INTERVIEW: Abhay interviewed Ed Laroche, creator of ALMIGHTY.

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on August 8, 2008

Categories: Interviews

ALMIGHTY is a 140-page self-published comic book created by Mr. Ed Laroche (with lettering by Jaymes Reed) that I purchased on a whim off the internet, based on the recommendation of a blog entry by comedian Patton Oswalt. It’s a straightforward post-apocalyptic action comic. Here is the back cover text in its entirety: “A girl has been abducted and a killer hired to find her and bring her home.” For a self-published comic by an unknown that I purchased off the internet, it exceeded my (low) expectations. I don’t think the main character’s arc is entirely earned, but I thought the action scenes were surprisingly accomplished. The book’s best action set piece is a 20 page sequence involving the main…  Read More…

Justice is like a Hawk

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 7, 2008

Categories: Reviews

Sorry for that title, heh, just been rereading WATCHMEN again. HAWKMAN SPECIAL #1: If you had told me 10 or 15 years ago that Jim Starlin would be writing and drawing HAWKMAN, I would have probably been pretty, “Wow, that sounds AWEsome, let’s order a ton!”, but come 2008 my response was far more muted because Starlin has had a string of fairly mediocre books lately. Nothing particularly awful or anything, but neither nothing that I’ve thought was exceptional, or that sold well. It’s also marketed as a tie-in to the RANN/THANAGAR HOLY WAR mini, which isn’t selling as well as it should either. But, oddly, maybe this should have been marketed as a FINAL CRISIS book — it talks…  Read More…

Keeping the Con in Content Free: Jeff describes the geekiest thing he did in San Diego

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Posted by: admin on August 5, 2008

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Someone will one day write a post that will catch San Diego Comic-Con in all its current monstrousness–a long New Yorker-esque post filled with telling details. Hell, at the size it is now, maybe only a Moby Dick sized book will be able to catch it in all its wonder and peculiarity, filled with digressive chapters on the history of comic books, and conventions, and cosplay. Believe me, I want to write the fucking thing but can’t figure out how. Also, impossible as it seems, I want to try to avoid the six or so types of SDCC posts so prevalent this year (the “SDCC is too big” post; the “no, it’s not” rejoinder post; the “here’s my interaction with…  Read More…

Arriving 8/6/2008

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 4, 2008

Categories: Shipping Lists

Here is what we’re receiving this week: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #1ARMY @ LOVE THE ART OF WAR #1 (OF 6) ARMY OF DARKNESS #11 LONG ROAD HOMEAUTHORITY #1AVENGERS INVADERS #4 (OF 12)BETTY #175BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #163BOND OF SAINT MARCEL #1 (OF 6) BOYS #21 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #17CABLE #6 MDCRIMINAL 2 #4 CROSSED #0 (OF 9) DETECTIVE COMICS #847 RIPDOCTOR WHO CLASSICS #9DREAMLAND CHRONICLES IDW #2ETERNALS #3FATHOM #1 CVR A GARZAFINAL CRISIS #1 DIRECTORS CUT SPECIALFINAL CRISIS #3 (OF 7)FRANKLIN RICHARDS SUMMER SMACKDOWNFX #6 (OF 6)HACK SLASH SERIES #14 FRISON CVR B HAWKMAN SPECIAL #1HELLBLAZER PRESENTS CHAS THE KNOWLEDGE #2 (OF 5) HOUSE OF MYSTERY #4 HULK #5INFINITY INC #12INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #4IRON MAN VIVA LAS VEGAS…  Read More…

Ain’t been here lately

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 1, 2008

Categories: Reviews

Been just crazy swamped lately — between trying to keep WATCHMEN in stock (no, seriously, we’re selling a month’s worth each-and-every day, so that’s just nuts; then there was the comedy of errors as Diamond messed up a couple of orders in a row…), and getting rid of all of the Didn’t-turn stuff from the store (first we’ve got to locate and pull it, then remove it from inventory, then removing the minimum points, so they won’t reorder again, then getting them stickered and prepped for the big invite-only customer loyalty sale we’ve decided to do — all in all a ton of frickin’ work); plus I’m rearranging things throughout the store as I’ve got a little free space to…  Read More…

Jog Bought It: Apologies from 7/30

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Posted by: Joe McCulloch on

Categories: Reviews

Narcopolis #4 (of 4) This cover gets a lot more amusing if you take the nosebleed in the manga sense. Rarely has the struggle between liberty and ruinous desire been so aptly rendered! And you sort of have to work to make a Jamie Delano comic even less subtle, don’t you? It’s one of his endearing traits as a writer, I think – not every book is going to be outstanding, but you can generally count on a uniquely loud experience. It’s not white noise either – Delano frequently mixes similar tones into distinctly linked compositions, heavy things, ringing with dim portent. Frequent listeners will recognize many of this project’s particular clangs and booms, as if Delano’s first work-of-the-form in…  Read More…