Monthly Archives: June 2007
Update for 6/28/07
New reviews for Power of 6: The Twisted Apples Part One by Jon Lewis (also scrubbed all the outdated crap off his page) and A Stoopid Pigeon Treasury by Brett Neveu & Richard Sparks.
Update for 6/27/07
New reviews for Symphony in Ink #2 by Dan Taylor and various eople and Fabricari #2 by Steve Harrison. Many many more new comics for the store today too, all by Christopher Davis: Fish Out Of Water, Crawling, No Buses. Chickens., I Walk With My Wife In The Evening, Why I Never Joined The Strawberry Resistance, Dark Matter Mission For A Cooped-Up Cosmonaut, and True-Size Eyes. I’m shuffling all these in alphabetically (along with the new stuff from yesterday), but it’ll take some time. Of course, you could always just use that handy Search option on the left to look for the stuff you can’t find…
Update for 6/26/07
New reviews for Half Boy/Half Stupid by Missy Kulik & Rowboat and The Cheapest S.O.B.’s by Kelly Froh. Also plenty of new stuff for the online store: I Heart New York and Cloud Picnic by Missy Kulik, My Word! by Missy and John Porcellino, Half Boy/Half Stupid by Missy and Rowboat, and Morning Star #3 by Angelica Busque. All comics all the time around here…
Update for 6/25/07
New reviews for Blink #2 by Max Ink (now in the online store) and Cold Heat #2 by BJ & Frank Santoro.
Update for 6/22/07
New reviews for The Haunt of Horace #1 by Ken Henson & Mark O’Neill and The Snowman, The Bananaman, The Parking Robot and Me by Christopher Davis. I wanted to make something clear, awkward as it for me to do so. I’m taking some time off for the summer to work on a few things, as I mentioned here a few weeks back. Things are going swimmingly so far, thanks for asking, but the thing is that money is going to be more and more of an issue as the weeks fly by. So, if you’ve ever thought about ordering comics from me but something held you back, the next few months would be an absolutely wonderful time for you to do so. For most of the summer (unless indicated on this page) I’m going to be around town with free time on my hands, so any order that is sent to me will be sent out either the next day or possibly even that day, if it’s sent early enough in the day. Obviously, I haven’t been doing the site for the money (or I would have stopped years ago), but every little bit is going to help a lot over the next few months, and there should be plenty of other new comics coming for the store to go with the new stuff I already got this past week. OK, now I feel dirty for talking about money so much. Have a good weekend everybody!
Update for 6/21/07
New reviews for Tales of Unusual Circumstance #2 by Joey Weiser and Adolescent by Tony Brandl. Even more new stuff for the store as well, this time Entering Joanne by Angela Stork, Zoomorphic Funnies by Joey Weiser, and Tales of Unusual Circumstance #1, 2 and 3 by Joey Weiser. They’re all getting shuffled into alphabetical order by author, in case you can’t find them in the store for some reason.
Update for 6/20/07
New reviews for Thunderhead Underground Falls by Joel Orff and A Cappella Volume 2: Open Heart by Christine Pointeau. Oh, and another book for the online store, this time The Wee Days #1 by Jai Granofsky.
Update for 6/19/07
New reviews for Ogner Stump’s Hawaiian Sorrows by Andrew Goldfarb and Guessbook by John Hankiewicz. Also three books from Andrew are now in the online store: Ogner Stump’s One Thousand Sorrows: The Book, Ogner Stump’s Automotive Sorrows, and Ogner Stump’s Hawaiian Sorrows. Oh, and the big book is now only a measly $4 instead of the $9 as it was listed. Wotta deal!
Update for 6/18/07
New reviews today for Lil’ Dude #1 by Randolph Gray II and Captain Spectacular #2 by Nate Corrigan. Oh, and Max Clotfelter was moved up to update the website (so it actually, you know, goes to his website) in case you were wondering why he was up here. Two new comics for the online store too: My Freakish Love and Old School Funnies, both by Doug Gray.
Update for 6/15/07
New reviews for Dumpster by Max Clotfelter and Racecar Comics #3 by Matt Dow, and sorry about yesterday but it was Sopranos day around here. Priorities and all that. Happy weekend!
Update for 6/13/07
New reviews for Nobody Can Eat 50 Eggs #28 by Steve Steiner and Delicate Axiom #1 by Nichy A. Chandler.
Update for 6/12/07
New reviews for An Endorsement Of Smoking by Will Dinski and Questor by Chris Cornwell. Oh, and according to recent e-mails, there should be a pile of new comics coming soon for the online store, just in case you were holding off ordering until there were more things to choose from or something…
Cornwell, Chris – Spunj Baahb
Spunj Baahb
OK, granted, it’s often bad to judge a book by its cover, but if you can look at that beautiful thing up there and not want to have this immediately, there’s not a whole lot I can say to talk you into it. This is the mostly silent tale of a… creature that looks more than a little bit like a famous cartoon character, seen on every piece of merchandise imaginable over the last five years or so. This creature is riding another underwater beast, but when the riding beast trips, throwing Spunj Baahb off, it sets off a sequence of events with creatures higher and higher up the food chain systematically asserting their will. As always, it’s dangerous for me to venture too far into interpreting exactly what’s happening in these wordless books, but it’s a gorgeous, thoroughly haunting experience, with more than a few of the panels lodged in my brain. This was $4 or $5 at SPACE, find it, buy it, love it, and show it to your young child, niece or nephew if you want this opinion of a popular cartoon character forever altered.
Update for 6/11/07
New reviews for Ruffians #6 by Brian Canini and Media Play #1 by Matt Hansen and Rob Bell. And if anybody tells me how The Sopranos ended before I get to see it, so help me…
Update for 6/8/07
New reviews for Fabricari #1 by Steven C. Harrison and Lackluster World #3 by Eric Adams. Happy weekend everybody!
Harrison, Steven C. – Fabricari #3
Fabricari #3
This time around, in trying to figure this book out, I decided to spend some time at the Fabricari website. It turns out that Steven is pretty much sick of the whole cyborg idea (this comic did come out in 1999, after all) and is hoping to work on different things in the future. Huzzah for him, because this comic doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. This is the dullest issue yet, as there’s just not much going on. The cyborgs from the first issue get pieced back together, Myron continues to try to avoid getting killed (and ends up fighting with his friends much more than his enemies), and the side story with the Queen and the Prime Minister has already become tedious. It’s an OK story as a whole that might have gone somewhere with years of work, but it looks like he’s already burned out on the concept. Which is fine by me, as the man has some serious skill as an artist and I would love to see him tackle different ideas. There’s still enough here for people who love fighting robots to be interested in (and something that looks suspiciously like a graphic novel of this material at his website), otherwise I’d recommend waiting to see what else he has up his sleeve. $2.50
Update for 6/7/07
New review for The Toy Box by Michael Neno, and it was a busy day, so just the one review for now…
Update for 6/6/07
New reviews for Untitled (at least as far as I can tell) by J.C. Filer and The Orgasmic Faces of Lucifer by Ryan Gelatin.
Update for 6/5/07
New reviews for two comics that couldn’t be any more different: Gapo the Clown #1 by Tony Miello and Molly the Popsicle by Christoph Meyer.
Update for 6/4/07
OK, my unannounced slacker week is over, things should be picking up around here now. New reviews for Saki the Panda #2 by Stephen Polczynski and An Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten Book One by Bernie McGovern.
