Happy (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.
Update for 5/8/07
May 8, 2007
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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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Update for 4/20/07
April 20, 2007New review for Raised By Squirrels: Los Alamos, and things should be back to “normal” around here next week and I’ll have a nice pile of stuff from SPACE. Happy weekend!
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Update for 4/18/07
April 18, 2007No reviews today, as things are still hectic and I’m just trying to keep up, but two new comics are available in the online store: Earth Minds Are Weak #8 by Justin Fox and The Horrifically Complete Non-Winner by Kelli Nelson, a mammoth thing that looks to be required reading for any fan of her Non-Winner strip. Also, in all the chaos I didn’t even notice that SPACE was this weekend in Columbus, so if anybody is looking for something to do this weekend you could do a lot worse than one of the biggest (and best) small press conventions of the year.
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Update for 4/17/07
April 17, 2007I know, I know, I’m trying to keep up. New review for Humpday by Adam Buechler, and Top Shelf is having a big old sale, with all kinds of comics as cheap as one dollar, so go spend some money. Also, the Hans Rickheit section of the online store has just been replenished, with new copies of Chloe, Chrome Fetus #5 and #6, and that last one sold out months ago. Plenty more stuff to be added in the coming days…
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Update for 4/12/07
April 12, 2007Sorry about the lack of updates this week, it’s been a generally crappy bunch of days. I’ll try to get something up over the weekend to make up for it, and here’s a new one for Shame On You by Barry Southworth, also available in the online store…
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Update for 4/10/07
April 10, 2007Sorry, I’ve been trying to kill the cold that wouldn’t die, and it’s taken all energy out of me lately. New review for Tear-Stained Makeup #5 (also available in the online store) and happy birthday Mom!
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Update for 4/5/07
April 5, 2007New review for More! by Sarah Morean…
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Update for 4/4/07
April 4, 2007New review for “No buses. Chickens.” by Christopher Davis, and happy return to winter day!
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Update for 4/3/07
April 3, 2007As promised, here’s the new review for the other half of Stewbrew #2, Meet Erin by Kelly Froh.
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Update for 4/2/07
April 2, 2007New review for the first half of Stewbrew #2 (second half tomorrow), Coot’s Day by Max Clotfelter.
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