“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.

“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:

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!

Wait, What? Ep. 84: Q and A DNA Q

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on May 1, 2012

Categories: Podcasts

First off, our new graphic is courtesy of the incredibly talented Adam P. Knave (who on top of all the other things he does and does well, has added podcaster to the mix. Go check out The Glory, The Glory, why don’t you?) and our old dashed-off scattershot introductions to the podcast, courtesy of me who has once again managed to land himself behind a scheduling eightball. But!  That doesn’t mean we didn’t attend to our duties, as far as answering your questions go.  On the contrary, Episode 84 of Wait, What? is our first hour and forty five minute foray into the savage wilds of your inquiries.  Among the ground covered by Graeme McMillan and me:  our recommendations for…  Read More…

“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.

Wait, What? Ep. 82: The Problem With Problems

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on

Categories: Podcasts

Hola, chicos! The above image is from Dave Sim’s Glamourpuss #24, just one of many fine comic book hoohahs under discussion in episode 82 of the latest podcast from the brilliant (but presently ill!) Graeme McMillan and the generally slow-on-the-uptake (but mostly healthy!) yours truly. I gotta say, we pretty much drove right in on this one, and ended up talking Action Comics #8 in the first three minutes of this two hour twenty-five minute blabapalooza, and also managed to hit topics like OMAC #8, the colorization of  Scott Pilgrim, the battles behind the TV show Community, a great blog post by Steve K. about the state of the comics Internet, Casanova #3, Supreme #20, Fatale #4, Strike Force Morituri,…  Read More…

“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!

Wait, What? Ep. 79.1: iPhones and Asshats

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on March 20, 2012

Categories: Podcasts

Multitasking–can it truly be done efficiently? Studies suggest “no,” but if only they could watch me in action, they could change those studies to definitively conclude, “Oh hell, no.” At this very moment, I am uploading episode 79.1, listening to episode 79.2, and creating this entry to go live early Tuesday morning. Which will I screw up first? The smart money is on “all three.” That said–hello! Welcome to Episode 79.1! Yes, once again, we are changing things up and going back to two episodes per week, divided up into comfy one hour chunks. I kinda missed having content on the site on Thursdays–I thought it was a nice way to have something up to look at and listen to…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 74: Who Before Watches the Before Watchmen?

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on February 7, 2012

Categories: Podcasts

I hope you have your calendar cleared until 2014, because that’s how long it’s going to take before Graeme and I get to answering all your questions from this thread. Honestly, how were we to know Before Watchmen was going to launched the day before we were scheduled to talk?  As the astute listener may note, we were pretty reluctant to launch into the topic and how clearly tried to get it out of our system beforehand…but like one of those county fair snacks gone bad, it keeps finding new and horrible ways to re-surge and expel itself. So join us, won’t you, for Wait, What? Ep. 74?  The first eighty minutes is Graeme and I talking Watchmen, Before Watchmen,…  Read More…

“There’s Buses Along Watling Street To London…” Comics! Sometimes they don’t half muck you about a bit.

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Posted by: John Kane on September 2, 2011

Categories: Reviews

Nah, don’t get up my account, see I want a word in your shell-like. Don’t flinch, son, I just want to talk to you. Talk to you about this thing what Alan Moore wrote and Kevin O’Neill drew. Won’t take long. We’ve all got homes to go to. Don’t cry, be  a brave soldier. Be over before you know it…

Wait, What? Ep. 51.1: You and Me and USM

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 9, 2011

Categories: Podcasts

My hope is the days of iTunes drama is behind us and Wait, What? Ep. 51.1 has already begun a safe and steady trek to your listening device of choice, but if not and it leaves you hanging (as it did some of us for the better part of the week with our last episode), please feel free to listen to it here. It’s got everything you could want in a comics podcast: Graeme McMillan! Miles Morales! Jack Kirby! Nick Spencer! Alan Moore! The library! (Oh, and also me and Marvel and Secret Avengers and legal wrangling as wrangled by two individuals utterly untrained in the art of said wrangling…): Wait, What? Ep. 51.1: You and Me and USM Pull…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 50.1: The Devil, We Say

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 2, 2011

Categories: Podcasts

Yes, here we have it–Wait, What?’s fiftieth episode, filled with talk by Graeme McMillan and Yours Truly about Daredevil #1, the Defenders relaunch, Incognito and creator expectation in comics, Jim Starlin and Jim Shooter, Alan Moore’s Captain Britain, and our usual ephemera jammed into just over an hour. And since I’ve been told that “context” is this year’s big buzzword among podcasters as the number one thing listeners would like, lemme point you toward this post by Jim Shooter in particular, and this interview with Ed Brubaker as things what might help in capturing this mythical “context” creature. (Also, it should be pointed out that, despite the title and the graphic up top we didn’t talk nearly enough about Daredevil…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 43: The Men from W.A.F.F.L.E.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 10, 2011

Categories: Podcasts

Yes, here we are in “deep cover,” doing our best to pose as the type of fiends who would cause all kinds of trouble to the Doom Patrol.  Graeme McMillan and I are the men from W.A.F.F.L.E.! (If the Waffle Window wants to make us official mascots, we’d bothBE  honored and thrilled….) But since pictures are only worth a thousand words, and we have at least ten times that to offer you every week, here’s Wait What, Ep. 43 for you — everything you’d want to know about our takes on DC’s September reboot, with perhaps an Alan Moore imitation or two thrown in.  It’s an hour and fifty minutes of end of days frivolity, available to you on iTunes…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 14.1: “You think they’re cuddly…”

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on September 21, 2010

Categories: Podcasts

Should you wish to hear Graeme and I hold forth about the recent controversy that was Alan Moore’s recent interview, and should you also wish to hear Mr. McMillion$ and myself ponder the current comics marketplace, and should you also wish to hear He-Who-Knows-All and I-Who-Know-Bupkis sketch out a rough theory about a “generation gap,” you may do so at your leisure, either at Ye Olde Itunes, or below: Wait, What? Episode 14.1 We hope you find it to your liking! A less sizable (but perhaps equally risible) installment shall follow upon the morrow.

Musing on Miracles

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 5, 2009

Categories: Reviews

I’ve been thinking a lot about the news that Mirac…er, I mean MARVELman has been bought by Marvel comics. As I think I mentioned here in passing, Marvel has a couple of really big problems they’re going to have to overcome in bringing this work to market — and I don’t just mean the lingering legal/creator issues. My read of the internet’s reaction to this was a significant amount of “Huh?…Who?”. Which kind of makes sense — it has been something like 15 years since an issue of MIRACLEMAN has been released. For all of the talk of the “aging” readership, and whatever, I bet if you took a poll, less than half of today’s readership has ever read a…  Read More…

Favorites: Watchmen

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Posted by: Sean T. Collins on March 1, 2009

Categories: Reviews

This past summer, with Watchmen movie hype already in full swing, I reread the book for the first time in a while and posted a review on my blog. Now that I’ve got a “Favorites” review series going here, and with the movie almost upon us, I figured it’s a good time to share the results with Savage Critic(s) Nation after the jump. Hope nobody minds a re-run… Watchmen Alan Moore, writer Dave Gibbons, artist DC Comics, 1987 416 pages $19.99 Like half the nerds in America, I recently re-read this graphic novel, inspired to do so by the trailer for Zack Snyder’s upcoming movie adaptation. I feel much older than I did when I first read the book during…  Read More…

From The More Things Change Department…

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 11, 2008

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Going through my stuff in preparation for my upcoming garage sale and came across this lovely number: What amuses me about this issue of Comics Interview from 1987 isn’t the boast that we’ll be watching the Watchmen, but the corner claim about Alan Moore says farewell to comics “at least for now.” No wonder Affable Al believes we live our lives over and over again!  

Around the Store in 31 Days: Day One

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 1, 2008

Categories: Reviews

I have a plan. With the idea of having as much fresh content on the Savage Critic site as possible, I’m going to ATTEMPT to do a post-a-day for the month of March. These may not appear strictly every 24 hours, but I’m going to try. I’ve decided the theme is going to be “31 classic graphic novels”, trying to show the range and breadth of comics material that’s available to a 21st century comics shop. Please join me after the jump! I opened Comix Experience in April of 1989. There really weren’t a lot of graphic novels available back then — I think there were under twenty items that were in print and perpetually available at that point. I…  Read More…

The Alchemical Marriage: Jeff Looks at the LOEG Black Dossier.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on November 19, 2007

Categories: Reviews

In a just world, the best way to review of Moore & O’Neil’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier would be type up a pastiche in which history’s most famous and infamous literary critics team up: Dorothy Parker, Kingsley Amis, Harold Bloom, Alexander Woollcott, Edmund Wilson, Michiko Kakutani, H.L. Mencken, and Gary Groth all trot on panel to fight The League’s attempt to collapse fictional and non-fictional reality (thus rendering critical thought–the border between fictional and non-fictional reality–impossible). Of course, to be a true pastiche, the reader would have to endure–after a gripping opening–the repeated erotic couplings of Wilson and Kakutani, with only the occasional bit of thuggishness from Mencken or Groth to spruce things up (until each kills the…  Read More…

Oh, god, I need to give this a title?

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Posted by: admin on November 15, 2007

Categories: Reviews

Let me acknowledge, right up front, that maybe I’m a little biased, given that Kevin O’Neill is appearing at the store this Sunday (11/18, from 4-6 PM, right, I can’t help myself dammit, I am a retailer!) But, really, I thought that the LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: THE BLACK DOSSIER was one of the most extraordinary things that I’ve read this year. I barely have the vocabulary for a decent review — not only did I miss at least a third of the references (I’m aware, intellectually, of [say] Jeeves and Wooster – but its not like I’ve ever personally read a word of Wodehouse’s), but even the ones I actually get, I don’t actually have the language to comment…  Read More…