Long Way Round: Jeff’s Blabbity-Blab About Buenos Aires.

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Posted by: admin on February 26, 2006

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Hey. I’m back from a great time in Buenos Aires where my wife and I went to visit her best friend who’s subletting a place for a few months down there. The weather was great, the food was even better, and the exchange rate was downright dreamy. I’m not officially “back” in that we returned yesterday and I probably won’t get to CE until Friday, but thought I’d share what I gleaned about the comix scene down in Buenos Aires. This is long, and has not a comic review in it, so if you want to skip it, I won’t mind. Hibbs has a great write-up about Sweeney Todd just below, so while this may not be your week to…  Read More…

Only in New York!

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Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews

Airplane writing on the Alpha-Smart, here (with later editing/linking now that I’m home) I just got back from the NY con (well, the trade show, more accurately – I left back for home on Saturday morning), about which more later. First though, let me tell you my “Only In New York” story…. I got into town on Wednesday, and went to the current restaging of Sweeney Todd that night. To be honest, I generally hate musicals, but I really really like Sweeney. Perhaps it is the dark story, which ends in horror and insanity, without a single bit of redemption – that’s not what musicals are, right? I’ve actually seen Sweeney before on Broadway – when I was…. Hm, 10,…  Read More…

Arriving 2/22

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Posted by: admin on February 20, 2006

Categories: Reviews

Plenty of reviews below this post, if you only scan the front page… A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #29 (A) ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #2 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #529 AMERICAN WAY #1 (OF 8) ASTONISHING X-MEN #13 ATLAS #2 (Still missing over half our order…) BART SIMPSON COMICS #28 BATMAN #650 BATMAN JOURNEY INTO KNIGHT #7(OF 12) BIG QUESTIONS #8 BLACK PANTHER #13 BLACK WIDOW 2 #6 (OF 6) BOOK OF LOST SOULS #5 CAPTAIN AMERICA #15 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #18 CATWOMAN #52 CRICKETS #1 DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES #4 (OF4) DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES KURTH CVR A #7 (OF 8) DUEL #2 (OF 4) EXILES #77 FANTASTIC FOUR #535 FRESHMEN #6 (OF 6) GI JOE…  Read More…

Hibbs’ 2/15 comics

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I’m just crazy busy these days — getting ready to go to NY for the con out there, too (Yeah: 2 cos in the shortest month of the year, good plan!) — but I feel so lame that I’m not getting reviews up, so here are a few… First off, scroll down a smidge and read Graeme’s review of Eddie Campbell’s FATE OF THE ARTIST. I very much agree with what he said there, and it is really a terrific, terrific book that you’ll want for your shelves. ACTION COMICS #836: Yeah, I don’t know about this, really. A big part of it reads like “Oh, hey, we’re counted wrong and need another month of SUperman comics during Crisis” —…  Read More…

Pre-ordering is my friend: A lesson learned through reviews of 2/15 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on February 19, 2006

Categories: Reviews

The drawback of being sick this week – besides, you know, that whole being sick part of the whole deal – is that by the time I got to the store this week to pick up things to read and review, the two books that I’d really been looking forward to (Brian Wood’s new one, SUPERMARKET, and Paul Pope’s BATMAN YEAR 100) were sold out already, or at least invisible to my eyes. I know, I know; if I’d preordered them then all would’ve been fine, but it’s not like I’ve ever been good at planning ahead at any point in my life up to now. I get anxious about thinking about the future, you see. I’m always convinced that,…  Read More…

Arriving 2/15

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Posted by: admin on February 15, 2006

Categories: Shipping Lists

Sorry ’bout the tumbleweeds around here folks — everyone’s been busy (There’s a WonderCon shaped whole in my life right about now….), but something of real content soon, I promise! A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #28 ACTION COMICS #836 ALICE IN WONDERLAND #1 ANGRY YOUTH COMIX #10 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #98 ARMY OF DARKNESS #4 ATLAS #2 (Allocated on the west coast — balance next week?) BATGIRL #73 BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #74 BATMAN YEAR ONE HUNDRED #1 (OF 4) BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #140 BIRDS OF PREY #91 CHICANOS #4 CONAN #25 DANGER GIRL BACK IN BLACK #4 (OF 4) DAREDEVIL #82 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #337 EMO BOY #5 FIRESTORM #22 GENERATION M #4 (OF 5) GIANT SIZE…  Read More…

For Eddie Campbell fans…

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So, a couple of things different about this edition of Le Critique Sauvage, neither of which involves the fact that I’m now referring to the name of this blog in its French incarnation. No, dear readers, the couple of things are about the book I’m writing about: Firstly, it’s not out yet, and secondly, I loved it to pieces. It’s the second of those that presents the most problems for me, as I’m sure you can imagine. How am I supposed to be snarky and make cheap jokes when I enjoyed the damn thing? Anyway, THE FATE OF THE ARTIST: For those of you who took my and Jeff’s recommendations to read the last issue of The Comics Journal for…  Read More…

Tilting at Windmills up @Newsarama

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Posted by: admin on February 10, 2006

Categories: Retailing/Industry

The newest column, on BookScan in 2005, is up at Newsarama — alway interested in your thoughts! http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1629090#post1629090 OK, time to get ready to go to WonderCon…. -B

Arriving 2/8/06

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Posted by: admin on February 8, 2006

Categories: Shipping Lists

100 BULLETS #69 2000 AD #1470 2000 AD #1471 ACTION PHILOSOPHERS WORLD DOMINATION HANDBOOK ADVENT RISING ROCK THE PLANET #3 ARCHIE DIGEST #223 ARES #2 (OF 5) BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #200 (NOTE PRICE) BATMAN STRIKES #18 BETTY & VERONICA #215 BLACK WIDOW 2 #5 (OF 6) BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #110 BOMB QUEEN #1 (OF 4) BONE REST #8 CABLE DEADPOOL #25 CAPTAIN ATOM ARMAGEDDON #5 (OF 9) CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #22 DMZ #4 ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #5 (OF 9) FABLES #46 FRANKLIN RICHARDS SON OF A GENIUS EVERYBODY LOVES FRANKLIN GHOST RIDER #6 (OF 6) GI JOE AMERICAS ELITE #8 GREEN ARROW #59 GUNCANDY #2 (OF 2) HAWKMAN #49 I HEART MARVEL WEB OF…  Read More…

With her satin tights, fighting for your rights: No reviews for 2/1 from Graeme

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on February 5, 2006

Categories: Uncategorized

Normally at this time, I come here and bitch about what books have appeared this week while trying to be funny with varying results. This week, however, I’ve managed to fail to get to the store, and therefore have nothing to review. Well, nothing apart from the programming schedule for next week’s Wondercon here in Sunny San Francisco, of course. “With over 90 hours of programming over 3 days, WonderCon’s programming schedule has something for everyone,” claims the official website, which means that somehow they’re adding in an extra six hours per day for your pleasure. Time means nothing to these people, I’m telling you. I have a love-hate relationship with conventions that can best be described as “I am…  Read More…

Dour, Sour Power: Jeff’s Reviews for 2/1 Books….

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What happens when you take a surly, apathetic, quasi-aphasic grump and make him review comics? Let’s find out, shall we? CAPTAIN AMERICA #14: I like Ed Brubaker. I like his writing, and I like him. (He used to shop CE when he lived in the city and he was a mensch.) And considering we’re both fans of the Englehart run, I should really like his work on Captain America, and I do…more or less. And, also, I have to give him double bonus-points for managing to actually bring back Bucky (barring some future revelation that he’s faked us out) and successfully make his case for it in front of all of Internet fandom. Having said all that, I have to…  Read More…

We need a window display artist!

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Posted by: admin on February 3, 2006

Categories: Retailing/Industry

It’s been one of those months, really — I just realized today that we still had the Christmas window display up, uh, in February. So I asked Sue if she had any ideas for a new window, and she told me she’s pretty much run out of ideas after her 4 (?) year run in setting them up. Now, me, I’ve been doing this coming up on 17 years now, and all of MY ideas are long since dull or uninteresting, and while, sure, I can go back to making color photocopy blow ups of covers and banging them up in the bay, honestly it’s better if we have SOME creativity involved. Comix Experience has a huge bay window —…  Read More…

Shahin’s Comic Shop Map

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Posted by: admin on February 1, 2006

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Yes, this is cool

Shipping 2/1

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Yeah, I forgot to post this last week — shows you how hectic I’ve been post-holiday. Making progress in my big-ass pile of work (esp now that this month’s order form is finally done), maybe I’ll have reviews this week? (The nice bit is that Jeff and Graeme review so well, what do you need from me?) 2000 AD #1469 30 DAYS OF NIGHT DEAD SPACE #1 (OF 3) A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #27 (A) ABC A-Z TERRA OBSCURA AND SPLASH BRANNIGAN ANGEL OLD FRIENDS #3 (OF 5) AQUAMAN #39 ATHENA VOLTAIRE FLIGHT OF THEFALCON #1 ATOMIKA #6 (OF 12) BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #4(OF 6) BEOWULF #6 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #163 BLACK HARVEST #3 (OF 6)…  Read More…