Monthly Archives: September 2008

Update for 9/29/08

New review for A Last Cry For Help by Dave Kiersh, which is a collection of all kinds of his comics.  And if you’re wondering why I haven’t been trying to catch up around here on the weekends, it’s because I’m working on the weekends too.  I’m trying everybody, I really am.  Anybody have any minis they’d like to send me for reviews?  5912 Slippery Rock Drive  Columbus, OH 43202, that’s me!

Update for 9/25/08

New review for Unplugged by Derek Currant & Michael Carroll, and everybody in Ohio knows that early voting starts next Tuesday, right?  I spend so many hours as that place I might as well throw out the occasional helpful public service announcement…

Update for 9/23/08

New review for Epic Tales of the Mundane #4 by Brad Dwyer and it is confirmed, the online store does work.  For anybody else who orders in the near future (or ever, actually) please tell me what you think about how it all works, as I sort of had to make it up as I went along.  Good points, bad points, don’t hold back.

Update for 9/22/08

New review for Burning Building Comix #4 by Jeff Zwirek, and WordPress is having a lot of trouble with me trying to mention that fact, so let’s see what happens on the third try…

Update for 9/21/08

New review for Cloud Picnic by Missy Kulik, also in the online store, and I’ll be back to reviewing the pile of comics waiting for me tomorrow.  I’ll still be throwing in the occasional store review though, it’d be nice to plug up all those holes eventually…

Update for 9/19/08

New review for Pursuit by Corey Bechelli, also in the online store, as that is the theme this week, and I’m going to try to fill at least a couple more holes in the store over the weekend.  For anybody new around here, I’ll tell you how this is all supposed to work.  Over the course of a week, usually from Monday to Friday, I’ll try to get 4 or 5 reviews up.  As I work at the local Board of Elections, February and March can be sporadic around the website (primary season) and October and November can be spotty the rest of the time, especially every four years, like, say, now.  Things are getting crazy at work again, as expected, but I’ll try to keep up here as best I can.  If anybody wanted to order anything from the store now is the time to do it, as I can still get to orders promptly at the moment, hence all the store reviews.

Update for 9/17/08

New review for Teen Boat #1 by John Green & Dave Roman, which is also available in the online store, as that is the theme this week, after all.

Update for 9/15/08

New review for Take-Out Comics #3 by Raina Telgemeier, as I’m taking the week to celebrate the store finally being up and running again by filling in some of the “holes”.  I also spent the weekend fixing the links on the individual creator pages, meaning that you can jump right to the store item from those “now available” buttons again.

Update for 9/12/08

New review for Jam in the Band Book One by Robin Enrico, the store should be fully operational now for anybody who wants to order some comics, and in all the confusion lately I missed celebrating the 7th anniversary of the site.  7 years with a website!  That makes me like 100 in internet years.

Update for 9/10/08

New review for Vampspew Volume 1 by Steve Feldman and the store doesn’t exactly work as planned yet, but if you order something I will be able to see what it is and put an order together.  It’s just that the Paypal end doesn’t work in one convenient step yet…

Update for 9/9/08

New review for Skyscrapers of the Midwest #4 by Joshua Cotter and yes, I know all about the extra images in and around the update, but I can’t see them from the WordPress edit screen, and my attempts to blindly delete everything from that area hasn’t done a thing.  Sorry.

Update for 9/8/08

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:News for 9/7/08

The 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…

Update: News for 9/4/08

Still 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.

Update: News for 9/3/08

OK, 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…

Update for 9/2/08

Well, 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.

Ink, Max – Bolt: Devil’s Sermon #3

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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.