Abhay Asks "Will Secret Invasion invade my Secret Vagina?" Abhay Certainly Hopes So!

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on April 3, 2008

Categories: Reviews

Not a well-kept secret, I know… I am honestly, no-joke, no-irony, without hesitation, over-the-top excited to read SECRET INVASION #1, the kick-off of the big summer mega-uber-crossover from Marvel Comics which is sitting on the couch next to me. This whole megacrossover mania is bad. They’re typically unfriendly to new readers, wear down the existing audience, hurt smaller books, tend to be shallow short-term cynical cash-grabs, etc. Awful, horrendous things that no one should look forward to. But I’ve been looking forward to this one, anyway. Looking forward to it! I really wanted to run into the comic shop and throw confetti from a bucket, like Rip Taylor. Run around with sparklers, barbecue hot dogs, have a sing-a-long of America…  Read More…

Around the Store in 31 Days: Day Fourteen

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 2, 2008

Categories: Reviews

I still feel pretty cruddy, but not so cruddy that I can’t write a little. So, let me babble about my history of comics collecting. Like many people, I’m started and stopped collecting comics more than once. From childhood to, dunno, 12 or 13, something like that, I kept myself a comics collection; then I discovered girls and decided comics were just for kiddies, and got rid of them all. I started collecting again a year or two later (about 15, I guess), trying to rebuy all of the comics that I had gotten rid of. Smart, eh? I also, at that stage, since I now had some kind of an allowance, started buying stuff that long pre-dated me (we’ll…  Read More…

Happy Birthday, CE!

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Posted by: admin on April 1, 2008

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Ugh, I’ve come down with some sort of horrible cold (thanks, Ben!), and I’m sitting here shivering barely able to put two words together, and trying desperately to not nod off at the counter until Carissa comes in in an hour, so I’m going to push off the return of Around the Store until tomorrow (I hope?) But I did want to note that today is the 19th anniversary of Comix Experience! Not the state I want to be in for it, but you take what you can get…. OK, back to nodding off… -B

In Which We Return And Start Again: Graeme picks out the last of March.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on

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April at last. After the endless slog that was March, it’s time for a new month of optimism, happiness and… Wait, what’s that you’re saying about Jim Mooney…? Oh, crap. Comic reviews and only one April Fools reference under the jump. ALL-STAR SUPERMAN #10: As if he’s been holding back for the last few issues, Grant Morrison gives us the perfect Superman here, one who’s so in love with humanity that he spends his dying days making sure that we’ll all be okay without him. I can’t help but compare this to “Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow?” and this, I have to admit, seems better to me in almost every way – This is the “End of Superman”…  Read More…

Does the Fish Have Chips?: Douglas meets Glenn, Kal & Peter

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Posted by: admin on

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This has been an incredibly good week for comics, I have to say. Under the cut: GANGES, ALL STAR SUPERMAN and MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN. I have no idea why two of the biggest comics stores in NYC didn’t get Kevin Huizenga’s GANGES #2 (they weren’t sold out, it wasn’t even on their new-arrival lists)–I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and hope there was something wrong with the shipment. But this is a thoroughly Excellent issue, the kind of thing I want to hand to people who ask “what kind of comics do you like?” It starts with another of the wonderful “Fight or Run” abstract-combat stories Huizenga was doing in Or Else–they’re totally idiomatic to Huizenga…  Read More…