God Save The Queen: Hibbs catches back up
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 29, 2012
Categories: Reviews
I owe you reviews, and I’m stuck working on a Sunday (the first of 13 days in a row, at that!), so let’s go!
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Wait, What? Ep. 93: Thrill Power Overboard
Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 10, 2012
Categories: Podcasts
Above: The Chocolate Waffle, which is a liege waffle covered in dark chocolate, from The Waffle Window, Portland, OR Yup, Episode 93. I would say more but I’m slightly overwhelmed with the amount of shite multitasking I’m currently doing (kinda dashing back and forth between two computers at opposite ends of the room at the moment, which neither makes me feel like a mad scientist or a keyboardist in Journey but just someone who is old, Internet, so terribly old). On the other hand (and behind the jump): show notes!
Better than never: Hibbs on 6/27
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 4, 2012
Categories: Reviews
As far as I am concerned, this isn’t “last week’s comics” until I open the front door of the store on Wednesday!
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…
And the Number One Reason I’ll Never Be A Paparazzi…
Posted by: Jeff Lester on November 21, 2007
Categories: Retailing/Industry
I was at Kevin O’Neill’s signing at CE Sunday night…with my camera…and asked the gracious and stylish Mr. O’Neill if I could take some photos…to which he graciously and stylishly agreed….and I barely took any photos at all. Because I am absurdly meek, and a FUGGIN’ IDJIT. Nonetheless: Here’s a shot of the man himself. (Obviously, I shoulda run it through some light adjustments on Picasa before uploading it.) We were shop number seven in four days on his tour, and the guy would do a sketch in anyone’s Black Dossier if they wanted. Really cool. I knew he wouldn’t be anything like his drawings, more than likely, but I was still somehow unconsciously surprised he wasn’t one of his… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on November 19, 2007
Categories: Retailing/Industry
I just want to say that Kevin O’Neill is a Prince Among Men — we had an absolutely wonderful signing with him last night, and he was extremely gracious with his time, given virtually every person who showed significant “face time”, answering their questions, and doing quick sketches for each and every person. What a class act! If you’re down in the San Jose area, Kev appears at Hijinx Comics today (Monday) from 5-8, then he goes to Las Vegas and Alternative Reality Comics [edit: and Comic Oasis, sorry, Derek!] on Tuesday to wrap up the tour. I suspect Jeff will be along before TOO long with pics of last night’s signing. We’ve got an EXTREMELY limited number of copies… Read More…
The Alchemical Marriage: Jeff Looks at the LOEG Black Dossier.
Posted by: Jeff Lester on
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…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on November 15, 2007
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Jess Nevins popped into one of our comments threads to point us to the online annotations of the BLACK DOSSIER HC — I thought it deserved some time up on the front page so go look In other BD news, DC is SOLD OUT of the book (excepting whatever copies they’ve held back for damages and shortages) — I found this out when I wanted more for Sunday’s signing and was told “Nope.” I am cunning and strong, so I managed to get more copies, but still… when’s the last time that DC sold out of a GN, and especially a HC, on the first day of release? -B
Oh, god, I need to give this a title?
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on
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…
