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: Brian Hibbs 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…