What Hibbs thought of 3/22 books

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Posted by: admin on March 29, 2006

Categories: Reviews

Lost more time than I thought I would this week – got the order form done pretty early, but Rob got sick on Monday, killing my afternoon that I planned on writing. So, AlphaSmart at the store’s counter, while the rain pitter-pats down outside. Been open 45 minutes, and we’ve yet to have a customer yet. Good for writing, poor for the pocketbook. I studiously avoided going to the site in the last few days, but I’m going to go ahead and assume that both Graeme and Jeff have posted reviews this week, making this the rare hat trick. Unless they didn’t, in which case… never mind. (If I read their reviews, it usually kills my interest in writing any…  Read More…

Arriving 3/29

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A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #31 (A) ACTION COMICS #837 ALL STAR SUPERMAN #3 BATMAN JOURNEY INTO KNIGHT #8(OF 12) BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #202 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #141 BLUE BEETLE #1 BOOK OF SHADOWS #1 (OF 2) BOOKS OF DOOM #5 (OF 6) CAPTAIN AMERICA 65TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL CHICANOS #5 DEADWORLD #3 FALLEN ANGEL IDW #4 (OF 5) FANTASTIC FOUR #536 FROM HEAVEN TO HELL #2 GODLAND #9 GREEN LANTERN #10 HOW TO SELF PUBLISH COMICS #2(OF 4) HYSTERIA ONE MAN GANG #2 (OF 4) INVINCIBLE #30 IRON MAN #6 JLA CLASSIFIED #19 JOVAS HARVEST #3 (OF 3) LUCIFER #72 MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX GUYS & DOLL MARVEL SPOTLIGHT DAVID FINCH ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI…  Read More…

The Onion A.V. Club Goes Savagely Critical This Week.

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Just in case you don’t check it out on a regular basis, this week’s Onion A.V. Club brings the critic with a side-helping of savage this week. Their review of DC’s One Year Later titles is really just an overview (so Hibbs should clear some space in his schedule and get to his take on the books), but their Comics of Note section has quick takes on sixteen or seventeen recent books, from La Perdida to Ganges to Daredevil and X-Men: Deadly Genesis. Worth checking out, although comparing Kevin Huizenga to Peter Bagge and Terry LaBan? Hmm…

What I do while Kate watches Lawrence of Arabia: Graeme’s review of 3/22 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on March 26, 2006

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Jeff and I both review on the same day? This kind of thing can only happen… in DC Nation. I admit it; I’m kind of amused by the revamp of DC’s back page version of “Bullpen Bulletins,” especially as it reminds me of the version they had the last time they had a Crisis of Infinite proportions, when Dick Giordano had the Dan Didio role and promised all manner of good things and revolutions and the like. Still, at least DC have finally hired a good designer to do the page this time, even if a third of the page is filled with a stylish black and white portrait of Didio. Shall we begin the reviewing, nonetheless? BATMAN #651: First…  Read More…

Oh, Sweet Sloth: Jeff’s Reviews of 03/24/06 Books.

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[Insert clever intro that, as per Hibbs and G-Mc, almost-but-not-really-spoils the end of Battlestar Galactica this season.] [Add ancillary para talking about nerdly pleasure received playing Metal Gear Solid: Subsistence, nerdly frustration in being forced into either piracy or poverty to watch that one god-damned season of the animated Planet of the Apes.] [Provide clumsy transition from previous paras to reviews of this week's comics. Realize meta-introduction crutch has been utilized twice before. Grimace. Shrug. Begin.] AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #530: In an attempt to break irony-measuring gauges worldwide, JMS, who works with no editorial interference, illustrates exactly why everyone needs an editor, via a terrifyingly unfunny page of asides set as, of course, duelling Editor’s Notes. A working man might go…  Read More…

Arriving 3/22

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Posted by: admin on March 22, 2006

Categories: Shipping Lists

I will have reviews this week, I promise (-ish) Meanwhile: Here’s what is arriving at CE this week: 13TH SON WORSE THING WAITING #4 (OF 4) 2000 AD #1476 2000 AD #1477 ADULT FRANKENSTEIN (A) ALICE IN WONDERLAND #2 (OF 4) ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #3 AMAZING FANTASY #19 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #530 AMERICAN WAY #2 (OF 8) ANGEL SCRIPTBOOK #1 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #99 ARCHIE DIGEST #224 ARES #3 (OF 5) BATMAN #651 BLACK PANTHER #14 CAPTAIN AMERICA #16 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #19 CATWOMAN #53 CONVENTION CONFESSIONAL #2 CYBERFORCE LEE CVR #1 DAREDEVIL #83 DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON #3 (OF 6) DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES KURTH CVR A #8 (OF 8) EXILES #78 FATHOM #8 FUTURAMA…  Read More…

The man from DIDIO.

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I had a dream, dear friends, the other night. And it was a dream in which I met DC’s Dan Didio, and he was wearing an old-fashioned circus strongman’s outfit, and his moustache was newly waxed to match. As he led me through the house where I grew up, he told me in no uncertain terms about the secret cabal he belonged to, and how said cabal was looking to change the way the world viewed “old media” such as print. At one point, I asked him if he was telling me all of this because he wanted me to join the cabal, and he laughed as if I’d just said the funniest joke in the world. My subconscious? Not…  Read More…

A week late and no-one even remembers Ron Moore: Graeme’s review of the 3/15 books

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on March 19, 2006

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After the dreaded lurgy last week – nowhere near as bad as Hibbs’s lurgy, because I was only off my feet for a couple of days – I’m back, fighting fit (albeit with a runny nose), and mad that me missing the reviews last week meant that Brian got to the “Battlestar Galactica did that One Year Later thing better than DC” bit before me. Damn you, sickness! A LATE FREEZE: This is a mini that a mutual friend of the artist and m’good self sent me earlier on in the week, and it’s probably the best thing I read all week. Danica Novgorodoff is the artist in question behind this almost-silent story of a bear that falls in love…  Read More…

New TILTING up

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Posted by: admin on March 17, 2006

Categories: Retailing/Industry

http://www.newsarama.com/Tilting2_0/Tilting26.htm Are Marvel & DC crowding indies off the shelf? Does the DM only want super-heroes? NO! -B

Shipping 3/15/2006

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Posted by: admin on March 15, 2006

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Shipping Lists

Nearly back to “fighting trim” — my green mucus is now back to clear, and I’m only having to blow my nose first thing in the morning. I expect I’ll be back to 100% by this weekend. I’m at 96-97% right now. Now that my brain is starting to work again, I’ve got to pound out a TILTING AT WINDMILLS for Friday on Newsarama, plus, this week is ONOMATOPOEIA week, so I don’t think you’ll see any reviews from me until next week. Actually, what I really want to do is to do a big “One Year Later” catchall, I think. Heh, though the second season finale of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA probably did it better than any of the OYL comics…  Read More…

Remember, Remember…

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Posted by: admin on March 12, 2006

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After a hideously short period of time, you’ll have to register to read this, but for now you can read this keen little profile on Alan Moore and his frustrations over the V For Vendetta movie here at the New York Times. So far, I think my favorite quote from Moore is, “I am what Harry Potter grew up into…and it’s not a pretty sight.” But I’m not all the way through the article yet.

The Change-Up: Jeff’s 3/9 Reviews of 3/8 Books….

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Posted by: admin on March 9, 2006

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Yeah, I had to go pick up a package I had shipped to CE yesterday, and all those bright shiny new comic books were just staring at me, so I figgered, you know, what the hell? AMERICAN VIRGIN #1: Oh, Becky Cloonan, what have you gotten me into? That’s not entirely fair; I try to pick up any first issue of a ongoing Vertigo to help give it a little nudge out of the gate, but the draw for me here was Cloonan. I’m impressed the previews led me to believe the storyline was going to go a certain way–it helped keep the turn of events surprising–but overall, I didn’t dig this too much. Cloonan’s scenes only intermittently show the…  Read More…

Sick of being sick: shipping 3/8

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Posted by: admin on March 8, 2006

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Going on somehting like day 10 of the Plague That Maggie Thompson Gave Me — though I actually managed a full day of work yesterday. This is starting to get damn tiresome. All I want to do it sleep and blow and my nose, I can’t muster more than that. Same with Tzipora and Ben, ew. Here’s what showed yesterday — I’m hoping I’ll have the strength to write a review or something soon (I want to talk OYL, too!), but, man, I’ve got to get this flu off my back…. 2000 AD #1474 2000 AD #1475 30 DAYS OF NIGHT DEAD SPACE #2 (OF 3) AMERICAN VIRGIN #1 ARMY OF DARKNESS #5 (RES) BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #5(OF…  Read More…

And I even liked Ms. Marvel. What’s that all about?: Graeme’s reviews of the 3/1 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on March 5, 2006

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So, it’s an odd week. DC’s first One Year Later books appear while other DC books ship late and confuse people who aren’t paying attention. Meanwhile, Marvel launch Ms. Marvel really quietly, and wonder whether they’ll have to change the name of their Civil War series if the situation in Iraq gets much worse. Ttt. Comics, huh? Who’d bother with them? ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #649: Or, as the cover calls it, “The Last Adventures of Superman”. Of course, that’s not true in any sense; it isn’t even the last part of this particular (and peculiar) three-part Superbook crossover that appears to take place between pages of Infinite Crisis #5. Even the art on the cover has nothing to do with…  Read More…

One Year Later Two Weeks Later: Jeff’s Reviews of 03/01 Books

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Man, where to start? Hibbs is really, impressively ill–it’s the closest I’ve seen anyone in real life looking like a zombie from a Romero movie–so I worked nearly all of yesterday at the store by myself. This means I didn’t plow as deeply into the week’s comics as I would have liked, nor did I get as far into my backlog of stuff as I would have liked. But here’s my two cents about: AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #40: My first “One Year Later” book reviewed (although not the first one read) and I think “Aquaman meets Conan” is a very smart approach to the title, since the undersea oceans are as distant and strange as any fantasy realm. I…  Read More…