Monthly Archives: April 2009
Update for 4/29/09
New reviews for Serious Workout by Suzanne Baumann and The Fifty-Flip Experiment #7 by Dan Hill. I also now have the complete run (so far) of Lackluster World by Eric Adams available in the store, so I put his page up on the main page to remind the world of what a wonderful series that has been so far.
Jo, Hellen – Jin & Jam #1
Jin & Jam #1 Now Available! $5
Are you one of the many comics readers who constantly thinks “these little books of words and pictures are fine, but what I’m really looking for is a big old fight scene involving pair of teenage conjoined twins”? If so, you have finally hit the jackpot. This issue seems to be basically an introduction to the characters, and it’s a very honest way of showing this without ending up being pretentious or sappy. Jin is hanging out with her friend Hank outside of a church, smoking and eating. There’s a lot of eating in this comic, now that I think about it. Anyway, Jam is in the church and decides to get some air. She runs into the two outside the church, she tells them they can’t be there, a cigarette is offered (and snuck into a Bible) and a friendship begins, although neither of them seems to be aware of this fact. Later they run into each other at school when Jin hears about a fight and comes down to check it out. It’s Jam versus the conjoined twins, and it a knock-down drag-out type of thing. I’ve already said way too much about this comic, but, speaking as a boy, it’s a fascinating peek into a world I know next to nothing about. That being said, these two becoming friends isn’t much different from what I experienced growing up, so I am quite possibly full of it. Either way it makes for a good story. Here’s hoping there’s more to come with these two. Oh, and if you’re as weird as I am and noticed the extra “L” in Hellen’s name, you’ll be happy to know that she’s well aware of that and played it up a bit with her website. Go on and click it, you know that made you curious. $5
Update for 4/27/09
New reviews for Vermin by Brian Hagen and Hard Times #8 by Ed Jackson. And for those of you who just come here during the week to kill time at work, it was a busy weekend around here, so please feel free to kill a bit more of that paid time by scrolling down the page and checking out the new stuff.
Update for 4/26/09
New reviews today for White Stallion Comix #27 by Matt Corrigan and AAAA Action Team #1 by Pat Lewis, which is also newly available in the store, along with a pile of other Pat Lewis books.
Update for 4/25/09
Two reviews today, and I’m going to try and make up for lost time at least a bit over the weekend: Misanthropic Cavalcade #3 by Joe Havasy and Super Maxi-Pad Girl #1 by Daniel J. Olson & AJ Niehaus.
Update for 4/23/09
New review for Coelacanth and Friends (Kekionga Mini Works #16) by Pam Bliss. An unwieldly title, granted, but Pam has made a whole bunch of these things over the years, it’s best to keep them in some sort of order.
Update for 4/22/09
New review for The Dreamer #1 by Lora Innes, and shame on the Columbus Blue Jackets for barely even putting up a fight in their playoff series.
Update for 4/21/09
New review for Your Karate Vacation by Matt Wiegle, and oddly enough Matt was last reviewed here exactly two years ago. Just in case you were looking for a random fact of the day or something.
Update for 4/20/09
New review for Broken by Kris Lachowski and yes, I did mean it about the extra reviews this week, but the hockey playoffs are making it tricky for me and the three other people in the world who try to catch as many games as possible.
Update for 4/19/09
New review for Goodbye Kitty by Ryan Dow, and for anybody who hasn’t been to SPACE yet, you have about 3 hours to get there and buy a pile of comics like me! I’m going to be doing double reviews at least occasionally over the next couple of weeks in an attempt to keep up with that whole “one review a day” pledge. Hey, it’s the middle of April and it’s still a realistic goal, so huzzah for that.
Update for 4/17/09
Sorry about yesterday, but all those missing reviw dates will get filled in after SPACE. I should also have a pile of comics coming in from Poopsheet, and for those of you who aren’t familiar with that site, picture my site but with me unemployed except for reading and reviewing comics and about ten times as motivated as I am now. He’s having a ridiculous sale at the moment, involving minis from the 70’s to today, and I believe he said it had something like 2200 comics in it. See, I told you it was ridiculous. Go here and buy, buy, buy. New review today for Debacle #2 by Barry Rodges, also available in my suddenly seemingly puny store.
Update for 4/15/09
New review for Teen Boat #2 by John Green & Dave Roman, and I must be getting close to the end of the comics in the store I’ve neglected to review all these years.
Update for 4/14/09
New review for Worms #3 by Brian John Mitchell and Kimberlee Traub and yes, you may just see that name again before the end of the week unless I get some comics in the mail. Then comes SPACE weekend and a comics bonanza!
Update for 4/13/09
New review for Weird Muse #1 by Dan Taylor, another gaping hole in the online store reviews that is now filled.
Update for 4/12/09
Back to the vault for a review of Take-Out #4 by Raina Telgemeier, also available in the store.
Update for 4/11/09
New review for James McShane Selected Comics 2003-2008 by… oh come on, you can guess the author from the title. Anybody out there get tickets to any Blue Jackets playoff games? I’m offering an excellent pile of comics to anybody willing to trade…
Update for 4/10/09
New review for Exiled Here On Earth #2 by Brian Cattpan, new to the online store, and you’ll have to scroll WAY down his page to get to this review. What can I say, the man is prolific. Sorry about the lack of updates yesterday, real life jumped in again. I’m still planning on making up for lost time with all the minis I get from SPACE…
Update for 4/8/09
New review for Hot Shower #8 by Josh White, and for those of you keeping track at home, there are 10 days until SPACE and I have 3 comics left in my pile. And two of them are by Brian John Mitchell! I might have to get into some graphic novels next week…
Update for 4/7/09
New review for Lost Kisses #7 by Brian John Mitchell, a must for any fan of comics that they could accidentally inhale if they were reading it too close to their face.
Update for 4/6/09
New review for Lovely Ugly Cruel World #9 by Amanda Rehagen, and if you’re going to SPACE this year and would like to sell your comics on this site, why not send me an e-mail so we can set something up for the con? Avoid paying postage and all that…
