family on a trip to a lake.

Sara, however, gets an invitation to visit Gracey Manor, a foreboding manor locked behind a huge iron gate and nestled in a jungle of sinister vegetation.  If that wasn’t enough to say “haunted house,” the mansion has a rather spacious scenic graveyard on the property.  Sara alone had been invited, but Jim insists that they make the visit to Gracey as part of their vacation stop, so their children, sassy girl Megan (Aree Davis), and the seemingly perpetually terrified Michael (Marc John Jefferies) go along.

At the mansion, the imposing butler Ramsley (Terence Stamp), an emaciated and cadaverous figure with an obvious air of menace about him, greets the Evers.  They meet the mansion’s owner, Master Gracey (Nathaniel Parker), a deeply troubled man who claims to be the original owner’s heir.  Gracey is apparently obsessed with Sara, and gradually Jim, Michael and Megan start to figure out the dreadful truth, but is it in time to save the family?  Will it take a band of ghosts to teach Jim Evers a lesson about the importance of family?

This premise for the film The Haunted Mansion, based upon a Disney World theme park ride, actually works, for the most part.  Director Rob Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little) displays a deft touch in keeping the film both suspenseful and funny, and he expertly juggles live action so that the special effects seamlessly fit rather than seeming to have been thrown in.  Mansion is also a lot funnier than the ads for the film imply; in fact, most of the ads come across as being out of context.  This movie is pure fluff, but it’s done quite well, so someone in Disney marketing should get a reprimand.

I loved the costumes, and especially the art direction (Beat Frutiger and Tomas Voth) and set decoration (Rosemary Brandenburg).  The house and graveyard recall Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing, a whole host of Hammer films, as well as Abbot & Costello and four decades of Scooby-Doo cartoons.  What a delightful mix!  As usual, Rick Baker does stellar makeup effects work in bringing corpses to life; this man is a national treasure.

The acting is good, and Murphy gives one of his better performances as a star of family-friendly movies.  Usually, his acting seems out of place and kind of awkward in films like Daddy Day Care (where he was good), but here his fit is natural and he seems inspired.

There is a peculiar racial subtext to this film that the storytellers attempt to conceal, but it will be obvious to most adults.  Maybe that would have made this story richer; as it is, it gives a dark edge to the inspired fluff.  Still, The Haunted Mansion is fine the way it is.  The characters have a lot with which to deal, and the resolution makes sense even if the execution of the ending stumbles a bit.  It’s a fine family film.  It has that Disney flavor that suggests Disney films from the 1950’s and 60’s, so I think The Haunted Mansion could become a Disney Halloween stable.

6 of 10
B
★★★ out of 4 stars

Edited:  Saturday, July 27, 2024


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