Arrving 4/26

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Posted by: admin on April 26, 2006

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2000 AD #1480 2000 AD #1481 ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #4 AMAZING FANTASY #20 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #531 AMERICAN WAY #3 (OF 8) ANNIHILATION RONAN #1 (OF 4) ARMY OF DARKNESS #6 ASTONISHING X-MEN #14 BART SIMPSON COMICS #29 BATMAN #652 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #204 BETTY & VERONICA #217 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #165 BLACK HARVEST #5 (OF 6) BLACK PANTHER #15 BLUE BEETLE #2 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #20 CATWOMAN #54 CHECKMATE #1 CLIVE BARKERS GREAT AND SECRET SHOW #2 (OF 12) CRISIS AFTERMATH THE BATTLE FOR BLUDHAVEN #2 (OF 6) DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON #4 (OF 6) DOLL & CREATURE #2 (OF 4) ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #7 (OF 9) FANTASTIC…  Read More…

And Men Shall Call Him…Copy Boy!! Jeff’s Reviews of 4/19 Books

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Posted by: admin on April 22, 2006

Categories: Reviews

So if you ever get the chance to make a photocopy on the Comix Experience copier? Don’t do it. Seriously. I’ve had a pretty rough week overall with work being crazy and Hibbs ill as hell and trying to hit my deadline for the newsletter while also spending time in Half-Moon Bay with the missus (okay that was great, I admit it, but still a little stressful with the deadline), but none of that compares to our scary-ass copier which is 375 years old on which Hibbs manages to make print the newsletter on 11×17 flats every month. Since he was home hallucinating from pain and a lack of sleep yesterday, I got to run the store and run some…  Read More…

Hurray, not dead! And some thanks!

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While I still feel like there’s a steel rod, barbed with little razors, in my throat, it is, at least, no longer rotating, and pounding in and out at piston-speed. Was able to swallow solid food this morning, and I actually got almost a full 8 hours of sleep last night, so I think I am “better”. What a fucked up virus that was. “Yeah, can’t do anything for you,” said the doctor, “we’re no good with viruses yet — antibioticis will do nothing, and while you’re inflamed, it isn’t tonsilitis or Strep, so all I can do is give you a perscription for vicodin and ice cream.” The vicodin didn’t do much but allow me to sleep for a…  Read More…

arriving 4/19

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Posted by: admin on April 19, 2006

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got some sort of a virus, tzipora has it too. dr. said “have to wait it out”, fucking swell. ben, at least, is spared, and he’s with grandfather today haven’t slept more than 20 minutes at onmce in last 2 days. that’s all 7 DAYS TO FAME #3 (OF 3) A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #32 (A) ANGEL OLD FRIENDS #5 (OF 5) ANNIHILATION NOVA #1 (OF 4) AVENGERS & POWER PACK ASSEMBLE #1 (OF 4) BETTY #155 BIG MAX #1 BIRDS OF PREY #93 BITE CLUB VAMPIRE CRIME UNIT #1 (OF 5) BOOK OF LOST SOULS #6 CAPTAIN AMERICA #17 CHICANOS #6 CONAN #27 CONAN BOOK OF THOTH #2 (OF 4) CYBERFORCE LEE CVR #2 DAREDEVIL #84 DEAD EYES…  Read More…

And this one has video: Graeme’s review of the 4/5 and 4/12 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on April 17, 2006

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Well, that was a surprisingly dull week. Well, in terms of single issues, at least – There were some good trades and graphic novels released, and if this was the world where I had more money than Donald Trump, I’d have been able to buy the lot of them. As it was, this is the world where taxes were due, so what can you do? Besides share the following, which has nothing to do with comics but may be the best thing SNL has done in years… CRISIS AFTERMATH: THE BATTLE FOR BLUDHAVEN #1: There are parts of this that are so bad, you immediately start hoping that maybe the entire series is the result of some weird dare from…  Read More…

Arriving 4/12

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Posted by: admin on April 12, 2006

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Jeff had it right that I’m out of the reviewing game this week (though, Ironically, had he not posted reviews I would have had forced myself to post SOMETHING tonight, just to avoid dead-air. Ladies and Gentlemen: Jeff Lester, His Own Worst Enemy!) (Right now, he’s shaking his fist at me, muttering “Curse you, Hibbs!” And he’s right, too!) I’ll actually be writing TILTING tomorrow moring. I have No Good Idea, as of this moment. I’m sure I’ll wake up tomorrow with SOMEthing, but tonight? Not so much. I will use this space to be a total old-school gamer, though, and tell you about the Ultima 5 (http://www.uo.com/archive/ultima5/) conversion/expansion for Dungeon Siege by the U5 Lazarus Project — http://www.u5lazarus.com/ Dungeon…  Read More…

I Knew This Would Happen…Jeff’s Review of 04/05/06 Books.

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Posted by: admin on April 11, 2006

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I knew that sooner or later my weekend job would get extra-busy and piledrive me into the ground, and, of course, it happened on the same weekend as APE. And since Graeme didn’t make it into the store Friday, I thought it unlikely he’d be posting his reviews over the weekend. (I don’t know for sure, but I sort of imagine Graeme making his way around APE and the various parties over the weekend, mingling with the comix hoi-polloi. If so, maybe he’ll get a chance to grace us with a report? Hey, I can dream, right?) And, of course, Brian’s busy and preoccupied and, unless I’m remembering his schedule incorrectly, probably has a Tilting that he’s working on this…  Read More…

One Year (and a month) Later

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Posted by: admin on April 5, 2006

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews

So, listen, I’m not sure if I’m the perfect audience (long-time DC fan) or the deadly worst audience (long-time DC fan) for this kind of stunt – every “jumping on” point is equally a “jumping off” point, after all. Some mechanical stuff, first, I think… that “One Year Later” logo looks disturbingly like the “DC Bullet” doesn’t it? Plus, I’m of the mind that it was misplaced, in most cases. “Most” stores either rack with an overlapping top-to-bottom, or with overlapping left-to-right (We’re in the latter group) – this means that the single most valuable piece of “real estate” on the cover is the top left hand corner. Sadly, most of the OYL books have the logo in the middle-right……  Read More…

Arriving 4/4

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ANNIHILATION SILVER SURFER #1(OF 4) ANT #5 AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #41 ARCHENEMIES #1 (OF 4) BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #6(OF 6) BATMAN SECRETS #2 (OF 5) BATTLE POPE COLOR #6 BLOOD OF THE DEMON #14 BLOWJOB #17 (A) BOMB QUEEN #3 (OF 4) BOOK OF LOST SOULS #6 CITY OF HEROES #12 CLIVE BARKERS GREAT AND SECRET SHOW #1 (OF 12) DETECTIVE COMICS #818 DOC SAMSON #4 (OF 5) DUEL #3 (OF 4) ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #6 (OF 9) EMO BOY #6 ENVELOPE MANUFACTURER #2 EX MACHINA #19 EXTERMINATORS #4 FRIDAY THE 13TH BLOODBATH #3 (OF 3) FRIDAY THE 13TH JASON VS JASON X #1 (OF 2) GI JOE AMERICAS ELITE #10 HARD TIME SEASON TWO #5…  Read More…

I have now read the worst comic ever: Graeme’s review of the 3/29 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on April 2, 2006

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It’s the little things, isn’t it? For example, listening to Brian Michael Bendis’s recent three-hour Q and A podcast the other day while on my way to work, I heard him announce that he is a massive fan of “Gilmore Girls”. All of a sudden, all of my previous dislike of Bendis’s work? Gone. Entirely. Because I, too, am an enormous fan of the show, despite Rory’s face, which looks like some weird Manga drawing come to life. But, hey! Arguably the most popular writer in comics likes the same shitty TV shows as me! I feel vindicated. While I’m talking about podcasts and everything, did anyone else listen to Lene Taylor’s interview with Rory Root? I think I have…  Read More…

Jeff’s Reviews of the 3/29 Books….Or Are They??

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I realized when I sat down to write this that it’s April 1st and at first I thought “hey, wouldn’t it be hilarious to write these reviews and completely make shit up!?” But you know, the occasional Google Romance aside, I’m not the biggest fan of April Fool’s Day stuff, on or off the ‘Net. Part of that is my general inclination toward the “bah, humbug” state of mind, and some of it is I just recently had to wipe the egg off my face after gleefully telling my wife about that whole “exploding space tits” story. I think the Internet and British tabloids should be exempt from April Fool’s Day shenanigans because for them, every day is April Fool’s…  Read More…

Seventeen!

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Posted by: admin on April 1, 2006

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Today, April 1, marks the seventeenth anniversary of Comix Experience. Hoo-fuckin-rah! OK, time to get back to inventory…. -B