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Archive for August, 2004
Posted by: admin on August 9, 2004
Categories: Reviews
Then I’m done for another week! (which starts, uh, tomorrow) BIRTH OF A NATION: OK, so I haven’t actually read it yet (it’s at the top of my pile), but it’s Kyle Baker art, and it looks faboo, so demand your LCS get you a copy. LOEG VOL 2 TP: OK, League v 2 is finally out in SC, time for you to buy it if you’ve been waiting this whole time. It’s the bestest adventure ever! Also The TP/GN of the Week LUCIFER VOL 6 MANSIONS OF THE SILENCE TP: I’m really digging this, and I personally think it is the strongest thing Vertigo is publishing at the moment. Reads really good in trade. Get it! STAR TREK KEY… Read More…
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Categories: Reviews
Just a few things to go, then I’ll do the books post… LOVE AND ROCKETS v2 #11: Like I said, I don’t “get” L&R, but are Jaime and Gilbert just excellent cartoonists? There are panels throughout each story that I like to just stare at. I especially liked bits from “Life Through Whispers”. I just don’t get the stories at all. Still, aesthetically, hard to say less than Good. GUARDIANS #2: This is probably moving a lot slower than it should (page 2 and the plot is just starting?) but the art is nice and the characterizations are strong. I don’t really care what happens, really (especially for $3 a throw), so let’s call it OK. WOLVERINE / PUNISHER #5:… Read More…
Posted by: admin on August 7, 2004
Categories: Reviews
Two more posts should clear this week’s comics…. RUNAWAYS #17: Terrific issue — just about everyone seems to get what is coming to them, which is more of a relief than I can say. Very Good. BLUE MONDAY: PAINTED MOON #2: Woo hoo — 32 pages about masturbation! Fear teh pR0n! (OK, that’s only funny if you were hanging around CE on Friday night, but trust me, it was hysterical) Very Good. THE GRAY AREA #2: Solid enough, though it seems just a smidge half-baked of a premise. Lots of words too. Lots and lots. Overwhelming more than one page. And… it’s a little expensive at $3.95. Can;t work up better than an OK. THOR #83: I have a hard… Read More…
Posted by: admin on August 6, 2004
Categories: Reviews , Site News
Look, Jeff has changed the template! What a mensch! And yes, go read his Fanboy Rampage, as linked below, GO NOW NOW NOW! (Huh, we need to add those links on the side… and I need a lot more “away from here” links too… give us a few more days folks!) Ben’s asleep (for the mo’), and I dinged 28 in City of Heroes, and I have 30 minutes before I have to get to work, so let’s see what else I’ve managed to read, shall we? MAJESTIC #1: Wow, fuck yah. I expected nothing from this (not of the previous iterations were all that hot), but I thought this was wicked funny and well characterized all the way through…. Read More…
A Big Head’s-Up, or A Big-Head is Up?
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Categories: Site News
Howdy, everyone. Jeff here with a quick bit of non-Savage shilling. I just put up eighteen or so old Fanboy Rampage columns covering a span ranging from two years ago to published just last month. If you’re waiting for Brian to make with the Critic-ing, and you want some cheap Fanboy laffs, there’s Alan Moore’s turn on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, excerpts from Grant Morrison in Conversation, the second season of The Apprentice with Lex Luthor, and, as they almost always say, much, much more. It’s not a complete archive–I’ve got about twenty to twenty-five columns to hunt up and/or convert–which means you still have to go to The Fourth Rail to read “The Fish Story,” (which drives… Read More…
Posted by: admin on August 5, 2004
Categories: Reviews
As we can see, I’m not doing well at the daily updates. I’ll try harder. Two nights ago, Ben kept waking up every 2 hours or so, moaning and whining. I say “woke up” except that his eyes never opened, and I don’t think he was conscious at any point. So I was kinda a wreck yesterday. Plus I promised Tzipora that I’d finally clean my room, which mostly entails taking 9 months worth of comics and properly filling them on my bookshelves. This is a five hour job, sheesh. Anyway, that’s why no update yesterday. Let’s start off sorting through the comics for the week of 8/4 (Which, incidentally, was Ben’s 10 month birthday, hooray!) BIRDS OF PREY #71:… Read More…
Posted by: admin on August 4, 2004
Categories: Reviews
Sunday and Monday I had a store project I needed to finish and forgot about until zero hour. All done, though. I just got back from the store (doing THIS week’s books), so let’s wrap LAST week by talking about all of the BOOKS you should go and pick up and your local funnybook emporium when you stroll in tomorrow. In friendly alphabetical order (Or, at least, Alpha by Diamond listings): B KRIGSTEIN COMICS HC: Yes it is pricey, but damnation, it’s worth every penny. Krigstein was a genius, and even the slightest story in this big-ass volume is pure gold. My one quibble: despite it being in the first, biographical volume, I think they missed a big boat by… Read More…
Posted by: admin on August 1, 2004
Categories: Reviews
Ben has 4 teeth. They are sharp. Very very sharp. Ben likes biting on things… especially flesh. We call him Nosferatu, sometimes. Ben also likes french kissing. He’ll launch himself at you with his open mouth, trying to stick his tongue in your mouth, or failing that, biting your lips off. Babies are vicious, vicious things. BEWARE! Let’s see if I can clean out the ol in box, and give a clean palate for next week. ROSETTA V2: Anthologies, as noted absurdly many times, are tricky things. Most are uneven (at best), but you can fault them little for trying, at least. I was more than halfway through this one before I found a piece I liked, but then it… Read More…
