INDUSTRY BUZZ #2: Hype Will Eat Itself
Industry Buzz is my monthly roundtable column at Buzzscope, featuring some of the most outspoken creators, retailers, pundits and advocates in comics commenting on the issues affecting the comics industry. This month, we took a look at hype, and what, if any, affect it has on sales. Does marketing/hype help sell more copies of a
Try Something Different: 8/31/05
Support GOOD Comics! A look at select comic books being released today, 8/31/05. Full shipping list available at ComicList. (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 one, or try Khepri.com or MidtownComics.com) AIT/PLANETLAR
CBC Quickees: 8/24/05
Quick reviews of comics I read last week, rated 0 to 5 stars. Black Panther #7 (Marvel; $2.99)Um…damn, Hudlin is really making it hard to keep up my defense of his work here. On the heels of the his first arc’s hasty and inconclusive wrapup – he never really did get to the heart of
Buzzscope Reviews: 8/24/05
Here’s what I covered for Buzzscope this week. Tomorrow, I’ll have quickee reviews of everything else I read. Ant, Vol. 2 #1Ant is a sufficiently entertaining superhero comic book, admirably featuring a heroine of color without going out its way to hype that fact, and Mario Gully seems to have wisely discarded some of his
INFO: CBC Update
The jury’s still out on CBC v2.0, but some recent developments have added a couple of unexpected twists to the plot, so this is sort of an update/brain-dump for future reference when real life isn’t quite so hectic. Development #1: Out of the blue, about a month ago, Erech Overaker asked me to contribute a
Best Movie Review Ever.
Roger Ebert on Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Ha!
Buzzscope Reviews: 8/17/05
A light week, partly due to not much new of interest on the shelves, plus the fact that I was busy working on my script! Have I officially crossed the line from objective pundit to subjective peer? The latter, of course, in the loosest sense imaginable. Runners: Bad Goods TPBSomeone needs to sign Sean Wang
On Writing
Just emailed the first draft of my comic book story to Erech, the artist putting the aforementioned anthology together. Second draft actually, as I handwrote (!) the first draft during lunch last Thursday and did a lot of revising while typing it up. I like what I’m trying to do with it, but have no
Buzzscope Reviews: 8/3/05
Wherein I talk about Women in Refrigerators, give away FREE comics, and use the phrase “balls-to-the-wall!” El Arsenal: Unknown Enemy #1 (of 3)El Arsenal has the kinetic energy and bombast of Robert Rodriguez’ earliest films, and as introductory issues go, it wisely opts for a few hard jabs straight to the eye instead of the
Fun With Reviews
I posted my aforementioned review of Combat Zone: True Tales of GI’s in Iraq, Vol. 1 TP to Amazon.com yesterday, as I do with anything I review that they happen to sell, and have already received two emails about it from people not thrilled with what I wrote. (Mind you, in the 2+ plus years