Arriving 6/28

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Posted by: admin on June 27, 2006

Categories: Shipping Lists

Honestly, I could take Lester’s reviews and just say “ditto” pretty much down the line — including the picks of WEEK and WEAK. Despite that, if I have time at the store tomorrow, I’ll try to write up a few notes of my own. Until then: here’s what we’re getting this week, with CIVIL WAR like a bus. Nothing for a while, then, BOOM, six at once! 52 WEEK #8 ACTION COMICS #840 ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #6 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #533 CW AMERICAN WAY #5 (OF 8) ANNIHILATION RONAN #3 (OF 4) ANT #6 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #171 AVENGERS & POWER PACK ASSEMBLE #3 (OF 4) BART SIMPSON COMICS #30 BATMAN #654 BETTY #157 BLACK…  Read More…

An Almost Perfect Storm: Jeff’s Reviews of the 6/21 Books…

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 25, 2006

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Seems like a seriously huge week for comics, huh? I mean, you’ve seen that shipping list–all we needed was a new issue of Ultimate Hulk Vs. Wolverine to go with Astonishing and Ultimates and it would’ve put an end to about 95% of the “when is _______ coming out” questions I get every week from Marvel fans–so you’d assume that yesterday would’ve been a “tall dollars” day, right? Right. But, weirdly, it seemed the vast bulk of it was from out-of-towners, first-timers, gift shoppers and people shopping for the classics: I sold a copy of Maus yesterday, for example. A copy of Jimmy Corrigan. (One guy took five steps into the store, looked to his two o’clock, snagged the copy…  Read More…

New York Times Book Review? Feh. (Jeff’s Reviews of the 6/14 Books)

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 19, 2006

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Dog-sitting, sleep deprivation, GTA: LCS for the PS2, dog-barfing, writing deadlines, co-worker frustration, dog-farting, exhaustion, dog hair tumbleweeds rolling across the kitchen floor, father’s day, furniture moving, carpet cleaning, neighbor hating, muscle pulling, vicodin. It’s been a week. 52 WEEK #6: This+Checkmate #3= mild confusion. So the world is almost pushed to war because of China’s superhero program, but nobody really looks at it in any detail until Checkmate, one year later? Hmmm. I thought this week’s Moment of Melodrama was more than a little shrill (I love how “It’s All His Fault!” is written eleven million times and then there’s a picture with Booster circled and a “Him! This guy! His Fault!” notation–like Rip (or whomever) wrote “It’s All…  Read More…

Arriving 6/21

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Had a wonderful Father’s Day, thanks for asking, which follows hot on the heels of a loverly 39th birthday, so I’m pretty celebrated out! My major goal for the back half of the year is to get back to my novel (over 2 years fallow, thanks to having Ben running around the house), which means I need to buckle my ass down, and stop wasting time with video games and well, probably comics reviews, too. I’ll squeeze in what I can on Tuesday mornings between doing my paperwork and when the books actually arrive, but expect me to be a LOT quieter here (as if such a thing is actually possible) Here’s what’s arriving this week, and, OMFG, that’s a…  Read More…

My name is Peter Parker, and I’ve been a blogger since I was fifteen years old: Graeme’s reviews of the 6/14 weeks.

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The World Cup! A time when America wakes up to the international love of football, thinks about it for a second, shrugs and goes back to sleep. But yesterday, when my dad – still in town, for those keeping track of my familial visits – told me that America had drawn in their match with Italy, I said as a joke, “Have Italy forgotten how to play football?” Little did I know that the answer actually was yes, and that America hadn’t actually scored the equalizing score themselves. In a week when Marvel get a massive amount of publicity for Spider-Man revealing his identity to the Marvel world-at-large and thereby ending one of the core parts of the Spider-Man concept,…  Read More…

Arriving 6/14

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Posted by: admin on June 14, 2006

Categories: Shipping Lists

Ooops, I haven’t posted this yet, have I? 100 BULLETS #73 52 WEEK #6 AMERICAN VIRGIN #4 ANNIHILATION SUPER SKRULL #3 (OF 4) ARCHIE & FRIENDS #101 ARCHIE DIGEST #226 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #207 BATMAN STRIKES #22 BATTLE POPE #8 (RES) BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #143 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #114 CABLE DEADPOOL #29 CAPTAIN ATOM ARMAGEDDON #9 (OF 9) CHECKMATE #3 CIVIL WAR #2 (OF 7) CRISIS AFTERMATH THE BATTLE FOR BLUDHAVEN #5 (OF 6) DMZ #8 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #341 ELRIC MAKING OF A SORCERER #3(OF 4) (RES) EX MACHINA SPECIAL #2 (OF 2) EXILES #82 FABLES #50 (NOTE PRICE) FEAR AGENT #5 (RES) FINAL DESTINATION SPRING BREAK #2 (OF 5) FIRESTORM THE…  Read More…

Short and Sweet: Jeff’s Reviews of the 6/7 Books.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 12, 2006

Categories: Reviews

Funny. It’s probably the most anemic release week in six or seven months and you’ve got all three of us contributing reviews. Whether there’s a connection between the two events, I can’t really say. Nonetheless, I’ll be pretty brief here, because most of the really good points were hit by Graeme & Bri. But, first! Hats off to Justin Riegner, whose letter to Robert Kirkman ends up on the next-to-last page of Walking Dead #28. Justin asks Kirkman quite openly why he can’t get his creator-owned books on schedule and how shipping issues two weeks in a row hurts retailers. Justin then goes on to point Kirkman to Hibbs’ articles on Newsarama for a full explanation of what he’s talkign…  Read More…

Paul Jenkins, what were you thinking?: Graeme’s reviews of the 6/7 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on June 11, 2006

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Ah, to be healthy and actually reasonably current with what’s come out this week. No longer do I have to look online for spoilers about what happened in that week’s books, now I only have to look online for spoilers of things to write about on Newsarama. Another benefit of being healthy: Going to see French wonder Camille tonight at Bimbo’s. I admit it, I’m a fan of the singing in languages I can’t understand. For all I know, she’s singing something about hating all Scottish comic-reading men over thirty-years old, but all I hear is breathy loveliness. Sigh… 52 WEEK FIVE: By this point, having read weeks two through four in a batch earlier this week before reading the…  Read More…

Hibbs reviews 6/7

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Posted by: admin on June 9, 2006

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You know what I wonder? How many blogs would get written if it wasn’t for their writers being bored (or trying to avoid work) at their regular jobs? I ask because I know of at least 2 people (heh) who appear to do most of their writing at their (well paid) work. Heck, even I’m writing this at the counter of the store, where I’m trapped for the full 8-hour shift today. If I was at home, I’d be doing something more entertaining – maybe playing Oblivion, or City of Heroes (apparently my account has been reactivated until Sunday for free – dare I play again for 2-3 days?). But, instead, I’ve wasted enough time running through the SF Weekly,…  Read More…

Ben Hibbs and the Infinite Non-Sadness

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Before I forget, I should point you all to the new page of Ben photos I just posted. Tzipora sent me these pics ages ago, and I’m a cad for not posting them sooner. The kid is earth-shatteringly cute. Also, I finally, finally, finally added Graeme’s column at Comic World News to our links which I’ve also been meaning to do forever. I also added a link to his new gig as part of the crew as the new and absurdly content-rich Blog @ Newsarama. Simiarly, the excellent lads at Comics Should Be Good (at their CBR location) had to be mentioned. I pruned a link or two as well, and need to talk to Hibbs about adding a few…  Read More…

Happy SatansDay!!!

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Posted by: admin on June 7, 2006

Categories: Shipping Lists

So, I apologize for being such a suck-ass about reviewing lately — I keep running out of time with stuff that HAS to get done (this week: setting up the Jun06 subs…), and reviews fall by the side…. so Lester does all of the heavy lifting, then I feel bad about it. But, this week is painfully small in shipping size, so I’m pretty darn sure that sometime this week I’ll write a “proper” Savage Critic, where I cover (most) every comic that came out this week, howzabout that? Here’s some of what you can look forward to commentary on (Well, not all of it — I’ll be arsed if I will review MARVEL SPOTLIGHT): 52 WEEK #5 ANGEL SPOTLIGHT…  Read More…

Why, Why, Why? (Or, Alternately: Go Here, Read This.)

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 5, 2006

Categories: Site News

I wish I knew why my incredibly talented fellow co-bloggers don’t hype themselves at every turn. This is the Internet, after all. I mean, we get a perfectly lovely entry from Graeme that not only utterly demolishes the first two issues of Moon Knight, but gives us a quick take on Scott Pilgrim and warns us of the West Coast Scottish invasion. You’d think he’d plug his appearance on Newsarama’s new blog, wouldn’t you? Oh, sure, you guys probably know about it already, but just in case…. I’ve been meaning to update our links on the sidebar again, and this (plus Comics Should Be Good) gives me the perfect excuse. I’ll try to get to that this week.

Moon, in the sense of “Ass”;. So poetic.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on

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So, the problem with my last few weeks is that, between being sick and being overworked and being host to the start of a family invasion of San Francisco (Anyone here who has a problem with people from the west coast of Scotland, your frustration level is potentially going to rise over the next few weeks; My dad is already in town, soon to be followed by both of my sisters and their respective spouses and children. I’m very, very sorry), I am completely behind in the world of comics. The most recent thing that I’ve read was the new Scott Pilgrim – which I loved, albeit with a few reservations, not least of which is that it felt like…  Read More…

Reviews and Whatnot: Jeff’s Reviews of the 6/1 Books…

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 4, 2006

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First, I just want to thank everyone who posted on my last two entries. Normally, I try to respond to everyone who posts feedback or comments but I was just too lazy during my last few days of vacation to work up any sort of moxie. Nevertheless, whether it was Clint gloating over his Rom: Spaceknight purchases, Donnie’s Wimbledon Green observation or Treacher bringing the Treacher, they were all really appreciated. Second, X-Men: The Last Stand. I’ll scrupulously avoid spoilers but I will say I didn’t like it much. At all. Part of that was the cynicism: I honestly think the filmmakers were trying to give the comic geek audience such a nerdgasm in the first ten minutes (right before…  Read More…