Shipping 12/29

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Posted by: admin on December 27, 2005

Categories: Reviews

Staff party, Christmas at Mom’s, Hannukah at Dad’s… Three parties in three days,man, I am pooped! Here’s what’s shipping this week — another stupidly large week, yes. Remember, comics are not for sale until THURSDAY, both this week, and next. If you go into your Local Comic Shop on Wednesday, they’re going to point thier fingers at you and laugh. 10 ONE SHOT 2000 AD #1467 2000 AD #1468 30 DAYS OF NIGHT ANNUAL 2005 ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY #16 ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THEBOY WONDER #3 AMAZING FANTASY #16 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #527 ARANA HEART OF THE SPIDER #12 ARCHAIC #1 ARCHIE DIGEST #222 BART SIMPSON COMICS #27 BATMAN #648 BERLIN #12 BETTY & VERONICA #214 BLACK PANTHER #11 BLACK…  Read More…

Well, Whatever: Jeff’s Reviews of 12/21 Books….

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Posted by: admin on December 24, 2005

Categories: Reviews

It’s not like you have the time to read these reviews, but since I have the time to write ‘em… ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #647: Perfect for the holidays since it smacks a bit of the regifting process, or so I assume: I’d think Rucka had this all plotted out long before the Countdown and IC stuff came along, so that the Ruin-ready-to-show-the-world-Superman-killing-him felt like Rucka repeating himself when he probably came up with the shtick here first (where it makes a bit more sense), and decided to run with it later. That, and some other stuff might drive me crazy in another context, but considering I enjoyed reading it: OK. And if you compare it to the other two Superman…  Read More…

Halls Are Decked, Clocks Are Cleaned…

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Categories: Retailing/Industry

And the cobwebs of marketing are brushed aside in Hibbs’ latest Tilting at Windmills at Newsarama where he discusses his initial strategy for ordering DC’s “One Year Later” books. I’m really glad Matt Brady dragged this column out of him because it’s pretty interesting stuff.

More Hours, More Money: Jeff’s Friday Challenge

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Posted by: admin on December 22, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

This post is to take of two little pieces of business. First, Hibbs asked me to open the store early tomorrow (Friday, December 23rd) in case of holiday shoppers. We’re also planning on staying open a little late, if we get the foot traffic. So if you’ve got Xmas shopping to do, or just want to swing by and pick up the week’s books, we’ll be open from 10:00 a.m. ’til….8:00, more than likely. Second, remember that Penny Arcade comic from 12/7? The 25 cent one that really sucked ass? It’s kind of been killing me because I’m a fan of Tycho and Gabe’s site and said so in the newsletter and feel like several people gave the book at…  Read More…

Are you a friendless loser?

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Posted by: admin on December 19, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Shipping Lists

16 years running, Comix Experience throws it’s annual Christmas Eve Eggnog (with or without brandy) (and beer) party. If you’re a friendless loser, or just someone who hates the holidays, feel free to come by on Christmas Eve (around 5 PM), and bask in the communal misery of Comix Experience! No reviews from me this week — Matt Brady forced me to write a TILTING, even though I didn’t have the time, and the holiday season means I’m up to my ears in Stuff To Do. I also got an email from Graeme saying that he was too swamped to do it this week, as well. Also, let me second Heidi and recommend you watch “The Chronic of Narnia” video…  Read More…

Meaning To Do This For the Longest Time…

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Since Graeme and/or Brian haven’t posted yet, thought I’d take a second and point out that I updated the links. This is something we really should do more often, but don’t because I always feel like it’s something Brian should do, and I have no doubt Brian feels it’s something I should do. Anyway, I finally added Paul O’Brien’s The X-Axis which is absurdly overdue: there are weeks where reading Paul’s reviews is the incentive I use to finish my own. I started reading Christopher Butcher’s Comics.212.net only recently to fill the hole left by Graeme’s Fanboy Rampage and am hooked. There’s just tons and tons of great information on the site, and his list of recommended manga hit me…  Read More…

Good Morning Sunshine: Jeff’s Reviews of 12/14/05…

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Posted by: admin on December 17, 2005

Categories: Reviews

It was kinda awesome to check in on the blog this last week. Not too long ago, I was fretting about posting all the time, and whether or not Hibbs was gonna post, and how many days we could go without just dropping off viewers’ websurfing patterns–and this last week I was able to read five different entries, without one of ‘em having to be me. Plus one of the people posting is Graeme so it’s also one of my favorite people to read on the Web. Life is good. Because despite Hibbs calling me out on some books, I was just too busy at my regular gig and with the CE newsletter to cover anything. However since it’s now…  Read More…

The future is now, apparently.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on December 13, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

What is a comic? That’s the question on everyone’s lips, if lips were fingers on a keyboard and everyone was defined by Joe Quesada, Rich Johnston and Kieron Gillen! It all started, dear reader, last Friday when Joseph Quesada reconsidered webcomics at Newsarama: “For the longest time I’ve been an advocate that fans will always want the tangible book in their hands, and I came to that feeling because of what I saw as the reading habits of most folks on the net. But recently I’ve been a convert, I’m watching a very young generation of kids who are born into today’s computers and I realized that my take on this was completely selfish and was coming from a point…  Read More…

Wealth and fame, he’s ignored — Action is his reward!

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Ben likes him some super-heroes. I’ve told you all about his absolute Superman fixation, but he’s started branching out recently. Now he’s also into Spider-Man…. or at least the theme song. After about the 10th time of singing it for him, with him singing along on the “‘pider-man, ‘pider-man!” parts, I got sick of it and decided to try and find it on the WWW. Then I found this version, sung by a “Michael Buble”, apparently released with the second Spidey movie — kinda big band swingy version, as sung by an absolute Lounge Lizard — it never made the final movie, I think? Dunno, I didn’t sit through the end credits. Ben can watch this 6-8 times in a…  Read More…

What’s shipping to CE on 11/14

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100 BULLETS #67 2000 AD #1463 2000 AD #1464 2000 AD WINTER SPECIAL 2005 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #24 ACTION COMICS #834 AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS VOL 2 #3 AMELIA RULES #16 AQUAMAN #37 ATOMIKA #5 (OF 12) AUTHORITY THE MAGNIFICENT KEVIN #5 (OF 5) BAD PLANET #1 (OF 6) BATMAN GOTHAM COUNTY LINE #3 (OF 3) BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #198 BATMAN STRIKES #16 BETTY #152 BLACK HARVEST #2 (OF 6) BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #108 BOOKS OF DOOM #2 (OF 6) CABLE DEADPOOL #23 CAPTAIN ATOM ARMAGEDDON #3 (OF 9) CHICANOS #2 DESTINED FOR DIZZINESS ONE SHOT DMZ #2 FABLES #44 FEAR AGENT #2 FIRESTORM #20 FREAKSHOW #11 FUSED ONE SHOT GHOST RIDER #4 (OF 6)…  Read More…

Friendly Neighborhood Reviews of 12/7 comics

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In friendly neighborhood alphabetical order, here’s a sliver of what I thought about this week’s comics: BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #2: I’ll happily be Matt Wagner’s bitch, just so you know. I love his clarity of storytelling, and he does “classic” Batman oh so well. Makes you sorta wonder why work of this quality doesn’t run in BATMAN itself, and instead we have to have spin-off mini-series. I think putting this kind of “timeless” Batman work out in front of the general population would be the smartest course of all. Wonderfully terrific stuff, and a super easy VERY GOOD. DEADPAN #1: Sometimes dream comics work, and sometimes they don’t. Sadly, this is the latter case — rather than illuminating…  Read More…

It’s All Frank Miller’s Fault: Reviews of December 7th books

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on December 11, 2005

Categories: Reviews

I still haven’t read any holiday books, I shamefully admit. I almost did, but then I got an attack of the Grinches and figured that I should wait until closer to December 25th before I start reading about Robin and Starfire kissing under the mistletoe (Not that that’s stopped me from watching White Christmas and Holiday Inn this weekend, on a Bing Crosby-athon). Luckily, I managed to stay topical and read the first book below on the little-celebrated holiday Frank Miller Loves Patterned Underwear and Making Fanboys Horny Day. ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER SPECIAL EDITION #1: God, that’s a long title for what’s just a reprint of the first issue of the late-running and internet-breaking-in-half Ultimate…  Read More…

Why Are People Grudgeful?

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on December 6, 2005

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Joe Quesada, why don’t you try and sell me on this Moon Knight revamp that you’re doing? “I obviously wasn’t here when Moon Knight came into inception, but I’ve always heard that he was created to sort of be Marvel’s Batman. Now while I can see the similarities with Moon Knight of the past, this incarnation is pretty hardcore. Yes, he has just as cool a cape and his hood is pretty sweet, but this Moon Knight is kind of the character you wish Batman can be in many ways. This Moon Knight would never just jail the Joker in order for him to go on another mass murder spree just to jail him again. If this Moon Knight were…  Read More…

Arriving 12/7

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Categories: Shipping Lists

I’m sick with something — no mucus or anything, but super-achy joints and head, and the big yucky queasy stomach. So, if I’m terse, that’s why. Scroll down past this post to see three (!!) different review columns for this week, hurray! AEON FLUX #3 (OF 4) AGE OF BRONZE #22 ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN #1 SPECIAL EDITION #1 ANGEL OLD FRIENDS #1 (OF 5) ARCHIE #562 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #166 BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #2(OF 6) BATTLE HYMN #5 (OF 5) BEAR #10 BLOOD OF THE DEMON #10 BONE REST #6 BONEYARD #20 CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #20 (RES) CAVEMAN ROBOT #1 CONAN & THE DEMONS OF KHITAI #3 (OF 4) DANGER GIRL BACK IN BLACK #2…  Read More…

Hibbs’ reveiws for 11/30

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Posted by: admin on December 5, 2005

Categories: Reviews

IMAGE COMICS HC: Well, that’s a pretty….astonishing document, isn’t it? From a production stand-point, this is a pretty terrible looking book — the chapter pages with that dot pattern straight out of WHO’S WHO IN THE DC UNIVERSE (except with rainbow colors!), stories that bleed into the gutter (The SAVAGE DRAGON story was hardest to read because of that), text pieces that are laid out so your eye doesn’t track them properly, numerous typos of all kinds and stripes (Mistaking “loose” for “lose” is one of my biggest pet peeves of all), etc. and so on. Content-wise, it’s weirder than weird, too — a SAVAGE DRAGON story that makes the character a repulsive beast; a CYBERFORCE story continued into JLA/CYBERFORCE,…  Read More…

Home From the Wars: Reviews of 11/30 Books…

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Whew. I crossed the Nanowrimo finish line last week and it looks like it did what it was supposed to: not only did I get a chance to bask in my 50,000 words of crap but I’m still working on it past the deadline, making my hopeful I’ll be able to actually finish one of my crappy books and begin the process of revising and crap removing. Naturally, I celebrated my literary ways by playing lots and lots of Resident Evil 4 for the PS2. Oh, man. There have been a lot of exceptional games for the PS2 in the last twelve months and this is right up there. Shooting Lovecraftian European villagers in the brain just never gets old…….  Read More…

Infinite Crisis is killing comics: Reviews of 11/30 and 11/23 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on December 4, 2005

Categories: Reviews

The terrible thing about catching up on everything after taking a week off is that there’s always much more to catch up on than you thought. Take this week: I wanted to read the two holiday books that the big two had put out (Marvel Holiday Special and Teen Titans Go), but instead I figured, why not leave those until closer to the actual holidays? And then I read other books and realized that the answer to that question was, Because almost all of this week’s books suck. So now you know. ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #646: Let’s face it, there are probably some stories that just don’t need to be written. For example, Mister Mxyzptlk’s losing his powers and memory…  Read More…