Away from the shop #1: Jeff Talks About X-Men Forever

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 30, 2010

Categories: Reviews

Hey, whattup? I have somewhere between three to six deadlines barreling down at me but I’ve been itching to write a post since forever. And I’ve got a couple of books under my belt, so…. why not, right? What’s a few posts going to hurt? Doesn’t matter that some of what’s being reviewed is, between a year and four decades old, does it? First up, behind the cut, the first trade of Chris Claremont and Tom Grummett’s X-Men Forever.

Scott Pilgrim Release Party video

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 28, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Christopher Rogers took a bunch of video from the SP6 release party last week, linked under the jump…

Reaching For Toast Like TV Remotes: Tucker on 7/21

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Posted by: Tucker Stone on July 27, 2010

Categories: Reviews

I have nothing to add to your comics news cycle, but I still happen to like comic books enough to purchase them in the face of a fearsome unemployment rate. Here are some of the ones that will someday make a family member of mine hate me for having, because they will have to deal with getting rid of them after I shuffle off this mortal coil.

Arriving 7/28/2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 26, 2010

Categories: Shipping Lists

Reviews soon — order form and ONONMATOPOEIA first… By the number of comics shipping this week one might guess there was some sort of, dunno, major comic book convention or something? Next week, I suppose, for the flood of TPs and GNs… 2000 AD PACK JUN 2010 28 DAYS LATER #13 7 PSYCHOPATHS #3 ABE SAPIEN ABYSSAL PLAIN #2 (OF 2) ACTION COMICS #891 AFTER DARK #1 (OF 3) AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PRESENTS BLACK CAT #2 (OF 4) AMERICAN VAMPIRE #5 AMORY WARS KEEPING SECRETS OF SILENT EARTH 3 #3 ANGEL #35 ANITA BLAKE CIRCUS OF DAMNED CHARMER #3 (OF 5) ARCHIE DIGEST #266 ARTIFACTS #1 (OF 13) JAM CVR A AUTHORITY THE LOST YEAR #11 (OF 12) AVATAR OF THE…  Read More…

ABHAY’S QUICKIE ESSAY ON WHY WALLY GROPIUS IS HIS FAVORITE BOOK THIS YEAR (SO FAR)

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on July 23, 2010

Categories: Reviews

I don’t think I have anything particularly novel to say about Tim Hensely’s WALLY GROPIUS– if you read Blog Flume or Comics Comics, as I imagine you must, I wouldn’t suggest to you that I have much to add to what those fine gentlemen have already deduced.  My Mickey-Mouse “WALLY GROPIUS for Idiots” reading of the book offered below is probably more for my benefit, as a way for me to find a way to have that book stop nagging at the back of my head. As a value-adding proposition for you…?  I can’t make much by way of promises.  With that caveat: essay, ahoy. Also: SPOILERS.  For reals.  Though– look, if you haven’t read WALLY GROPIUS, this isn’t a…  Read More…

Scott Pilgrim v6 release party: teh awesome!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 20, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Well, we didn’t have 2000 (!) people like The Beguiling did, but I’m going to go ahead and call our SP6 Midnight Release a pretty epic success. From the moment we opened the doors back up at 10 PM, we were literally wall-to-wall people, which utterly shocked me. I was sort of thinking we might have 20-30 people show up (It’s a Monday night, fer cryin’ out loud!), and we somewhere between 3 and 4 times that, instead. SP6 leaped to the #1 best-selling book of 2010 so far, in 25 minutes of selling it — crazy!! If I had known there would be THAT many people showing, I would have done things a little differently — like I would…  Read More…

Arriving 7/22/2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 19, 2010

Categories: Shipping Lists

Remember: TONIGHT is the SCOTT PILGRIM v6 Midnight Release Party — 10 pm to 1 am — 20% off everything (except new comics), SP movie tickets, the SP Video Game, and a bunch of other cool stuff. Come early, come often!! Here’s what’s shipping THIS week… AGE OF HEROES #3 (OF 4) AIR #23 ALAN MOORE NEONOMICON #1 (OF 4) AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #638 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PRESENTS AMERICAN SON #3 (OF 4) ARCHIE #611 ATLAS #3 AVENGERS #3 AZRAEL #10 BATMAN BEYOND #2 (OF 6) BATMAN STREETS OF GOTHAM #14 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #206 BLACK WIDOW #4 BRIGHTEST DAY #6 BULLET TO THE HEAD #2 CBGB #1 (OF 4) CLASSIC RED SONJA REMASTERED #2 DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER JOURNEY BEGINS #3…  Read More…

New Tilting Up

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 16, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

The latest Tilting at Windmills can be found at Comic Book Resources. -B

Just get to the screwing: Hibbs on 7/7

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 13, 2010

Categories: Reviews

I hate airports. I’m off for a day trip for an Important Business Meeting in Burbank, and there’s all of this time to kill. SuperShuttle wanted to pick me up at 4:30 for a 7 AM flight. I told them 5 AM would be more than fine, even allowing for, say, an earthquake. I still got here more than an hour before I really needed to. Anyway, time to kill, so I type to you, my friends, and I write some reviews (though I’m not certain I’ll POST this until later tonight….) [Which of course you now know I didn’t]– but because I’m in an airport, I don’t have actual access to the comics, so this is from memory. AVENGERS:…  Read More…

Arriving 7/14/2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 12, 2010

Categories: Shipping Lists

Nice looking week. (Editing this to avoid any misunderstanding!!) I have reviews from last week like 80% written, but I thought I’d get the last 20% written in Burbank, and I ended up doing shots with Geoff Johns among others that night; and then the next day there was the car accident as I was driven back to the airport and I’m in pain, so I’ll need another day or two to finish writing them… so soon, yes. ADVENTURE COMICS #516 AGE OF REPTILES JOURNEY #4 (OF 4) AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #637 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #145 ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN WOLVERINE #2 (OF 6) ASTRO CITY SILVER AGENT #1 (OF 2) AUTHORITY THE LOST YEAR #10 (OF 12) AVENGERS ACADEMY #2 BATGIRL #12…  Read More…

Abhay re: Killing the Cobra #2; This Might Have Been Better a Week Ago, But… Whoops.

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on July 10, 2010

Categories: Reviews

An essay based upon MARIO ACEVEDO’S KILLING THE COBRA: CHINATOWN TROLLOP #2 after the jump.

A comment on Devil’s Due

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 7, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Devil’s Due is leaving Diamond distribution — Graeme probably does things best with this interview with Josh Blaylock. I checked in MOBY (which I installed 7/28/2007 — or almost exactly 3 years ago), and in the last three years this is the gross total of Devil’s Due product I’ve been able to sell: $1080.86 Figure gross-net at $540.43 then, or about $15.01 a month. Hm. -B

Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 Midnight Release Party!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 6, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

READ! Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour before anyone else! SAVE! 20% off everything in the store (excluding New Comics) PLAY! Scott Pilgrim vs. The World video game (Courtesy of Ubisoft) LISTEN! To an All-Canadian Soundtrack! FIGHT! Cardboard Tube Fighting Championship! WIN! Movie Tickets to the film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Courtesy of Allied Media) Monday July 19, 10 pm to 1 am

Comix Experience Best-Sellers: Comics, the first half of 2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 5, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Same thing here: our best selling COMIC BOOKS, roughly the first 100, sorted straight by pieces (I’m skipping the dollars calc on this one) — under the cut

Comix Experience Best-Sellers: Books, the first half of 2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Retailing/Industry

The nice thing about POS is being able to just spit out reports of what’s doing what. What follows is our best selling books for the first half of 2010.  It is below the cut!

Arriving THURSDAY 7/8/2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Shipping Lists

Remember: the 4th of July holiday is pushing back comics (in America) by 24 hours — comics arrive on THURSDAY! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #636 GRIM ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #210 AUTHORITY #24 AVENGERS CHILDRENS CRUSADE #1 (OF 9) AVENGERS ORIGIN #4 (OF 5) BATMAN AND ROBIN #13 BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #46 BATMAN ODYSSEY #1 (OF 6) BOYS #44 BRIGHTEST DAY #5 BRIGHTEST DAY THE ATOM SPECIAL #1 CASANOVA #1 CHIMICHANGA #3 (OF 3) COLD SPACE #3 CRITICAL MILLENNIUM #1 (OF 4) DARKNESS #85 DARKSTAR AND WINTER GUARD #2 (OF 3) DEMO VOL 2 #6 (OF 6) DOOM PATROL #12 DUST WARS #2 (OF 3) ELECTRIC ANT #4 (OF 5) FALL OUT TOY WORKS #5 (OF 5) FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #32 FEVRE DREAM #3…  Read More…

Two DC Reboots: One That Works, One That Doesn’t

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on July 2, 2010

Categories: Reviews

I haven’t read WONDER WOMAN #600 yet, but thanks to the free preview on the DC App – Look out, honey, ’cause I’m using technology – I’ve read the JMS/Don Kramer story and have to say, I think Hibbs is spot on with his thoughts; rewriting Wonder Woman’s history so comprehensively screws up DCU history in so many places that it can’t be unaddressed for too long, and feels completely temporary as a result. The story itself is… Eh, I guess? I can see the logic on a corporate level for the do-over – and it certainly seems to have worked, at least in terms of getting people to pay attention to the character – but I couldn’t say that…  Read More…