TRASH IN MY EYE Reviews

Monday, November 4, 2024

Image Comics Publishing Shipping from Diamond and Lunar Distributors for November 6, 2024

IMAGE COMICS

DIAMOND DISTRIBUTORS:

AUG240478 ASCENDER COMPENDIUM TP $29.99

SEP240516 GUNSLINGER SPAWN TP VOL 05 $16.99

SEP240527 SCARLETT TP VOL 01 CVR B DIRECT MARKET EDITION $14.99

LUNAR DISTRIBUTORS:

Anzuelo Hardcover Bookplate, AR

Anzuelo HC, $24.99

Ascender Compendium TP (per Diamond Distribution), $29.99

Birthright Deluxe Edition Volume 1 HC (per Diamond Distribution), $59.99

C.O.W.L. 1964 #3 (Of 4)(Cover A Rod Reis), $3.99

C.O.W.L. 1964 #3 (Of 4)(Cover B Kelly McMahon), $3.99

Falling In Love On The Path To Hell #5 (2nd Printing Cover A Garry Brown), $3.99

Falling In Love On The Path To Hell #5 (2nd Printing Cover B Frank Miller), AR

Faster Than Light 3D Treasury Edition #1 (Cover A Brian Haberlin), $14.99

Faster Than Light 3D Treasury Edition #1 (Cover B Brian Haberlin Skull Variant), $14.99

Free Agents #5 (Cover A Stephen Mooney), $3.99

Free Agents #5 (Cover B Kevin Maguire), $3.99

Free Agents #5 (Cover C Jerry Ordway), $3.99

Gunslinger Spawn #37 (Cover A Brett Booth), $2.99

Gunslinger Spawn #37 (Cover B Ze Carlos), $2.99

Gunslinger Spawn Volume 5 TP, $16.99

Hyde Street #1 (2nd Printing Cover A Ivan Reis), $3.99

I Hate Fairyland #17 (Cover A Brett Bean), $3.99

I Hate Fairyland #17 (Cover B Brett Bean F*Ck Uncensored Fairyland Variant), $3.99

I Hate Fairyland #17 (Cover C Skottie Young), AR

I Hate Fairyland #17 (Cover D Skottie Young Black & White Virgin Variant), AR

Invincible Volume 6 TP (New Edition), $14.99

Junkyard Joe Deluxe Edition HC (Gary Fran & Brad Anderson Book Market Cover), $34.99

Junkyard Joe Deluxe Edition HC (Gary Fran & Brad Anderson Direct Market Cover), $34.99

King Spawn #39 (Cover A Shawn Crystal), $2.99

King Spawn #39 (Cover B Von Randal), $2.99

Les Mort 13 Giant-Syze Special #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Ashley Wood), $5.99

Les Mort 13 Giant-Syze Special #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Ashley Wood), $5.99

Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Emilio Pilliu), $3.99

Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Mirka Andolfo), $3.99

Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #1 (Of 5)(Cover C Robbi Rodriguez), $3.99

Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #1 (Of 5)(Cover D Godtail), $3.99

Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #1 (Of 5)(Cover E Emilio Pilliu Hot Cover Polybagged Variant), $4.99

Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #1 (Of 5)(Cover F Lou Lou La Duchesse De Riere Photo Variant), $3.99

Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #1 (Of 5)(Cover G Blank Variant), $3.99

Moon Is Following Us #1 (Of 10)(3rd Printing Cover A Daniel Warren Johnson), $3.99

Moon Is Following Us #1 (Of 10)(3rd Printing Cover B Daniel Warren Johnson Black & White Virgin Variant), AR

Power Fantasy #1 (4th Printing Cover A Caspar Wijngaard), $3.99

Power Fantasy #1 (4th Printing Cover B Caspar Wijngaard Yellow Variant), $3.99

Power Fantasy #2 (3rd Printing Cover A Caspar Wijngaard), $3.99

Power Fantasy #2 (3rd Printing Cover B Caspar Wijngaard Foil Variant), AR

Public Domain #10 (Cover A Chip Zdarsky), $4.99

Sacrificers #12 (Cover A Max Fiumara & Dave McCaig), $3.99

Sacrificers #12 (Cover B Andre Lima Araujo & Dave McCaig), AR

Saga #70 (Cover A Fiona Staples), $3.99

Scarlett Volume 1 Special Mission TP (Cover A Marco Ferrari & Lee Loughridge Book Market Cover), $14.99

Scarlett Volume 1 Special Mission TP (Cover B Joelle Jones Direct Market Cover), $14.99

Scorched #35 (Cover A Thaddeus Robeck), $2.99

Scorched #35 (Cover B Ze Carlos), $2.99

Stoneheart #7 (Cover A Emma Kubert), $3.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover A David Finch), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover B Charlie Adlard & Dave McCaig), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover C Mattia De Iulis Connecting Variant), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover D Julian Totino Tedesco), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover E Arthur Adams & Dave McCaig), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover F Charlie Adlard & Dave McCaig Wraparound Variant), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover G Yasmine Putri), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover H Simon Bisley), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover I Derek Hunter), $4.99

Walking Dead Deluxe #100 (Cover J Blank Variant), $4.99

We Called Them Giants Hardcover Bookplate (per Lunar Distribution), AR

We Called Them Giants HC (per Diamond Distribution), $19.99

Witchblade #1 (2024)(Cover J Marc Silvestri Original Sketch Variant), AR

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Marvel Comics Shipping from Diamond Distributors for November 6, 2024

MARVEL COMICS

JUL240648 ALIENS VS AVENGERS #2 (OF 4) $7.99

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Comic Books, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for November 6, 2024

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Review: Entertaining "MaXXXine" is No Pearl

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 47 of 2024 (No. 1991) by Leroy Douresseaux

MaXXXine (2024)

Running time: 103 minutes (1 hour, 43 minutes)

MPA – R for strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Ti West

PRODUCERS: Mia Goth, Jacob Jaffke, Harrison Kreiss, Kevin Turen, and Ti West

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Eliot Rockett (D.o.P.)

EDITOR: Ti West

COMPOSERS: Tyler Bates

HORROR

Starring: Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavole, Moses Sumney, Chloe Farnworth, Lily Collins, Halsey, Ned Vaughn, Simon Prast, and Giancarlo Esposito

MaXXXine is a 2024 horror drama from writer-director Ti West. The film is the third entry in the X film series and is a direct sequel to X (2022). MaXXXine focuses on an adult film star and aspiring mainstream actress who finally gets her big break, while a mysterious killer leaves a trail of bodies that threatens to reveal her troubled past.

MaXXXine is set in Los Angeles in the year 1985. The city is in the middle of the hysteria concering “the Night Stalker” murders, but 32-year-old, porno actress, Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) really doesn't have time to pay attention. She is making an attempt to transition from pornographic films and into mainstream movies. Her big break comes via an audition for the horror movie sequel, “The Puritan II.” Because she impresses the film's director, Elizabeth Bender (Elizabeth Debicki), Maxine lands the role of the film's villain, “Veronica.”

However, the horrifying events that occurred on a farm estate in rural Texas six years earlier (as seen in X) threaten to expose Maxine's troubled past. People connected to her are starting to be brutally murdered, and two homicide detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department, Williams (Michelle Monaghan) and Torres (Bobby Cannavale), are tailing her. Then, there is the sleazy private detective, John Labat (Kevin Bacon), who pops up – often with threats. Can Maxine protect her big break, and what is she willing to do to protect it?

In the 2022 film, X, Mia Goth played both the potential victim, Maxine Mink, and also Pearl, one half of the elderly homicidal couple. In X's prequel, Pearl (2022), Goth reprises the role of Pearl, as the films delves into the title character's early life and hardships. Now, Goth is Maxine again in X's direct sequel, MaXXXine.

In Pearl, the film focuses on a young woman who is mentally troubled and socially outcast and who lashes out in violence after one too many betrayals. In MaXXXine, I found myself waiting to see Maxine Mink lash out to protect what she has and is about to half. There are those moments in MaXXXine, such as Maxine's brutal take down of a stalker. Otherwise, MaXXXine seems like an attempt to tame Maxine Mink of her potential for ultra-violence.

The film's plot and narrative progress are uneven, and the narrative seems like an audiovisual and conceptual pastiche of events and culture related to L.A., circa 1985. For instance, from 1984 to 1985, serial killer Richard Ramirez terrorized the Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area regions, assaulting, humiliating, and killing some of his victims, and he became known as the “Night Stalker.” Ti West's screenplay offers tantalizing references to the killings, but the “Night Stalker” is merely a red herring in the film's narrative.

That pretty much summarizes the film. There are tantalizing characters, subplots, and settings (many of them seeming sinister even in the middle of the day), but MaXXXine never really lets loose. The Triple-X in the title suggests that the film is triple-strong or at least among the nastiest things around, but MaXXXine is more hard-R than X. Even the references to Satanic murders and rituals end up like weak tea.

That's a shame because the movie starts off forcefully, and there are a lot of good ideas. But … for a movie partially set in the world of adult entertainment, including pornographic films, peep shows, and coke-fueled sex parties, MaXXXine self-censors. Not much is really exposed, and there is a bloody last act that is at once impressive and then, lame. That's a shame, but MaXXXine really doesn't take it to the max... but man, it really could have.

6 of 10

★★★ out of 4 stars

Monday, November 4, 2024

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Comics Review: "THE MAGIC ORDER 5 #" - You're Just Caroline from the Block

THE MAGIC ORDER 5 #2 (OF 6)

DARK HORSE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Matteo Buffagni

COLORS: Giovanna Niro

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Daniel Chabon

EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Matteo Buffagni with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Matteo Buffagni

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (October 2024)

Rating: 18+

The Magic Order created by Mark Millar at Netflix

“The Death of Cordelia Moonstone”

The Magic Order 5 is a six-issue miniseries from writer Mark Millar and artist Matteo Buffagni. This is the fifth installment of The Magic Order series, which began with the 2018-19 miniseries written by Millar and drawn by Olivier Coipel. The Magic Order is a band of sorcerers, magicians, and wizards – with a focus on the Moonstone family and its leader, Cordelia Moonstone – that live ordinary lives by day, but protect humanity from darkness and monsters of impossible sizes by night. Colorist Giovanna Niro and letterer Clem Robins complete the series creative team.

The Magic Order 5 finds Cordelia preparing for the end, her punishment for using black magic. However, a new case has dropped itself in front of her, but it all may be a front for some really bad people trying to collect the price on Cordelia's head.

The Magic Order 5 #2 opens in Lincoln Park Hospital, Chicago. Cordelia is under the care of a psychiatrist who insists that her name is not Cordelia Moonstone, but is instead “Caroline Stone.” Also, She isn't the leader of monster fighting wizards; she is really a hotel receptionist.

Cordelia Moonstone was raised to believe that her family was all that stood between the world we know and the other world of eternal darkness. Has it all been in her imagination? Is she really simply just a woman with serious mental health problems? Are the only monsters the ones that exist in her head? Clyde Bailey, a former really bad hombre, may be the only one who can answer those questions.

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. The latest received is The Magic Order 5 #2.

Mark Millar is probably the only “mainstream” comic book writer who delivers outstanding pop comics every time, and I don't mean starts off great and... peters out. I mean A-rated entertainment every time. The Magic Order 5 has certainly started out as consistently outstanding pop comics. As Millar executes twists and turns in the narrative, we have no choice but to batten down the hatches as we vainly try to figure out where this franchise ends, why it ends, and how it ends.

The art team of Matteo Buffagni and colorist Giovanna Niro deliver stellar work early in this series. The compositions have a fine art quality that when merged with the plot creates a disquieting sense of doom. This makes The Magic Order 5 seem like a well-appointed funeral. Finally, Clem Robins's lettering is the gentle chamber music by which to read this deathwatch.

The Magic Order 5 is plotting something mind-bending; that I know, dear readers. Don't miss it.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of The Magic Order will want to read The Magic Order 5.

A+

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

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Sunday, November 3, 2024

Review: M. Night Shyamalan's "TRAP" Delights in Being Devilish

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 46 of 2024 (No. 1990) by Leroy Douresseaux

Trap (2024)

Running time: 105 minutes (1 hour, 45 minutes)

MPA – PG-13 for some violent content and brief strong language

WRITER/DIRECTOR: M. Night Shyamalan

PRODUCERS: Marc Bienstock, Ashwin Rajan, and M. Night Shyamalan

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (D.o.P.)

EDITOR: Noemi Preiswerk

COMPOSER: Herdis Stefansdottir

THRILLER/HORROR

Starring: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Night Shyamalan, Alison Pill, Hayley Mills, Jonathan Langdon, Mark Bacolcol, Marnie McPhail, Scott Mescudi, Russell “Russ” Vitale, Lochlan Miller, Steve Boyle, David D'Lancy Wilson, and M. Night Shyamalan

Trap is a 2024 psychological thriller and horror film from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan. The film focuses on a father who takes his teen daughter to a special pop concert and then realizes that he and his child have entered a dark and sinister trap.

Trap opens in Philadelphia. There, we meet firefighter Cooper Abbott (Josh Hartnett) . He is taking his teenage daughter, Riley (Ariel Donoghue), to a special afternoon concert performance by pop star Lady Raven (Saleka Night Shyamalan). Once inside the concert venue, Cooper notices an unusually high police presence on all levels of the building. Doing his own investigating, Cooper soon discovers that he and his daughter are at the center of a dark and sinister event. Who is “the Butcher” and why does law enforcement insist that he is one of the 3000 men attending the concert?

Despite the disaster that was M. Night Shyamalan's 2023 thriller, Knock at the Cabin, I immediately wanted to see Trap as soon as I heard about it sometime last year. I was sure the friend I dragged along with me to see Knock at the Cabin back in early February 2023 would also join me for Trap. Unfortunately, Trap did play at either of the two local theaters, so I just watched it on the “Max” streaming service.

By now, many people know all about Trap's twists and turns, and it is a very twisty, very strange, very weird, and very crazy movie. Still, I'm not doing the spoiler thing, but you, dear readers, would need detailed spoilers to keep up with all of this film's twists and contortions. It's as if writer-director M. Night Shyamalan drew straws to decide the fate of Trap's various subplots and plot twists. The result is a thriller zesty with the unexpected.

Speak of Mr. M: he makes his usual appearance as an actor in his own films, but his daughter, Saleka Night Shyamalan, an actual pop singer and recording artist, has a big role in Trap as the pop star, “Lady Raven.” Saleka's second studio album, Lady Raven, acts as the soundtrack album for Trap. Nepotism aside, Saleka's songs add a haunting layer to Herdis Stefansdottir's film score for Trap, and, believe me, Saleka is quite game when it comes to acting.

The film's primary wackiness comes from Josh Hartnett's performance as Cooper Abbott. Hartnett mixes paranoia with subtly when he is not being hilariously over the top and disturbingly calm. I can't say that other actors would not have been better at playing Cooper than Hartnett, but at least, Hartnett has his own method of bat-shit craziness.

Trap is disarmingly entertaining. I actually always thought that it would be a good and enjoyable film, but I'm shocked that I like it as much as I do. I can't believe that I consider its many nonsensical story elements to be quite endearing and even alluring, at times. The scenes that take place at the concert are excellent, but the film doesn't lose its cockamamie mojo when it moves the action to other venues. I am giving Trap a high rating because I can't think of a reason not to do so. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't think that it is a hugely entertaining and attractively offbeat thriller film. I'm trapped in a closet... with Trap.

8 of 10

★★★★ out of 4 stars

Sunday, November 3, 2024

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Friday, November 1, 2024

Comics Review: "NIGHT CLUB II #3" - Sh*t Gets Deep

NIGHT CLUB II #3 (OF 6)

DARK HORSE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Juanan Ramírez

COLORS: Fabiana Mascolo

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Daniel Chabon

COVER: Juanan Ramírez with Fabiana Mascolo

EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Juanan Ramirez

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (October 2024)

Rating: 18+

Night Club created by Mark Millar at Netflix

Night Club II is a six-issue miniseries written and created by Mark Millar and drawn by Juanan Ramírez. A Dark Horse Comics publication and a Netflix production, Night Club II is a sequel to the 2023 miniseries, Night Club. Both series focus on a teen boy who is bitten by a vampire and decides to make the best of his new condition. Colorist Fabiana Mascolo and letterer Clem Robins complete Night Club II's creative team.

Night Club II focuses on 17-year-old Danny Garcia. After being turned into a vampire, he passed his new found powers unto his friends, DJ Sam Huxley and Amy Chen. Now, they're the superheroes: Starguard (Danny), Thundercloud (Sam), Yellowbird (Amy). But jealousy has broken up this vampire-superhero trio...

Night Club II #3 opens as Sam begins to realize that he has made a mistake. However, he is NOT ready to realize how big a mistake it is. Once upon a time, three nerdy friends became the first vampire-superheroes and also the coolest superheroes around. Now, their high school's worst bullies are a new gang of vampires. Will this be a case of out with the old (The Night Club) and in the with the new (the assholes)?

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. The latest received is Night Club II #3.

Writer Mark Millar used the first issue of Night Club II to bring us to the current state of affairs. With the second issue, Millar quickly moved things forward, and shit got real deep, real quick. The result is that issue #3 is the best and most consequential of this series... so far. Millar has mastered upping the ante, so he is relishing slowly tearing down everything we thought we knew about The Night Club.

Artist Juanan Ramírez has built this narrative on capturing the reckless nature of young people with too much power, regardless of whether this power is natural or supernatural and criminal or evil. Now, Ramirez wants to rub the consequences in our faces with his quicksilver storytelling. Colorist Fabiana Mascolo brings the funk to Ramirez widescreen antics in a way that makes this story pop off the page. Clem Robins' lettering, as always, is a perfect accompaniment.

Yeah, shit 'bout to get even deeper.

Night Club II does not disappoint, dear readers. It's taking us where we never expected to go in vampire comic books.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of vampire comic books will want to be bitten by Night Club II.

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

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