Fanboys, New and Old

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Posted by: admin on March 30, 2005

Categories: Site News

Wow, this is turning out to be our week of content. Since my latest Fanboy has to do with summer movies of note, and since I stretched the very conception of “summer” to include the April 1 opening of Sin City, I wanted to put it up while it still carries two or so days of potential trenchant relevance. On a similar note, with Frank Miller’s Sin City opening soon and some of us having gone back and reread a bunch of those fine beauties, I thought I would also link to an old FBR, wherein I try to imagine Frank Miller’s Jesus!

March’s order sorted by dollars

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Posted by: admin on March 28, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

As always, I think the more telling chart — the orders sorted by dollars. All the same caveats of the previous chart. That shakes things up a bit, huh? Thoughts, opinions, rantings? Love to hear it! 1 TOP TEN THE FORTY NINERS HC 2 GREEN LANTERN #1 3 ASTONISHING X-MEN #11 4 WORLDS GREATEST SUPER HEROES OVERSIZED SLIPCASE HC 5 ULTIMATES 2 #6 6 PLANETARY #23 7 WRATH OF THE SPECTRE TP 8 SUPERMAN BATMAN #21 9 SEVEN SOLIDERS SHINING KNIGHT #2 10 SEVEN SOLDIERS GUARDIAN #2 11 DESOLATION JONES #1 12 SUPERMAN INFINITE CITY HC 13 GIANT SIZE X-MEN #3 14 SAMURAI EXECUTIONER VOL 6 TP #6 15 VILLIANS UNITED #1 16 NEW AVENGERS #7 17 OMAC PROJECT #2…  Read More…

March’s order sorted by pieces

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Categories: Retailing/Industry

This is Comix Experience’s March ’05 order (for May ’05 shipping… we hope!), sorted by pieces (how many I ordered) This may or may not actually represent my Top 100 in May by what actually arrives that month. That’s the fun part. Plus, orders can be lowered on Marvels, and raised on everything else, so call this the roadmap. I’m very interested in any comments anyone might have! 1 ASTONISHING X-MEN #11 2 GREEN LANTERN #1 3 ULTIMATES 2 #6 4 PLANETARY #23 5 NEW AVENGERS #7 6 SUPERMAN BATMAN #21 7 SEVEN SOLIDERS SHINING KNIGHT #2 8 SEVEN SOLDIERS GUARDIAN #2 9 VILLIANS UNITED #1 10 DESOLATION JONES #1 11 OMAC PROJECT #2 12 TEEN TITANS #24 13 POWERS…  Read More…

Comics arriving 3/30

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Categories: Shipping Lists

And it’s the last week that’s the ball-breaker, hooray! Lotsa stuff this week,, what looks good to you? ALONG THE CANADIAN #6 (OF 6) AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS #4 ASTONISHING X-MEN #9 BATGIRL #62 BATMAN #638 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #132 BPRD THE DEAD #5 (OF 5) BUGTOWN #4 (OF 6) CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #15 CASTLEVANIA THE BELMONT LEGACY #1 (OF 5) CONCRETE HUMAN DILEMMA #4 (OF6) DAMN NATION #2 (OF 3) DAREDEVIL REDEMPTION #3 (OF 6) DC COUNTDOWN TO INFINITE CRISIS #1 DOCTOR SPECTRUM #6 (OF 6) DONT EAT THE ELECTRIC SHEEP #4 DOOM PATROL #10 ELKS RUN VOL 1 #1 ERIC REDS CONTAINMENT #3 (OF 4) FANTASTIC FOUR #524 FLASH #220 GI JOE #41 GOD THE DYSLEXIC…  Read More…

The Easter Feast: Reviews of 3/23 Comics

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Posted by: admin on March 27, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Dear God, he did it. Hibbs actually posted! I am very pleased and impressed. Of course, now I’m in his position, of trying to figure out how to write about the same books without saying the same god-damn thing but that’s okay. I’m just so tickled he’s posted, I’ll happily expose the rest of you to a pointless double-post! So on that merry note: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #518: Really glad Hibbs reviewed this first, because I was starting to feel like an AMS whiner. Plus, some of the stuff I’ve bitched about gets mentioned in passing in the script itself (a caption mentioning The Molten Man; a caption mentioning Peter calling MJ) but they actually hinder the narrative. And believe me,…  Read More…

Reviews for 2/23, OMG!

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The grandparents took Ben this morning, so, woot! Looks like I can good a good morning start on this, and maybe Jeff won’t have to “hold off” this week after all. Within an hour of posting my last post, Ben ran through almost all of the letters he has left in his alphabet. Oh, sure, he still mixes up his E and his F, but when you correct him, he corrects himself just fine after that. W is “Ag-gah”, but it’s consistant, and he says it with such verve that we can let his baby palate slide there. I still haven’t read 100% of this week’s books (92% and holding, Captain!), but let’s take the opportunity while we have it…  Read More…

Picks for 3/16 and shipping 3/23

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Posted by: admin on March 23, 2005

Categories: Reviews , Shipping Lists

It’s true, dear god it IS true, I AM the World’s Worst Blogger. See, here’s the thing: I function really well with a deadline. “You must get this done by such-and-such” works well with my lifestyle. I am goal-oriented, or something. But the deadline has to be “real”. Like, I can writing a TILTING once a month, because, y’know, Newsaram is paying me, and if I don’t give it to Brady by the Thursday before it runs, then I’m in deep shit. Not with him, of course, but with myself. On the other hand, because I’m goal-oriented, I’m also the worlds biggest fucking procrastinator. I usually have 20 plates spinning, so “me time” is precious, and if I DON’T have…  Read More…

Jeff’s Reviews for 3/16

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Posted by: admin on March 20, 2005

Categories: Reviews

I am always amused and impressed at what a bad blogger Hibbs is. After all, just yesterday, he posted a new Tilting at Windmills at Newsarama, a really lovely little piece that not only brings up some great points, but is a bit of a love letter to the comics stores he knew as a kid. You’d think he’d be posting here, pointing you to it, trumpeting his greatness, etc., right? No dice. So I figure the least I can do is post the link for him (the discussion thread is chugging along nicely, too) before getting around to this week’s books. I just finished writing 7,000 words for the CE newsletter so I may have already passed my limit…  Read More…

Sorta reviews from 3/9′s comics

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Posted by: admin on March 16, 2005

Categories: Reviews

It was another kinda blah week for comics, weren’t it? After I read Jeff’s Saturday entry, he covered everything I woulda, and pretty much the same way I woulda, this week. In fact, there were only 2 books “left” that I had ANY interesting in writing about…. FABLES #35: Nice ending to this 2-parter, though I was a little surprised by the leap forward in time. That could be an interesting choice, I suppose — after all, the Fables are eternal — but it did jar my reading of the issue a bit. I’ll go with GOOD. JSA #71: Some real nice character moments here, though the Mr. Teriffic vs The Klan scene was corny and arbitrary, and I was…  Read More…

Comics Shipping 3/16

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Lotsa comics, jack-plus-shit for books. Weird. Somehow I feel next week will be an utter ball-breaker. ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #638 ANGELTOWN #5 (OF 5) ASPEN SEASONS SPRING 2005 #1 BATMAN STRIKES #7 BETTY & VERONICA #207 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #155 BIGFOOT #2 (OF 4) BIRDS OF PREY #80 BLACK PANTHER #1 LTD ED VARIANT (Or, in english: second printing) BLACK PANTHER #2 BRIAN PULIDOS LADY DEATH SWIMSUIT 2005 BRIAN PULIDOS UNHOLY #2 CABLE DEADPOOL #13 CAPTAIN AMERICA #4 CATWOMAN #41 DIGITAL WEBBING PRESENTS #21 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #326 EX MACHINA #9 EXILES #61 FANTASTIC FOUR FOES #3 (OF 6) FATHOM #0 FREEDOM FORCE #3 (OF 6) GI JOE MASTER & APPRENTICE VOL II UDON CVR A #2 HOPELESS…  Read More…

When Jobs Attack: Quick Reviews for the 3/9 Comics

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Posted by: admin on March 13, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Good evening, everyone. Reviews by me this week will be super-quick, in part because I was very impressed at Bri’s succinctness with last week’s books, and in part because work was such a complete and utter steamroller, I’m surprised my pancake flat fingers can summon enough tension to depress the keys. My hope is that Brian will take the initiative to review some books again even though all we did Friday at the shop was exchange groans about our impending deadlines. So without further adoo-dah: ACTION COMICS #825: Hibbs thought I wouldn’t like this because time travel makes my brain pan tilt crazily, but in fact, dammit, this was Good, if not almost Very Good: pushed by the deadline to…  Read More…

Reviews from 3/2

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Posted by: admin on March 8, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Well, I’m sorta upset at myself for promising to do a full boat of reviews this week — it was a pretty damn “Meh” week for comics, and without something to be excited about, this is about as appealing as a root canal. Still, I said I’d do it, so do it I shall. Hey, have I told you about Ben lately? Just had his 17 month birthday (I think I’ll be talking about months until he hits 2 years old, then we’ll see), and he’s just BLOWING ME AWAY qith how sharp he is. He’s mastered about 1/3 of the alphabet so far — we’ll walk down the street and he’ll point to a sign and declare “Ess!” or…  Read More…

Comics On Sale 3/9

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Categories: Shipping Lists

An adequate week, I guess. 2000 AD #1425 2000 AD #1426 ACTION COMICS #825 ADAM STRANGE #6 (OF 8) AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS #3 AQUAMAN #28 ARMOR X #1 ATOMIKA #1 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #189 BETTY #145 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #99 BLOOD OF THE DEMON #1 BLOODHOUND #9 BLUE MONDAY PAINTED MOON #4 (Of 4) BREACH #3 BRIAN PULIDOS MEDIEVAL LADY DEATH #1 BUGTOWN #3 (OF 6) CONCRETE HUMAN DILEMMA #3 (OF6) DARKNESS & TOMB RAIDER #1 DAWN THREE TIERS #5 (OF 6) DILDO #8 DISTRICT X #11 DOGWITCH #16 DOROTHY #2 FABLES #35 GAMBIT #8 GIRL + GIRL #2 GLOOMCOOKIE #23 GOTHAM CENTRAL #29 GREEN ARROW #48 JONAS TALES OF AN IRONSTAR #4 JSA #71 JUDGE…  Read More…

Blahs for the Blah: the 3/2/05 Week of Comics…

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Posted by: admin on March 5, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Good thing Hibbs is weighing in this week; maybe he’ll have something to really get at with this week’s books. I don’t know if it’s the cold I’m fighting, or the week I’m having, but I was at the store yesterday and not really feeling the magic as far as the floppies were concerned. Kind of a nice week for trades, in that I brought home Little Lulu, Vol. 2, Ministry of Space, Promethea Book 4 and Teenagers From Mars and there’s a little bit of everything for everyone in that assortment, you know? But the ongoing titles, I just, hmmm, I don’t know… as evidenced by my very first review. [WARNING: First review is heavy on the scroll-wheelery and…  Read More…

Arrivng

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Posted by: admin on March 2, 2005

Categories: Shipping Lists

I hate February because you’ve got to fit 30 days of work into only 28 (plus that stupid holiday in the middle — whose idea was that? Sheesh!), and this last one was no exception. I missed 2 weeks ago’s reviews from being flat on my back with a death-cold, and I missed this week’s because I had to get the order form and the sub setup done the same weekend. Ugh. March will be much better. Anyway, I promise to do reviews this week, and, probably, I’ll do at least a week of “every comic released”, just because this is the “easy” week of my month, now that the work is all done for the cycle. See how behind…  Read More…