No. More. BJs! – Hibbs on 8/1/12
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 5, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Foggy, gray Sunday here at the store (yes, working this weekend as well), but comics bring light and happiness!
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How can ya’ miss me when you’ve forgotten who I am?
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 9, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Ah yes, reviews, I remember those! Been a while, but I think I’m finally back on the weekly-review-train now!
Wait, What? 57.1: Ones Divided by Two
Posted by: Jeff Lester on September 20, 2011
Categories: Podcasts
Howdy, everyone. My apologies in advance for such a rushed entry, but I’m actually taking a break from editing 57.2 and my concentration is a little bit on the “shot” side of things. Although I’m very happy San Francisco has decided to grace us with some lovely, lovely weather, my apartment is too hot in a “why doesn’t my brain work?” kind of way. (Now I know how the rest of the U.S. felt this summer…) Anyhoo, Wait, What? 57.1! It’s very nearly an hour, and Graeme McMillan and I discussing not only the Miles Morales-based Ultimate Spider-Man #1 and the subime Daredevil #3, but also New 52 books like Deathstroke #1 ( with some spoilers), Red Lantern #1, Frankenstein,… Read More…
Wait, What? Ep. 51.1: You and Me and USM
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…
Honestly, I have no idea for a title — Hibbs on 7/3
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 3, 2011
Categories: Reviews
BOYS #57: I really have nothing to say about this issue (other than “I’ve become generally bored with this title, and the only thing that keeps me reading is Hughie and Annie’s relationship”), but how…. bizarrely ironic, maybe, that this cover came out the same week as ULTIMATE FALLOUT #4? Still, an EH comic. FLASHPOINT #4: Again, not a ton to say — this is competently executed, but it really isn’t buttering my bread, if you know what I mean? – but on the meta-level, there’s something, again, ironic about the notion that the universe is about to have its reality rewritten by the only true Saint of the Silver Age, who effectively has a form of Alzheimers? Also? I… Read More…
Wait, What? Ep. 47.1: Treat Them Mean to Keep Them Keen
Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 6, 2011
Categories: Podcasts
Honestly, our goal is to hit a sweet spot — somewhere between filling you up to the tippy-top and leaving that last little bit unfulfilled such that you want more. And given our druthers with the podcast, Graeme and I usually err on the side of “too much.” Like….maybe way too much? However, this last time, we ended up talking for a little over two hours and that seemed, you know, maybe a bit excessive to listen to all at one go. So, here is Wait, What? Ep. 47.1, with nearly an hour and fifteen minutes of of-the-moment discussion ranging from Steve Englehart’s The Strangers and the Ultraverse line of comics to more gossip about the DCnU and Warren Ellis’… Read More…
Things That Actually Happened This Week: Graeme Really Manages To Review Some 6/22 Books
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on June 27, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Why, if it’s Monday, then it’s capsule reviews. And, for once, proper capsule reviews about books that came out on Wednesday! How did that happen? (Also, scroll down for John’s reviews, and then down some more for the shipping list. Yes, it’s a surprisingly busy Monday here, for once.)
(Almost) All DC, All The Time: Graeme On Some 5/18 Books
Posted by: Graeme McMillan on May 23, 2011
Categories: Reviews
Wow, Jeff’s really laid down the gauntlet with a second week of capsule reviews. Let’s see what I can come up with, even with the short amount of time I have…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 13, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews
It is April, and we’re starting this year’s cycle of event storytelling. I’m fairly unconvinced this is what the audience actually and truly wants — at best I tend to think that the market supports them because its been sooooo long since we sold comics purely on the strength of the comics that we’ve forgotten anything BUT events, but I guess we’ll see what shakes out. Clearly the market is reeling right now — January and February were abysmal, and March not really that much better — and there’s a sense to me, at least, that this year’s are “make or break” for the Marvel and DC universes in some fashion or another. Not like comics will go… Read More…
Hibbs will probably have to eat a bug, and shipping 8/24
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 22, 2005
Categories: Shipping Lists , Site News
Just because I am a big enough man to admit when I was wrong, I stumbled across a post in the Comic Book Industry Alliance boards from 3/2/01 where I said this about ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: >>>LONG TERM…I really really really don’t think it will succeed. By the time it hits issue #50, how is it really going to be any different than the “real” Marvel universe, RE: the accretion of history? If it makes #100, I’ll eat a bug.<<< While I do think the line has become SOMEwhat inaccessible now because of that accretion of history, I was clearly really really really wrong, and it seems all but inevitable that ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN will, in fact, make it to #100. (Unless… Read More…
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 19, 2004
Categories: Reviews
Yah, like Lester I was thinking about how good ol internet time made it seem like we never posted. What’s up with that? I’ve mostly been trying to unravel a Mystery in the UK the last few days — I think I have most of it sussed, but I’m still not sure HOW to solve the crime, as it were. I also finished TILTING (appears on Friday on Newsarama), and have started making notes on Deppey’s NuMarvel essay in the new Journal. Damn, that’s one fine issue. Plus I dinged 30 in CoH, and am now playing the How Long Until I Get Bored and Quit game (I doubt I’ll make it to 35, is all I can say, but… Read More…
