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Late, but still here, Hibbs sorta is in 5/9
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 15, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Staggeringly, I’ve still barely read any comics this week, due to a confluence of many things, but maybe fewer means more in depth? Let’s see below the jump!
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 1, 2012
Categories: Reviews
I thought the trailers were all incredibly blah, but I thought “Well, it’s the director of FINDING NEMO and WALL-E, so it’s probably got to have something going for it.”, so when the envelope arrived with the free movie tickets, I thought, “OK, for once, I’ll go stand in line for one of these” (Though, god, am I schmuck or what? I shoulda just put the call in, and I totally could have reserved seats to a press screener…) Also? Took Ben with me — and he loved it too. Here’s the first thing I’ll say? The “Host” of the screener was KOFY TV. They’re an independent local station. And when I say “independent”, I don’t mean “The WB” or… Read More…
Wait, What? Ep. 55.2: Press 1 for Yes, 2 for No
Posted by: Jeff Lester on September 8, 2011
Categories: Podcasts
And we’re back with big finale of the podcast we recorded twice and edited twice (and, in a fine bit of “oh, ha-ha-ha, where’s my magical suicide gun?”, I had to write this entry twice because the first one got wiped out, ha-ha-ha, no really, where is it?). Included in this installment’s topics are The Trial of the Flash Showcase, Flashpoint #5, Thor: The Motion Picture, Flashpoint #5, the first volume of Bakuman, Fighting American and the Newsboy Legion, Flashpoint #5, Kid Eternity, the marketing of Schism, and the comic event that is not Fear Itself #5. This embarrassment of riches (or, alternately, embarrassment, depending on how you feel about these things) is available to you on iTunes and also… Read More…
“Hey, Title that Post, Hibbs!” — stuff from 7/20
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 26, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Two Comics, and a Film!
Wait, What? Ep. 47.2: My Third Ebook
Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 7, 2011
Categories: Podcasts
And here we go with our conclusion to Episode 47 of Wait, What? In it, Graeme and I talk X-Men: First Class (the movie) and Green Lantern (the movie), Gingerbread Girl (the graphic novel), Graeme’s picks for DC’s September relaunch, and more. Oh, and we also briefly discuss that awesome Mindless Ones podcast interview which you can hear here and read here. This installment can be found on iTunes, and you can also listen to it here: Wait, What? Ep. 47.2: My Third Ebook We hope you enjoy it and we appreciate your patronage!
More Cowbell: Jeff on Things and Stuff.
Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 27, 2011
Categories: Reviews
At first, I was just going to write about Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover’s Gingerbread Girl, but I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to say about it. (Uh, things? And, uh, stuff?) So, after the jump, Gingerbread Girl, X-Men: First Class (the movie), Star Wars Omnibus (Vol. 3), and more…things and stuff. (oh, and don’t forget to scroll down for the shipping list…and John’s reviews…and Graeme’s reviews?! Holy shit. We need to learn how to pace ourselves.)
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on June 23, 2011
Categories: Reviews
I had to wait a little while to see Green Lantern because of scheduling issues with Ben — he’s in a crazy amount of camps, with enrichment afterwards (soccer, swimming, etc), and then weekends with his grandparents that Wednesday was the first chance we had to go together. And what’s the point of seeing a superhero movie if you’re not taking your seven year old?
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 2, 2011
Categories: Reviews
I’ll get back to print in the next day or so, but I wanted to dive into a few things-on-film for a moment. (I quite imagine there will be SPOILERS here, so be careful, kiddo!) THOR: Saw an advance screening on Saturday morning (10 am, what an odd time for a preview screening!), and yeah, pretty decent film. My reaction could possibly be the result of low expectations — I mean, seriously, did anyone ever think there could possibly be a Thor movie based on the comic, prior to 3-5 years ago? Let alone a good one? It largely kept my attention, and it has some astonishing design on display — I particularly liked their interpretation of… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 1, 2011
Categories: Reviews
[I'm kinda cheating a little bit here, because this isn't about comics, per se (Thursday for that, I suspect, once I've read some of this week's books)] One of the things that happens when you own a comic book store is that people expect you to magically know everything even tangentially related to comics, but especially movies. I’ve had people asking me for weeks what I think of Joss Whedon’s AVENGERS film, or about THOR.. and there’s not so much I can say, is there? I have no magical insight, and, in fact, I try to avoid reading “movie news”, so I’m actually surprised when the movies comes out. In fact, I’m probably the WORST person to ask about comic… Read More…
Away from the Shop #3: Jeff Talks Inception, Golgo 13, and (Mostly) Non-Comics
Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 3, 2010
Categories: Reviews
Here’s another post from me about stuff I have not picked up at the comic book shop recently: a movie, an album, a dvd, and a TV series. (Man, there’s got to be a way I can wrangle a video game review in here, too.) Since I recently spent over two thousand words writing about two comic books, I tried to make this quick, but…well, blabbity-blab happens, you know? (Blabbity-blab behind the cut.)
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 5, 2010
Categories: Retailing/Industry
I’m pretty good about doing my own research, most of the time, but as I wander through my BookScan Analysis this year (Sheesh, I’m at 12,000 words, and I still haven’t touched 2 of the 4 categories!) I’m hoping I can depend on YOU to help me a bit. What movies based on comics were released in 2009? Watchmen, obviously. And Wolverine. Astro Boy. But then I start to blank. Name me some titles, would you? Thanks in advance!! -B
The Best He Is At What He Does, As Long As That Isn’t Preventing Rampant Piracy
Posted by: Tucker Stone on May 1, 2009
Categories: Reviews
Mr. Claremont, you’re a man of strong opinions. Who would you say your favorite Wolverine writers are, besides you? “Len Wein. Archie Goodwin…[long pause]…well, he isn’t a writer, but a creative force: Hugh Jackman.” [8 second pause at least, give or take when I actually started counting out of confusion at whether he was done talking] “Oh! Larry Hama.” So I watched that X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, and while I have to admit to being impressed that the popularity of overly wordy titles with colons has made their way from Batman Battle For The Cowl: Holy God In Heaven You People Will Learn To Like Hush to the feature film marquee–although I think we should still give credit to Ballistic:… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 24, 2009
Categories: Reviews
Went to an advance screening of STAR TREK last night. The situation was odd — originally the screening was at the Metreon on Wednesday night. Then, suddenly, on Wednesday afternoon, around 3pm or so a messenger showed up with a note that the Wed screening was canceled, and it would instead be held at the AMC 1000 on Thursday instead. Weird. What I don’t know is what happened to people who showed up at the Metreon — did they just get told to piss off, were they offered thickets to this show? What happened? Well, they certainly didn’t make it to the Thursday showing. The place was EMPTY. Maybe a quarter full, at best. I have never EVER been to… Read More…
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Hibbs on The Film.
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 1, 2009
Categories: Reviews
We’re a week or so from the real release of the WATCHMEN film. I’ve seen it. This is INCREDIBLY FUCKINGLY SPOILERY, so you must absolutely NOT read it if you don’t want your watching experience potentially ruined. Seriously, I almost felt I should hold it until actual release. So don’t go below the jump unless you understand the ramifications of your actions. Friday night… well, no Saturday morning, there was a IMAX screening of WATCHMEN, at WonderCon, roughly a week before the film is generally released. They decided to be clever by having it at 11:55 PM (five minutes to midnight being a theme in the book, y’see), but, of course, with the various multiple levels of security to get… Read More…
Hey, Didja Hear About This Movie Frank Miller Directed? Jeff Watches The Spirit
Posted by: Jeff Lester on January 9, 2009
Categories: Reviews
Frank Miller has a small role in The Spirit, the movie he wrote and directed, playing a cop by the name of Liebowitz. Miller’s character dies about ten minutes into the picture; his directing career follows suit ninety-five minutes later. Counting me, there were twelve people in the showing I attended and four of them walked out before the movie ended. (Another one snored audibly when I passed him on the way to the head.) Since Miller considers himself a provocateur in the comics world, I wish I could say the four that left stormed out furious, but no: they left with the resigned air of people cutting bait, already figuring which multiplex theater they’d stop by next. Me, I… Read More…
Not Comics: Jeff Checks Out Punisher: War Zone
Posted by: Jeff Lester on December 13, 2008
Categories: Reviews
[Warning: I intend to spoil plot points from the movie Punisher: War Zone--to the extent anyone can spoil anything in a movie called Punisher: War Zone; also, technically it's misleading to call them 'plot points' since that suggests Punisher: War Zone has what one could call a 'plot,' so really I guess I should be warning you I intend on spoiling 'events' from the movie Punisher: War Zone--so if you really do intend on seeing the movie stop reading and go catch it now because it won't be in theaters more than two weeks, tops.] I saw Punisher: War Zone the other day with my pal Robson and two friends we helped sneak in to the theater, Asahi Super Dry… Read More…
Indiana Jones and the Really Awful Third Act
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on June 13, 2008
Categories: Reviews
Nope, no comics review this week — nothing really struck me at all this week at all, good or bad. Instead I’m going to go back in time to a week or so ago when I saw INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. But let’s start in the present day. I had Ben this morning while Tzipora had a doctor’s appointment, and I knew that they had a playdate planned for the afternoon, so I opted to not take him to the park, since then he’d be park-ed out at that point. So, I thought, let’s watch some movies. In fact, let’s watch RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK — he’s been begging for Indy for weeks (which… Read More…
Posted by: Douglas Wolk on February 17, 2008
Categories: Site News
Go read: Tom Spurgeon’s interview with Douglas Wolk. Go look: the new Indiana Jones Trailer! Looks better than I would have hoped! (lets try the embed thing, to see if it works) -B
Who are we to deny it in here? HIbbs on Todd: the movie
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 23, 2007
Categories: Reviews
The good thing about Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET is that it really works remarkably as a film — I went in with a fair deal of trepidation over the changes I knew were coming, but virtually all of them worked pretty darn well. The cuts to the libretto that were made, were overall, pretty good — I didn’t really know if it could survive removing the (various) “Ballad(s) of Sweeney Todd”, but, for the most part one didn’t miss them. And while a couple of pieces were missed (I was sort of looking forward to the four-part disharmony of “Kiss Me/Ladies in Their Sensitivities”), it kicked the momentum of the story dramatically forward. I’m… Read More…
Killing Time: Jeff Talks Movies Instead of Reviewing Books.
Posted by: Jeff Lester on November 30, 2007
Categories: Reviews
A review for Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together should be forthcoming sometime soon but I keep coming up with new ways to put it off (if you download Sid Meier’s Pirates from Gametap, expect at least five hours of your life to disappear in flash). Like today, for example. There’s no reason I couldn’t sit down and organize my thoughts on the book, but instead I’m gonna review a few movies I saw rather than, y’know, being true to the purpose of this blog. I apologize. (On the other hand, it’s probably foolhardy to try another comics-related post on the same 24 hour period as Jog’s awe-inspiring Jademan essay, so maybe this will work out best for all involved.) COMEDIAN:… Read More…
Hooray: A film and a comic for 9/19. Jog.
Posted by: Joe McCulloch on September 25, 2007
Categories: Reviews
So I did wind up seeing Eastern Promises, the new David Cronenberg thing, and it was good stuff. I liked it more than A History of Violence, which can be considered a companion film of sorts, given that both pictures see Viggo Mortensen as a man of secrets caught up in the world of organized crime, with violence meeting violence and family ties frayed. The prior film struck me as really heavy-handed and sorta banal with its mannered small town American archetypes giving way to bloodletting… it was like a lot of high-fiving and shouting WE HAVE ACHIEVED SUBTEXT without anyone pausing to check if the subtext had much of interest in it. Oh, I enjoyed the contrasting sex scenes… Read More…
