Wait, What? Ep. 83: As Good As A Feast

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on April 24, 2012

Categories: Podcasts

Hoo boy.  Did not think I was going to make this particular deadline.  I won’t bore you with the blah-blah-blahs, but let’s just say: papa needs a new microphone and he needs one bad.  I apologize in advance for all the not-especially-discreet cracking and popping going on at various points in the background of this.  We are maybe two weeks away from a solution to both it and the mild echo chamber effect that’s afflicted us ever since Graeme managed to transcend this corporeal realm. Buttttttttt, anywayyyyyyy… Gotta keep this short and snappy so lemme just say this:  Wait, What? Ep. 83 is two hours and twenty-seven minutes long, and Graeme and I do not spend all that time trying…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 80: Bats and Birds

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on March 27, 2012

Categories: Podcasts

Apologies to those of you already pestered with this image on Twitter:  I thought it was worth a re-use, in no small part because I must once again plead mentis mortis (I have no doubt I’m handling this dead language so poorly, a charge of necrophilia could well be leveled), thanks to how late it is that I’m composing this and where I’m at for a variety of reasons that will probably become clear once you hear Wait, What? 81 next week.  (Hint: it’s a terrifying topic Graeme and I have tackled before.) But enough of that for now, there’s a podcast to be had!  Wait, What? Ep. 80, in fact, a done-in-one of approximately two hours and twenty-five minutes…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 68.1: Grist for the Mill(ar)

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on December 27, 2011

Categories: Podcasts

This one had the best of intentions but somehow ended up being more of the accident-at-the-mousetrap-factory variety. Graeme and I started with the idea of doing a year in review podcast and it morphed, as our conversations usually do, into a verbal catalogue of compulsion and fixation. Oh sure, we start covering events from 2011 like DC’s New 52, day and date digital, but ends up being more about the paintings of Sharon Moody (erroneously called Shannon Moody by me for the whole damn podcast!), Christmas with the Swamp Thing and a long analysis of the year’s crossover events through the only lens that matters–that of Mark Millar. But my system crashes partway through the conversation (which you’ll be lucky…  Read More…

nu52 – Wk 2: Red & Green

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on September 16, 2011

Categories: Reviews

Lanterns, that is.

nu52: The First Two

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on September 7, 2011

Categories: Reviews

So the first thing I realized last night is 13 books a week is almost too much to read in one sitting, at least not without getting a bit of a headache. Then I realized that, with what I have going to today and tomorrow (check back in a few hours, you’ll see!), that even worse there’s absolutely no way I can write up that many books either in the time I have this AM. (Plus, y’know, Diamond shorted all of my copies of STORMWATCH #1 — it is being overnighted to me on their dime, thankfully — so that wouldn’t have worked anyway) So, let’s just hit the first two, below the jump, with the rest by the weekend!

Savage Symposium: FEAR ITSELF & FLASHPOINT (Part 3 of 3)

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on June 24, 2011

Categories: Symposiums

The fiery climax of our roundtable Q&A, in which questions about FLASHPOINT #2 are FINALLY ANSWERED, preconceptions are EXPLODED, homes are INVADED, true love is TESTED, and the hope of ALL will fall into the hands of ONE– and in a stunning twist ending, it turns out we were all in monogamous relationships with prostitutes this ENTIRE time.  Who saw that coming?  Well, in my case, everybody.  Everybody saw it coming.  Awwwww.

Savage Symposium: FEAR ITSELF & FLASHPOINT (Part 2 of 3)

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on June 22, 2011

Categories: Symposiums

Part 2, in which Questions are asked about FLASHPOINT #1 & FEAR ITSELF #3, lessons are learned, truths are revealed, a bloody revenge is discharged and a bloody discharge has its revenge.

Savage Symposium: FEAR ITSELF & FLASHPOINT (Part 1 of 3)

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on June 20, 2011

Categories: Symposiums

As part of the 10th anniversary of The Savage Critics on the internet, and in conjunction with the 4-part discussion of Chester Brown’s PAYING FOR IT, a more mainstream-oriented “round-table” discussion of Marvel Comics’s multi-title crossover headline series FEAR ITSELF and DC Comics’s multi-title crossover headline series FLASHPOINT was conducted between April 11, 2011 and June 19, 2011, covering slightly less than the first halves of both series. As each issue of FEAR ITSELF #’s 1-3 & FLASHPOINT #’s 1-2 was released, a single question was posed.

Tucker Goes Deep Inside Hal Jordan’s War

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Posted by: Tucker Stone on March 29, 2011

Categories: Reviews

Green Lantern 64 (Part One of War of The Green Lanterns) Hal Jordan? Funny you asked. As a result of of the death of his father, he’s refused to acknowledge fear, forever living a life of risk and insubordination. He lacks professionalism and restraint and has never been able to keep his emotions in check. The Green Lantern Corps–a paramilitary police organization whose shield he operates under–was willing to look the other way, until he started hanging out with aliens who have and use colored rings from other spokes of what’s been called “The Emotional Spectrum”. Forming what’s been called the Rainbow Squadron, this unofficial team of Jordan’s is unacceptable to the Corps, so he must be, and he will be…arrested….  Read More…

Superhero comics worth your time today

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Posted by: Sean T. Collins on September 23, 2009

Categories: Reviews

I haven’t done a quick-hits look at the week’s front-of-Previews-type comics in literally years now. Here’s a look at some books that came out today that I enjoyed. Perhaps you will too. See you after the jump… DARK REIGN: THE LIST—X-MEN While Alan Davis isn’t my cup of tea, I fully support comics in which the Green Goblin unleashes a bioengineered sea monster as a doomsday weapon against the people of Atlantis to get back at Namor (who used to be married to the sea monster), and then Namor and the X-Men beat the sea monster (who used to be married to Namor) to death and toss its giant decapitated head through the Green Goblin’s window. I hope the Green…  Read More…

Johns and Johns

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 3, 2009

Categories: Reviews

FINAL CRISIS: LEGION OF THREE WORLDS #5: Well, I liked it a little better than Douglas did, maybe possibly because I have a greater affinity for the “real” Legion (ie Levitz/Giffen, and all that came before that), so I’m real glad to have them back after all of these years, but I have to admit that I’m befuddled by some of the gyrations of the multiple-worlds stuff in this. Maybe it is because I just don’t understand how one can have “52″ parallel worlds AND also have “infinite” ones on top of that. As a general concept, I prefer the idea of endless ones that some artificial limitation — but it isn’t at all clear to me that DC or…  Read More…

Hibbs’ thoughts on INFINITE CRISIS #1

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Posted by: admin on October 15, 2005

Categories: Reviews

INFINITE CRISIS #1: You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger DC fan than me, really — at least one that doesn’t work at DC (because, OK, I can’t beat, say, Mark Waid) I’ve always been a DC fan, even when it wasn’t very fashionable. I can recite you Pre-CRISIS continuity up and down and backwards and forward. I can tell you which character came from which earth and the ones who moved and changed, though, really, it wasn’t really that hard to keep it all straight. I pretty much liked CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS (although, reread all these years later it is a pretty badly constructed mess), though I didn’t, at the time, really think it was very necessary….  Read More…

Reviews of 9/7 Books and Absotively, Posolutely The Last Entry From Jeff For A While..

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Posted by: admin on September 11, 2005

Categories: Reviews

A tri-purpose post. One, to announce this will definitely be my last post until I get back from the honeymoon, and two, to test the theory that people getting married in a week should not review comic books on the Internet. Although I feel perfectly relaxed, comfortable and cheery, I’m having trouble remembering my own name, much less what happened to Scorpion in Amazing Fantasy #12. Either it’s early Alzheimer’s or I am freaking the fuck out on a level at which I’m only vaguely aware. It’s cool. Oh, and three is, I got to hang out at the shop on Friday with Fanboy Rampage’s Graeme McMillan who is cool and funny and gives very good wedding advice. (So does…  Read More…

Comics from 10/27

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Posted by: admin on November 1, 2004

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews

Been a busy week around here — The Geoff Johns signing on Saturday (Thanks for coming, Geoff — you are a gracious and garralous man, and everyone who showed had a wonderful time), then Ben’s first Halloween on Sunday (well, OK, his second — but he was barely a lump for #1), and the order form is due tomorrow, but I have to get it done today because tomorrow we have to process the new comics… So, I still haven’t read a lot of last week’s comics yet! But I’ve read some, and there’s a few things I definitely want to say, so let’s get to what I do have…. Actually, first up, not a comic, but this week’s ENTERPRISE….  Read More…

Two Quick Public Service Announcements

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Posted by: admin on September 29, 2004

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Site News

PSA Numero Uno: I’m sure most of you caught the announcement that Geoff Johns is going to be signing at CE from 4 to 7 on Saturday Octobert 30th. But some of you may missed it, so there it is. We hope you can make it. PSA Numero Two-o: If I was Hibbs I would have posted the shipping list doo-da that he does, but I’m not–I can only link to the Diamond site’s if you’re curious. But Rob Bennett informs me that we did not get in Superman/Batman #12 this week. He said that the East Coast did, the West Coast did not for quick brown reasons that jumped over the slow, lazy dog of my head. Just a…  Read More…