Monthly Archives: May 2007
Update for 5/30/07
New review for Bighead by Jeffrey Brown. I also have some news about the website today, so gather round. I’m taking a few months off of work to try out a project at home, meaning that I’ll have a lot more time to organize things around here, tweak a few things that need tweaking and listen to any suggestions you guys might have. I’m also going to try to get a whole bunch of new stuff in the online store, so if you’re reading this and would like to sell stuff through me, let’s talk. I’m thinking that the usual daily routine for updates will stay about the same (barring days like yesterday where I skipped out, of course), but I might bump things up to two reviews a day if the comics keep coming. Just throwing all this out there for anybody interested in the “behind the scenes” goings on…
Update for 5/24/07
New review for The W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. Technical Pamphlet #1 by Ed Piskor, and yes, that is one of the clunkier titles I’ve seen.
Update for 5/23/07
New reviews for Please Release by Nate Powell and Essex County Volume 1: Tales From The Farm by Jeff Lemire.
Update for 5/22/07
New 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…
Update for 5/18/07
New review for The King by Rich Koslowski, and this concludes what ended up being Top Shelf week here at the the website. Happy weekend!
Update for 5/17/07
New review for Broken Lines Book One by Thomas Pappalardo, which remains one of my favorite comic names.
Update for 5/16/07
New 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…
Update for 5/15/07
New 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.
Update for 5/14/07
Sorry, 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…
Update for 5/9/07
New 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…
Update for 5/8/07
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 5/4/07
New reviews for AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy by Jeffrey Brown and Micrographica by Renee French. Happy weekend everybody!
Update for 5/3/07
New 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…
Update for 5/1/07
New 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?
Threndyle, Nick – Burn All Stations
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
