At the Marvel: Your Universe panel, i was able to not only praise the panelist for putting out two great books at the same time the Iron Man movie hit, but ask them why we got two very very very different books on the stands that were as far away as possible from the Incredible [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Only at Comic Con
July 25, 2008 – 8:58 am
After the Punisher: War Zone panel I ran out into the hall to get out the word that yes, it will kick ass. I heard them before I saw them, just a loud series of clicks and whirrs and shouts and this little knot of people slowly moved down the hall like a horror movie [...]
Blood Colossus
July 21, 2008 – 1:32 pm
These two words have sold me more $3.99 issues than any other since I started this job. Since I started selling.
BLOOD COLOSSUS.
Just… just bask in it for a moment, will you? Take in the wonder and the glory that is a Blood Colossus. The name excites the imagination and lays the groundwork for what is [...]
All You Need to Know: Mighty Avengers #16
July 20, 2008 – 12:59 pm
I think I understand.
So, Bendis needs to write this big Secret Invasion plot and work out a complex timeline for events to occur and hand them down the lines of editorial and otherwise, create this massive summer event. He seems like a hands-on kind of guy, not one to sit on the sidelines and work [...]
Courting Girls
July 12, 2008 – 2:41 pm
When I worked at my first comic shop down in the City of Industry in sunny southern California, I was handed a small pamphlet titled “How to get Women (and other new customers) Into Your Store!”. Well, something like that at least as that’s the impression that was left to me upon seeing the [...]
All You Need to Know - New Avengers #42 and Mighty Avengers #15
July 7, 2008 – 2:23 pm
Okay, so I was minding my own business on the week of June 25th, seeing as it was my birthday and whatnot when I was DELUGED by Avengers titles. Everyone Marvel could think of came out that week, leaving me no choice but to read all of them.
Let’s start at the beginning, the two major [...]
Convention Zen
I sit in my car, the husband driving (sadly, he won’t let me call him Happy Hogan as he’s both chauffer and bpdyguard this trip), listening to Sirius channel 22 (1st Wave!) and anticipating the Big One.
And for once, I’m not talking about earthquakes.
The San Diego Comic Con is like nothing else on Earth and [...]