Comics Shipping 12/27

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Posted by: admin on December 27, 2004

Categories: Shipping Lists

I had a terrific Christmas, thanks! Visited my mom in the ‘burbs, had a pair of wonderful meals and fun times with everyone doting on Ben, and all was right int he world. As you can notice from the 2 posts preceeding this one, I also had to get the order form done this weekend (*sigh*), so no reviews this week. No time for love, Dr. Jones! Anyway, as always, here’s what we’re getting, your local store may or may not be recivieng this same list of stuff on this same date, and, anyway, this is just stuff from Diamond which isn’t 100% of it in any case. Big ball-breaker of a week, though, huh? What are you getting, what…  Read More…

CE’s Top 100 for Feb ’05 by Dollars

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Same thing again, just this time sorted by retail cover price. This changes the chart pretty drastically, and is, I think, the better indication of “what’s selling” than pieces. “follow the money” Again, these placements will probably change — for example, since it is limited to 1000 pieces, I don’t think I’m going to get my full order on the $50 PROMETHEA poster thingy. 1 PROMETHEA VARIANT EDITION #32 2 PROMETHEA #32 3 ULTIMATES 2 #3 4 SOLO #3 5 CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOL 7 DWELLER IN THE POOL TP #7 6 SUPREME POWER #15 7 GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #5 8 SEVEN SOLDIERS 9 SUPERMAN BATMAN #18 10 VIMANARAMA #1 11 OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PG VOL 35 IRON MAN SC…  Read More…

CE’s Top 100 for Feb ’05 by Quantity

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Here’s the list of what we’re ordering for February ’05, sorted by quantity. Before these books arrive, changes are often made in rankings — sometimes books get hefty “advance reorders”, and in some cases (like Marvel titles) books can be decreased as I get more current information on current sales patterns. I’d be happy to answer any questions anyone might have on relative placings in the commentary section… 1 ULTIMATES 2 #3 2 GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #5 3 SEVEN SOLDIERS 4 PROMETHEA #32 5 SUPREME POWER #15 6 SUPERMAN BATMAN #18 7 VIMANARAMA #1 8 NEW AVENGERS #4 9 SUPERMAN #214 10 ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #16 11 POWERS #9 12 OCEAN #4 13 UNCANNY X-MEN #455 14 UNCANNY X-MEN #456…  Read More…

Comics Shipping 12/22

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Posted by: admin on December 22, 2004

Categories: Shipping Lists

In typical comics industry fashion, 2 weeks of famine are followed by this week’s feast. Hooray! Also: If you in the SF Bay Area, and you’re not doing anything better on Friday, Comix Experience is having it’s annual xmas party. From 5-7 or so, come by and have a beer or some eggnog, or even a glass of water with us. Merry merry! ASTONISHING X-MEN #7 AUTHORITY REVOLUTION #3 (Of 12) BART SIMPSON COMICS #21 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #153 BIPOLAR #5 BLACK HOLE #12 (OF 12) BLACK WIDOW #4 (Of 6) BOOKS OF MAGICK LIFE DURING WARTIME #6 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #4 CATWOMAN WHEN IN ROME #3 (Of 6) CONAN #11 DEAD AT 17 REVOLUTION #2 (Of 4)…  Read More…

My Identity Crisis Follow-Up

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Posted by: admin on December 20, 2004

Categories: Reviews

I think there’s a lot more interesting stuff said by Hibbs and in our comments (I thought Donnie’s comment about Jean hatching some utterly insane plan rather than just saying she wanted Ray back was hilariously dead-on. (“Meltzer’s way seems so…Minnesotan.”)) but I’ll sort of tack on my two cents by way of responding to Hibbs and some of the comments developing in his entry. IDENTITY CRISIS #7: Unlike ADD, I bought the first issue of IC and thought it was decently written, which is really why I had hopes for this mini. It wasn’t unearned hope or me buying into the hype–that first issue was well-written enough that I cared about Ralph & Sue, and Sue’s murder carried a…  Read More…

Hibbs’ Reviews for 12/15

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Posted by: admin on December 19, 2004

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Hooray! Jeff did a bunch of reviews, so I can safely ignore… well, virtually everything this week. Which is good, because the closing-days-of-holiday-shipping have kicked my ass but good, in addition to the 20 box collection we just bought (how in god’s name can you have a 20 box collection and not have ANY of them alphabetized?!?!?!) I’ve also got this mildly sick stack of DVDs and videos I need to watch (STILL haven’t watched THE APPRENTICE finale, but thanks to the SF CHRONICLE for spoiling the results ON PAGE TWO OF THE PAPER, sheesh!) — including some year-old things from the library like the LED ZEPPELIN LIVE 2 disk set (*orgasmic shudder*) and I also get LotR on Wednesday,…  Read More…

Reviews (Such As They Are) for Comics of 12/15/04 (Such as They Are)

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Man. Yesterday at the story was psychotically busy (holiday shoppers, putting together the newsletter, Hibbs sorting through a just-purchased collection), and I left early for a company Christmas Party at the other job, so I didn’t get very far into this week’s books. Still, operating under the idea that something’s better than nothing: AVENGERS: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES #3: Scott Kolins draws a kick-ass Iron Man but I’m not down with this pacing. There’s no reason we couldn’t have had the “Zemoooo!” scene at the end of #2; Cap’s not any better developed at the end of this issue than last issue. This story is either padded or flat-out inert, I can’t quite figure out which. OK for the art, but…  Read More…

Comics SHipping 11/15

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Posted by: admin on December 16, 2004

Categories: Shipping Lists

Whoops, forgot to post this earlier. I suck. ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #635 AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES #3 (Of 8) BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #60 BETTY #143 BIRDS OF PREY #77 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #96 CABLE DEADPOOL #10 CAPTAIN GRAVITY AND POWER OF VRIL #1 CATWOMAN #38 CSI DOMINOS #4 DAREDEVIL #68 DEEP FRIED VOL 2 #1 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #323 ENGINEHEAD #6 (Of 8) EX MACHINA #7 EXILES #56 EYES OF ASIA #2 (Of 4) FANTASTIC FOUR #521 GIRL GENIUS #13 HAWKMAN #35 HEROES ANONYMOUS #6 (Of 6) HUMAN TARGET #17 IDENTITY CRISIS #7 (Of 7) INVADERS #5 JUSTICE LEAGUE ELITE #6 (Of 12) KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE ILLUSTRATED #41 LADY DEATH 10TH ANNIV ED PAINTED CVR #1…  Read More…

A Few More 12/8 Comics Reviews from Jeff

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Posted by: admin on December 13, 2004

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Hey, all. I swore I’d keep my nose out of the SavCrit blog for a couple months after October, where even I got a little sick of myself. But since Brian’s on a deadline (I am too; I should be working on the CE newsletter but I left the blackline at home) and I’m stuck at the day job with nothing really cooking, I thought I’d throw in a few quick shots in case you haven’t gotten to a store yet… AQUAMAN #25: I’m shocked Hibbs didn’t review it since his great contribution to my day at the shop Friday was throwing it at me and hollering, “Check it out!” It’s a real education on how execution can either save…  Read More…

Reviews for 12/8

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Posted by: admin on December 12, 2004

Categories: Reviews

There was very very little this week that fired my imagination enough to write about, plus I have to write TILTING AT WINDMILLS so it will run on Friday, but, damn it, I feel like I owe SOME sort of a quick weekly update, so here’s at least 7 comics that I have soemthing to say about…. BLOODHOUND #6: Glowing quote from Ellis on the cover, which is cool, but here we are 6 issues in and I don’t know where this book is going at all. The first arc was pretty terrific, but now we seem to be “back to jail” with no easy path out — and DC already has a “powers in jail” book — HARD TIME…  Read More…

Comics for 12/8

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Posted by: admin on December 8, 2004

Categories: Shipping Lists

Here’s what we’re getting this week… yet another meh week for funnybooks it seems As usual, YOUR LCS might be recieving a wholly different list of things, so don’t take this list as anything other than “this week, at Divis and Page in SF” 100 BULLETS #56 2000 AD #1415 2000 AD #1416 ACTION COMICS #822 ALONG THE CANADIAN #5 ANGELTOWN #2 AQUAMAN #25 ARCHIE #553 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #186 BATMAN STRIKES #4 BLOODHOUND #6 BPRD THE DEAD #2 BRIAN PULIDOS BELLADONNA REG CVR #2 BULLSEYE GREATEST HITS #4 DEMO #12 DISTRICT X #8 DOC FRANKENSTEIN #1 DOCTOR SPECTRUM #4 EMMA FROST #18 FABLES #32 FATHOM DAWN OF WAR #3 FIRESTORM #8 FULL FRONTAL NERDITY ANNUAL #1…  Read More…

Reviews of 12/1

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Posted by: admin on December 6, 2004

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I thought I’d have plenty of time for this, but I forgot about grandparents coming to see the grandson, and how that tears my schedule into pieces, ah well, here it is anyway! ABOVE & BELOW TWO TALES O/T AMERICAN FRONTIER: James Sturm’s excellent novellas, THE REVIVAL and HUNDREDS OF FEET BELOW DAYLIGHT are gathered together here in one excellent and economical package. This is older work, but it has been OP for quite some time, and is very worth the effort to track down. EXCELLENT. ALPHA FLIGHT #10: Head hurting time travel. Maybe this will end up so that they wipe themselves out of existence. I’d buy that for a dollar! AWFUL. CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON #10: One…  Read More…

Comics arrived 12/1

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Posted by: admin on December 1, 2004

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See how far behind schedule I am this week? Damn the order form, damn it! Here’s this week’s shipping list… except we didn’t actualy get everything — missing MONOLITH, FIRESTORM, and INTIMATES in the shipment… I think we’ll have them Friday…. I’ll have some reviews this week though, I promise — it is a small week and I know I can accomplish it. CHeck back in a few days… ABOVE & BELOW TWO TALES O/T AMERICAN FRONTIER ALPHA FLIGHT #10 BEAR #7 BIPOLAR #1 (ALTERNATIVE COMICS PRINTING) BREAKDOWN #2 BRIAN PULIDOS WAR ANGEL BOOK OF DEATH REG CVR CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON #10 CYCLONE BILL AND THE TALL TALES #2 DARKNESS VOL 2 #17 DEADSHOT #1 DETECTIVE COMICS #801…  Read More…