Optical Sloth

New reviews today for Smoo #4 by Simon Moreton and Veggie Dog Saturn Special by Jason Young and all sorts of other artists.

New reviews today for Homegrown Alien by Joe Davidson and Nervenkrank May 2012 Preview by Katherine Wirick. I’ll get through these giant piles of comics yet…

Two updates today, for Ginger the Wonder Dog by Rob Kirby and Everythingness by Neil Fitzpatrick. And a note to some of you small press comic companies out there: my current address will always be listed prominently on my website. Luckily a couple of my old addresses house people who are more than willing to pass books along, but they would both appreciate it if they didn’t have to do so. Will I be able to keep the double reviews up all week? Eh, probably not. But maybe!

New review today for Kekionga MiniWorks #34: Mailbox by Pam Bliss. Maybe I’ll try doing double reviews for a bit next week (provided that I don’t have a job yet), as I have quite a stack of comics to get through here. Happy weekend!

New review today for As Eavesdropped #3 by Suzanne Baumann. I have a clump of new comics that will soon be for sale here too, I just haven’t yet had the chance to get them all posted. I’m working on it…

New review today for The Life and Death of Mr. Burger by Derek Baxter. Has anybody else out there been unable to place an order from my store recently? I know that one order did go through (or I never would have gotten to SPACE) and another order did not, which makes no sense to me, as you’d think it would either be all or nothing. And everybody knows to just send me an e-mail if it doesn’t work, right? OK, good.

New review today for Cornelia Cartoons #11 by Kel Crum, as the SPACE reviews begin. It seemed like another great show, but I got there very late and was scrambling a bit. That and being broke meant that I didn’t get as wide a range of books as I may have in the past, but believe you me, I’ll have plenty of new comics to talk about in the coming weeks. If I walked by your table and you recognized me but I didn’t recognize you, that’s just my terrible memory for names and faces and not me being a jerk. And since I usually only ask for review copies from people that I recognize, well…

New review today for Sammy the Mouse Book 1 by Zak Sally. Say, if any of you comics types are going to be at SPACE, it would help me greatly if you would be so kind as to give me review copies of your book. I had my car looked at before the trip and fixing a few various issues caused me to have VERY little spending money outside of gas for the weekend…

New review today for Ritual: Real Life #1 by Malachi Ward. It looks like I’ll be going to SPACE after all, due almost entirely to a gigantic order from Joe Davidson. He’ll have a table at SPACE and everybody who was too cheap/broke to buy anything from me should definitely pick up a few of his books. You should even buy them if you had no interest in helping me out, as the man has done good work with his Robot Bildungsroman series. Any further comic orders this month will go towards the “helping me eat and pay rent” fund, and my persistent unemployment lately has made that fund pretty tiny.

New review today for Robbie and Bobby by Jason Poland. The funding for SPACE is looking grim, so if anybody had any thoughts of trying to help me out a bit, buy something in the next few days or I’ll have no chance of going. Which, granted, is not your problem, but there must be some people out there who would like some comics and/or some of the stuff I’m selling through eBay or Amazon…

New review for Stranger Two Stranger #3 by R. Hendricks. I’m still holding out hopes of getting to SPACE this weekend, so if you wanted to buy something from my eBay/Amazon lists or the store here you’d be really helping me out. Or hey, maybe everybody reading this could just mail me one dollar. Ah, that kind of thing only works in the movies…

New review today for Silent V #5 by Kyle Baddeley. Hey, I’ve been forgetting to post the link to all my eBay stuff. It also occurred to me that I should post the link for the stuff I’m selling through Amazon, as a lot of it is related to comics, so you might have an easier time finding something there to buy to help me get to a convention in about a week. Yeah, it’s not looking good and I’m running out of time quickly, but you never know.

New review today for Blink: So It Goes #1 – Wonka Wonka Kochalka by Max Ink. Who also has all kinds of mini comics for sale here, if you were looking to support my trip to SPACE in a couple of weeks. See how seamlessly I blended in the begging? Max was nice enough to mention another convention in Ft. Wayne Indiana on 5/12, so if all else fails with the SPACE plans maybe I can gather enough sales to get to that one instead. See, and you thought I’d waste your order money on something trivial like food…

New review today for The She-Ma’am Fella Hatin’ Sorority #2 by Mister V. Please scroll down a bit to see my reasoning for you to buy comics from me to help get me to SPACE in a couple of weeks, if you have the disposable income and the inclination.

New review today for Riptoid by Brian Leonard. I know that the fundraiser for getting me to SPACE fell short last year, so maybe people would be a bit more reluctant to buy comics to support it again this year (although I’d hope that the enjoyment you got out of buying some comics would outweigh that), so let me peel back the curtain here a bit. 95% of the comics that I review come from people who mail me review copies. There’s not a thing wrong with that and this site wouldn’t exist without it, but that also means that there are relatively few books that I review that I’ve “discovered” by just stumbling across them. It’s damned near impossible for me to get to conventions on either coast, so SPACE is the best chance I have of finding new books. Which, coincidentally, is also the best way that you have to READ about new books. Here, at least, as there are all kinds of sites doing great work on this front, but you see what I mean. So basically you have a little less than two weeks to buy $200 worth of comics (gas alone will be at least $100) to get me there. I’ll also be selling various oddities on eBay (mostly comics and graphic novels), and I’ll be posting that link up here daily. If you’re perfectly content with the way things have been going, chances are I’ll keep getting review copies for the foreseeable future, but if you’re looking for some different comics, then helping me out financially is the easiest way to make that happen. And you get comics out of the deal!

New review today for Andros #5 by Max Clotfelter. Say, is anybody from Champaign Illinois planning on going to SPACE in Columbus on 4/21? If not, would anybody be interested in buying some comics from my store so that I can maybe afford to go? Please take the weekend to mull over these thoughts.

New review today for Oak and Linden #4 – Dental Damned!! by Pat Barrett.

New review today for Star Pilot #7 by Frank Swartz. I’ve already checked to see if any rich fans of the site would like to give me a pile of money, right? OK, just checking.

New review today for Genetically Modified Punk Rock Pandas by Brad Dwyer. Hey, the store is working again! You should maybe buy some comics now, if the mood strikes you. And if it isn’t actually working, please get back to me on it, but it should be fine now…

New review for Monkey Squad One #8 by Doug Michel, and barring any other website explosions this should be a regular week of reviews. Meaning I’ll do five, but one of them will get erased as I try to post it or something equally ridiculous and I’ll give up for the day instead of trying again, leaving the week with a total of four reviews. I will try not to let this happen. Oh, and send me your comics for review if you have new stuff coming out, as the review pile is getting slim again.