“RAK TAC TAC TAC TAC.” COMICS! Sometimes They Do It All Over Again!

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Posted by: John Kane on May 20, 2012

Categories: Reviews

So I went to the library and got this here book out. As is customary on my planet I read it and , as is inadvisable in my experience, I wrote this. Evasions, justifications, terrible writing, pointless digressions and probably unintended offence are probably in the offing. Why not join me as we look again at Marvel‘s first superhero team! Reed Was beginning To Suspect His Friends Would Never Share His Pleasure In His Colonoscopy Results.

Late, but still here, Hibbs sorta is in 5/9

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 15, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Staggeringly, I’ve still barely read any comics this week, due to a confluence of many things, but maybe fewer means more in depth? Let’s see below the jump!

“It Is Not The FIRST TIME This Has Has Happened.” COMICS! Sometimes They Are Hot Off The Griddle!

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Posted by: John Kane on May 13, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Hey old people, remember Sunday evening when you were a kid?: Urrrrrhhhh! Let’s take the Sunday Blues away with some piffle about our four colour floppy friends! COMICS!!!

“Let Him Be A Child A Little Longer.” COMICS! Sometimes They Are Diverse!

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Posted by: John Kane on May 6, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Hey, the postman finally turned up. I guess the hostiles must have been restless out there in the Badlands or something. Anyway, he may not have rung twice but he did drop off a box of comics. Here’s me going on about some of them after the break:

“You Owe Me A Father.” COMICS! Sometimes They Define “Ramage!”.

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Posted by: John Kane on May 5, 2012

Categories: Reviews

In 1987 DC Comics published a 12-issue “Maxi-series” by British (apparently I forgot one of them is of American origin)  Creators. It did not change the world of comics forever but since it featured a robot dog in a fez and shades, a living head in a bucket and stupid jokes by the pound while still being “about” something I thought we’d take a look. Me and my notions!

All this and Earth, too? Hibbs starts on 5/2

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 2, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Everybody loves comics!

“Our Mission Is To Destroy Crime…ALL Crime!” COMICS! Sometimes Justice Has A Big Dead Face!

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Posted by: John Kane on April 29, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Yes, it’s Sunday Afternoon Kirby Deification Theatre! More after these messages from our sponsors! Nah, not really. I know you’re all expecting me to link The Avenger, Jack Kirby and Justice and do some frothing rant about how Marvel Comics should just give The King his due so we can all just get on with our lives. But I didn’t. I just wrote about an odd little ’70s comic The King did on his way out of the door at DC Comics. I don’t even go on about The King that much. Okay? I like to keep you guessing!

And, lo, there shall come a sell-out! Hibbsing 4/25

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 26, 2012

Categories: Reviews

I have reviews, yes, under the jump.

“Wal, Ah’ll Be Danged.” Comics! Sometimes Creators Are Hurting!

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Posted by: John Kane on April 25, 2012

Categories: Reviews

I don’t know if you’ve heard but comic book artist Tony DeZuniga is in a really bad way. The details are here. So, I thought I’d jaw a little about some of his work. And then Brian “Call Me Mr.” Hibbs dropped his MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT that I’ve just stepped over with my big cow patty boots. Er, sorry, but time seemed an issue here, so REMEMBER below this post Brian “Future Town” Hibbs has a MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT. Below the break I just have some words.

Hibbs catches up, sort of — 4/18′s books

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 20, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Happy 4/20! OK, getting much closer to being “on time”, right there under the jump!

The train keeps rolling: Hibbs’ 4/11

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 17, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Christ the truck with the NEXT batch of comics will be here in just an hour or two, I best get started writing….

“Choke! Gasp!” Not A Podcast! Not Comics! Nothing To See Here. Move Along Now, Please.

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If I recall correctly then this Tuesday the lovable light entertainers Mr. Jeff Lester and Mr. Graeme McMillan will not be with us this evening. Now I know you’ve all travelled a long way tonight and so, in an effort to avoid rioting, their part tonight will be played by me. Mr. Jeff Lester And Graeme McMillan In Happier Times. Not available on iTunes! Uninteresting and self-indulgent free content available only at The Savage Critics!

“I Was Never THAT Dark.” Comics! Sometimes An Event Is Not An Event!

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Posted by: John Kane on April 13, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Holy macaroni, what if all the superfolk got together to face an unimaginable threat and I liked it! What kind of crazy world would we be living in then? The world of TERRA OBSCURA that’s where, old chum! Don’t turn your back on us, Bob Benton, we need you now more than ever before! Sockamagee, do we ever!

Big and Bad: Hibbs 4/4′s

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 10, 2012

Categories: Reviews

I know you’d never know it from my Industry-driven posting (seriously? It’s what I DO), but I’ve actually been sick as a dog the last week, and have barely read any comics at all. But I said “I’m back on the horse”, and, barring the two weeks where I couldn’t log on TO post here, I am , I am! So, here’s 3 (or maybe 4) books, below the cut.

“Like Porcelain, They Shattered.” Comics! Sometimes They Contain Ageless Horror!

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Posted by: John Kane on April 9, 2012

Categories: Reviews

An eerie sense of deja vu descends upon you now as I talk about Richard Corben, Simon Revelstroke and a very odd house indeed. Viewings by appointment only, please call first to avoid disappointment!

“It Has A HEART And A MIND!” Comics! Sometimes They Are Dissolute.

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Posted by: John Kane on March 30, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Come Sir, or Madam, set yourself beside this hearth and join me in a snifter as we peruse a periodical of low-repute and learn of a very naughty home, a most naughty home indeed!

Quick Notice: Because There Are Reviews, There Will Be No Reviews.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on March 23, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Hibbs is out of town but he emailed me yesterday, breathlessly and with that slipshod sense of punctuation you expect from people on the road (oh how I wish I had that excuse!), to let me know that it was very important that  I tell everyone that, yes, he had written reviews but no, he had not thought to bring his password with him and so, even more so, no, there will be no reviews from him until after 4/3…not because there aren’t reviews, mind you! (No, of course not.) So…there’s that.  In the interim, please check out John K’s excellent review of the Goodwin/Simonson adaptation of Alien and also, Tucker Stone’s latest slate of reviews over at The Comics…  Read More…

“I Admire Its PURITY.” Comics! Sometimes They Are A Bit Like Films (ALIEN)!

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Categories: Reviews

(Or: Never Put an Englishman called Kane in charge.)

Hibbs says “Heeellllo 3/14′s comics!”

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 16, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Two weeks in a row, yeah, baybee.

“And Kindly Remove Your Pelvis…” Comics! Sometimes They Are A Lot Like Last Time But Newer (John Carter pt.2)!

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Posted by: John Kane on March 15, 2012

Categories: Reviews

 My name is John Kane and if my instructions have been honoured then what now assails your minds will be a continuation of the unfeasible events that occurred when I persisted in following the course of John Carter comics into the current Century. It is not for such as I to grant such an endeavour any merit for such a task can only fall to those who suffer the results. My chore has ended and yours has only begun…

How can ya’ miss me when you’ve forgotten who I am?

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 9, 2012

Categories: Reviews

Ah yes, reviews, I remember those! Been a while, but I think I’m finally back on the weekly-review-train now!