Farewell 2005
Don’t let the door hit you… No, not really! It’s been a year of extreme ups and downs (and the downs were particularly rough), but the end result has been relatively positive. For the most part. I’m too lazy to shoot from the hip like Salomé did, and I already covered the comics side of
COMMENT: On 2006, and Some Greatest Hits
Personally, 2005 has been a pretty damn good year, from a comics perspective. CBC’s barely a year old, quickly evolving from being a total lark to something central to reformatting my writing chops post-poetry slam era. (Not surprisingly, the activist angle of my work has transitioned intact.) Plus, I went from contributing reviews and the
All Fours
Four jobs you’ve had in your life: Bartender (my favorite!) Library Page Financial Adviser Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B1P) Four movies you could watch over and over: It’s A Wonderful Life The Incredibles Batman Begins Pump Up The Volume Four places you’ve lived: Crompond, NY Miami Beach, FL Union City, NJ Ft. Campbell, KY Four
LINK: Even More on Speakeasy
Chuck Saterlee pulls the curtain back a bit further over on the Bendis Board thread that started it all. I’m quoting it in its entirety as I wouldn’t be surprised if he was asked/made to delete it at some point, as it airs what could charitably be called dirty laundry. My name is Chuck Satterlee
R.I.P. Peter Conti (aka Peter of the Earth)
I hadn’t seen him in a few years, drifting apart when we moved to Virginia and never reconnecting after we returned, and had no idea he was sick, much less dying. He missed his 30th birthday (today, Saturday) by one day. I’ll always remember the carefree Peter who let it all hang out when the
On the Shelves: 12/7/05
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! It’s the home stretch for 2005! My weekly look at select comic books being released tomorrow, 12/7/05. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to
COMMENT: Cosmic Spider-Man is Broken!
This past March, my sporadic co-blogger Dan did a write-up on the [new at the time] Marvel Knights expansion set to Upper Deck’s Vs. System, the trading card game that lets you pit superheroes and supervillians against each other, Magic-style. I’d never played, but owned a few of the random cards that had been distributed
Buzzscope/CBC Editorial Office
My “inbox”: The stack on the top left is everything I’ve read recently but not reviewed, either for Buzzscope of CBC Quickees. Approx. 15 comics deep is where intended reviews go to die. 🙁 The stack on the top right, underneath the New York Times‘ Infinite Crisis article, is mostly completed mini-series and story arcs
COMMENT: September’s G*ddamn Sales Figures
Over on the Buzz Blog, I posted some comments on September’s sales figures that saw All Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder #2 top the list with approximately 178,000 copies pre-sold to the direct market. Further down the chart, though, something else caught my eye: ARANA #8 (13,758) and #9 (12,920) both outsold the
NOT Like Riding a Bike
There’s plenty of things you can go back to after years away – particularly stuff that’s bad for you like smoking, and poetry slams – but school definitely isn’t one of them. Another weekend, another cram session, made that much more stressful by a week laid up with something flu-like and all day yesterday taken