Sorry about the missed reviews lately, but hey, this is kind of a busy time of year. I should have time to make up for them soon, maybe this weekend if all goes well. New review today for I’d Sure Like Some Fucking Pancakes by Lauren Barnett and yes, I did pick that one to review solely because of the title.
Update for 12/15/09
December 15, 2009
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Update for 12/13/09
December 13, 2009New review for Hoax #5, edited by Karl Kressbach and featuring Nate Neal, Lydia Gregg and Ben Carrico. Oh, and you can buy this in the store too.
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Update for 12/12/09
December 12, 2009New review for The Airy Tales by Ola Volozova, available in the online store, and yes, I’m doing another “all things you can buy” weekend.
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Update for 12/10/09
December 10, 2009New review for Astronaut Elementary #2 by Dave Roman (also available in the store), as I continue to try to nudge you people to buy comics for Christmas. What, you don’t know anybody who would like some mini comics in their stocking?
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Update for 12/9/09
December 9, 2009New review for Blammo #5 by Noah Van Sciver, and I was finally able to spell his name without looking at the cover, so huzzah to me!
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Update for 12/8/09
December 8, 2009New review for Decaff Blues #2 by Ed Jackson. If anybody out there still needs Christmas comics, click on that little store tab up there and go nuts. Guaranteed to get there in time for the holiday if you order before the 20th!
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Jackson, Ed – Hard Times #9
December 8, 2009
Hard Times #9
Regular readers of this site probably already figured out that I occasionally wander all over the map from review to review. For example, if you look up at the review for the last issue, I said that all the unerased pencil lines grew on me after awhile, that they fleshed out the characters. This time around, it gets on my nerves in a big way. It just looks like crap way too much of the time, and while an argument could be made for leaving some of the lines on the characters, when you’re forgetting to erase the pencil lines under whole blocks of text, it makes the comic almost impossible to read. So how about the content? It’s the same format, except this time it’s an over the hill superhero trying to make an honest living. He gets his first paycheck (and considers real estate fraud), tries life as a telemarketer, gives up and gets drunk, considers becoming a super villain, and eventually starts up an internet business and makes a few book. These are all four panel strips, mostly with some form of a punchline at the end. Some are funny, some not so much, but they’re all at least decent. Sadly, none of it matters as those pencil lines just wore me down over the course of the book. I’ve said it many times over the years, but it’s such an easy thing to fix that it just gets on my nerves. Still no price, so I’ll go with $1 again, and you might like it just fine if you’re a little less annoyed about this sort of thing than I am…
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Update for 12/7/09
December 7, 2009New review for Tick Tick Boom by Lisa McDonnell, and if you weren’t around over the weekend you should scroll down to catch all the reviewin’ that went on. I know, like I need to tell you that…
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McDonnell, Lisa – Spring Break 2009: The Adventures of Vega and Leo
December 7, 2009
Spring Break 2009: The Adventures of Vega and Leo
I do always love the random submission. Lisa sent along three comics, so expect to be seeing more from her here in the near future. She also sent along a nice little fold-out with material from her comics and some other art, a sort of primer on her work, which would be a great idea for more people to put together who are looking for a concise (and free) way to get themselves out there. One thing was immediately apparent with this comic: she has a great gift to pack a lot of material into a small comic. The actual story here is only 6 pages long, but she manages to tell the story of how these two got a free vacation on spring break, what exactly they did on said break, what gifts they came home with and how they got right with the world upon arriving. On a website full of oversimplified synopses of comic stories, that has to be one of the most oversimplified, but it’s either that or ruin this. OK fine, I’ll throw a little more out there. Highlights include Leo’s bug obsession, the giant blinking eye, the crystal skull exhibit (closed until 2010) and, of course, Lake Titicaca. School children everywhere, rejoice: it is a real place. The price tag is a mystery (going by heft alone I’d say $1), but it’s already apparent that she has a distinct voice and I look forward to seeing what else I learn from her other two comics.
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Update for 12/6/09
December 6, 2009New reviews today for Zeek the Martian Geek Full Color Special #2 by Brian Cattapan (also available in the store) and Just A Man #3 by Brian John Mitchell & Andrew White. Don’t forget my offer for holiday orders from my comic store: anything ordered before 12/20 will get to you in time for Christmas and I’ll pay for any extra postage to make it happen. Why? Because I am clearly just bursting with the holiday spirit!
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Update for 12/5/09
December 5, 2009New reviews for Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me by Peter Bagge (his first new collection in ages) and Salvager Kain #5 by Paul Sloboda. I should mention that Fantagraphics has tons of comics for only $.99 at their site, so if you were looking for a cheap pile of Hate, Love and Rockets or all sorts of other things, you should probably head in that general direction.
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Update for 12/4/09
December 4, 2009New review for Big Plans #4 by Aron Nels Steinke, have a happy weekend everybody, I should have a few new updates to make up for lost time (barring another computer explosion).
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Update for 12/3/09
December 3, 2009New review for Hard Times #10 by Ed Jackson. The computer is hanging on, so all activity around here should be back to normal. That means a regular update tomorrow and a bit of a bonanza over the weekend to make up for lost time, so if you’re one of those people who only read this to kill time at work (and, if so, I envy your ability to not have sites like this block), there should be a pile of things to come back to on Monday. I’m also taking steps to prevent this from happening again, although judging from my general luck with computers it’ll probably end up being pointless.
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“Update” for 12/2/09
December 2, 2009Well, my old computer is riddled with viruses and I can’t seem to do much of anything with it, while I also seem to have lost the installation disk for my scanner so I can’t use it with my backup. If anybody out there knows how to install a Canoscan lide 50 without the installation disk, please contact me at whitey@opticalsloth.com. In the meantime, I’ll be trying to scrub my old computer down to try and get it in working order, but no updates today. If all goes well I’ll be back tomorrow…
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Update for 11/30/09
November 30, 2009New review for Asthma by John Hankiewicz (also available in the store), and I’ll return to regular reviews now, I was just annoyed by the fact that I still hadn’t reviewed Asthma.
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Update for 11/29/09
November 29, 2009New review for Astronaut Elementary #1 by Dave Roman, another book long available in the online store and still shockingly unreviewed.
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Update for 11/28/09
November 28, 2009New review for Hoax #2 edited by Karl Kressbach, as I’m continuing the long weekend of reviews for things that I never got around to for no apparent reason (that I also have for sale).
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Update for 11/27/09
November 27, 2009New review for Windy Corner Magazine #3, edited by Austin English and available in my store. Hey, it’s the biggest shopping day of the year, I’m legally obligated to at least TRY to sell comics today.
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Update for 11/25/09
November 25, 2009New reviews today (as I was slacking yesterday) for Just A Man #2 by Brian John Mitchell & Andrew White and The Road To God Knows… by Von Allen. No updates tomorrow, then regular updates for the rest of the long weekend is the plan, in case you were curious.
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Update for 11/23/09
November 23, 2009New review for Only Skin #4 by Sean Ford, a series that has been sorely missed around these parts for the last couple of years. I should also point out that any comics orders placed between now and December 20th or so are guaranteed to get to you before Christmas. If it needs extra fancy postage to make it in time, consider it my holiday gift to you.
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