Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 25, 2012
Categories: Site News
Hey, remember a few weeks ago when I said “There’s a big announcement coming!”, and then I had to walk that back a little? Well, hey, it’s here, below the jump!
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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 24, 2012
Categories: Site News
You know how a few days ago, I promised “a frickin’ GIANT announcement”? Well, it turns out that I can officially announce at this moment in time, exclusively to this site, and in front of God and man…. …that the Giant announcement will take place sometime in the future! Find me at a bar and we’ll laugh at how things are unfolding, and, yeah, something IS happening (I’m sworn and promised) but maybe not for a few weeks, or maybe even a few months, depending. Sorry to get your hopes up!! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 29, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry , Site News
In other news, we’ve completed a refresh of the Comix Experience website, which was pretty long overdue, I hate to say. In addition to it just looking visually fresher, there’s a fair chunk of new content on the site for you to examine — in super-particular I’ve put up an additional 26 Tilting at Windmills, and you can also find a scan of the ultra-rare Comix Experience 5th anniversary magazine, yay! Spend a few minutes tooling around, let me know what you think? Much love to my Mom, who did the rebuild! THANKS MOM! -B
Burble Burble Burble, Hibbs fufills a promise to review
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…
Why am I starting to feel old?
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 16, 2011
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…
OK, I think we’re back this time!
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 10, 2010
Categories: Site News
I *think* all of the backstage drama is now over, and we should be good to go from here out. Because of the @#$@%@ at the old hosting service, we seem to have lost the last week’s worth of posts… but I’m going to see what I can do to get them back up here via Google Cache, as I have time throughout the day. UPDATE: Sadly, we lost any COMMENTS to the blog in the last 9-10 days, and all of the pictures/video got broke — but all of the text content is back up at least. I also suspect that everyone needs to update your RSS feeds AGAIN, but, honestly that should be it. Wish us luck!! -B
Brian catches up on 2/24 and 3/3
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 9, 2010
Categories: Reviews , Site News
One more bit of housekeeping: when we switch, sometime later this week, to our new hosting provider, the site will go black again. Kate says “about 3 hours”, but I’m going to say “up to 24 hours”, just to be safe. Once that passes, however, we should be good to go for the long run (he said, his fingers crossed) Plinking out things I’ve missed over the last two weeks… FALL OF HULKS RED HULK #2: Maybe it is me (it often is!), but if I were buying a book called “Red Hulk”, I’d expect to read a story about, oh, dunno, the Red Hulk maybe? I might even hope that it would tell me something (anything!) about the character…. Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 8, 2010
Categories: Shipping Lists , Site News
Some housekeeping: If you were signed up on the RSS feed from the old (blogger) version of the site, you need to sign up for the new RSS feed from this iteration (WordPress) — thanks to Jeff for noticing this. I don’t use RSS, so it’s all mysterious to me. Question: How current do you want my reviews to be? If I post on Wednesdays, I can include some/all of that week’s books, but I’m worried that a significant chunk of you haven’t read those books yet? Here’s this week’s shipping list, below the cut
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 7, 2010
Categories: Site News
Our current hosting provider decided, for some reason, that basic WordPress scripts were “using too much memory” and took us down. Without warning, naturally. Said company has a phone line featuring 20 minute waits in line to talk to someone who merely reads you back the email exchanges. Said company has reps who, when they call you, don’t leave the toll free number to call back on. Said company suggested we upgrade to a hosting plan that would be roughly 14x what we currently pay. Said company took more than 3 days to restore this blog after we complied with thier instructions. Said company? Not going to be our provider by this time next week. So, no, it wasn’t you…. Read More…
Attention RSS Feeders: We’ve Moved! And Stuff!
Posted by: Jeff Lester on March 5, 2010
Categories: Site News
Hey, Jeff here. I realize there may be some people who follow us almost exclusively through RSS who don’t know that we’ve updated the site. You will still be able to find us at http://www.savagecritic.com. Our service provider turned dickish on us and wanted a ton more money to continue to host us, so we’ve moved house. As for the RSS feed, its new location is http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSavageCritics See you there! Uh, when we’re back up anyway…
Savage Critics on the Reporter!
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 5, 2010
Categories: Site News
It is a Savage Critic Four-fer (is that a word?) as Tom Spurgeon interviews Jog on Death Note, Douglas on Invincible Iron Man, Tucker on Ganges, and Sean on Blankets! All of them (as well as all of the non-Savage Critic interviews as well!) are definitely must-read pieces! Spurge initially asked me to do an interview, as well, but then he suddenly decided to do this one-critic-one-book series, and he asked if we could do our general survey of the business of comics later in 2010. I’m certainly looking forward to the chances of doing that sometime in the next month or two, I hope! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 21, 2009
Categories: Retailing/Industry , Site News
[Don't forget that we've got Scott Allie and Kevin McGovern on Wednesday from 5-7 -- please try to come!] In about 20-25 years, when my son is a famous artist, you’re going to want to have in your collection a copy of SCOOBY DOO #149, out this week. Why? Because Ben’s first published piece of artwork is in there on the letter’s page! I’m actually a little shocked how long it took to run — I think it was nearly eight months ago that we sent it in, and they run 4-6 pieces from kids every month (can you tell I’ve been religiously checking every issue as they get released?) — I’d actually given up hope it was going to… Read More…
They Say That Girl You Know She Acts Too Tough Tough Tough: Diana Turns Off The Lights
Posted by: admin on October 4, 2009
Categories: Site News
This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone, but I’ve decided to step away from mainstream comics for a while. Sadly, that also means bowing out of the Savage Critics. Why, when and what next: after the jump.
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 16, 2009
Categories: Site News
I’ll be completely honest with you: I know just about nothing about some of the backstagey bits of this site. I’ve never used a RSS feed in my life and don’t really “get” it, because I’m a bitter old curmudgeon. I only kind of understand how “hits” work, or advertising costs on the web, or any of that stuff — I don’t think I’ve looked a refer log in something like 5 years, and, while I have permissions to go get our metric information, I never really bother, because I’m more interested in the content than all of that stuff, y’know? Anyway, long and short, yeah, Kate changed the way the RSS feeds work with the Savage Critic site, and… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 14, 2009
Categories: Site News
I know we fuss and fight some times. Sometimes we fight about money, some times about even sillier things, but, baby, you have to know that we love you with all of our hearts. We’ve been together a really long time, but for us at least, it just gets better with age. We honestly can’t think of anyone else we’d rather wake up in bed next to each morning, and, I know, I know, sometimes we flirt with film or television or prose, but always always you’re the one foremost in our hearts and minds. So, this Valentine’s Day, 2009, we’d like to rededicate our love to you, and offer you this: The Savage Critics: Wave Three! Ladies and Gentlemen,… Read More…
Go Look: Awesome interview with Abhay
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 2, 2009
Categories: Site News
Tom Spurgeon interviews Abhay as part of his ridiculously good Holiday Interview series. Go read it here. -B
Lester, Tester: Please Ignore This Post and Enjoy Your New Year’s, Please.
Posted by: admin on December 31, 2008
Categories: Site News
Yeah, so we’re having problems publishing, hmmm? Lemme check.
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 26, 2008
Categories: Site News
I can’t quite figure out if something is broken with our blog, or what, but Douglas has had a post pending for 3 days that JUST WON’T PUBLISH, so I thought I’d post a little test thing here to see if it is his message, or if it is the blog Just to keep things vaguely on subject, I was complaining in Tilting last week that December was horrible. And it mostly has been. However, this last week has been really terrific, and Christmas Eve was the best Christmas Eve we’ve had in terms of sales in nineteen of them… it doesn’t look like the last minute surge will be good enough to send the month positive, but I think… Read More…
Savage San Diego: A Quick List of Who’s Where & When
Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 24, 2008
Categories: Site News
I don’t know which one of the thousands of exhibitors brought the ray that speeds up time, but they’ve got it cranked to eleven down here in San Diego: I had enough time to walk one-tenth of the giant exhibition floor last night, said hi to no more than three or four people (but they were awesome people, I assure you) before joining the nerd diaspora and staggering through the streets of San Diego in search of a place to rest my feet and a liquid that cost less than a dollar an ounce. So I’m posting this early Thursday morning instead of Wednesday, and I apologize for that. Nonetheless, if you’re immune to the effects of the Speed-Up-Ray and… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 29, 2008
Categories: Site News
I’m kinda stupid sometimes about the internet, and we’re still figuring out how things work, so it looks like we blew it in getting how Project Wonderful functions — we got 34 (!) bids for the ad space, but when we looked at it, we didn’t understand that the bids were blind and that all we saw was $0.00 bidded, and we passed on all of them. Stupid me! So… if you tried to bid on the space before, try it again, I now have the slightest idea of what I’m doing! (but, really, just the slightest so far) Thanks to Bill from Lone Star Press for clueing me in on what I was seeing, and you SHOULD be seeing… Read More…
