CE’s January 2005 Top 100 by Dollars

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Posted by: admin on January 31, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Same data, this time sorted out by dollars, which, as always, I think is the better sense of what’s important and what’s not. Same caveats as last time, and, again, I’m VERY interested in any outside-looking-in perspectives you might have… 1 ASTONISHING X-MEN #10 2 FLIGHT VOL 2 GN #2 3 BATMAN COVER TO COVER HC 4 GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #6 5 ULTIMATES 2 #4 6 RISING STARS VOL 3 FIRE & ASH TP #3 7 PLANETARY VOL 3 LEAVING THE 20TH CENTURY TP 8 SECRET WAR #4 9 SUPREME POWER #16 10 LOVE & ROCKETS VOL 2 #13 11 BATMAN CHRONICLES VOL 1 TP 12 SUPERMAN BATMAN #19 13 SEVEN SOLDIERS GUARDIAN #1 14 SEVEN SOLDIERS SHINING KNIGHT #1…  Read More…

CE’s January 2005 Top 100 by pieces

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Just to prove (well, not really) that I’m working my little ass off, and that’s why I’m not typing up reviews, here’s the just completed 1/05 order placed at Diamond today, sorted out by quantity. Happy Sunday! (and tomorrow I HAVE to get the Feb subs written up, so if there are reviews, they’ll be late in the day) This is, of course, not a list of what WILL sell (If anyone has that crystal ball available, I’d like to see it!) for the month — beyond sell-through issues, a huge chunk of this will not actually ship IN March; and, of course, reorders (and, potentially, order DEcreases on the Marvel titles) will all be added as intelligence continues to…  Read More…

1/26/05 Comics…

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Posted by: admin on January 29, 2005

Categories: Reviews

[Opening statement; half-hearted apology for being underwhelmed by week's comics; statement of appreciation for readers and incisive commentary by posters; statement blaming Hibbs for refusing to initiate first post.] And with that out of the way… AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS #1: I very much wanted to like this, and it says something about how low on fumes I’ve been lately that I was grateful for just kinda liking it. Although I can respect their decision to throw the reader right into the middle of action (it’s not like Scooby-Doo had an introductory or origin episode, for example), that, in tandem with art that I think is supposed to be joyously anarchic and cluttered but instead largely comes off as merely cluttered,…  Read More…

Some reviews of 1/19 stuff

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Posted by: admin on January 25, 2005

Categories: Uncategorized

I’m double-plus overbusy this week — I haven’t even finished reading this week’s books! Ben’s getting to be a real handful — willful as all get out (that’s my boy!), and in everything all the time. He might possibly be learning the word “no”, though. We think he knows when he’s doing the wrong thing, he gets this little gleam in his eye, and wags his finger at us, then goes and does whatever it was he shouldn’t have been doing. So this is why I have so little time these days. I’m desperate to get back and finish my rewrite of my novel that got put off because Ben was born — but I just don’t see HOW to…  Read More…

Shipping 1/26/05

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Posted by: admin on January 24, 2005

Categories: Shipping Lists

100 GIRLS #3 2000 AD #1420 30 DAYS OF BLOODSUCKERS TALES #4 AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS #1 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #516 ARANA HEART OF THE SPIDER #1 ARMY OF DARKNESS SHOP TIL YOUDROP DEAD #1 AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES #6 BATGIRL #60 BATMAN #636 BETTY #144 BEYOND AVALON #1 BLACK WIDOW #5 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #5 CONAN #12 DEADPAN #2 DETONATOR #2 DOOM PATROL #8 EVENFALL #7 FANTASTIC FOUR #522 FLASH #218 FUTURAMA SIMPSONS CROSSOVER CRISIS PART 2 #1 GI JOE #39 HELLBLAZER #204 JLA CLASSIFIED #3 JSA STRANGE ADVENTURES #6 KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #99 LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #2 LOSERS #20 LUBA #10 MARVEL AGE FANTASTIC FOUR #12 MINIBURGER DIRTY DOZEN AND LUCKY 13TH BOXED SET MYSTIQUE #23…  Read More…

Reviews for 1/19/05 Comics

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Posted by: admin on January 22, 2005

Categories: Reviews

My schizophrenic approach to reading comics (read the ones I don’t buy while working Fridays, read the ones I do buy over the weekend) and my slapdash approach in ordering comics has left me looking at the new release list and going: “Hmmm, why didn’t I read that? And why didn’t I *buy* it?” So that particularly incisive review of Eric Red’s Containment #1 is going to have to wait, dammit. But here’s a quick take on some stuff I did read: ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #636: I’m still shocked that Rucka’s work on this just isn’t doing the trick for me. The story is so cautiously doled out, it feels frugal: once Superman called in Batman and Wonder Woman, it…  Read More…

Some reviews of 1/12 comics

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Posted by: admin on January 17, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Like el Jefe said, it was Tzipora’s birthday this weekend, so I’m drowning for time — gonna try to cover the items Jeff didn’t…. HERO SQUARED XTRA SIZED SP #1: It’s wordy, yes, and the middle sequence kinda dragged on, but, overall I thought this was a terrific start, and I hope they continue it. Parallel universes and slackers and comedy ahoy. GOOD. WARREN ELLIS SIMON SPECTOR #1: And Ellis’ “5th week event” (hahaha) comes to an end. Might have been nice if it all had shipped in the same week, though. Shouldn’t these be returnable, really? I thought SIMON SPECTOR was probably the least of the 4 books, but that might be because “The Man” is the least compelling…  Read More…

Comics shipping 1/19

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Reviews within the hour, here’s this week’s list of comics. Although there’s a “monday holiday” this week, comics are shipping ON TIME for Wednesday…. 2000 AD #1419 2000 AD PROG 2005 ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #636 ARCHIE #554 AUTHORITY REVOLUTION #4 (OF 12) BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #61 BIRDS OF PREY #78 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #97 BLOODRAYNE SKIES AFIRE BOOKS OF MAGICK LIFE DURING WARTIME #7 BPRD THE DEAD #3 (OF 5) BRODIES LAW #4 BULLSEYE GREATEST HITS #5 (OF5) CABLE DEADPOOL #11 CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #12 CATWOMAN #39 CHUBBY #1 (A) COCOPIAZO #2 DAREDEVIL #69 DESPERADOES BANNERS OF GOLD #2 (OF 5) DOGWITCH #15 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #324 EL GATO NEGRO LEGACY #1 (Of 4) ERIC REDS CONTAINMENT…  Read More…

A Quick Look at 01/12/05 Comics

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Posted by: admin on January 15, 2005

Categories: Reviews

So, you may notice Hibbs never showed last week. Not surprising, I guess, since he was working on a Tilting at Windmills that just got published over at Newsarama (and I should really remind him to pop in here and post links to this stuff like I just did–what’s the point of a blog, after all, if you don’t remember to contintually self-promote?), but, still, he might want to show up for his blog at least once in a while. Of course, yesterday at the store, he swore he was going to be on top of reviewing books this week and then added, “Although it’s Tzipora’s birthday on Saturday so we’ll see. It depends on what she wants to do.”…  Read More…

Comics of 01/05/05

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Posted by: admin on January 8, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Ah, the joys of comics: it wasn’t exactly an inspiring week of new comics, I thought, but there was plenty of good stuff I had missed through a combination of the holidays, poor fiscal planning, general dumb-assedness, etc. So before getting to any current savaging, allow me to express much favor and enthusiasm for such not-new items as the latest issue of Ariel Schrag’s Likewise, the Brubaker cover issue of The Comics Journal, and particularly Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, which someone recommended to Hibbs. O’Malley’s book is such a warm and witty mash-up of autobio comix, manga, videogame conventions and “rawk” (as Kolchaka would put it), it’s a big-time charmer. My PICK OF THE WEEK, though…  Read More…

Some comics from 12/28/04

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Posted by: admin on January 3, 2005

Categories: Reviews

OK, sub setup is done, and Ben and Tzipi are sleeping, so let’s see what, if anything, I can address before I need to go off and do family stuff…. CONCRETE HUMAN DILEMMA #1: I’m a long-time Concrete fan, and I usually really like it’s usual brew of heady politics and realistic environmentalism. However, this one kinda thudded for me — stories need conflict and there’s really none here except internal monologue. Further, it wasn’t so much a moral or ideological choice as much of a practical one, dampening much of the drama. Given Chadwick’s track record, there’s no way I won’t give him the benefit of the doubt for the long haul, but as a single issue entertainment experience……  Read More…

Last Year’s Comics!

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Actually, some of the comics from last week…which was last year, right? When I left the store on Friday, Hibbs kept saying, “So, write a few reviews okay? Just one or two? And then I’ll riff off ‘em!” I, of course, promised I would, then became too damn entranced with setting up my new computer to review anything. But I do feel a little guilty, so let’s see what I remember about: ADAM STRANGE #4 (of 8): I initially felt a bit gypped by the opening escape by Adam, but realized the whole guy-rescued-from-certain-death-by-hot-chick trope is what powers most of the original Flash Gordon, and so is considered fair game in a book like this. I’m not thrilled about it,…  Read More…

Comics Shipping 1/5/05

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I have every intnetion of writing up a few reviews today, but I HAVE to get my January sub setup done today, or people won’t get comics on Wednesday… I can’t beleive the decade is half over… that’s just wrong. Anyway, hopefully I’ll get this done fast, and there will be more content later this afternoon…. ALPHA FLIGHT #11 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #88 ARMY OF DARKNESS ASHES 2 ASHES #4 BELLY BUTTON #2 BLACK TIGER LEGACY OF FURY #4(Of 4) BLOODSTREAM #4 (Of 4) BREACH #1 CAPTAIN AMERICA #2 CAPTAIN GRAVITY AND POWER OF VRIL #2 CONSTANTINE MOVIE ADAPTATION CSI DOMINOS #5 (Of 5) DEADSHOT #2 (OF 5) DETECTIVE COMICS #802 FANTASTIC FOUR FOES #1 (OF 6) FIRESTORM #9 FLAMING…  Read More…