Not that there’s Anything Wrong with that…

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 3, 2009

Categories: Reviews

Damn, everyone already spoiled my best joke — yes, indeed, the logo really DOES look like “Justice League: Gay For Justice” Plus, it has the Mikaal Starman (Gay), Batwoman [soon] (Gay), Congorilla (Maybe not officially, but compared to some of what I saw coming home through the Castro during Pride Weekend, suggestively Gay), Green Lantern & Green Arrow, without the Canary Beard, and Freddy Freeman who, to me, is the Gayest of the Marvel Family. I guess there isn’t anything particularly gay about either Supergirl or The Atom (OR IS THERE?!?!!?) Anyway, yeah, that was pretty creakingly dialogued, but I thought the art was super-swell, and it had something I miss so so very much: a text feature of “What…  Read More…

I Don’t Want – - Justice!

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on July 2, 2009

Categories: Reviews

JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE #1 really is very Jeph Loeb, isn’t it? I mean, I’m not just talking about the tendency to emphasize words in an unexpected and unrealistic manner – Although, come on; parts of the dialogue here read as if James Robinson has never heard any real human being have a conversation – but the whole thing reads like someone at DC has actually kidnapped the real James Robinson and replaced him with a James Robinson clone actually made up of defective Loeb DNA: Splashy art masking a story where little happens? Check. Completely unconvincing dialogue? Check. Attempt at thematic cleverness that, in execution, comes across as laughable (I refer, of course, to the fact that in…  Read More…

Wait, What? Minicast Now Available, Plus….

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 1, 2009

Categories: Podcasts

Mr. McMillan also posted for those of you who requested it. So that’s finally sorted out. But do also check out our minicast–an episode I like to call “Graeme, Interrupted”–which, although cut short by Internet problems… …has us both on one channel, improvements on the volume settings, and Graeme doing a really great squeaky voice there at the end. And, of course, if you’d like to take a second and let us know what you think after you do, we’d appreciate it.

Weeping Congorilla on JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE #1

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CE ’09: The First Half: The Comics

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Now we’ll look at the periodical comics. Again, under the jump… Again, we’ll start with sorting it by PIECES sold. Yeah, the quarter book permutations win (and “10 for a buck” is counted as ONE item, not TEN), followed by Barack Obama and Spidey, followed by “back issue” as a generic item, then we get into the BUFFY’s and other stuff. You’ll recall that our ’08 list was ABSOLUTELY dominated by BUFFY, but it spreads out a bit from there. Here’s the list: Quarter Book – 10 for a BuckQuarter Book – SingleAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583Back IssueBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #21 CHEN CVRBATMAN AND ROBIN #1BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #22 CHEN CVRDollar BookBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #23 CHEN CVRBATMAN #686 (NOTE…  Read More…

CE ’09: The First Half: The Books

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Since the first half of the fiscal year just closed, let’s take a quick look at Comix Experience’s best-sellers, year-to-date. Below the jump for those of you who don’t care about these things… Because of the formatting issues, I’ve decided to not attach ranking numbers to the chart. I figure you guys can count just fine! I’ve gone a little past #100 — this is actually our top 127 best selling items, because I wanted to have my own book appear on the list, ha! This first list is PIECES sold. Yes, the first item is marked down books on sale. And, finally, something else breaks the Vulcan Death Grip that WATCHMEN had last year. (Totally sorry for all of…  Read More…