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

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on April 10, 2012

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…

Dipping a toe back in

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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…

Scott Pilgrim Release Party video

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 28, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Christopher Rogers took a bunch of video from the SP6 release party last week, linked under the jump…

Scott Pilgrim v6 release party: teh awesome!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 20, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Well, we didn’t have 2000 (!) people like The Beguiling did, but I’m going to go ahead and call our SP6 Midnight Release a pretty epic success. From the moment we opened the doors back up at 10 PM, we were literally wall-to-wall people, which utterly shocked me. I was sort of thinking we might have 20-30 people show up (It’s a Monday night, fer cryin’ out loud!), and we somewhere between 3 and 4 times that, instead. SP6 leaped to the #1 best-selling book of 2010 so far, in 25 minutes of selling it — crazy!! If I had known there would be THAT many people showing, I would have done things a little differently — like I would…  Read More…

Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 Midnight Release Party!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 6, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

READ! Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour before anyone else! SAVE! 20% off everything in the store (excluding New Comics) PLAY! Scott Pilgrim vs. The World video game (Courtesy of Ubisoft) LISTEN! To an All-Canadian Soundtrack! FIGHT! Cardboard Tube Fighting Championship! WIN! Movie Tickets to the film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Courtesy of Allied Media) Monday July 19, 10 pm to 1 am

A Pilgrim’s Progress: Jeff Gets It Together and Finally Reviews Scott Pilgrim Vol. 4.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on December 2, 2007

Categories: Reviews

A lot of things impressed me about Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, but what really caught my attention is how different it is from the previous volume, Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness: whereas vol. 3 is jammed with action (it’s only 13 pages into vol. 3 before someone gets punched with a bionic arm) and veined with character interplay, vol. 4 grounds the humor and emotional relationships in the foreground and keeps the action sequences very short until the end: it’s as assured in its pacing as volume three was messily ambitious, and there’s nothing unresolved here that isn’t clearly laying groundwork for a later volume. By the time I made it through the final thirty-plus…  Read More…

I’m not liking what I’m typing, throw it all away: Graeme thinks of the good times.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on March 14, 2007

Categories: Reviews

So, following on from my reviewamarathonarama last week, it’s pretty fair to say that my brain was fried – I finished reading Plain Janes on Saturday evening, and suddenly became unable to stop reviewing everything in sight (“This sandwich is Good, but if it had had more onions, it might’ve made Very Good.” That kind of thing always makes Kate happy, as you can guess). It also made me unable to enjoy anything, because my head was just constantly spinning arguments and potential negatives to be weighed about everything that I was reading… which meant that it was time for me to recharge my batteries and get a palate cleanser of a comic to read. Which, this time, was Scott…  Read More…