ABHAY: KIRBY GENESIS #1

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on June 30, 2011

Categories: Reviews

KIRBY: GENESIS #1, by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, Jack Herbert, Vinicius Andrade, Simon Bowland, with characters created by Jack Kirby, published by Dynamite Comics. This was just an impulse buy for me.  I think there was a #0 issue before it, but I didn’t buy that. I don’t really know what the deal is with this series– I didn’t read any interviews or promotional materials for it; I kinda knew that the pitch was “Kurt Busiek writing about unused Jack Kirby characters“, but that was much as I knew– or heck, still know. I haven’t even listened to the new WAIT, HELLO– IS IT ME YOU’RE LOOKING FOR? podcast where it’s apparently discussed.

NOT-COMICS: Why Abhay Loves The Shadow Line, and Why You Should Too.

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on June 29, 2011

Categories: Uncategorized

This is about a television show sorta in the crime-conspiracy thriller genre, that aired on the BBC between May 5, 2011 to June 16, 2011. For those of you who do not have access to the BBC, this may not be helpful for you unless you’re one of those people who somehow watch television shows from other countries on some sort of magical appliance found in your home and/or office, and do not have any moral qualm in using said appliance to do so.

“Don’t Fuck With the POS”, and other thoughts on 6/29 by Hibbs

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews

Retailing story first, then into some reviews…

Wait, What? Ep. 46: Sympathy for the Mephisto Analogue

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 28, 2011

Categories: Podcasts

So much time! So little to do! (Wait a minute. Reverse that.) It’s the latest episode of Wait, What? wherein Graeme McMillan and yours truly talk about those comic books what need talking about: Wolverine #9; Flashpoint tie-ins The Superman Project #1 and Reverse Flash #1; James Robinson’s JLA; Earth X; Green Lantern Mosaic; Kirby Genesis #1; Steve Englehart’s Captain America and much more. You might even discover the true identity of that cute little tyke up there. It should be available on iTunes by now, and it is also the sort of thing that you could be listening to here and now, if that’s the sort of thing that kung-pao’s your chicken: Wait, What? Ep. 45: Sympathy for the…  Read More…

More Cowbell: Jeff on Things and Stuff.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 27, 2011

Categories: Reviews

At first, I was just going to write about Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover’s Gingerbread Girl, but I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to say about it.  (Uh, things?  And, uh, stuff?) So, after the jump, Gingerbread Girl, X-Men: First Class (the movie), Star Wars Omnibus (Vol. 3), and more…things and stuff. (oh, and don’t forget to scroll down for the shipping list…and John’s reviews…and Graeme’s reviews?!  Holy shit. We need to learn how to pace ourselves.)

Things That Actually Happened This Week: Graeme Really Manages To Review Some 6/22 Books

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on

Categories: Reviews

Why, if it’s Monday, then it’s capsule reviews. And, for once, proper capsule reviews about books that came out on Wednesday! How did that happen? (Also, scroll down for John’s reviews, and then down some more for the shipping list. Yes, it’s a surprisingly busy Monday here, for once.)

“More Water, Ma’am?”…Comics? They still make ‘em and I still read ‘em!

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Categories: Reviews

Enter my personal four colour nightmare! Gonna make your eyes boil like eggs! Or bore you senseless. Hard to tell really. Anyway, I read some comics wrote some words – it’s a story as old as Love itself! Like my face. (You look lost, stranger – The Shipping List is the next post down)

Arriving 6/29/11

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Shipping Lists

Smallest numerically week of the month, but there’s many good things in here…  

Savage Symposium: FEAR ITSELF & FLASHPOINT (Part 3 of 3)

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on June 24, 2011

Categories: Symposiums

The fiery climax of our roundtable Q&A, in which questions about FLASHPOINT #2 are FINALLY ANSWERED, preconceptions are EXPLODED, homes are INVADED, true love is TESTED, and the hope of ALL will fall into the hands of ONE– and in a stunning twist ending, it turns out we were all in monogamous relationships with prostitutes this ENTIRE time.  Who saw that coming?  Well, in my case, everybody.  Everybody saw it coming.  Awwwww.

Content w/o Contentment: Quick Capsule Reviews from Jeff

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 23, 2011

Categories: Reviews

Oh, it’s all in the timing.  Always.  Earlier today, Graeme and I were podcasting and all I really had read that was all recent were two comic books.  Now, less than twelve hours later, I have five (and a graphic novel I haven’t yet finished).  Join me after the jump, won’t you?  If nothing else, I promise to be brief….

Bewilderment Inc: Featuring The Malingerer!

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Posted by: John Kane on

Categories: Reviews

After the break I’ll be not knowing what the Hell I’m doing with some comics you probably didn’t read. Remember, kids, if you want me to stop before someone gets hurt contact Mr. Hibbs.

Green Lantern: The Movie

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Reviews

I had to wait a little while to see Green Lantern because of scheduling issues with Ben — he’s in a crazy amount of camps, with enrichment afterwards (soccer, swimming, etc), and then weekends with his grandparents that Wednesday was the first chance we had to go together. And what’s the point of seeing a superhero movie if you’re not taking your seven year old?  

Wait, What? Ep. 45: It Will Be Brought.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on

Categories: Podcasts

And so without further delay, Graeme and I are back with another podcast episode designed to amuse and bemuse.  (“Design” might be a little too strong a word, though.)  In this ep., we discuss our preparations (both mental and physical) for seeing Green Lantern: The Movie, as well as the Marvel event from 1989 Atlantis Attacks; Mark Gruenwald’s legacy on Captain America; Jack Kirby, Neil Gaiman, the Berganza/Didio interview tour, Avenging Spider-Man, the perfect setting for Tron 3, SDCC, and more.   You can find it on iTunes or listen to it here: Wait, What? Ep. 45: It Will Be Brought. Finally, we hope you enjoy Graeme’s dramatic interpretation of a beloved comic book character, which I’ve excerpted below in the…  Read More…

I have Read the Worst Comic I have ever read (this week)

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on June 22, 2011

Categories: Reviews

Don’t mean to overuse that headline (and, actually, it wasn’t really Arsenal-level bad), but I thought that this week’s Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search For Swamp Thing #1 was pretty inexcusably poor.

Savage Symposium: FEAR ITSELF & FLASHPOINT (Part 2 of 3)

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on

Categories: Symposiums

Part 2, in which Questions are asked about FLASHPOINT #1 & FEAR ITSELF #3, lessons are learned, truths are revealed, a bloody revenge is discharged and a bloody discharge has its revenge.

Flash(point Tie-Ins)! Aaaaaaah ahhhhhhhhhh! Graeme Saved Everyone of You From Having To Read Them!

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on June 20, 2011

Categories: Reviews

I am a bad comic fan, I think, because I didn’t manage to get to the store this week. On the plus side, it’s because I was doing a bunch of other things, so maybe I’m just a busy comic fan. Luckily, though, DC thought to send me preview copies of this week’s and next week’s Flashpoint minis, so it’s apparently round two of the great Flashpoint mini-series reviewathon:

Arriving 6/22/2011

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Shipping Lists

Another smallish week for periodicals, below the cut.

Savage Symposium: FEAR ITSELF & FLASHPOINT (Part 1 of 3)

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on

Categories: Symposiums

As part of the 10th anniversary of The Savage Critics on the internet, and in conjunction with the 4-part discussion of Chester Brown’s PAYING FOR IT, a more mainstream-oriented “round-table” discussion of Marvel Comics’s multi-title crossover headline series FEAR ITSELF and DC Comics’s multi-title crossover headline series FLASHPOINT was conducted between April 11, 2011 and June 19, 2011, covering slightly less than the first halves of both series. As each issue of FEAR ITSELF #’s 1-3 & FLASHPOINT #’s 1-2 was released, a single question was posed.

Burble Burble Burble, Hibbs fufills a promise to review

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on June 17, 2011

Categories: Reviews , Site News

I said I was going to review, so here’s a few quick hits. I’ve been spending a lot of time this week on the back end of the site, you’ll notice some of the real estate has changed. That “uncategorized” number will shrink over the year as I go through the older, blogger-era posts (sheesh, we have nearly 2000 posts here at this point!), but the tag cloud will really only be utilized properly going forward from here.   If you have any mechanical/aesthetic suggestions for the site, now is the time to do so.   Putting that aside, what stuck with me in the last two weeks?   PUNISHERMAX #14: I wrote up #13, but #14 compels me to…  Read More…

The Audition

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on June 16, 2011

Categories: Reviews

I know that I told you that I’d be the first one to punk out 0n the every-week reviews — and guess what? I was right! (But I was writing Tilting, and a very special DC-Relaunch ONOMATOPOEIA that you can actually download as a full color PDF until June 28, so I don’t know, maybe that counts?) Anyway, Jeff and I were talking about how much we like John K (UK)’s comments every week in “Shipping this week” threads, and we thought “Well, let’s give him a shot”. (Important note to everyone who constantly asks to become a Critic — this is actually how you do it. You write nd you write without any expectation of anything other than amusing…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 44: Our Man in Havana

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 14, 2011

Categories: Podcasts , Retailing/Industry

Yes, it’s episode 44 of the podcast but it’s also a first for Graeme and me — as in, our first interview. As you might infer from the graphic above, there were some minor technical difficulties to be had, but we didn’t let that stop us from doing the interview with….Mr. Brian Hibbs! It’s something we’ve been meaning to do for a long time, and it seems like news of the DC reboot was the “best” time to do it. This was recorded on Thursday, June 9, so I guess we had just about all the info from DC at that point.  Mr. Hibbs walks us through his brave new world of accountability, tiered discounts, and the challenges facing comic…  Read More…