On The Shelves: 9/28/05
Support GOOD Comics! Try something NEW! My weekly look at select comic books being released tomorrow, 9/28/05. 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, find another
Buzzscope Reviews: 9/21/05
…and a couple of other things below, including a “big” announcement. ShadowHawk #5Recommending this as a jump-on point, which under normal circumstances it would be perfect as, comes with a huge caveat because of the upcoming changes that will supposedly represent “a complete 180.” In the Scope: Beckett’s New Image ExaminedJeff Amano and Gabriel Benson
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CBC Quickees: 9/14/05
Better late than never, and it’s a small but mostly good batch… All-Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder #2 (DC Comics, $2.99): Oh, Frank, what in the hell are you doing? On first read, I groaned at how bad the scripting was, particularly Batman who sounds like a crazed Adam West auditioning to play
Buzzscope Reviews: 9/14/05
Remember when I used to post 3-5 of these every week? Between school cutting into my leisure reading time – what, you thought I got paid for this stuff? – and not wanting to review anything I’ve previously covered (with purely subjective exceptions), it’s been pretty tough to write up the longer reviews recently. Add
More later, perhaps…
The Baltimore Comic-Con was mostly worth the last-minute trip. Well, as worth it as a day that starts with me on roller blades for the first time in 5+ years at 7am could possibly be. Put a few faces to names, including AdHouse‘s Chris Pitzer (who comped me a copy of Hope Larson’s attractive Salamander
On the Shelves: 9/15/05
Support GOOD Comics! Try NEW comics! The column formerly known as “Try Something Different” has become something different. Instead of listing every single comic book shipping each week, the newly rechristened “On the Shelves” will instead take a look at select comic books being released tomorrow, 9/15/05. The full shipping is list available at ComicList.
CBC Quickees: 9/8/05
No Buzzscope reviews this week as my both of my kids started school last week and I started today (online), so free time has been scarce. The past two weeks’ lessened output have been an unexpected but refreshing break as every now and then it’s nice to simply read comics for the pleasure. On that
On the Shelves: 9/8/05
Support GOOD Comics! Try NEW comics! The column formerly known as “Try Something Different” has become something different. Instead of listing every single comic book shipping each week, the newly rechristened “On the Shelves” will instead take a look at select comic books being released tomorrow, 9/8/05. The full shipping is list available at ComicList.
Blogaround Challenge Met!
Via Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog: Here’s what you gotta do. Go to the Comics Weblog Update-A-Tron 3000 and click through to at least ten comic book blogs. You can do more, but ten is the minimum. I would also stick with blogs that have been updated within the last couple of weeks, but that’s not a hard and