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Because Hibbs brought it up last post…
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on November 30, 2006
Categories: Retailing/Industry
…Marvel officially delays Civil War #6 and 7 two weeks. It’s because penciller Steve McNiven has strep, apparently, although I’m wondering what the schedule for #7 will end up being if he still hasn’t finished #6 yet.
Posted by: admin on November 29, 2006
Categories: Reviews
I’m so totally, crazily, not in the mood to write, but since G didn’t get his comics last week, and Jeff is still NaNo-ing, I guess I should say something, even if it is short and crappy. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #536: I liked the first half (or so) of this filling in the blanks of CIVIL WAR #5 (BTW, #6 isn’t listed on the 12/20 Marvel FOC list, which means it isn’t going to hit that revised ship date, I don’t think. What that means for #7 is even a bigger question) — yes, there’s your failsafe sequence, yes that makes point A match a bit better to point B, but then, suddenly, there’s a time jump forward and we’re told… Read More…
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Categories: Shipping Lists
I tried to post this last night, but Blogger seemed down for the two hours I kept trying it… Yep, it’s a five-Wednesday month, all right. Here, have some dribs! What I’M glad about is that there aren’t any major gift-giving holidays coming any time soon… Hopefully some reviews tomorrow, I hope. 2000 AD #1512 2000 AD #1513 (Nope, we didn’t get this issue) 52 WEEK #30 AMERICAN VIRGIN #9 AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #46 ARMY OF DARKNESS #12 AVENGERS NEXT #2 (OF 5) BATMAN #659 BATMAN THE SPIRIT BLACK PANTHER #22 CW BLACK PANTHER 2ND PTG VAR #21CW CAPTAIN AMERICA #24 CW CASTLE WAITING VOL II #3 CONAN & THE SONGS OF THE DEAD #5 (OF 5) CROSSING MIDNIGHT… Read More…
Slowly catching up on everything: Graeme’s reviews of the 11/15 books.
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on November 26, 2006
Categories: Reviews
The Thanksgiving week turns out to be a week of kicking my ass – Not that I’ve really had that much to do outside of work and helping Kate to pull together a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, but still: I am somehow sick again (or, rather, I’ve not really recovered from being sick last week), and therefore haven’t had a chance to get myself to the store to pick up this week’s books. I’ve heard Punisher War Journal was good, mind you, but for now, let’s talk about what you were reading this time last week… ASTRO CITY: THE DARK AGE BOOK TWO #1: I’ve never really read that much Astro City before – Maybe one other issue? – so maybe… Read More…
Posted by: admin on November 22, 2006
Categories: Reviews
52 WEEK 28: The first boring issue in several months. There’s a big part of my that thinks that since they’re past the halfway point, they need to dramatically ramp up the plot, right quick, to fit everything in before the end. Unless it doesn’t end, in which case a lot of people are going to be really upset. I’ll tell you something else: planning more weekly comics? From either big publisher? Probably not a good idea. “52″ is a sales success because of a number of specific-to-the-project things, and I think it’s going to be VERY difficult to replicate them for try #2. If not flatly impossible. Last thought: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER aside, a “prophecy” that doesn’t come… Read More…
Tony Bennett is made of trees. Graeme gets distracted by television.
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on
Categories: Reviews
I’m swamped with a lot of stuff in the run-up to Thanksgiving – a lot of it being work-related, sadly – so only one review right now, soundtracked by the Tony Bennett special on NBC that should’ve really had Nellie Mackay involved, but doesn’t. More later this week. CIVIL WAR #5: Oh, come on. They’ve stopped even trying now, haven’t they? This issue literally just doesn’t make any sense when you start to think about it. There are numerous plot holes that are scattered through this issue – If Iron Man built Spider-Man’s armor and suspected that he was going to rebel, why didn’t he have some kind of failsafe device to deactivate the armor? Why couldn’t Spider-Man punch his… Read More…
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Categories: Uncategorized
I kinda forgot that I had to photocopy ONOMATOPOEIA today (like in, it’s 11:30, and I reach into my bag to get this week’s invoice to set up, and I’m thiking “why is this so thick? Ohhhhhhhh fuck.”) Then, when the truck shows up, its a new driver (cue the trumpet player “wahWAH!”), whoi tells me they give him the truck without the lift gate (“…”), and, no his only obligation is to get the boxes to the curb, not to get them inside the store (“….!”) Of course, it’s 1 at that point, and Rob isn’t due in until 2, so I have to haul Five Store’s worth of funny book boxes (approx 1600 pounds the ladeling bill says)… Read More…
Posted by: admin on November 21, 2006
Categories: Shipping Lists
I really wanted to get reviews done last week, but I got flattened by the Flu (also known as: Children are Disease Carriers, yes) — it would be nice if my blog had, you know, content from me. So, Tuesday, for sure, I’ll have soemthing up on last week’s books, promise. Here’s what’s coming this week: 24 NIGHTFALL #1 (OF 6) 52 WEEK #29 ACTION COMICS #845 ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #11 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #536 CW ANGEL AULD LANG SYNE #1 ANGRY YOUTH COMIX #12 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #105 AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES II #2 (OF 8) BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #147 BIG BANG COMICS PRESENTS PROTOPLASMAN #3 BIG QUESTIONS #9 BLUE BEETLE #9… Read More…
Probably no reviews from me today…
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on November 20, 2006
Categories: Uncategorized
But don’t be sad about it (Watch this to cheer yourself up if you need to). If nothing else, I want to bitch about Civil War and Iron Man, so expect something this week.
The ghost of Rick Witter: Graeme tries to concentrate on 11/8 books.
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on November 13, 2006
Categories: Reviews
Kate’s watching Good Eats, where Alton Brown is currently telling everyone how to fry a turkey for Thanksgiving. What’s with the frying of the turkey? Does it taste good? For some reason, I’m not convinced about the whole thing. Considering Kate and I generally have small Thanksgivings – what with me not really being American and therefore not really “getting” Thanksgiving and all – that consists of the Macy’s parade, dinner and watching Christmas movies, even the idea of going to all the trouble of setting up a turkey to fry seems like a bad idea, so I don’t really see the potential joy of the whole thing. But nonetheless, Kate is hypnotized by the idea. (Kate’s just turned to… Read More…
Posted by: admin on November 12, 2006
Categories: Shipping Lists
Well, I know at least one balding scotsman who will be Absolutely thrilled this week… 100 BULLETS #78 52 WEEK #28 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #46 (A) ANITA BLAKE VH GUILTY PLEASURES #2 (OF 12) AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #45 ARCHIE DIGEST #230 ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK TWO #1 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #212 BATTLE POPE #11 BETTY & VERONICA #222 BIRDS OF PREY #100 BLADE #3 BOMB QUEEN VOL 2 #2 CATWOMAN #61 CHECKMATE #8 CIVIL WAR #5 (OF 7) CLAW THE UNCONQUERED #6 CLIVE BARKERS GREAT & SECRET SHOW #7 (OF 12) CONTENT #2 DAREDEVIL FATHER #6 (OF 6) DEADMAN #4 DEADWORLD #6 DEATH JR VOL 2 #2 (OF 3) DONALD DUCK AND… Read More…
Vite, vite, vite: Jeff’s Really Quick Reviews of 11/1 Books & Stuff….
Posted by: Jeff Lester on November 8, 2006
Categories: Reviews
Dude. I totally shouldn’t be doing this. Nanowrimo. The regular job. Preparing for my brother in law’s engagement party. Plus, the Net connection is slow as hell this morning. And I want to post about Vegas at some point… But just to fly in the face of common sense: 52 WEEK #26: What a weird little book this is–The Sivana Family meets the Black Marvel Family (and if I’m not mistaken, the Black Marvel Family is getting their own reptilian version of Tawny the Talking Tiger)–as every issue becomes more and more about a group of four ultra-fanboy comic book writers trying to amuse each other. And that’s closer to a Good comic than you would think. AMERICAN SPLENDOR #3:… Read More…
Posted by: admin on November 6, 2006
Categories: Shipping Lists
2000 AD #1508 2000 AD #1509 2000 AD #1510 2000 AD #1511 52 WEEK #27 ACTION PHILOSOPHERS ITS ALL GREEK TO YOU AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #2 ANNIHILATION #4 (OF 6) AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES II #1 (OF 8) BATMAN #658 BATMAN AND THE MAD MONK #4 (OF 6) BATMAN STRIKES #27 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #3 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #170 BETTY & VERONICA SPECTACULAR #76 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #119 BULLET POINTS #1 (OF 5) CARTOON NETWORK ACTION PACK #7 CIVIL WAR YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS #4 (OF 4) CROSS BRONX #3 (OF 4) CSI DYING IN THE GUTTERS #4 DAMNED #2 DEVI #5 DMZ #13 DOCTOR STRANGE OATH #2 (OF 5) ETERNALS #5 (OF 7) FABLES #55 FIRESTORM THE NUCLEAR MAN… Read More…
For all I know, this may be unreadable: Graeme’s reviews of the 11/1 books.
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on
Categories: Reviews
I’m writing this on my new handy-dandy Mac laptop, so if there’re any strange characters that appear in this post, then blame Steve Jobs. Also, if anyone knows of any cheap word processing software for a Mac that lets me change fonts (This is being written using TextEdit, which doesn’t seem to want to let me do that), then that’d be nice to know, as well… Anyway. Comics, shall we? 52 WEEK TWENTY-SIX: I don’t know quite what I was expecting for this halfway-through-the-series issue, but I’m sure that it was something more impressive than this. Not that this was a bad issue, as such, but nothing much actually happened; Black Adam had dinner and the Question met up with… Read More…
Posted by: admin on November 4, 2006
Categories: Uncategorized
Just a quick story here (maybe reviews in the next few days), because I thought it was funny, and if I don’t type it up SOON, then I never will. So, it’s last Tuesday, Halloween, and I super-double rush through work early so I can take Ben Trick-or-Treating (3 years old is the BEST time for that, yes) (Digression: We went to his grandmother Michele’s neighborhood, Seacliff, because we could go there and not feel like carpet-baggers. Michele has an apartment there, but its home to some of the nicest houses in SF — and some of the richest. Robin Williams’ house is there [handing out glow in the dark lanyards, which I think is an EXCELLENT thing to give… Read More…
