Comics shipping 4/27

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Posted by: admin on April 27, 2005

Categories: Shipping Lists

Minutes before the store opens at 11am, here’s your list of what’s shipping this week. Sorry I sucked so much with reviews this week — lots of family-business this weekend took me out of the game…. -B 86 VOLTZ DEAD GIRL ONE SHOT A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #12 ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #639 AUTHORITY REVOLUTION #7 (OF 12) BART SIMPSON COMICS #23 BATGIRL #63 BATMAN #639 BATTLE OF THE PLANETS PRINCESS #6 (OF 6) BETTY & VERONICA #208 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #156 CAL MCDONALD SUPERNATURAL FREAK MACHINE #2 (OF 6) CAPTAIN AMERICA #5 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #8 CASTLEVANIA THE BELMONT LEGACY #2 (OF 5) CATWOMAN #42 CENTERFIELD ONE SHOT CITY OF TOMORROW #1 (OF 6) DAREDEVIL #72 DAY…  Read More…

Put Me In, Coach: Reviews for 4/20 (Duuuuude!) Comics

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Posted by: admin on April 25, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Man, I needed a week off from comics. I don’t know if it was just having to get the newsletter done or that we’d been so busy that Friday but I barely read any comics at all. And it felt kinda nice, frankly. But this week I was all fired up, ready to get back in the game, things were pretty quiet at the store, Hibbs damned everybody’s eyes, I’m dying to post…and Hibbs hasn’t gotten around to posting anything else. So, at the risk of throwing off his not inconsiderable game, here’s my super-extendo blabbity-blab about: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #519: Hibbs summed this up better than I could have, although do they send out memos at Marvel on what properties…  Read More…

Media Watch, and the 4/20 Spider-Man titles

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Posted by: admin on April 21, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Alright, family is off on a play date, let’s unload some of what’s in me head, shall we? Off the bat, can we talk about SESAME STREET? Look, I know those of you without kids never watch it, but SS has changed, man, it’s changed! It started around the first of this month. I first noticed that “SESAME STREET is brought to you by a cooperative learning agreement with the Department of Education” (Or whatever the exact verbiage was) is NOW “SESAME STREET is brought to you by No Child Left Behind”. Um, OK, I guess? Then I noticed the content changes — sure they still do letters and numbers (though, it’s down to maybe 3-4 minutes, it feels), but…  Read More…

Reviews of a few 4/13 things

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Posted by: admin on April 19, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Yes, yes I know, quit your crying, better late than never, right? Actually, I’m so completely not in the mood to write reviews, but, damn it, somehting must be put up, so I’m just going to do like 5-6 books, OK? ACTION COMICS #826: Seems like there are Crisis references and tie-ins popping up most everywhere. Which, all cynicism about the tone of the crossover aside, is actually nearly exciting stuff. I mean, those of us who are old enough to remember each and every linewide crossover that’s been done I think can remember that we used to bitch that these kinds of things would usually come out of nowhere and not actually be connected to the books themselves. So,…  Read More…

COmics shipping 4/20

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Categories: Shipping Lists

100 BULLETS #60 30 DAYS OF NIGHT BLOODSUCKERSTALES #7 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #11 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #519 AQUAMAN #29 ATOMIKA #2 BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #64 BATMAN JEKYLL AND HYDE #1 (OF6) BEOWULF #1 BETTY #146 BILLY THE KIDS OLD TIME ODDITIES #1 (OF 4) BIRDS OF PREY #81 BOOKS OF MAGICK LIFE DURING WARTIME #10 CABLE DEADPOOL #14 CATWOMAN WHEN IN ROME #5 (OF 6) CHOLLY & FLYTRAP #3 (OF 4) CONAN #15 DETONATOR #3 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #327 EX MACHINA #10 FANTASTIC FOUR #525 GI JOE MASTER & APPRENTICE VOL II CVR B #3 HATE ANNUAL #5 HAWKMAN #39 HERCULES #1 (OF 5) HUMAN RACE #2 (OF 7) IDENTITY CRISIS FINAL PRINTING #5 (OF 7) IDENTITY CRISIS…  Read More…

He Probably Would Have Done This Sooner or Later…

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Posted by: admin on April 15, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Considering the crap I gave him last month about it, but since I’m awake and am putting off getting ready for the store, let me just link to Hibbs’ latest Tilting at Windmills, which is a pretty damn good read about the stocking issues caused by the continuing expansion of the trade paperback market. May not seem scintillating at first glance, but a damn good read, I assure you.

Comics Shipping 4/13

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Posted by: admin on April 13, 2005

Categories: Shipping Lists

Usual cavaets: this is just what we’re getting, your LCS may recieve a wholly different batch of stuff because of shiping issues, etc., hell even we might not get everything on this list if Diamond fucks up, etc. etc. 2000 AD #1429 2000 AD #1430 2000 AD #1431 2000 AD #1432 ACTION COMICS #826 ADAM STRANGE #7 (OF 8) ALBEDO ANTHROPOMORPHICS VOL 5 #2 ARCHIE #556 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #160 ARMOR X #2 ATHEIST #1 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #190 BATMAN STRIKES #8 BEYOND AVALON #2 BLACK PANTHER #3 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #100 BLOODHOUND #10 BLOWJOB #13 (A) BREACH #4 CAPTAIN GRAVITY AND POWER OF THE VRIL #4 CHICKASAW ADVENTURES #2 (OF 4) COCOPIAZO #3 CONAN &…  Read More…

Why did 2000AD/Humanoids fail?

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I just realized I haven’t tackled the “retail intelligence” aspect of this blog in an awfully long time, so…. There’s a few obvious things, like (esp with Humanoids) merely reprinting the same material that a lot of us still had on our shelfs, except the originals were larger and in hardcover, or the real lack of promotion and publicity; and the failure of the line, I suspect, comes from not being able to properly crack the bookstore market (Go use your eyes: the racking of “western” comics material sure seems to have SHRUNK in the last few years in bookstores) But I can tell you, real easily why these books didn’t do as well as they should have: TOO MANY…  Read More…

Kinda, Sorta, Not Really: Reviews for 04/06 Books

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Posted by: admin on April 12, 2005

Categories: Reviews

At the moment, my time is my own at work so I thought I would do a few quick and hasty reviews, if only as a way to give thanks that I didn’t attend the Gene Wilder signing…(the creepy part of that story is, I now totally covet Hibbs’ copy of The Little Prince, which was one of my all-time favorite movies as a kid. I mean, Gene Wilder as the fox and Bob Fosse as the snake! That automatically makes it among the greatest movies of all time.) (And if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and you haven’t seen The Best of Youth yet, I mightily recommend you check out its hefty six-hour charms: It’s like…  Read More…

Somewhat Annoyed

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As Lester noted, it was, in fact, APE weekend (had a loverly time, thanks!), and newsletter week and, I just wanted to spend some quality time with Ben, so there went time for the reviews. I actually sorta wanted to write some up today (at least my SIN CITY movie review — next week, sure), despite my TILTING AT WINDMILLS deadline hanging over my head (due Friday, 0 words written, no solid topic in my head), but I decided to go play hooky and try and meet Gene Wilder at a book signing at the Balboa movie theatre this afternoon. So, I get there about 90 minutes early, and there’s just a handful of people standing around the lobby. “What’s…  Read More…

Recipe for a Great Excuse….

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Posted by: admin on April 11, 2005

Categories: Site News

APE+Upcoming Newsletter+comix left at store+family crisis=no reviews from me this week, more than likely. When I talked to Hibbs, he was doubtful he’d get something in either. That may change if he gets a fire lit under him, or if my workplace is so incredibly slow tomorrow I can sneak in some reviews when nobody’s looking. But I wanted to give you guys a head’s up that if there was gonna be a week we were gonna miss altogether, it’d probably be this one.

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Posted by: admin on April 6, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Kinda frustrated with the flash wiping out some of the logo, but considering this was my second attempt to capture Sue’s window display, I figure it’d be best to share it with you while it’s still near the front of my tiny brain.

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Posted by: admin on April 3, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Site News

Two-Fisted Drinker: Bri celebrates the sixteenth anniversary of CE and the opening weekend of Sin City with a refreshing bottle of Bastard’s Brew.

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Categories: Site News

Okay, I finally worked the kinks out of the Picasa/Hello/Blogger thing. So first up, the car crash. Everybody loves a car crash!

No Foolin’: Reviews of the 3/30 Books

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Posted by: admin on April 2, 2005

Categories: Reviews

This could be clumsy: I haven’t read Hibbs’ reviews yet, so as not to color my own thinking (conveniently ignoring the four-plus hours we spent at the store discussing stuff), but my hope is he covered most of the week’s books. I barely made a dent in ‘em: it was the store’s sixteenth anniversary yesterday, beers were broken out relatively early, we had a constant stream of customers our last three hours and, of course, there was the crashed car which got towed Friday morning after smashing into a parking meter Wednesday. I took pictures and I’ll see if I can get ‘em posted later: last week’s attempt at showing our latest window display was a failure, but that may…  Read More…

Sweet 16 reviews of 3/30 comics

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Posted by: admin on April 1, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews

First off, today marks 16 years of Comix Experience. Hooray! My baby is ready for her prom! Joy! It almost was a disaster though, as at some point on Wednesday night a car pulled a hit and run on another car parked in front of the store, pushing it up on the sidewalk, and wrapping it around the parking meter in front. If the meter hadn’t been there, the hit car would probably have gone through the store’s front window. If the car is still there today, I’ll try to take some pictures and get them posted. What was funny is that all day yesterday people were stopping and taking pix of the car with their friends standing next to…  Read More…