Arriving 2/11/2009

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 9, 2009

Categories: Shipping Lists

1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS ADVENTURES OF SINBAD #82000 AD #1618 2000 AD #1619 3 GEEKS SLAB MADNESS #2 (OF 3)ACTION COMICS #874 (ORIGINS)AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #29AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #586ANGEL #17ARCHIE & FRIENDS #128AVENGERS INVADERS #8 (OF 12)BATMAN #686 (NOTE PRICE)BATMAN #686 VAR ED (NOTE PRICE)BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS SPECIAL #1BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #26BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #168BEYOND WONDERLAND #5 (OF 6)BOOSTER GOLD #17 (ORIGINS)BPRD BLACK GODDESS #2 (OF 5)BRIT #12 (RES)CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 #10CARTOON NETWORK ACTION PACK #34CASTLE WAITING VOL II #14CAVEWOMAN PREHISTORIC PINUPS #6 DARKNESS #75 BERMEJO CVR ADMZ #39 DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS SERIES 2 #3ETERNALS #8FABLES #81 FIRE & BRIMSTONE #4 (OF 5)GEARS OF WAR #4 GEN 13 #27GI JOE #2GRAVEL #9 GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY #17 (ORIGINS)GREEN LANTERN…  Read More…

Abhay’s Brief Note About Scott Pilgrim Volume 5.

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on February 7, 2009

Categories: Reviews

In the coming weeks, it’s probable that much will be written about Bryan Lee O’Malley’s SCOTT PILGRIM Volume #5. It is EXCELLENT. This has been said with every installment, but: Volume #5 is the best written, most confidently executed installment of the series yet. Every comic, every success story attracts its share of Grinches– you know, it’s pretty fun to be that Grinch. But Volume #5 makes me so enormously sad for SCOTT PILGRIM’s Grinches. What a terrible fate that must be, to lack the capacity to enjoy this book. You’ve made terrible choices in life. So: I’m gushy sweaty spazzy about this book, basically– not a state of mind where anything I can write is well-advised or likely to…  Read More…

To Spite One’s Face

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 4, 2009

Categories: Retailing/Industry

I don’t really have time to do this (I should be working on the BookScan stuff… next column is due in like a week, ugh!), but Lester bugged me about it, and I am also spurred by Chris Butcher’s excellent post on the subject. This is a little “insider baseball” so I am going to hide most of it behind the jump… Some of this appeared in a post on the CBIA forum, but that’s gated and most of you can’t see that, so with a little editing, let me start… One thing that I’ve always believed is that one of the mighty mighty strengths of the Direct Market was that anyone with a Pen and Paper, and a little…  Read More…

…and the rest

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 3, 2009

Categories: Reviews

I always felt bad for the professor and Mary Ann during that first season of Gilligan’s island. I mean, not only were they stuck with a bunch of idiots, but they didn’t even rate a mention in the theme song! Last week I discussed DARK AVENGERS #1, but the whole Avengers franchise just got a semi-reboot, so here’s “…and the rest”, after the jump! NEW AVENGERS #49: now I’m certainly hoping there’s more to the Luke & Jessica’s baby thing, because otherwise that was the single worst dangling plot thread wrap up in history, with absolutely no suspense or energy whatsoever. There’s got to be more to this, right? Right? There’s no logical reason for the “Jarviskrull” to do what…  Read More…

Arriving 2/4/2009

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 2, 2009

Categories: Shipping Lists

Happy Groundhog day! Its all about the Scott Pilgrim this week, baby! Actually, that just anchors a pretty good week of comics, take a look… 30 DAYS OF NIGHT 30 DAYS TIL DEATH #3ADVENTURE COMICS #0 (ORIGINS)AGE OF SENTRY #5 (OF 6)AGENTS OF ATLAS #1 DKRAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #585ANITA BLAKE VH LAUGHING CORPSE #5 (OF 5) ARCHIE DIGEST #251ASTONISHING TALES #1AUTHORITY #7BAD DOG #1 BANG TANGO #1 (OF 6) BETTY #178BLACK LIGHTNING YEAR ONE #3 (OF 6)BLACK PANTHER 2 #1 DKRBOYS #27 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #22 CHEN CVRBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #22 JEANTY CVRCABLE #11CHRONICLES OF DR HERBERT WEST #3 (OF 6)COMIC BOOK COMICS #3CREATURE FEATURE #2 (OF 2) CTHULHU TALES #11 CVR ADARK IVORY #4 (OF 4)DEAD IRONS #1DEAD…  Read More…

Finally: Manga you can put in your mouth

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Posted by: Joe McCulloch on

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Oishinbo A la Carte Vol. 1: Japanese Cuisine Yeah, you’ve heard it a hundred times by now: ‘manga’ as often seen in English — a youth thing, a bookstore thing, a shōnen/shōjo thing — is only a fragment of what manga really is. There’s always a few non-porn exceptions, sure – most of them take the form of action or fantasy pieces For Mature Readers, with the occasional history of cup noodles or oddball art project slipping through. Astro Boy once filled us in on the story of Anne Frank, so there’s always that. But it’s still so hard to really get that old joke in Koji Aihara’s & Kentaro Takekuma’s brilliant satire, Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga, that…  Read More…

I don’t want to be Left Behind…

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 1, 2009

Categories: Reviews

Hey, all of the cool kids are doing it, so I might as well join in too! What I thought of FINAL CRISIS #7 after the jump… I pretty much agree with all of the gang; even Abhay in the comments — I liked it, I disliked it, I loved it, and I hated it. All at various points, and sometimes even at the same time. Sure, it’s sometimes barely coherent, and you kind of NEED to read the annotations and commentary and interviews to really get all of the points of what’s going on. But that’s pretty standard for a Morrison comic, really — I felt the same way about THE INVISIBLES or much of his JLA run, for…  Read More…