Optical Sloth

New review for Panel #14: Panel of Horror by various Columbus artists.

New review for Supertalk #1 by Various comically inclined artists and writers, also newly available in the store.

New review for Jury Rigged Comics #3: Adaptations by Sean McGurr and various other artists.

New review for A Collection of Comics by John Miers. Maybe there will be some reviews up over the weekend, or maybe there won’t be. I have a finite number of books that I brought along on this house/dogsitting trip, so I’ll do some calculations and see if weekend reviews make sense. Exciting!

New review for It’s Dream Time, Snoop Doggy Dogg by J.T. Yost, which is  also available for sale around these parts if you’re interested. And why wouldn’t you be?

New review for Skully Flower #3 by Dragon Messmer, and I’m all settled in so the reviews should proceed at their regular pace for the next few weeks. Now if only someone could tell me what constituted a regular pace around here…

New review for Smoo #3 by Simon M. It’s roughly 2pm Central time at the moment, so if you want to order comics and get them promptly I recommend ordering in the next 24 hours. Any orders made after that will be filled, obviously, but I’ll be out of town and it will take a bit longer to put an order together when I’m 100 miles away from home. Unless somebody orders 100 comics and it’s financially worth my driving back here, that is. I am not above a bribe.

OK, I’m literally pulling out the big guns for my random “I’m leaving town for a bit, could use some cash and won’t be around anyway so why not order some comics from me today?” comic ordering beg-a-thon: Big Breasted Vampire Death by Nik Havert & Renatus. Reviewed and newly available for sale!

New review for Stargazer Volume 1 by Von Allan. I should mention again that orders for comics should be placed by Monday, what with my impending travels and all.  That and it’s the end of the month so money is tight and any orders right at this moment would be greatly appreciated. Free original art (and I’ll let you pick from a list of folks who definitely aren’t me) for all who order by Monday!

New review for Bird Brain #4 by Francois Vigneault. I should also mention that I’ll be heading out of town for a few weeks soon, so if you were planning on ordering any comics, I highly recommend that you do so before Monday. I can ship any orders that I get out Monday, after that it’ll get a little dicey. I won’t be THAT far away from Champaign, so I could head back down if I get enough orders to justify a trip, but ordering comics very soon is your best bet to get them quickly. And yes, I do plan on continuing the reviews when I’m away from home and am trying to scan a bunch of stuff now to make that process easier.

New review for Unrequited Monsters by L. Nichols, who is somebody that all the cool people are already aware of, so you should just get on that bandwagon and ride it out.

New review for Fear of Triangles #1 by Nik Havert, Jimmy Proctor and Bill Wilkison, and it’s also available in my store. Nik has several books that should have been up months ago (if not for the craptastically malfunctioning store over a period of months), and they’ll be getting the same treatment as J.T.’s books in an effort to make up for lost time. If anybody wants to help me assuage my guilt about letting these comics sit around for so long, you could order a few of their books to help my conscience…

New review for Losers Weepers #1 by J.T. Yost, also newly available in the online store. Yeah, maybe it would be easier to just list them all in the store and be done with it, but I’m enjoying reading them all first, so I’ll stick with that strategy, thank you very much. That offer I made for a free piece of artwork to the first person who tests the new store is still open, by the way. By “testing the new store” I mean ordering at least one of the newly listed comics, and by “artwork” I do not mean something done by me, just one of the many random drawings I get with review copies or on envelopes containing the review copies. I’ll give you a few options of artists once you order the comics and you can pick your favorite. It’s a steal!

New review for Death Deals by Eamon Espey, happy weekend everybody, I’ll have more stuff for the store up over the weekend if all goes well and this scanner keeps clinging to life.

New review for Tales of Good Ol’ Snoop Doggy Dogg by J.T. Yost, and it’s also newly available in the online store. You’ll be seeing J.T.’s name up here quite a bit in the next few weeks, as the store is finally working again, so don’t be alarmed, although I don’t know why you would be, as J.T. seems like a perfectly nice young man.

New review for Attic by Whit Taylor, and my scanner seems to be having fits, so don’t be shocked if I miss more days. I’m trying to work with it, as it seems to involve a complicated process of several computer restarts to get it going, but if I can’t make it work for a bit I certainly can’t afford to get a new one for at least a month. Hey, there are still comics out there that have sample images at the creator’s sites, so maybe I can still make it work. Ah, rambling, so refreshing in the afternoon…

New review for Panel #13: Superstition by various Columbus Ohio folks. They sent along a few of them this time that I somehow missed at the conventions (probably because I have a nasty habit of showing up late and then rushing around frantically), so I’ll make the promise now that they’ll all be reviewed by SPACE 2011, which is March 19th and 20th.

No new review today, but I did post Old Man Winter and Other Sordid Tales by J.T. Yost up in the online store, which I think deserves a day all to itself.  Several more comics are coming from that man and many other people in the coming weeks, so the first person who orders one of the new books (to test whether or not the store still works, which I’m almost positive it does) will get some original piece of artwork that I have laying around as a bonus. So you may want to wait a bit until you have more options, or you may want to order this one just to nab that free goodie. The choice is yours!

New review for Thom Ferrier is a Lover of the Great Outdoors by Thom Ferrier. He also sent along a longer comic, but it’s Friday, I’m in a rush and I’ll get to it in a few weeks when I have the time to properly review it.  As for the weekend, I’m going to try and get a few new things listed in the store and maybe a review too.  Just in case anybody was going to be stopping by.  Happy weekend!

New review for Only Skin #6 by Sean Ford, which all the cool kids are already reading, so I just wanted to mention it in case you didn’t know the latest issue was out or something.