January 2012: Tucker Had To File These At Some Point

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Posted by: Tucker Stone on January 31, 2012

Categories: Uncategorized

What follows is the first in what will become a series of 12 posts, capturing the official Savage Critics rating for all of the comics that I read but couldn’t find the time (or space) to write about in a more “professional” capacity. [Note: this post includes comics read in 2011 as well as stuff from January, so you can expect some cursory bits here. Also: I missed you guys. I miss your face, your moist carcass, your buttermilk porpoise, your tender kiss and your sloppy tongues. Joe McCulloch is going to make a great father to what I’ve got growing inside me right now, and I hear great things are brewing in the Loins of Khosla. This is dedicated…  Read More…

Comix Experience ONOMATOPOEIA #193

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Let’s try this new experiment:  for a week (until 2/7/12) you can get a (COLOR!) PDF of CEO #193 (April 2012 Shipping books) written by Graeme McMillan by clicking here. You can also get the companion order form right here. Let me know if that works for you, and if you like it enough for me to bother creating and linking to it each month?   -B

Wait, What? Ep. 73: Thicker Than Forget

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on

Categories: Podcasts

We didn’t even come close. Don’t get me wrong–we certainly tried.  But give Graeme and I more than four dozen questions with an amorphous time deadline and you’re not going to get the bulk of those questions answered even with us putting in two and a half hours to get it done.  [Though we do so at the expense of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84: if you are currently reading that book, please skip over the 20-25 minute section of the podcast to avoid some ship-sinking spoilers.  (Sorry again, Luke.)] So consider this Part 1 of our answers to your questions, with Part 2 to come next week.  If we go to Part 3, I give you permission to begin hunting us…  Read More…

Arriving 2/1/2012

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 30, 2012

Categories: Shipping Lists

First shipping week of February (already?!?!)  –  Not a ton of books shipping (only a two-page packing list this week), but the ones that are look pretty dang decent to me!

Cranky! Hibbs mutters about 1/25

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 28, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Cranky Cranky Cranky!

And We Love You, So Come On, Come On, Come On (Ask Us Questions, I Mean)

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on January 24, 2012

Categories: Podcasts

Dear Wait, What? listeners, The problem with real life is that, when a friend such as esteemed co-host and editor and all-round-Mr.-Good-Guy Jeff Lester asks you to put up a post on Savage Critics so that everyone can leave comments that are actually questions for you to answer on the next episode of your podcast, and when you say “Sure, I can do that!”, several million other things will suddenly need to be done, and then it’s the end of the next day and you still haven’t posted said post and find yourself overwhelmed – overwhelmed, I say – by guilt. Nevertheless: Jeff and I are going to be recording the next episode on Thursday, so you have until lunchtime…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 72.1: ‘Cause of a List For Life…

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on

Categories: Podcasts

Top Five Reasons to do a List Podcast They’re Fun They’re (Comparatively) Easy The Third Item is Usually Not Great, But The Fourth is Great It Helps Our Remedial Counting Skills Five Things You’ll Hear About on This Podcast (In No Particular Order) Superman’s Diary Avengers: HR A President Who Speaks Like Jack Kirby The Still-New Theme Music Flooding (At The Beginning and Only Very Briefly) Five Ways You Can Hear This Podcast On iTunes Here on our RSS feed At a Friend’s House In the Dreams of Stephen Williamson Just Below: Wait, What? Ep. 72: \’Cause of A List For Life… A List of Concluding Elements we hope you enjoy thanks for listening! We apologize for the headings making…  Read More…

Arriving 1/25/2012

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 23, 2012

Categories: Shipping Lists

Happy Lunar New Year to you! Have some comics!

“It Feels So GOOD To Be A Hero…” COMICS! Sometimes They Are Too Good!

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Posted by: John Kane on January 20, 2012

Categories: Reviews

The Church of Howard Victor Chaykin (as named by Corey of The Ottowan Empire) is now in session. Now bend your knees and bow your heads…oh, you have such filthy minds. Shame on you. As is customary many ill-judged words will now follow…

Wait, What? Ep. 71: Funk, Soul, Brother

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on January 19, 2012

Categories: Podcasts

Yep, a bit of a delay but here we are, more or less as promised: Wait, What? Ep. 71, featuring our new theme song courtesy of the hyper-talented Graeme McMillan. This done-in-one episode is not quite two hours and forty-five minutes and covers, um, lots of stuff. Stuff like OMAC and the other cancelled new52 titles; the current state of George Perez’s career and what Marvel’s marketing team could do with it; Mark Millar’s Trouble and Spider-Man; comments by Charles Vess and Ariel Olivetti about Marvel; Mark Waid’s Amazing Spider-Man/Daredevil crossover, Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men as well as Wolverine #300. Plus, a lot of babbling from Jeff about PunisherMAX #21; a debate how many “good” issues a creator…  Read More…

Hibbs remembers reviews, sure, faintly

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 18, 2012

Categories: Reviews

I feel fairly awful because I really didn’t want to post anything anywhere on SOPA-protest day, but I also really really want to tell you about a comic I truly enjoyed, and since I’ve been so crappy in saying anything about any comic for the last few weeks (seriously, mid-November through to February is terrible for me because I’m so stupidly busy at the whole “owning your own retail business” thing from the holidays and year-end work), if I don’t write it today, I don’t write it at all this week. So, join me below the jump?

Wait, What?: D to L-A-Y’d

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on January 17, 2012

Categories: Uncategorized

First, hear me now and listen to me later: when comics come out tomorrow, go get yourself a copy of PROPHET #21.  It does this amazing thing I feel like very few comics do:  it makes me feel like I’m reading real science fiction, and it makes me enjoy it.  It also feels like “classic” Heavy Metal with a very different vibe.  No rampant baring of the boobs, no nonsensical plotting, but there’s that thorough sense of the surreal, where the most insane things are taken for granted and each insane thing is actually outdone by an even-more-insane thing a page (or even a half-page!) later.  It’s not the be-all and end-all–the characters are stoic, the plot is obscured so…  Read More…

Arriving 1/18/2012

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 16, 2012

Categories: Shipping Lists

Without a doubt, the book of the week is PROPHET #21 — I’ll be sold out by Thursday (but I’ve got a double-my-initial coming in the week after that…)

Just A gentle Clearing Of The Throat.

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Posted by: John Kane on January 14, 2012

Categories: Uncategorized

No, I haven’t got any actual content for you. Sorry about that but what with one thing and another (mostly the other) it just ain’t happening. Lest anyone think I had died, succumbed to The Fear or worse I just did some Coming Attractions and studded them into a load of words about nothing. Coming Soon: Statue Fondling For Beginners!

Tilting is up!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 13, 2012

Categories: Retailing/Industry

It’s the newest Tilting at Windmills!   You can of course comment here if you don’t want to comment there!   -B

Wait, What? Ep. 70: The Hour (Times 2.5)

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on January 10, 2012

Categories: Podcasts , Uncategorized

Demolition Derby from Jon Pinnow on Vimeo. The Pact still holds! Another week in 2012, another episode of Wait, What? We are still experimenting with the done-in-one podcast (although many of you have used our comments thread to weigh in and say you like multiple eps. because it gave you something to look forward to…which I was worried might be the case but nobody articulated it before the change-up). I’m thinking I might get us back to two installments (or more) per ep. because something about it reminds me of the way Marvel U.K. used to chop up stories from U.S. Marvel comics and that sorta fits Graeme and I, in a way. But, uh, it may be a while…  Read More…

A Minor, Insignificant Question about Mainstream Comics from Abhay

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on January 9, 2012

Categories: Uncategorized

Dear Savage Critic readers, I’m very sorry to bother, but an extremely minor and insignificant question about mainstream comics occurred to me the other day, one that’s been nagging at me, that I thought I’d put to you and request your assistance with. Extremely minor; extremely insignificant.   I probably haven’t been paying as close attention to mainstream comics as some of you, and so some of you may be more knowledgeable on this topic than I am.  (Indeed, those less knowledgeable should be warned that there may be spoilers for comics you may want to read someday below). I’m sure this is a question that’s already been asked elsewhere, already discussed at great length by my betters, so I…  Read More…

Arriving 1/11/12

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Shipping Lists

Comics Comics Comics!

“I Want To Be That Man!” Comics! Sometimes A Little Melodrama Doesn’t Hurt!

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Posted by: John Kane on January 5, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Happy New Year and I do so hope you all had a very Merry Season of Cheer! Sadly I read some more DC war comics from the ’70s and then wrote about ‘em! I think you’ll find I can and, worse, I did!

CE 2011: Publisher break down

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 3, 2012

Categories: Retailing/Industry

I’m slightly embarrassed to say I’ve never thought to check for this before, but how about looking at things in terms of publisher breakdowns?

Wait, What? Ep. 69: First In Twelve

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on

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It’s 2012 and it’s time for Wait, What? Ep. 69, the podcast that’s not nearly as good at replying in its comment threads as it probably should be! Graeme and I decided to do this all in one since the majority of the response we got were either indifferent to the process or preferred the longer podcasts that allow our tendencies to ramble to eventually get to some kind of point. Do you disagree? Prefer two one+ hour ‘casts to one two+ hour one? Want them even shorter? Wouldn’t mind them even longer? Let us know your thoughts either in the comments thread here or over at waitwhatpodcast AT gmail.com. And while you’re doing so, check out Episode 69, in…  Read More…