New reviews for Please Release by Nate Powell and Essex County Volume 1: Tales From The Farm by Jeff Lemire.
Update for 5/23/07
May 23, 2007
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Update for 5/22/07
May 22, 2007New review for Side A: The Music Lover’s Graphic Novel by all kinds of people, and it’s on the Various Anthologies page, right at the top. Yes, the page is currently a disaster, and yes, one of these days I will break it down into more manageable various pages…
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Update for 5/21/07
May 21, 2007New review for The Titusville Geek by Pat Lewis…
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Update for 5/18/07
May 18, 2007New review for The King by Rich Koslowski, and this concludes what ended up being Top Shelf week here at the the website. Happy weekend!
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Update for 5/17/07
May 17, 2007New review for Broken Lines Book One by Thomas Pappalardo, which remains one of my favorite comic names.
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Update for 5/16/07
May 16, 2007New review for Lone Racer by Nicolas Mahler, and for those of you reading this who know the man, Mike Bradecich may or may not be briefly in the episode of ER this week as a cop chatting with John Stamos, so watch it! For those of you who don’t know Mike, please go back to your comic reading lives…
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Update for 5/15/07
May 15, 2007New review for This Is Still America #2 by George (yes, it’s still just George), and hockey is suddenly a very depressing thing around here.
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Update for 5/14/07
May 14, 2007Sorry, the end of last week got a little crazy. New reviews today for Zod #8 by Jacob Steingroot and Or Else #3 by Kevin Huizenga. No, I don’t know why the page looks messed, but that’s the best result I could end up with. If I kept screwing it it was just going to end up worse, knowing my computer skills…
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Update for 5/9/07
May 9, 2007New review for Better Looking Than A Blog by Shawn Granton, and I’m going to start my "let’s go Sabres" chant right now, if you don’t mind…
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Update for 5/8/07
May 8, 2007Happy (teeny tiny) election day! New reviews for 110 Perc by Tony Consiglio and Hello, Again by Max Estes. Also, I finally managed to get the online store in alphabetical order, so it should be at least a little easier to check for things in there.
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Update for 5/4/07
May 4, 2007New reviews for AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy by Jeffrey Brown and Micrographica by Renee French. Happy weekend everybody!
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Update for 5/3/07
May 3, 2007New review for Election 2020 #1 by Kris Lachowski, and is anybody else watching these hockey playoffs or is it just me again? I’m afraid if I stop watching they’ll shut the whole thing down from lack of interest…
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Update for 5/1/07
May 1, 2007New review for Burn All Stations by Nick Threndyle, and I see that we’ve shifted right over into summer. Ah, who needed those spring and fall seasons anyway?
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Threndyle, Nick – Burn All Stations
May 1, 2007
Burn All Stations
If you’re looking for a simple book, or something to validate any justifications you have for being OK with this shitty world, avoid this at all costs. It’ll challenge you, confuse you, and make you think, not necessarily in that order. It’s the story of a young man named Jimmy walking through life, free associating about everything he sees, decrying the world as a whole and just trying to get by. Along the way he deals with horniess, an old revolutionary ripped out of time, boredom and a bullet to the head. These are the sort of comics that defy any sort of conventional review, as the story, although seemingly linear, takes you all over the place and has no interest in settling things down with a nice ending. It’s poetry, but not the standard rhyming kind. This is the stuff that makes you question it all, or wonder why you stopped questioning it. It hit me while I was in the right mood, obviously, as this is not a lazy day type of comic. There is, however, plenty here to reward those who are willing to dig, from the sometimes dense prose to the clumpy and black artwork. This is also one of those cases where the website will tell you everything you need to know, as he has a blog there as well a daily strip. Do a bit of digging there to see if this for you, but with the almost total lack of a social conscience in most comics, this did me a world of good. $5
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Update for 4/30/07
April 30, 2007New review for Pinch And Everett: Off-Season by Sean Kelley, and the next few weeks will be a mix of SPACE stuff and me trying to get caught up on stuff sent in the mail. Also, I spent a chunk of the weekend trying to alphabetically organize the online store, so it’ll be easier to find what you’re looking for. It’s an unspeakably long and boring process, so it’ll probably take a bit before it’s completely done, but it’s slowly shaping up.
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Update for 4/27/07
April 27, 2007This is the last of the new stuff in the online store, namely Slackmatic #1 by Ryan Holgersen & Nathan Brewer (I missed that one somehow on Tuesday), Dare by Nik Havert & Renatus, and Act of Contrition by Nik Havert, Craig DeBoard & Wes Sweetser (the one I reviewed today). Happy weekend all, I may get some time this weekend to add another review or so and tidy the place up a bit, but I always seem to say that and never seem to do it…
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Update for 4/26/07
April 27, 2007This is the last of the new stuff in the online store, namely Slackmatic #1 by Ryan Holgersen & Nathan Brewer (I missed that one somehow on Tuesday), Dare by Nik Havert & Renatus, and Act of Contrition by Nik Havert, Craig DeBoard & Wes Sweetser (the one I reviewed today). Happy weekend all, I may get some time this weekend to add another review or so and tidy the place up a bit, but I always seem to say that and never seem to do it…
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Update for 4/26/07
April 26, 2007New review for Weird Muse #3 by Dan Taylor and, keeping with the theme, it’s in the online store too…
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Update for 4/25/07
April 25, 2007New review for Blink #1 by Max Ink, and #1, 2 and 3 of his Blink series are now available in the online store, as "buy comics from me!" week at Optical Sloth continues…
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Update for 4/24/07
April 24, 2007SPACE was great, and there are all kinds of new things to be added to the site, including plenty for the online store. I decided, instead of having my head explode, to stagger them throughout the week though, so today there’s a new review for Kitty Litter #6 by Ryan Holgersen & Nathan Brewer, and new in the store is Kitty Litter #2, 3 and 6.
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