Shipping 8/31

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Posted by: admin on August 31, 2005

Categories: Shipping Lists

Honest to god I have reviews coming this week – they’re half written already! Tomorrow, midafternoon, I’m guessing? 2000 AD #1449 2000 AD #1450 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #523 AMELIA RULES #14 (RES) ASTONISHING X-MEN #12 ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE #3 (OF 16) AUTUMN #4 BART SIMPSON COMICS #25 BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #68 BEOWULF #4 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #136 BODY BAGS FATHERS DAY #2 (OF 2) BPRD THE BLACK FLAME #1 (OF 6) CAPTAIN AMERICA #9 CATWOMAN #46 DAREDEVIL FATHER #2 (OF 5) DAWN THREE TIERS #6 (OF 6) DEATH JR #3 (OF 3) DOOM PATROL #15 ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #3 (OF 9) EMILY THE STRANGE #1 EX MACHINA #14 EXPATRIATE #3 FLASH #225 FORGOTTEN REALMS DARK ELF…  Read More…

The Timer is Running: Jeff’s Reviews of 8/24 Books.

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Posted by: admin on August 29, 2005

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Dude. I’m getting married in three weeks! What does this mean for you, the SavCrit blog reader? Mainly, it means you should go see One Night in Mongkok at the Presidio Theatre because I can’t. Yes, my busy schedule means you must overcompensate for me, because that’s the kind of dysfunctional shell game I’m running here. Also, it means that you’ll be getting reviews from me of the 8/31 books and maybe the 9/8 books and then I’ll be offline until mid-October. Since I can’t speak for Hibbs even a little, it may mean the site will lay fallow for a little while or, alternatively, maybe it won’t. But at least your eyes will get a break from all these…  Read More…

Settlement entered and served!

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Posted by: admin on August 24, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

The Hibbs v Marvel settlement was entered into court yesterday, August 23rd, and has been served to Marvel as of today 8/24. A 30 day appeals window has now opened, where any members of the class who haven’t opted-out may appeal the settlement. Presuming no one does that, Marvel has 30 days, beginning Friday September 23rd, to pay the settlement monies. Therefore, unless something strange and odd happens, all credit should be paid no later than Monday, October 24th. Marvel, of course, may choose to begin payments on “day #1″ rather than “day #30″. At a completely wild-ass, wholly uniformed guess that’s based upon nothing whatsoever, timing of the payment might depend on whether Marvel wants the liability on thier…  Read More…

Hibbs will probably have to eat a bug, and shipping 8/24

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Posted by: admin on August 22, 2005

Categories: Shipping Lists , Site News

Just because I am a big enough man to admit when I was wrong, I stumbled across a post in the Comic Book Industry Alliance boards from 3/2/01 where I said this about ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: >>>LONG TERM…I really really really don’t think it will succeed. By the time it hits issue #50, how is it really going to be any different than the “real” Marvel universe, RE: the accretion of history? If it makes #100, I’ll eat a bug.<<< While I do think the line has become SOMEwhat inaccessible now because of that accretion of history, I was clearly really really really wrong, and it seems all but inevitable that ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN will, in fact, make it to #100. (Unless…  Read More…

Something Hasty Is The Soul of Something Funny? Reviews of 8/17/05

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Blah, blah, blah, busy…yadda, yadda, newsletter…yak, yak, yak, not nearly as many comics, etc.: Oh, and new Tilting from Hibbs. BALLAST ONE SHOT: On the plus side, this was a strong enough issue that I want to read issue #2. On the minus side, this is solicited as a one-shot, so who knows when we’ll see issue #2? As a hook to a series (a brutal hitman finds himself forced to do the Lord’s work), it’s very enjoyable. As a one-shot, it’s the first chapter of a book sold as a self-contained story. Which it’s not. So, as the latter, Eh. BATGIRL #67: Except for the apparently-standard “let me greet you by trying to kick your head off” scene, I…  Read More…

Greetings From Lake McLatey: Some Reviews of 08/10 Books….

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Posted by: admin on August 16, 2005

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I am running behind. As I think I mentioned in a previous post or two, I did not read a lot of comix Friday. In fact, when planning out this entry yesterday at lunch, I realized that there were books I still hadn’t read, despite the fact I had, you know, bought ‘em and stuff. So up I was at the crack of dawn…to read comix. The following reviews are probably tilted toward the “Ooo, look pretty” side of the spectrum as a result. Unless I read them on Friday, in which case there will be a distinct “Uhhh…what happened again?” bias. This is comic book reviewing as it is meant to be practiced, my friends: hastily and inadequately. Let’s…  Read More…

Shipping 8/17

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Posted by: admin on August 15, 2005

Categories: Shipping Lists

Kind of a small week this week — maybe this will help people get all caught up, then. A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #17 ARANA HEART OF THE SPIDER #7 ATOMIKA #4 AUTHORITY REVOLUTION #11 (OF 12) BALLAST ONE SHOT BATGIRL #67 BATMAN JOURNEY INTO KNIGHT #1(OF 12) BATMAN STRIKES #12 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #159 BETTY & VERONICA SPECTACULAR #71 BIRDS OF PREY #85 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #104 BONE REST #2 BOOKS OF MAGICK LIFE DURING WARTIME #13 BRIAN PULIDOS MEDIEVAL LADY DEATH WRAPAROUND #6 CABLE DEADPOOL #18 DEFENDERS #2 (OF 5) DETECTIVE COMICS #810 DEVILS REJECTS #1 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #331 DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES #1 (OF8) GENIE #2 GI JOE SNAKE-EYES DECLASSIFIED #1 GI SPY SAVING LADY…  Read More…

Garage Sale Aftermath….

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Essentially, it was an awesome garage sale. Admittedly, you have to kind of stretch your definition of awesome to include “cold, drizzly, and underserved by foot traffic,” but if you can, then yeah, it was awesome. Blessed be to Hibbs for letting me advertise the sale here and at the store–the bulk of the people who showed up were CE customers and subs who totally bowled over Edi with how funny, polite and kind they were. Most of them seemed pretty pleased with their purchases, to the point of more or less apologizing for robbing me blind by buying so many comic books and stuff at such low prices, but I was really happy to move some stuff and see…  Read More…

Last Freakin’ Garage Sale Update…

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Posted by: admin on August 13, 2005

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Because tomorrow is the big sale, and at the moment I’m trying to figure out if I should put prices on some of these odds and ends, like memory cards and stuff, or if that’s just dumb. I’m really, really glad there are people like Hibbs who can do what they do, because if I was running a comic book store? It’d make it maybe a year, tops. I mean, I was glad to spend three bucks on the seventh issue of Shanna so I can now bag it with the other issues and sell the whole set tomorrow for six bucks. That’s a hard thing to type knowing Brian is going to fall off his chair laughing when he…  Read More…

FUCK YEAH! (aka: FINALLY!)

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Posted by: admin on August 12, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Sorry to interrupt Jeff’s “Please buy my shit so Edi doesn’t eat my liver!” posts, but some good news here. As I mentioned already, the former Judge of the Marvel Class Action suit went bug-fuck insane and recused himself after the Appeal (Appellate? The law confuses me!) court told him he had to approve the Settlement Well, we got a NEW Judge, Judge Khan (And dig, I get this image in my head of Bill Jemas shaking his fist at the sky, screaming, “KHHHHHHHAAAAANNNNNN!!!!”) (I’m doing the obvious joke, so you don’t have to) Annnnnyway, Judge Khan signed off on the Settlement on Tuesday, 8/9, so we’re basically a “done deal” Apparently, the Settlement needs to be “entered” in the…  Read More…

Another Garage Sale Update….

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Posted by: admin on August 11, 2005

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Yes, another one. Don’t worry. By Saturday night, this will all be over. So more cling-wrapping for sets, but I also decided to follow Hibbs’ advice. He said if I wanted to guarantee that the stuff moves I should mark it ten for a buck. I kinda didn’t want to do that considering the money I’ve spent on this stuff over time but then again, I want to sell it on Ebay even less. So I do hope some of you are planning on stopping by, because the post office’s loss is your gain. I’ve got over seven long boxes of comics that are a dime apiece, and I think it’s a pleasing mix of good, bad and indescribable. Those…  Read More…

In Which Jeff Advertises His Upcoming Garage Sale…

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Posted by: admin on August 10, 2005

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The battle with cling wrap continues…or will be, shortly. It’s already past two and I’ve pissed most of the day away watching G.I. Samurai (an old fave I just discovered was on DVD last night) and The Wicker Man, an old copy of which I discovered digging through my stuff. A great double-feature, but it doesn’t bind up the ol’ JLA/Avengers miniseries in cling wrap, unfortunately…. Anyway, what follows is the text that I posted to the garage sale section of Craigslist just now. Fortunately I can do stuff here that I couldn’t or wouldn’t on Craigslist and can give you both a tinyURL for the googlemaps location of the sale, and an email address in case you have any…  Read More…

Reviews of 8/3 stuff

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It has been a crazy week – lots of it revolving around Ben (We need some more recent pics up, don’t we? One more thing to add to the “To Do” list!) His language skills seem to have doubled this week – not only is he starting to assay 3 syllable words, he’s also starting stringing words together to form simple sentences – “Bye bye, momma!” or “Airplane fly!”. He even busted out with a string of “Ub bub wa so-hi!”, which of course, is “Up above the world so high” from Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. So, something is clearly cooking in his head, which is probably why he’s suddenly decided he doesn’t need naps any longer. 2 days this…  Read More…

Shipping 8/10

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Yikes, yet another big big week! 100 BULLETS #63 2000 AD #1447 2000 AD #1448 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #16 (A) ACTION COMICS #830 BATMAN #643 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #194 BETTY #149 BETTY & VERONICA #211 BREACH #8 CANTON KID #2 (OF 4) CAPTAIN AMERICA #8 CITY OF HEROES #4 EASY WAY #4 (OF 4) ELKS RUN VOL 1 #3 EXILES #68 FABLES #40 FATHOM #3 FEED AMERICAS CHILDREN FEATURING MAJOR IMPACT #1 FERRO CITY #1 FRAGILE PROPHET #1 (OF 4) GRAVITY #3 (OF 5) GREEN ARROW #53 HAWKMAN #43 HELL MICHIGAN #2 HERO AT LARGE #1 HIROSHIMA THE ATOMIC HOLOCAUST #1 (OF 2) HOUSE OF M #5 (OF 8) INCREDIBLE HULK #85 IRON MAN #4…  Read More…

Short, Cranky and Mildly Panderous: Jeff’s Reviews of 08/03/05 Books.

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Posted by: admin on August 8, 2005

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First, let’s be clear on one thing: I freakin’ hate cling wrap and I hope the sonuvabitch who invented it is burning in a sizeable fiery pit right now. The only thing cling wrap is good for is sticking to cling wrap, and it’s only good for that when you don’t want it to do so (when you first tear it off the roll, for example). Otherwise, you can crease it against another piece of wrap all you want and have nothing to show for it except heightened blood pressure and a newly found compulsion to throw oneself out a window. I’m having a garage sale on Saturday the 13th, and I’m trying to make sets for it—like the sets…  Read More…

SHipping 8/3

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Posted by: admin on August 3, 2005

Categories: Shipping Lists

Whoops forgot to put this up before Ben’s swimming lesson, here you go: AMAZING FANTASY #11 AQUAMAN #33 ARANA HEART OF THE SPIDER #6 ARCHIE #559 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #163 BEAR #9 BLOOD OF THE DEMON #6 CAST #2 COCOPIAZO #4 COMMON FOE #2 (OF 4) DAREDEVIL REDEMPTION #6 (OF 6) DARKNESS #22 DC SPECIAL THE RETURN OF DONNA TROY #3 (OF 4) DETECTIVE COMICS #809 ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #2 (OF 9) EMO BOY #2 FANTASTIC FOUR HOUSE OF M #2 (OF 3) FAT BOY & HARVEY #1 FIRESTORM #16 FREAKSHOW #8 GI JOE AMERICAS ELITE #2 GOTHAM CENTRAL #34 HIP FLASK MYSTERY CITY HSU AND CHAN #7 HUNTER KILLER DOSSIER ONE SHOT IMAGINARIES #3 (OF 4) INTIMATES #10…  Read More…

Monday Morning Blues: Jeff’s Reviews of 7/27 Books

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Posted by: admin on August 1, 2005

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Whew! Hibbs already reviewed Wonder Woman #219 and OMAC Project #4 (in the entry just below this). It makes my life a little easier because I couldn’t start my reviews without a brief discussion of them, anyway. I started my day at CE reading both of them, then made my way through the rest of the titles in a more-or-less depressed funk. As Hibbs points out, there was a lot of stuff to like about WW but I dunno: I don’t mind superheroes brutally smashing each other to bits but if you’ve got to plot hammer so relentlessly to get to it, then I’m even more aware it’s just violent spectacle for violent spectacle’s sake. Which begs the question: Aren’t…  Read More…