Superman: Earth One

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 27, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews

About 2 months ago I received an advance copy of  the SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE original Graphic Novel. This was an uncorrected proof, and was a bit rougher than other galleys I get — there’s only about a dozen pages in color, other pages were inked, but not toned, while there’s even a few pencil-only pages. I get a lot of galleys from many different publishers, but this one came under the auspices of a ComicsPRO program, and I made a fatal error of thinking of it while wearing my “Critic” hat, rather than my ‘retailer” hat (I wear far too many hats) DC was (and, let’s underline this very strongly) justifiably upset that I screwed up my hats, and as…  Read More…

Two things that have nothing to do with one another!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 26, 2010

Categories: Reviews

What could they be? Find out under the jump!

Arriving 10/27/2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 25, 2010

Categories: Shipping Lists

Rushed today, here’s this week’s list… ACTION COMICS #894 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646 ANGEL #38 ANITA BLAKE CIRCUS OF DAMNED CHARMER #5 (OF 5) AVENGERS #6 AVENGERS & INFINITY GAUNTLET #3 (OF 4) AVENGERS VS PET AVENGERS #1 (OF 4) BART SIMPSON COMICS #56 BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #22 BEASTS OF BURDEN HELLBOY ONE SHOT JILL THOMPSON CVR BETTY & VERONICA #250 BILLY BATSON AND THE MAGIC OF SHAZAM #21 BILLY THE KID GHASTLY FIEND LONDON #2 ERIC POWELL CVR BLACK WIDOW #7 BLACKBEARD LEGEND OF THE PYRATE KING #6 BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME ORACLE #1 BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME RAS AL GHUL #1 BULLETPROOF COFFIN #5 (OF 6) CAPTAIN AMERICA #611 CAPTAIN AMERICA PATRIOT #3 (OF…  Read More…

“Never Follow A Hippie To A Second Location, Lemon.” Or, Wait, What? Ep. 15.2

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on October 21, 2010

Categories: Podcasts

I’d never realized how badly I wanted to type that line as a post title until I actually did. Anyway, it’s episode 15.2 of Wait, What? and Graeme and I talk about the latest volume of Mome, Kevin Huizenga’s Wild Kingdom, Gangsta Rap Posse and of course….the second issue of Alan Moore’s Neonomicon: Wait, What? Episode 15.2 As I said, we’re planning on talking next week so we may have new eps. up around Halloween (or just a little after)…and of course, I would love to write a few reviews even though I’m behind on about a dozen things right now (and approximately a half-dozen emails to people I really should’ve written back by now) so we’ll see what happens….  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 15.1: Breaking News Broken

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on October 19, 2010

Categories: Podcasts

So I’m in New York for the month and Graeme is, you know, doing his thing (I just swapped an email or two with him and wow does it sound like he’s trapped in a special circle of hell right now) but we still managed to carve out some time to get on the hooberbloob and talk and so we managed to make you this thing and here it is: Wait, What? Episode 15.1 (And it should also be on Itunes, for those of you who swing that way.)  It was recorded all the way back on Thursday, October 7, so those of you who are comics-news-savvy can probably figure out a bit of what we talked about…. And, hmmmm….  Read More…

Arriving 10/21/2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 18, 2010

Categories: Shipping Lists

*sigh* Another leak at the hotel this weekend — lost most of three racks of books. What is it with people staying at hotels that they don’t know how to flush toilets or take showers with the door closed, or whatever? It boggles me every time it happens… Another nice week of comics — I’m sure you’ll find something excellent. 2000 AD PACK SEP 2010 25 TO LIFE #2 (OF 3) AIRFIGHTERS #2 GRINDBERG CVR A AMORY WARS KEEPING SECRETS OF SILENT EARTH 3 #5 ARCHIE #614 AZRAEL #13 BATMAN AND ROBIN #15 BATMAN BEYOND #5 (OF 6) BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #185 BOYS HIGHLAND LADDIE #3 (OF 6) BRIGHTEST DAY #12 BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME CATWOMAN #1…  Read More…

A few thoughts on BEST AMERICAN + Cover Flow

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 15, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews

I quite like the BEST AMERICAN COMICS series. I think that it provides a generally decent overview of what’s happening in non-cape comics in any given year, and I like it as an “entry drug” for civilians, as a retailer. This year’s installment, guest-edited by Neil Gaiman, is another fine fat package of comic goodness, but I think a few of the flaws of the approach were pretty magnified this year. Primarily, I was fairly dismayed at the length of some of the excerpts this year. While it was nice to see something capey make the book this year (well, last year they tried to get Batman Year 100 in there, but DC refused), and something from Marvel at that,…  Read More…

New TILTING AT WINDMILLS is up!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Pricing is only part of the issue, and an examination of the recent Batman clusterfuck, all on CBR. Go read it. -B

Arriving WED 10/13/2010

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 11, 2010

Categories: Shipping Lists

Unlike regular Monday holidays, UPS is running today, which means the new comics are on WEDNESDAY, like usual. This is one of the very rare exceptions to the Monday Holiday/Thursday Release pattern (soon to completely vanish after the first of the year, hurrah!) Big week, too. ADVENTURE COMICS #519 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #645 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PRESENTS BLACK CAT #4 (OF 4) ANGEL VS FRANKENSTEIN II ARCHIE & FRIENDS #148 BATMAN RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE #5 (OF 6) BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #208 BOOSTER GOLD #37 BPRD HELL ON EARTH NEW WORLD #3 (OF 5) BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME BATGIRL #1 BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME BATMAN & ROBIN #1 BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME OUTSIDERS #1 BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD…  Read More…

I liked WHAT?!? — Hibbs on 10/6/10

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 8, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews

Before I get into talking about this week’s books, let me say I am fairly happy about Marvel and DC’s announcements on pricing – DC is moving their entire line to $2.99, while Marvel will (at least, it isn’t that clear) not be debuting any new books at $3.99 – that’s a step in the right direction. However (and there’s always a “however”, isn’t there), I’m slightly unconvinced that, in and of itself, this will directly increase sales revenue (and, in fact, in the short term at least this will lower it) because I do tend to suspect that the Big Two have succeeded in Breaking The Habit for a large number of customers unless and until the two publishers…  Read More…

Arriving 10/6/10

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 4, 2010

Categories: Shipping Lists

First and foremost: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my wonderful son, Ben, who is now 7 years old today! W00t! It is a good week of comics, I think — Alan Moore, Buffy, Metalocalypse. And remember how there were no Vertigo books last week? Welp, you got two weeks worth today… PLUS! the new Darwyn Cooke PARKER book — that’s worth a trip to the comics store all by itself… 28 DAYS LATER #15 ALAN MOORE NEONOMICON #2 (OF 4) AMERICAN VAMPIRE #7 AUTHORITY #27 AVENGERS ACADEMY #5 BALTIMORE PLAGUE SHIPS #3 BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #49 BATMAN HIDDEN TREASURES #1 BATMAN ODYSSEY #4 (OF 13) BOYS #47 BRIGHTEST DAY #11 BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME RED ROBIN #1 BUFFY VAMPIRE SLAYER #37 LAST…  Read More…