Not Quite Ill, Far From Well: Jeff’s Reviews of 7/26 Books….

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 31, 2006

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Maybe it’s allergies and not a cold at all. All I know is, between it and all the Walgreen’s Rest Easy Nighttime Cough syrup(compare to the active ingredients in Vicks Nyquil Cough) I’ve been consuming, I’m simultaneously most of the Seven Dwarfs at once: Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Doc and Dopey (good Christ, do I feel Dopey!) plus a few others left out of the original–Lazy, Coughy, Whiney and Rarely Ambulatory. Any words of condolence you wish to proffer to my wife will be duly forwarded. On the other hand: comic books! They’re a pip, ain’t they? 52 WEEK #12: I mean, check out 52. I dug this issue quite a lot, although part of that is undoubtedly me being smack-dab…  Read More…

Arriving 8/2

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Order form day, swamped. k thx bye. 2000 AD #1494 2000 AD #1495 52 WEEK #13 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #38 (A) AGENTS OF ATLAS #1 (OF 6) ALL NEW ATOM #2 ARCHIE #568 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #172 ARTESIA BESIEGED #2 (OF 6) BATTLER BRITTON #2 (OF 5) BETTY #158 BOMB QUEEN VS BLACKLIGHT ONE SHOT BPRD UNIVERSAL MACHINE #5 (OF5) CREEPER #1 (OF 6) DAVE JOHNSON FC SKETCHBOOK 2006 DETECTIVE COMICS #822 DEVILS PANTIES #3 DOLL & CREATURE #4 (OF 4) DRACULA VS KING ARTHUR #4 (OF4) DRAGONPRO #1 DUMMYS GUIDE TO DANGER #1 (OF4) DUSTY STAR #1 EMISSARY #2 EX MACHINA #22 EXTERMINATORS #8 FALLEN ANGEL IDW #7 FANTASTIC FOUR #539 CW FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #11 HEAD…  Read More…

Arriving 7/26

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Posted by: admin on July 24, 2006

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Is it just me, or is the idea of a Robert Kirkman scripted, Todd McFarlane drawn comic (http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=77952) pretty much a guaranteed recipe for the latest comic book ever? 52 WEEK #12 ACTION COMICS #841 ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #7 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #534 CW AMERICAN WAY #6 (OF 8) ANGEL SCRIPTBOOK #5 ANGEL SPOTLIGHT DOYLE ONE SHOT ANNIHILATION RONAN #4 (OF 4) ARMY OF DARKNESS #9 ASTRO CITY SAMARITAN SPECIAL AUTUMN #5 AVENGERS & POWER PACK ASSEMBLE #4 (OF 4) BATMAN #655 BATTLE POPE COLOR #9 (RES) BIG BANG PRESENTS #1 PROTOPLASMAN BIRDS OF PREY #96 BLACK PANTHER #18 CW BLACK PLAGUE ONE SHOT BLUE BEETLE #5 CAPTAIN AMERICA #20 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #23…  Read More…

Morph could kick Gumby’s ass anyday: Graeme complains about the 7/19 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on July 23, 2006

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Is it just me, or was San Diego completely devoid of any surprising announcements from either Marvel or DC? I mean, when the most interesting news story is Oni putting out a comic based on Stephen Colbert’s Lady Nocturne 9: A Tek Janssen Adventure, then that says something about the state of the Big Two, right? If you want something else to be said about the Big Two, then you had to look no further than this week’s releases: Civil War! Batwoman’s first appearance in 52! Justice League of America #0! It’s all ground-breaking originality this week! *Ahem* 52 WEEK ELEVEN: Why did it take me this long to realize that Greg Rucka – who I would lay money wrote…  Read More…

Lifestyles of the Sick and Craptacular: Jeff’s Takes on 7/12/06 Books….

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 18, 2006

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Finally, I am sick. Months after Hibbs and the GMc became deathly ill and recovered, I was struck–on my last four days of vacation–with an ultra-phlegmatic cold that makes me incapable of concentrating on anything but recently rented video games (which, now that I think of it, I was supposed to return last night. Crap.) as opposed to comic books and movies and a writing deadline for the next newsletter. Yes, pity me, boo hoo and all that. It does suck, though, when you return to work and a coworker cheerfully asks you, “Hey, welcome back! How was your time off?” But, before you can answer, you all but yank the tendons out of your neck turning away so you…  Read More…

Shipping 7/19

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Posted by: admin on July 17, 2006

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Am I the only one sick and tired of hearing about the San Diego Comic Con? I forgot to post last week’s ship list, sorry — but here’s this week’s batch: 52 WEEK #11 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #37 (A) ANNIHILATION NOVA #4 (OF 4) ANT #7 (RES) AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #43 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #102 ARCHIE DIGEST #227 BEARERS O/T BLADE SP BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #144 BITE CLUB VAMPIRE CRIME UNIT #4 (OF 5) BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #115 CABLE DEADPOOL #30 CW CASANOVA #2 CATWOMAN #57 CHECKMATE #4 CIVIL WAR #3 (OF 7) CIVIL WAR X-MEN #1 (OF 4) CLAW THE UNCONQUERED #2 CONAN #30 CRISIS AFTERMATH THE BATTLE FOR BLUDHAVEN #6 (OF 6)…  Read More…

Comics Aren’t For Kids Anymore, but apparently I am: Graeme’s reviews of the 7/11 books.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on July 16, 2006

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It’s a short week here at my wing of Savage Critic Towers; my family is still in town, and we’re celebrating by spending this afternoon going on a tour around the city on a fire engine or something. I’m still not entirely clear about what Kate and I have agreed to, apart from it being very exciting to my niece and nephews that we agreed to it in the first place (Yesterday, we spent part of the afternoon taking them to the pirate store at 826 Valencia, where we discovered that Kate and I – 29 and 31 years old, respectively – found the jokes there much funnier than my 3, 6 and 9 year old child companions). Also, it…  Read More…

Short & Sweet: Jeff’s Reviews of 7/6 Books….

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 10, 2006

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The plan is to keep it short, since I’m down to my last four days of vacation and there’s all sorts of things still to do before getting my ass back to work. To keep things moving, I’ve added a few relevant movie reviews in the mix as well, rather than talking about ‘em up top. (Christ, this is taking too long already. I miss having a smart brain.) 52 WEEK #9: I’ve read DC Comics for a long time so you’d think I’d be inured to dull fight scenes by now. But, no. That “punch-fly-land-talk-repeat” fight between Steel and Natasha was stultifying. I can see why Devilance is the God of Pursuit and not, like, the God of Catching…  Read More…

God Bless Freeview: Graeme’s reviews of the 7/6 books. And some 6/28 ones, too.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on July 8, 2006

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Thanks to the wonders of DirecTV, I’m writing this with the accompaniment of Gorillaz’s “Demon Days Live” – on Freeview all weekend, popfans – and trying my best not to be distracted by Ike Turner milking his piano solo for all it’s worth. Mind you, with the outfit that he was wearing, I can’t say that I wouldn’t have tried the “It takes four minutes for me to walk to the piano” thing myself. Thirteen comics to review and only an hour to do it in before Kate comes back and we’re supposed to go to Sonoma. REVIEW BRAIN GO! THE ALL-NEW ATOM #1: With different art, I probably would have liked this a lot more. It’s got a lot…  Read More…

Hibbs & SUPERMAN RETURNS

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Posted by: admin on July 2, 2006

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Hurray, it’s me! SUPERMAN RETURNS: is absolutely a gushing love letter to the 1978 Donner SUPERMAN film. The are repeated shots, structure, even Lex Luthor’s plot is basically identical to the one from the first film. And all of this would probably be fine if it didn’t keep missing what I took as the best elements of the original. Here’s a for example: both films have a sequence of vignettes of “superman fighting random crime one night”. In RETURNS, this is more bombastic: chain guns and bulletproof eyeballs, and lifting cars over his head and whatever. But for me, what made the ’78 version work was that Supes stopped to help a little girl get her cat out of a…  Read More…

Arriving 7/6

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First off, don’t forget that because of the Fourth of July holiday, comics are going to be a day late, and will arrive on Thursday. Honestly, don’t come in on Wednesday looking for them, because we’re laughing at you behind your back once you walk out the door. Yet another high volume week — this time on titles, rather than on units, but there’s just a metric fuckton of things arriving on this shortened holiday week. Joy. 2000 AD #1490 2000 AD #1491 52 WEEK #9 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #36 (A) ALL NEW ATOM #1 ARCHENEMIES #4 (OF 4) ARES #5 (OF 5) ART O/T WITCHBLADE ONE SHOT BABEL #2 BATMAN SECRETS #5 (OF 5) BATTLER BRITTON #1…  Read More…