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Tilting at Windmills v2 #9: BookScan 2007
Posted by: admin on February 15, 2008
Categories: Retailing/Industry
The latest Tilting at Windmills is up on Newsarama. Yeesh, more than 11k words!! Matt decided to not post the file with the actual numbers, so foo on that. Any commentary, feel free below. Some actual reviews coming later this afternoon… -B
This plastique valentine: Douglas on 2/14
Posted by: Douglas Wolk on
Categories: Reviews
Well, okay, then–the consensus seems to be that reviews of older stuff are perfectly OK here. So… here’s some quick notes on this week’s books! (Actual graphic novel reviews will be coming soon…) NEW AVENGERS #38 re-teams Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, so it’s effectively a new issue of Alias, which is just fine with me. This is an all-conversation issue about Jessica Jones and Luke Cage falling out when they land on opposite sides of the registration divide, and… yeah, I admit it: Civil War was a much better idea than I’d have guessed for opening up story possibilities in ongoing series. This is the kind of conversation-based, stage-play-ish story Bendis hasn’t done in a while, but the… Read More…
21st Century Innovations in Magazine Racket-Busting: Jog is there and here for 2/13
Posted by: Joe McCulloch on February 14, 2008
Categories: Reviews
Fantastic Comics #24 (The Next Issue Project #1): This is the debut of a new, Golden Age-proportioned anthology series from Image. There’s no credited editor, but it appears to be spearheaded by Publisher Erik Larsen and PR & Marketing Coordinator Joe Keatinge. It’s 64 color pages for $5.99; note the fake markup sticker. And while the proper, legal title of this issue is Fantastic Comics #24, allowing it to dub itself “the latest comic book Image has ever published,” seeing as how issue #23 hit the stands in 1941, you’ll probably know it better under its banner title of The Next Issue Project. Simply put, each issue of the project will provide a ‘next issue’ for some long-dead Golden Age… Read More…
Saying Kaddish: The Passing of Steve Gerber.
Posted by: Jeff Lester on February 13, 2008
Categories: Retailing/Industry
It’s been said by much smarter men than myself (Jules Feiffer and Gerard Jones being but two) that Judaism is perhaps the real secret identity at the heart of the superhero experience–one doesn’t have to look much farther than Lieber and Kurtzberg, who built Marvel comics under the pen names of Lee and Kirby, to make a case for it. Of all the many things I’ve thought about Steve Gerber–and believe me, I’ve thought about him a lot since learning of his passing earlier today–what sticks with me is that Gerber was the hero without the mask, the guy brave enough to forego the secret identity. I grew up in whiter-than-white Humboldt County and even I could tell that Gerber… Read More…
Everybody Gets The Cold Sometimes: Graeme returns to do 2/6
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on February 12, 2008
Categories: Reviews
This one is for Ian Brill, who complained to me last night that we here at Savage Critics weren’t being timely enough any more. It’s true; I didn’t mean to disappear for a week, but I got both a cold and swamped down with everything else and left you all to wonder just how good the latest issue of “Brand New Day” was, and I apologize for that. On the plus side, it was a slow week… AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #549: Marc Guggenheim takes over the writing reins on the reboot Spidey and manages to make it even more of a trip in the Way Back Machine. Never mind the return of thought balloon exposition (which, possibly because of my age,… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 11, 2008
Categories: Shipping Lists
Back from Texas and the DC RRP (not that you knew I was there), and the cold etc is done. Give me a day or two to catch up and I’ll write a few reviews…\ Here’s what we’re getting this week: 100 BULLETS #88 30 DAYS OF NIGHT BEYOND BARROW #3AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #17AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #550 BNDAMERICAN VIRGIN #23 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #116ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE SPECIAL #2 BEAUTIEATOMIC ROBO #5 (OF 6)BAT LASH #3 (OF 6)BATMAN STRIKES #42BETTY & VERONICA SPECTACULAR #81BLACK PANTHER #34BOOSTER GOLD #0BPRD 1946 #2 (OF 5)BRIT #4CAPTAIN MARVEL #3 (OF 5)CHEMIST #2 CORY DOCTOROWS FUTURISTIC TALES HERE AND NOW #5 (OF 6)COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS 11DEAD OF NIGHT FEATURING MAN THING #1 (OF 4) DMZ… Read More…
Post-Superhero Fear Parade: Jog checks in on a 2/6 ongoing
Posted by: Joe McCulloch on February 8, 2008
Categories: Reviews
Infinity Inc. #6: I can’t say this has been the smoothest-launching series of recent DC history, having debuted to divided reviews, and unfolded through several visual hiccups. The initial penciller/inker was Max Fiumara, of the above cover, who hasn’t had the best of luck with DC – he was also involved in the publisher’s ill-fated attempt at a new T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents series about half a decade back. Fiumara is an appealing artist, but he’s typically at his best in b&w. As such, his original art for this project exhibited some dramatic flair, with a sharp balance between shadow and white. However, Fiumara’s lines did not mix especially well with colorist Dom Regan’s flare-speckled palette, often washing the visual whole into… Read More…
Useless Information: Graeme finishes off January’s haul.
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on February 5, 2008
Categories: Reviews
My, this was a busy week in terms of releases, wasn’t it? And that’s not even including the Essentials books that I read this past week (Essential Defenders – The title may be untrue, but I kind of wish that kind of comic was still being done at the big two today), or the history of the WB and UPN that I just finished last night (“Homeboys in Outer Space”? Really, America?). I’ve also been “grooving” to the leaked new Gnarls Barkley song, which rocks my world several ways to Sunday, and happily finally getting into The Wire on DVD, just to make my media consumption as vast as possible. But I’m not here to talk about other forms of… Read More…
Posted by: admin on February 4, 2008
Categories: Shipping Lists
If I can ever shake this cold, I’ll post some reviews, but it has it me in its icy grip, and it is all I can do to handle my minimal levels of work… 2000 AD #1569 2000 AD #1570 ABE SAPIEN THE DROWNING #1 (OF 5) ALL NEW ATOM #20 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #549 BND ANITA BLAKE VH GUILTY PLEASURES #8 (OF 12) ANNIHILATION CONQUEST #4 (OF 6) ARMY OF DARKNESS #6 LONG ROAD HOME BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #12 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ORIGINS #2 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #158 BOYS #15 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #11 CIRCLE #3 CLANDESTINE #1 (OF 5) COUNTDOWN SPECIAL OMAC COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS 12 CRAWL SPACE XXXOMBIES #3 CRICKETS #2 (NOTE PRICE) DARKNESS #2 KEOWN… Read More…
I can hear the grass grow: Graeme gets Green
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on
Categories: Reviews
Okay, am I really the only person who was wondering just where the whole “Alpha Lanterns” thing in GREEN LANTERN #27 was going before it got to the end, and I got completely creeped out by seeing the characters, post-surgery with their faces flipped open to reveal weird robotic anti-Lanterns underneath? I mean, dude. THEIR FACES WERE FLIPPED OPEN. In a Green Lantern comic. What’s the world coming to? Before that point, the storyline seemed to be a strangely-paced version of the usual “our heroes try to catch their breath and reflect” stand-by storyline; there didn’t seem to be much happening, and without knowing what the Alpha Lanterns were, the crumbly visuals from last issue didn’t really offer much in… Read More…
I just can’t seem to plug myself in: Graeme goes for the ones you’ve probably read already from 1/30
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on February 3, 2008
Categories: Reviews
Speeding through the big time books of the week, partially because I’m pressed for time, and partially because I’ve already written about two of them over at io9 this week. Yes, that was a plug. Y: THE LAST MAN #60: While it didn’t bring me to tears like it did Diana, I have to admit to being happily surprised by this last issue. Not that I expected it to be bad in any kind of way, but I did expect some kind of last minute reversal or reveal that would cast everything that had come before in a new light, and that idea scared me; not only did I like everything that had come before, but the whole “last minute… Read More…
More Than A Break, Not Quite A Hiatus: Jeff Talks About His February Plans….
Posted by: Jeff Lester on February 1, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized
My superhero nerd upbringing demands I love this picture: I always feel like if I just squint hard enough I’ll see Daredevil and Bullseye (as drawn by Miller & Janson) bounding from one level to the next. Yes, a judicious use of vacation time from my workplace means that Edi and I are once again in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this time for the month of February. The flight down was long (thanks to a layover in DC going from two hours to five) and mildly arduous, but it’s great to be down here, basking in the hot summer air. So you may not hear from me for the next month, maybe? I may post as I make the rounds of… Read More…
