Spoiler, Spoiler, Spoiler/ I Made You Out Of Clay…

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Posted by: admin on September 30, 2004

Categories: Reviews

For a change, I was gonna write reviews in the order that I read the books, but I think it’s better that I review this first, and separately, so I can get it off my chest and move on, and people who could care less about Spider-Man–or want to avoid the spoilers–can skip this entry entirely. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #512: Wow. As you may know, I grew up largely as a Marvel fan, and a Spider-Man Marvel fan at that. So this issue managed to be as upsetting to me as all the issues of Identity Crisis put together. I’d like to pretend that that’s not the case and strike the pose of objective criticism I think, generally, is pretty important…  Read More…

Two Quick Public Service Announcements

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Posted by: admin on September 29, 2004

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Site News

PSA Numero Uno: I’m sure most of you caught the announcement that Geoff Johns is going to be signing at CE from 4 to 7 on Saturday Octobert 30th. But some of you may missed it, so there it is. We hope you can make it. PSA Numero Two-o: If I was Hibbs I would have posted the shipping list doo-da that he does, but I’m not–I can only link to the Diamond site’s if you’re curious. But Rob Bennett informs me that we did not get in Superman/Batman #12 this week. He said that the East Coast did, the West Coast did not for quick brown reasons that jumped over the slow, lazy dog of my head. Just a…  Read More…

Comics from 9/22: Pick of the Week; Pick of the Weak; Trade Pick

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Posted by: admin on September 27, 2004

Categories: Reviews

So I’m back. I’m trying to follow in Hibbs’ footsteps by saying I’d be right back and then disappearing for a day or two…actually I was kinda torn as to my picks but want to get them out there before the weekend is totally up. I decided to go with two books for Pick of the Week: I’m totally knocked out by King Cat Comics #65 by John Porcellino and think every fan of alt comix and unique voices should try and get their hands on a copy. I must’ve picked this book up four times in the last three days to re-read parts of it. But since King Cat isn’t the easiest book to find in a comic shop,…  Read More…

Pinch-Hitting for Comics from 9/22

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Posted by: admin on September 25, 2004

Categories: Reviews

Okay, so since Hibbs is out of the game for a few weeks, I thought I would try and step in and cover the reviews for a week or two. This first week will be a bit schizo since Hibbs wrote up a bunch of reviews, lost them and spent a chunk of yesterday repeating them to me. At first, it was very much: “So, yeah, if you review that book, you might want to mention I said…” and by the end of the day, it was: “Don’t forget to tell them to get The Life Eaters. It’s great stuff! Remember!” Sigh. So some reviews will start with my paraphrase of what I remember Hibbs saying, and then I’ll move…  Read More…

Fuckity Fuck

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Posted by: admin on September 23, 2004

Categories: Site News

Ben decided it would be fun to make a grab for the power cables in my office, so the power to my Alienware flickered on and off a bunch of time before I was able to get hold of his little hands… and, apparently, something blew out on my system. Long story short, I’ve got to send it back to Florida for repairs, and that’s the system with all of my work/games/WORK, so I’m, basically, fucked on a gimped old computer for the next three weeks or so. The upshot of THAT is, you won’t be seeing any updates on this blog after this one from me for at least 3 weeks. Jeff may or may not update. See you…  Read More…

Comics of 9/22 (*sigh*)

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Posted by: admin on September 22, 2004

Categories: Reviews , Site News

I really have to get used to saving a copy of what I write outside of blogger — damn thing just gave me a 404 and lost everything I wrote about this week’s comics. I’ll try to retype it later, I guess…. -B

Shipping list 9/22

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Posted by: admin on September 20, 2004

Categories: Shipping Lists

Here’s what Comix Experience is getting this week…. (Some more reviews, hopefully, in an hour or four….) A1 BLOODMAN SPECIAL MISTER MONSTER WWII ARMY OF DARKNESS ASHES 2 ASHES #2 ASTONISHING X-MEN #5 AVENGERS #502 (#87) BATGIRL #56 BETTY #141 BLACK WIDOW #1 BRIAN PULIDOS BELLADONNA REG CVR #1 BRODIES LAW #1 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #1 CATWOMAN #35 CONAN #8 COSMIC GUARD #2 DARKNESS VOL 2 #15 DEVIL MAY CRY #3 DICTATORS SADDAM HUSSEIN #1 ELRIC MAKING OF A SORCERER #1 EX MACHINA #4 EXCALIBUR #5 FADE FROM GRACE #2 FLASH #214 GI JOE #34 GI JOE MASTER & APPRENTICE #4 HARRY JOHNSON #1 HERO #20 HUMANKIND #2 JACK & JACK #1 JIMMY DYDO ADVENTURE #1 JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE…  Read More…

More Comics from 9/15…

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Posted by: admin on September 17, 2004

Categories: Reviews

Well, you got to hear Hibbs’ excuse, now you can hear mine: I was home sick with some nasty cold thing that knocked me on my ass. While on said ass, I wrote the latest newsletter for the store and so, dropping the blackline back at the store a day early, I got my hands on some new comix today. In the interest of bailing out Mr. “Ooo, I can’t review comics, I had to assemble an armoire!” Hibbs, here are my impressions of the following: BIRDS OF PREY #74: Felt a bit like two disparate stories jammed into one issue, but they were pretty decent stories, so I don’t mind too much. And really nice art by Fern and…  Read More…

a comic or two from 9/15

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Posted by: admin on September 16, 2004

Categories: Reviews

Monday I had to write TILTING, Tuesday I was pulling comics at the store’ Wednesday I had to assemble a Cost-Plus armoire with instructions that evidentally were translated from english to korean and back again (5 hours, it took me to make the thing!)… and today Jeff got me the new comics and Fanboy Rampage early, so I was doing ONOMATOPOEIA…. So, that’s why thing have been quiet around here lately. Going to briefly touch on a few new comics: HAWKMAN #32: Ray Palmer uses the phrases “blog” twice — that term, of course, means “Web Log”. I kinda have to beleive that the JLA isn’t allowed to just post classified information at thier discretion to the web, right? otherwise…  Read More…

The comics for 9/14

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Posted by: admin on September 14, 2004

Categories: Shipping Lists

I’m actually still hoping to get to last week’s comics pretty soon — been a busy weekend this time. In the meanwhile, here is what Comix Experience is receiving for the week of 9/14. Only 46 comics, that’s pretty damn puny! ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #632 ARCHIE #551 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #155 BALLAD OF SLEEPING BEAUTY #3 BARBARIENNE #9 BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #57 BATMAN STRIKES #1 BIRDS OF PREY #74 BOOKS OF MAGICK LIFE DURING WARTIME #3 CABLE DEADPOOL #7 COLONIA #10 DAREDEVIL #64 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #320 EMMA FROST #15 ERIKA TELEKINETIKA #1 FANTASTIC FOUR #518 FIERCE #3 FRACTION #6 FREAKS OF THE HEARTLAND #5 GI JOE VS TRANSFORMERS VOL 2 #1 CVR A HAWKMAN #32 HUMAN TARGET #14…  Read More…

A Few More 9/9 Books….

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Posted by: admin on September 12, 2004

Categories: Reviews

Hey, everyone. It’s Jeff. I really didn’t read very many books this week (and bought even less) so initially I figured I’d just skip over doing any reviews this week. But, since I’m tired of sitting here trying to brainstorm the funny for the next FBR, I figured this would be a fine way to productively procrastinate. So let’s see: ACTION COMICS #819: Huh. I was looking forward to this because Superman was fighting new villains called “Sodom & Gomorrah” and that seemed so dumb, I thought it would be fun. But, you know, now I wonder: is Chuck Austen, by assigning the names to a husband & wife supervillain team/straw man argument, putting forward the idea that marriage is…  Read More…

Some Comics from 9/9

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Posted by: admin on September 10, 2004

Categories: Reviews

Let’s bat a couple out before I have to run off to the store… IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS: You have to understand, I really don’t want to give this a bad review. It feels tacky. It feels like being accusatory to a widow, or something. Everyone who actually lived through 9/11 (as opposed to people like me who watched it on TV), well, they get a certain amount of a Free Pass, y’know? And, fer christ’s sake, this is Spiegelman — he won a Pulitzer, man! But, here’s the thing –this book is really only 10 pages long. Sure, each page of comics is 2 pages in the book, and there’s all that lovely historical comic strip material…  Read More…

How Do You Surf, and How Much Content Do You Demand?

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Here’s the other thing I’m wondering — how fucking obligated should we feel about trying to have SOME content up here every day. Jeff and I have both discussed how weird and uncomfortable we feel when we go *gasp* 48 consecutive hours without one of us saying something. I don’t want to start posting BlogShit (“Woke up late. Ate cornflakes, then brushed teeth….”), and I don’t have anything remotely like the time to actually write a Rant Of The Day. I mean, notice I STILL haven’t done the Deppey/NuMarvel piece I threatened (“I’ll wait for the second half!” I rationalized), nor have I said anything public about Rozanski’s latest Tales From The Database, which just flatout begs a response from…  Read More…

Stuff Arriving 9/9

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Posted by: admin on September 7, 2004

Categories: Shipping Lists

Here’s a list of the comics that are arriving at Comix Experience on 9/9. Again, not sure how useful this is on a “national” blog — your feedback will help me decide whether to do this on a weekly basis — the national Diamond shipping lists, I find, are not always all that accurate when it comes to what a specific store might be getting…. 100 BULLETS #53 ACTION COMICS #819 AQUAMAN #22 ARCHIE AND FRIENDS #85 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #183 BEAR #6 BITE CLUB #6 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #93 BLOODHOUND #3 CANDYAPPLEBLACK #3 CAPTAIN AMERICA #31 CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #10 CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #4 CITY OF HEROES #4 DEEP SLEEPER #4 DILDO #6…  Read More…

Public Service Announcement

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Categories: Retailing/Industry

Tomorrow is Wednesday. Wednesday is New Comics Day. EXCEPT NOT THIS WEEK. THIS week, New Comics Day is Thursday — thanks to the Monday holiday of Labor Day. If you go into your Local Comics Shop tomorrow looking for new books they’re going to give you That Speech, and nobody wants to give OR get That Speech. Don’t forget! -B

Something like a New Content Alert

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Posted by: admin on September 6, 2004

Categories: Site News

Happy Labor Day! When we did the minor clean-up on the site, I swore I would change my ways and get better about putting up the Fanboy Rampages closer to their publication date. So this latest piece, dealing with Bendis and Millar and underoos and whatnot, was supposed to go up on the first of the month. How it got to be the sixth of September already, I have no idea. As they say in those fancy restaurants: enjoy!

More Comics from 9/1

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Posted by: admin on September 3, 2004

Categories: Reviews

THE NAIL #3: Gore gore and more gore, there was enough of a nugget of a plot to at least make you feel not cheated. As Don Thompson used to say “If this is the kind of thing you like, you’ll like this.” Eh. UNCANNY X-MEN #448: No Alan Davis, and, let’s face it, you really want to see Alan Davis drawing MurderWorld. I do, indeed, hope Sage took that bullet in the face. I mean, MurderWorld should probably be renamed LightWoundingWorld otherwise. We demand truth in advertising! Oh, and doesn’t “The X-Men meet the Queen of England” seem very very wrong somehow? Eh. TALES FROM THE BULLY PULPIT #1: I was going to say something about how strange and…  Read More…

9/1 Comics

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Posted by: admin on September 2, 2004

Categories: Reviews

OK, Ben’s asleep, Tzipora’s out of the house, I have some time to review, let’s do it GAMBIT #1: Perfectly adequate. I don’t see the point of this book, however — there’s not enough here to make it worth $3, and, honestly, I don’t care for Remy as a character. Anyway, isn’t he blind now? Eh. JUBILEE #1: Also adequate. I got the sense that Kirkman’s never really hung around teenage girls (which is, probably, a good thing for a comics writer, but I digress…) — I think that this, like the similiarly “all ages” MARY JANE isn’t going to 1) find it’s nominal target audience 2) be well recieved by them even if they found it. Eh. BIRDS OF…  Read More…