New review for Blammo #3 by Noah Van Sciver, and please scroll down for the links to all my eBay stuff if you happen to be somebody who likes a lot of exclamation points in your comics, of if you happen to be a They Might Be Giants fan with a laserdisc player.
Update for 1/7/09
January 7, 2009
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Update for 1/6/09
January 6, 2009It’s the first King Cat of the new year! #69 is reviewed today (and is also available in the store, now easier to find than… recently!). Also, I have a number of things up at eBay, so for anybody who wants to help me clean out my comic boxes or for the one person left out there who still has a working laserdisc player:
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Update for 1/5/09
January 5, 2009New review for Lost Kisses #6 by Brian John Mitchell…
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Update for 1/4/09
January 4, 2009Happy New Year! As I’m required by law to have a resolution, how about this: I pledge to get an update up every day this year that I’m actually in town and have comics to review. This means that you comical folks are going to have a lot to do with it, as sending me new books to review is going to be what keeps that pledge going. And how about the newish website? All the old reviews are back and easily accessible (either through the tab up top or by clicking on the Reviews category on the side) and the store is easier to deal with (as you can actually see the shopping cart as you go now). Thoughts? Opinions? It’s also much easier to contact me or send books, as that address couldn’t be more obvious now. Oh, and the new review today is Magic Everywhere by Eliza Frye.
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Update for 12/22/08
December 22, 2008New review for Nibble #5 by Tom Cherry, a cheery holiday tale, in case you thought I had no holiday spirit at all.
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Update for 12/21/08
December 21, 2008New review for Izzy Challenge #5 edited by JB Winter and containing 50 different artists from all over the country. Still a few more comics to get through before the holiday, and if you wanted to order anything from the online store and have me send it out before I leave town for the year, now would be a good time…
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Update for 12/20/08
December 20, 2008New review for Trubble Club #1 by various Chicago artists…
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Update for 12/18/08
December 18, 2008New review for This Is What Concerns Me by Susie Cagle, and I’m going to try and get through most of my comics pile before I head out for the holiday, so expect a brief spurt around here followed (probably) by very little activity until the new year.
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Update for 12/16/08
December 16, 2008New review for Cavities Comix Presents by Erin Griffin, and to anybody who was curious, I was actually able to sell my pile of Avengers comics. The other ones listed, not so much…
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Update for 12/14/08
December 14, 2008New review for Tuxedo Bandit #2 by Rainer Lee, and those eBay auctions I was flogging are about to end. So, if you see this in the next few hours and want a mess of Avengers comics, a mess of Fantastic Four comics or a mess of West Coast Avengers/Solo Avengers comics, please, bid away. And my grab bag offer is now off the table (for the moment at least), as it looks like we have a winner on that front.
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Update for 12/11/08
December 11, 2008Sorry about the slow week, but it turns out I did in fact have a life that I was neglecting while working those long hours. Who knew? New review today for 8 Stories by Rob Jackson, and please scroll down to check out those eBay auctions. 1 whole person has actually bid on those Fantastic Four comics so far, and I sure would love to get rid of that stuff. Oh, and did I say $50 for a grab bag of 100 small press comics? How about $30 (or $40 if you want it by Christmas)? Think of all the stockings you could stuff with that many comics!
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Update for 12/9/08
December 9, 2008Well, so much for those weekend updates. Oops. New review today for Burning Building Comix #5 by Jeff Zwirek, what looks to be the last issue of that series. Also, I have a few things up on eBay and, as everybody knows, all comics are exactly the same, so I thought maybe some of you more discerning comics readers would like the chance to bid on some superhero stuff I bought years ago. There’s my collection of 120 Avengers comics, 75 West Coast Avengers and Solo Avengers comics, and 108 Fantastic Four comics. Good chunks of all these collections are in order, mostly from the mid 80’s to 1992. Maybe you have kids or younger relatives who would enjoy these, maybe you’d just like to kick back and read a lot of superhero stuff all at once, or maybe you’d just like to support the website financially. Oh, and one special deal for the readers of this website: 100 small press comics for $50 (or $60 if you want it by Christmas). It’s a grab bag, but tell me who you like and what types of comics you enjoy and I’ll try to tailor it to your wishes. Frankly, if I got a lot of interest in the grab bag idea I could probably do it a few times over. I have all kinds of comics that later got collected into graphic novels or things where I ended up with multiple copies to go along with all the stuff I just didn’t enjoy and am a bit sick of toting around from apartment to apartment. E-mail at whitey@opticalsloth.com if you’re interested!
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Update for 12/5/08
December 5, 2008New review for Curio Cabinet #4 by JB, and I’ll try to get something else up over the weekend to start to make up for lost time. Anybody out there dying to see me review the last of the Cerebus phone books? I’ve been reading them all in a row (and the ending, when I get there, for the first time) and was thinking about reviewing them, but… meh. If anybody out there e-mails to say that they’re interested, I will dance for your amusement. Otherwise I’ll just leave that page as is…
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Update for 12/4/08
December 4, 2008New review for Salvager Kain #3 by Paul Sloboda, and have I mentioned the Optical Sloth holiday shopping policy? Basically, if you order anything up until the 20th, I’ll make sure that it gets to you by Christmas, for no extra cost on the shipping. Well, I’ll make sure the post office has it and has assured me in every possible way that you’ll get it by Christmas, as I’m not in charge of the post office. Look around in the store, there are plenty of cheap comics in there that you can afford even with the economy collapsing.
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Update for 12/3/08
December 3, 2008New review for Epic Tales of the Mundane #5 by Brandon Huigens & Brad Dwyer…
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Update for 12/1/08
December 1, 2008Happy last month of the year! Man, between the insane schedule at work for the two elections and the two months I was laid up after my appendix almost asploded, I feel like a bystander to the whole year. New review for Family Tales #4 by Janice Lowry…
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Update for 11/29/08
November 29, 2008New review for Capacity by Theo Ellsworth, another in the indispensable pile of graphic novels from Secret Acres.
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Update for 11/28/08
November 28, 2008New reviews for Favorites by Susie Cagle and Candy or Medicine #5 edited by Josh Blair and featuring all kinds of people. And for those of you who are curious, “regular updates”, at least for this week, means one review a day for the week (including the weekend), but with days off for me to enjoy the holiday. I doubt that anybody out there cares quite that much, but thought I’d throw it out there…
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Update for 11/26/08
November 26, 2008New reviews for Jumbly Junkery #5 by L. Nichols and Hot & Cold Running Ghosts by Grant Reynolds. I’m sticking around for the holiday, so there should be regular updates the rest of the week (and that probably means the weekend) to try and make up for lost time.
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Update for 11/24/08
November 24, 2008Look, I’m still alive! My check last week, for those of you who think I’m faking, was for 157 hours over two weeks. My check in two weeks, assuming I live that long, will be for 156 hours over two weeks. Do the math and you’ll see how ridiculous that schedule was (hint: normal people work 80 hours over two weeks). New review today for Ngaitana! by Lupi Miguinti and yes, I do have a pile of comics to get through. I’ll try to make up for lost time over the next couple of weeks.
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