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This Time, John Stewart Is A Bad-Ass… IN VIOLET: Graeme on War of The Green Lanterns
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on May 31, 2011
Categories: Reviews
I’m keeping this intro short so you’ll all scroll past and read Brian’s post about today’s massive DC news, but: COMICS.
Preliminary thoughts on DC’s announcement
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on
Categories: Retailing/Industry
I think the “official” one that DC wants you, the consumer to see is the US Today one, but I think that Bob Wayne’s statement is probably the better one to look at. I’ll reprint this below the jump…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on
Categories: Reviews
I already promised Jeff and Graeme I’d be reviewing today, so the reaction to THE BIG NEWS is going to have to wait a little bit, let me charge into this as fast as I can (below the jump)
Inventory/Fanfare: Jeff’s Capsules Reviews, Barely
Posted by: Jeff Lester on
Categories: Reviews
Dang, man. You try to show a little love for the website by doing capsule reviews and then next thing you know you’re stuck in a Hibbs-styled Death Race 2000 “who will blink first?! Who will die last?!” event. [Okay, Hibbs didn't say that, but I'm pretty sure that Kirby did in one his next issue blurbs...] Anyway, after the jump: What Jeff Writes About When He Hasn’t Been to the Shop That Week.
Wait, What? Ep. 42: Cry for Just Us
Posted by: Jeff Lester on
Categories: Podcasts
Finally! Because Graeme demanded it–Wait, What? Ep. 42 is out and in it, Mr. McMillan and myself talk our changing perceptions of the our the Green Lantern and X-Men: First Class movies, review Batwoman: Elegy; Wolverine: Insane in the Brain; Superman: The Black Ring; Mr. Wonderful by Dan Clowes, centennial issues, and, yup, a reconsideration of Cry For Justice. It’s an hour and forty minutes of verbal nerd-fu, delivered in audio Shawscope You can find it on iTunes, or on the ‘cast’s RSS feed, or you are hereby invited to listen to it here and now: Wait, What? Ep. 42: Cry for Just Us As we mention, there’s going to be a bit of a gap between this episode and… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 30, 2011
Categories: Shipping Lists
Despite the holiday today (Memorial Day), comics are STILL MEANT TO BE ON-SALE THIS WEDNESDAY. This is a radical change from previous years, where Monday-holiday meant Thursday-comics. But, see the caveat after the jump!
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 24, 2011
Categories: Reviews
It looks like Graeme and Jeff and I are now playing Chicken again. Which of us will blink first?
Wait, What? Ep. 41: Not Even Us
Posted by: Jeff Lester on
Categories: Podcasts
wait, what? podcast from palinode on Vimeo. I could be a little better at this–although Graeme and I were delighted when Adam P. Knave (@adampknave) and his chum Palinode (@Palinode) took a second to set an excerpt or two of our podcast to video, I forgot to link on it here. If you’ve ever wished to see Graeme and I as our platonic ideals (inverted butternut squashes), this would be the video for you. Or, if you would prefer to keep us two voices in your ear, feel free to listen to Wait, What? Ep. 41, now available for your audio perusal. In it, G and I discuss the conclusion to the Flash series, Flashpoint #1 and its possible… Read More…
(Almost) All DC, All The Time: Graeme On Some 5/18 Books
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on May 23, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Wow, Jeff’s really laid down the gauntlet with a second week of capsule reviews. Let’s see what I can come up with, even with the short amount of time I have…
Littlest Voice: Jeff With A Few Capsule Reviews for You.
Posted by: Jeff Lester on
Categories: Reviews
Cue the “Hello, I Must Be Going” music: I thought it’d be a lark to do two of these in two weeks, but I admit I’m a little hampered by my lack of reading in stuff that’s current (my visit to the store last week was super-quick) or complete (I feel like I’ve been reading that Simonson Thor Omnibus forever and I’m only two hundred pages in) and there are a few other (SavCrit) related projects I’ve got to work on. But, you know, considering my current writing project is all shot to hell–why not? (And with those awe-inspiring words in mind, follow me after the jump for some thoughts on a few scattershot books, will you?)
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on
Categories: Shipping Lists
If you like DC comics, I hope you like the color green this week.
Tilting at Windmills #202 is up
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 20, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Yeah, I skipped a month there, but hey I’m back! Go and read it here. Thoughts and opinions can be put here if you don’t want to post on CBR -B
Wait, What? Ep. 40.2: Earth JKGM
Posted by: Jeff Lester on May 19, 2011
Categories: Podcasts
It’s the wrap up of Episode 40, with Graeme and myself answering questions from listeners on Twitter. (Really good questions, I should add–the kind of questions you want to get when you’re fully rested and you have the breadth of your comic knowledge at the tip of your fingers. Sadly, I was kind of stressed and I’d just eaten a Twix PB bar and the comics seemed so very…so very far away…) Our least favorite characters, our favorite writers or artists not getting any work, truncated runs we wish had been properly completed, and much more…all wedged in to a hair more than an hour. Savvy types who have us on iTunes and those following the RSS feed can grab… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 18, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
This is not directly tied to Savage Criticing, but I figure cartooning jobs are few and far enough between for it to be good Karma for me to mention this. In going through this week’s San Francisco Bay Guardian, I espied a little blurb that said “Cartoonist wanted. The Guardian is looking for a cartoonist to take the place of the retired TROUBLETOWN. Must be: Funny. Different. Political. Have Some Local Connection. email samples to *protected email* No calls, please.” If you get a gig because you saw this here, you owe me lunch! -B
Yes, Why Not? Jeff Does Some Capsule Work As Well….
Posted by: Jeff Lester on May 16, 2011
Categories: Reviews
I admit it–I’d kinda thought I would post a round of capsule reviews for the anniversary, then I thought, eh, maybe I should hold off for my actual anniversary of appearing on the site? (which is something crazy like May, 2002–which doesn’t sound right to me at all…) And I was/am a little burnt, what with podcast editing and this other SC-related thing I worked on today. However, since Graeme was kind enough to post…let’s see what I can come up with after the jump, shall we?
Graeme Tries To Remember How This Capsule Thing Works For Some 5/11 Books
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on
Categories: Reviews
Call me a sentimental old fool if you must, but it feels to me like the best way to do a post on the 10th birthday of the Savage Critics is to go old school, and try and remember how those capsule reviews of yore worked… (Click through for nostalgia! But scroll down to read Hibbs’ post, if you haven’t already!)
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on
Categories: Shipping Lists
Hiding this one under the jump because I don’t want the anniversary post to be too far down the page…
Why am I starting to feel old?
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on
Categories: Site News
Internet time is compressed and strange, and it is a whole lot of new all of the time, and so when things last it feels a little weird, doesn’t it? It was ten years ago today that I started posting openly to the web using the Savage Critic name — that was on comixexperience.com, and something broke that I hadn’t noticed until a week ago, and I don’t know how to fix it and anyway, that site will be revamped (and hopefully properly restored) sometime in June-ish, so sorry you can’t go back and look at Public post #1 at this very second. I had posts on Doug Pratt’s long-gone Comics & Animation Forum on CompuServe (Wheeee, dial-up… Read More…
Wait, What? Ep. 40.1: Anniversary Babies
Posted by: Jeff Lester on
Categories: Podcasts
Okay, I admit it: the title doesn’t really fit with anything Graeme and I mention in this first installment of our 40th podcast. However it is appropriate to when this post goes live–the Tenth Anniversary of the Savage Critic website. It’s kind of a big deal for me as I’ve been here since the site went live (although with much more distance for the last five years or so) and I hope to be here for a while longer yet. I could go on about my feelings for some length–being raised a Spider-Man, I’m pretty much guaranteed to be able to fill one to two pages with internal monologue (though I never did get the hang of that web-swinging thing)–but… Read More…
Wait, What? Ep. 39.2: Hipster Cap
Posted by: Jeff Lester on May 13, 2011
Categories: Podcasts
Hey, can I take a moment and mention that you guys are awesome? (If this was happening in real life and you were Hibbs, you would say, “No.”) As you’ll discover from listening to this ep., I read and quite dug the trade of Wolverine: Insane in the Brain, a page of which you can see above, “courtesy” of IGN, and I definitely owe that to listener/commenter Cory Nalder who mentioned it back in August of ’10 in a way that made me think I would enjoy it. He was totally right. That and recent reviews on iTunes from Anthony Casaldi and Dasbender on iTunes, as well as the discussions that pop up on our comments, just make me really… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 11, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Why is it that that the weeks with lots and lots of things to discuss are weeks where I have some other deadline driven project (order form, ONOMATOPOEIA, whatever), but the week’s I have time to write there’s not a lot I actually want to say? Still, I’ve been horrible the last few weeks, and while I did a lot of writing for the next Savage Symposium, I don’t think you’ll see that for another week or three? So let’s me dive into what I have to say here… PUNISHERMAX #13: This book seriously lost its momentum when it went on that hiatus (seriously, we lost like 1/3 of our sales here at Comix Experience), but I have… Read More…
