On The Shelves: 1/11/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 1/11/06. 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 take advantage of it. If not,
COMMENT: Speculation – Evolve or Die?
Paul O’Brien’s monthly analysis of Marvel’s sales for November 2005 has several interesting tidbits sprinkled througout that suggest speculation isn’t dead. “…NEW AVENGERS, still Marvel’s top selling ongoing title. It’s actually now below the normal sales level of ASTONISHING X-MEN, mind you, so things might be different when that book resumes publishing. With the lengthy
On the Shelves: 1/5/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! Happy new year! My weekly look at select comic books being released THURSDAY, 1/5/06. 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 take advantage of
COMMENT: Comics & "the Mainstream"
The Comics Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon, in his first CR Sunday Magazine of the new year, said: “Screw being mainstream anyway. Comics has a lot of its cultural power not just as a secondary art form, but as a semi-disgraced secondary art form. I think because of their personal neuroses, which in many cases expresses itself
Buzzscope Comics: Best of 2005
What’s good? What’s worth the money? What will leave you satisfied when it’s done, and not wishing you’d bought a copy of Entertainment Weekly, or rented Batman Begins instead? Fear not, loyal reader, because we here at Buzzscope have read way more comic books this year than, say, Andrew Arnold – plus, we don’t self-consciously spell comics with an annoyingly pretentious “x” – slogging through some of the worst comics to hit the shelves, in order to bring you the Best Comics of 2005.
COMMENT: Newsarama Interview with JQ, Part II
Last week I posted the following portion of an interview Newsarama did with Joe Quesada. “NRAMA: “When do the events in Spider-Man: The Other, Secret War, and House of M happen in relation to one another?” JQ: Actually, we have this listed somewhere but it’s now 3:45AM and I can’t think straight. Not copping out
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
On the Shelves: 12/29/05
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! My weekly look at select comic books being released THURSDAY, 12/29/05. 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 take advantage of it. If not,
COMMENT: Newsarama Interview with JQ
Last week, Newsarama did an extra holiday edition of their Joe Fridays weekly interview with Joe Quesada. During the interview the following came up: “NRAMA: “When do the events in Spider-Man: The Other, Secret War, and House of M happen in relation to one another?” JQ: Actually, we have this listed somewhere but it’s now
COMMENT: You Like Drama, Yes?
That’s the only way I can think of to explain why, of the two links to this blog from The Beat earlier this week, way more people clicked over to the ongoing Speakeasy drama than did my bit on the general lack of interest in comics journalism. Like five times more. As I wrote to