New review for Salvager Kain #2 by Paul Sloboda, and that online store is broken down into pages now. Yes, it was exactly as easy to do as you might have thought.
Update for 9/8/08
September 8, 2008
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Update:News for 9/7/08
September 7, 2008The store is done! Well, technically if I was building a town it would still be a dilapidated shantytown, but everything is in one place, available for order. Now I just have to break things down into groups and get everything off of one mammoth page. The regular schedule of reviewing will resume tomorrow, and the first person who takes that new store for a spin and orders something will get a few minis for free just for proving to me that the thing works and I didn’t just waste most of my weekend putting it together…
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Update: News for 9/4/08
September 4, 2008Still working on the store, and boy is that going to be going on for a while. I only got through the C’s today (although, in my defense, there were a whole bunch of them). If anybody has any experience with this E-Commerce thing for WordPress, drop me a line please. I can do the basics but a lot of the other things (like not having all the comics lumped together on one huge page) is beyond me. Oh, and Top Shelf is doing another one of their crazy sales, so for the next week you can get all kinds of stuff for $3. I recommend the Glenn Dakin book and anything by Tony Consiglio, but there’s plenty of other good stuff there too if you already have those books.
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Update: News for 9/3/08
September 3, 2008OK, no regular update today, but if you’ll look over to the right of the page you’ll see that I’m finally putting the store back together. There’s much work to be done, obviously, but the first step is getting everything up and available, then I can tweak the categories and presentation a bit to make everything more lovely. Also, the first person to order with this new system gets some sort of prize, probably a free graphic novel from my recently unpacked collection, as it looks like everything works fine from my end but I would love to see this all put to the test…
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Update for 9/2/08
September 2, 2008Well, so much for the weekend updates. Turns out that you have to unpack everything that you previously pack in to move into a place. Who knew? New review today for Blink: FYI, IDK by Max Ink.
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Ink, Max – Bolt: Devil’s Sermon #3
September 2, 2008
Bolt: Devil’s Sermon #3
Another of the random grabs at SPACE, this one is the serialized parts of a graphic novel. I got the first three issues and figured I’d just review the last one. That way all of you would know how the story is progressing and whether it’s worth checking out or not, and I honestly don’t know. The first two were OK, if a bit too silly, and it wasn’t a silly story. Way too much dialogue that couldn’t possibly have been spoken by a human. Still, he was clearly going somewhere and I remember how bad some of the first issues of some of the great long series were (Love and Rockets and Cerebus, to name a few), so I was willing to at least get the first collected graphic novel when it came out to see how he has progressed. Then came the third issue, where there’s a new “creative collaborator”, Chad Wilson. I’m not saying negative or positive about him because I have no idea what he actually did here, but he came along after a long span between issues when it was supposed to come out every other month. Put that together with the fact that this issue felt different from the other ones somehow and it has me worried. The first two were mostly about a man dealing with the death of his girlfriend in an incredibly dramatic fashion and this one was about him talking to a devil and making some kind of deal. Maybe the next one is where it starts to get interesting, but I sure hope he’s turned the corner on this and has everything together. I should mention that the art is great. If he does get his story together this could be an incredible series, so I don’t mean this to come off as negative. E-mail him (and please, send him some letters to fill up those back pages with something other than rambling (not that I can ever be allowed to bitch about rambling)) or send him a few bucks for the latest issue at 642 South Everett Avenue Columbus, OH 43123-2724.
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Update for 8/29/08
August 29, 2008Yes, a real update, it’s a new review for The Five Year Itch of Dorothy Barry by Kelly Froh. Things will start getting back to normal by next week, although I might just have time to get one or two new reviews up over the weekend.
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Update for 8/27/08
August 27, 2008OK, the good news is that I have internet service in my new place. The bad news is that it didn’t get installed until right before I had to leave for work, so nothing new today, and possibly not tomorrow either, as I still have to pack/unpack many things and only have a short time to do so. However, if you have a comic you’d like reviewed, I’m likely to get to something coming in the mail quicker than I will get all my comics in boxes unpacked, so there’s essentially no waiting at the moment. My new address: 5912 Slippery Rock Dr Columbus, OH 43229. Send away!
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Update for 8/24/08
August 24, 2008Did I say minimal disruptions? Yeah, well… I’m going to be moving most of the next few days and should have the internet hooked up on Wednesday, so as of then things really should be back to normal. Until then, please amuse yourself looking through the many pages of archives, or perhaps re-reading some of your comics along with the reviews, seeing how completely out of line/mildly insightful I was with any given book. It’s like a fun game!
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Update for 8/21/08
August 21, 2008New review for Damn Weird #23 by Tom Motley, one of the books that’s available in the online store, whenever I can either get somebody to help me get it working again or figure the damned thing out myself. Also I seem to have found an apartment, so here’s hoping any disruption here will be minimal.
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Update for 8/20/08
August 20, 2008Sorry, I had no internet for the start of the week and now I’ll be looking for a new apartment for a bit (here’s hoping not too long), so updates are going to be sporadic for a while. Everything should be settled one way or another by the end of the month and I should be able to at least get a few new updates in here and there in the meantime…
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Update for 8/15/08
August 15, 2008New review for Mediocralypse by Gareth Brookes and I finally put up some contact info for me, on the right under the empty “Blogroll”. If you click on it you get my e-mail address, if you hover the cursor over it my home address pops up so you can send your comics to me. It’s like magic!
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Update for 8/14/08
August 14, 2008New review for You Don’t Get There From Here #5 by Carrie McNinch, right at the bottom of her page, probably after I screwed up the images down there because WordPress is still slightly confusing to me. Anybody out there able to give me any pointers?
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Update for 8/12/08
August 12, 2008Weird. I thought I had this new system figured out: when an entry was completely new, the whole thing showed up on the main page, when I was adding something to an old entry, just the name showed up. Well, Crash Comics #6 by Thomas Williams is reviewed today, and his whole massive page is beneath this.  Just scroll past it to see what else has been going on here the last week or so…
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Update for 8/11/08
August 11, 2008New review for Stewbrew #3 by Max Clotfelter & Kelly Froh.
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Update for 8/9/08
August 9, 2008New review for Jeff Zwirek’s Burning Building #3, something everybody who loves comics should be reading, and something teachers in them there comics colleges should be showing their students. What, did I give away the ending of my review?
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Update for 8/8/08
August 8, 2008New review for the Wormdye graphic novel by Eamon Espey, and it almost seems like that date should be significant for some reason…
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Update for 8/7/08
August 7, 2008New review for Marvel Zombies by Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips. For those of you who only want to think of me as somebody who reads independent comics exclusively and never enjoys a good mainstream romp, please look away and come back tomorrow…
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Update for 8/6/08
August 6, 2008New review for The Ineffables #3 by Craig Bogart (at the bottom of his page), and I plan on getting a few reviews up over the weekend to make up for lost time, as I probably won’t be able to do any extras during the week.
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Update for 8/1/08
August 1, 2008New review for Strawman #4 by David Branstetter and I’m leaving town for the weekend, so no updates until at least Tuesday, possibly Wednesday. Don’t panic, I’ll make up for it when I get back…
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