Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 31, 2011
Categories: Shipping Lists
Not much stuff this week (numerical count-wise, I mean), but there’s a ton of GOOD stuff — next ACTION, new GANGES, the collection of JOE THE BARBARIAN, a HELLBOY OGN…
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Archive for October, 2011
We Want Your Wait, What? Questions, Please
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on October 26, 2011
Categories: Podcasts
It’s been two long weeks – Well, maybe not that long, I mean the nights are drawing in and everything – but Jeff and I are going to record a new Wait, What? tomorrow and, for once, I’m remembering to not only ask for questions on Twitter, but here, as well. Non-Twitter users! What would you like Jeff and I to talk about? Leave your questions in the comment section and we’ll hopefully almost-definitely get around to them during tomorrow’s recording. New eps should begin appearing again on… Tuesday, I think? Next week, anyway. But ask questions!
“Okay, Let’s Go.” Comics! Sometimes They Contain Cowboys!
Posted by: John Kane on
Categories: Reviews
I hear tell there’s no call for Western comics no more. I reckon folks don’t know diddly squat. One’s I read made me more than partial to ‘em. Hunker down a spell why doncha and hear me jaw about a couple of Western comics.
“‘Fear Itself’? More like ‘Fuck Yourself’!” (wokka-wokka-wokka)
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 21, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Hey, look, reviews!
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on
Categories: Retailing/Industry
At Comic Book Resources, as usual. If you can’t bear to comment there, we have this forum. I’m actually a little surprised at just how positive the CBR commentary has all been — where are the internet trolls? I guess they simply haven’t woken yet today! Anyway, go find out about DC #2s, B&N, and why Comix Experience won’t be racking AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #1. -B
“He’s Not Human, Jim…I Swear!” Comics! Sometimes They Knife You In The Back!
Posted by: John Kane on October 20, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Gonna talk about a cow puncher who punches hard. And shoots. Yeah, sure is partial to some shooting this fella. Daggnabit, someone’s gonna get hurt you don’t quit that!
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 17, 2011
Categories: Shipping Lists
OK, feeling better, but getting caught back up — reviews will return by Wed, I hope. Maybe even with the book I am, oddly, most anticipating this week: Star Trek/Legion of Superheroes #1….
“Oh, Come ON.” Comics! Sometimes They Are Set in 1959!
Posted by: John Kane on October 15, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Yeah, sorry about this. What can I say? I will take your patience and shatter it like the dry bones of your childhood dreams! Next Time: A Howard Victor Chaykin free zone. Promise!
Wait, What? Ep. 60: Two Weeks. Notice.
Posted by: Jeff Lester on October 11, 2011
Categories: Podcasts
Hello! I must be going. I have several days off in a row and I’m going to make the most of them with reading and watching stuff on Netflix and looking at comic books. So there will be a two week hiatus of good ol’ Wait, What? But I imagine we will back before you know it (Graeme already pointed out the last issue of Fear Itself will probably come out during that time. Will I really be able to resist shooting my mouth off about it after six issues of whining?). And in the meantime: Episode 60! It’s an hour and forty-five mins. of Mr. McMillan and me, talking Marvel’s new digital incentive announcement, September’s sales numbers, Apple, Steve… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 10, 2011
Categories: Shipping Lists
Woke up under the weather — here’s this week, no commentary.
“Beverly Grove was a STAR!” Comics! Sometimes they are mucky.
Posted by: John Kane on October 8, 2011
Categories: Reviews
On 7th October 1950 Howard Victor Chaykin was born. Belated Happy Birthday wishes to Howard Victor Chaykin! On 8th October 2011 I wrote this about a book he did in 1988. On…look will somebody answer that dingdanged phone!
A Random Thought on Writers in Comics
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 6, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
I was reading the Joshua Hale Fialkov interview (he’s a great writer, by the way) yesterday, and was struck when he said this: “Everyone has a path, everyone has a road — for some people that road is a lot shorter than other people. I have moments where I realize I’ve been doing this for 10 years. When “I, Vampire” was announced, there was a chorus of, “Who the fuck is that guy?” I’m like, “Seriously? 10 years. Tons of awards. Book published by Random House, biggest publisher in the world. Seriously? Anybody?” And then you realize that well, no, I have 3000 fans. I have those 3000 people who read everything I do and now you’re given this… Read More…
Wait, What? Ep. 59.2: Nine 9 Nein
Posted by: Jeff Lester on
Categories: Podcasts
It was a tough call, deciding how to chop up Ep. 59 — it was one of those eps. where the cleanest transition between topics wasn’t very clean at all. So, really, if you’ve just listened to Ep. 59.1, you’ll handle the transition to 59.2 just fine–I literally just cut an inhalation between the end of that one and the start of this one. So maybe when I launch into my thoughts on Craig Thompson’s Habibi, you’ll get a better sense of where I’m coming from if you’ve recently finished that. (Or maybe not. I never know. Embarrassingly enough, I more or less have this conversation twice–once as a speaker, and once as a listener/editor — and I still can’t… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 4, 2011
Categories: Shipping Lists
The “arriving” lists are what I’m getting from DIAMOND, but I’ve been doing an increasing amount of business with Baker & Taylor — because they’re delivering books faster, cheaper, AND returnable. Like this week, I’m getting seventeen TPs through B&T, some of them pretty major. To whit:
Wait, What? Ep. 59.1: Only in Our Dreams
Posted by: Jeff Lester on
Categories: Podcasts
It’s true: this is indeed the podcast installment where you will hear Graeme and I talk about Debbie Gibson (or Deborah, if you prefer), Tiffany, and New Kids on the Block, along with Frank Miller’s Holy Terror and Grant Morrison’s Invisibles. I’d like to try and deny that Graeme and I came up with a marvelous piece of speculative audio fanfic showing how NKOTB were, in fact, an early ’90s Invisibles cell….but I can’t. (That said? We didn’t, don’t worry.) How does that saying go: sometimes we don’t get the podcast we want, we get the podcast we need? That’s not really applicable here but it’s a fun sentence to type, certainly. And it’s not even one-tenth the fun you’ll… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 3, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Running low on time, and I didn’t have “clever” subcategories to go with it this week, so, here’s the final 13 books in a single post.
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on
Categories: Shipping Lists
So so busy! Ben’s 8th birthday, got to get the ONOMATOPOEIA out, ugh! My last 52 review series is 80% written too, so expect that… tomorrow? Look below the cut for this week’s books!
Well, Look Who Got Quoted in the New York Times…
Posted by: Jeff Lester on October 1, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
NYT: “So Far, Sales for New DC Comics Are Super” Although he’s not saying anything regular readers will find new, I’m linking it since he may end up being too modest or too forgetful to do so. Congratulations, Mr. Hibbs! Please remember to use this as a crucial point in your “don’t you know who I am?” argument the next time you’re in New York and trying to bum rush a showing of The Book of Mormon…
“When do I EVER have an alibi?…” Comics! Sometimes they are really good!
Posted by: John Kane on
Categories: Reviews
Oh, God! He’s back again! Hopefully he won’t be chittering on about WILL EISNER’S THE SPIRIT (DC Comics, 2010 – 2011)! Um, don’t really know how to break this to you…
