Behind

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Posted by: admin on July 30, 2004

Categories: Reviews

Gotta go to work in a few here — Lester is on “vacation” (something about a nude midget chocolate factory?), so I have to go cover his shift. Curse you Lester, you infernal bastard!! I spend yesterday’s shift doing “industry reading” Wizard, CBG, etc. There go my brain cells. So I only have 4 comics here to discuss. By tomorrow I plan to go over this week’s trades, then take Sunday off and hopefully, Monday wrap up the last of this week’s reviews just in time to get another pile of new comics. This is my life. Week in, week out, over and over again. BATGIRL #54: That was kinda cool — the story actually turned on her illiteracy, and something…  Read More…

Strong!

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Posted by: admin on July 29, 2004

Categories: Reviews

Something they don’t tell you about babies — the little beasts are STRONG. Ben can easily haul 150% of his weight, and I’m scared he’ll figure out what a fulcrum is.  The real problem, though, is that they have NO IDEA they are strong — they use their full strength all of the time because, well, why wouldn’t you? Me and Tzipora have little welts all over our bodies when Ben has given us a hard pinch while trying to climb somewhere. While I’m going to try to review “everything” for the next few weeks, once I’ve cycled through a whole month, I’ll probably drop back to “items of significance”. Are you liking this format, by the way? Should I…  Read More…

Ben’s asleep now!

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Posted by: admin on July 28, 2004

Categories: Reviews

The best part of him climbing up on the shelf is that he doesn’t have the foggiest notion of how to get himself down, so he’ll start crying about that, and I haul him to mother earth, and what does he do? Yeah, try to get back there right away. He understands there IS gravity, but he doesn’t quite get how it works yet…. Still, I got him down for his afternoon nap, so back at my in-box…. KINETIC #5: There were a couple of books that really REALLY made me wish I had a column during the hiatus — issue #4 of Kinetic was one of those. Wonderful quiet story about the reactions of his mother as her world shatter…  Read More…

Crazy baby

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I’m watching Ben today while Tzipora is off shopping — the kid is a little dynamo, trying to get into little nooks and crannies where he shouldn’t be. There’s only so much baby proofing you can do, and there’s always some place he shouldn’t be. His latest thing is to rip apart the CD collection… which is on a shelf under the TV, abotu 4 feet off the ground. Yet the little terror manages to crawl up there with no real problem. Quickly, a few more books while I’ve distracted him with some shiny keys! WALKING DEAD #9: Like I said, I need to cleanse my palate every few shitty comics. Glad I picked this one. Gripping, human story by…  Read More…

The first 2.0 reviews

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Didn’t get much read last night, but let’s see what I have so far. (Just about the only way to get through all of the comics for the week is to power through the “bad” ones first, with the “good” ones acting as the carrot. Bear that in mind.) (Though, I do need to intersperse a few “good” ones in the middle to reset my palate) ROGUE #1: I’m not sure if Rodi really “gets” how Rogue’s powers work, or if they’re changing it for this series, or if the editors are so overworked they don’t care, but I kept getting super annoyed by the dumb stuff like her absorbing Remy’s blindness, but not Juggy’s heart attack. The core of…  Read More…

Defeated

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Categories: Retailing/Industry

Wow. Comics have nearly beaten me. I just got back from the store, where I finished dealing with the new comics (We’re the San Francisco drop point for Diamond, so we get the books on Tuesday — though we don’t put them out for sale until Wednesday), and I don’t think I’ve seen a single week packed with so much comicy goodness since the late 90s. Well, badness too — but the point is there’s a FUCKING LOT OF COMICS THIS WEEK. We had next to no restock in the main shipment this week, and still we recieved 60% more boxes than normal. There is just no way that anyone can buy everything they want this week. You thought last…  Read More…

Right, so…

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Posted by: admin on July 27, 2004

Categories: Site News

Welcome to the Savage Critic blog. As some of you may remember (depending on how you got here), I used to do a weekly review column (aided and abetted by the affable Jeff Lester) of which you can find the archives here. Once the wonderful Benjamin Alexander Friedman-Hibbs was born, I realized I couldn’t keep up with the old format any longer — I just didn’t have that big block of time any longer! So, again, thanks to Jeff Lester, we have the new cutting edge SavBlog where I can do shorter, but theoretically more frequent, updates / reviews. I will probably be posting something daily (let’s hope), but will not limit myself purely to comic reviews — I’ll also probably babble…  Read More…