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 [...]
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Presents
June 25, 2008 – 8:42 am
Okay, so in the month of June to… maybe celebrate the release of the new Incredible Hulk film (which I will eventually get around to talking about here), we got a bunch of big heafty issues with some backup stories and reprints. Iron Man got two new books, all glossy and keen, all the Hulk [...]
The Smell of Ink and Newsprint
June 4, 2008 – 7:53 am
Yesterday… I downloaded my first comic online last night, given to me by a friend. Please, Dan Slott, please don’t come and kick my ass.
To be fair, I own the comic in question and didn’t want to hunt down the damned thing and scan it into the computer for an article I wound up [...]
All You Need to Know - New Avengers #41
May 29, 2008 – 12:45 pm
Normally, I drag my feet to the next issue of the Avengers. It’s not going to be what I want and yet will probably contain some dynamic and exciting info that I’ll kick myself later if I don’t know.
Today, I have an exception.
THIS IS IT FOLKS!
Actual Avengers! Backstory I understand! Reasonable and understandable plot! Mind [...]
HULK HATE CAVITIES!
May 29, 2008 – 7:50 am
Yesterday I wound up having two straight hours of emergency dental work. I cracked a tooth on Monday and so far, the week hasn’t been kind.
As they were strapping me into the chair and the doctor above me was asking if it was safe, a typical concern popped into my head:
Does Bruce Banner go [...]
Fandignance - Harry Potter
April 15, 2008 – 8:07 am
Okay, so bear with me on this one. I’m actually not into Harry Potter in the slightest (I’m one of those jerks who shouts they read it first when it was called THE BOOKS OF MAGIC!), but their fandom is absolutely amazng. The people who adore these books have produced some of the [...]
Please, We Wear Uniforms, Not Costumes
April 11, 2008 – 3:37 pm
John Cho is hitting the press junkets for Harold and Kumar II: the Wrath of NPH, but of course thoughts will turn to that Other Movie he’s going, oh yeah: STAR TREK. Our new Sulu told Access Hollywood that our Fu is stronger:
I kind of became became a Star Trek fan because it was [...]
We’re DOOOOMED!
April 7, 2008 – 1:33 pm
Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker leave the Immortal Iron Fist in the hands of Duane Swierczynski.
Now, on one hand, this shouldn’t be that big of a threat to the guy buying comics. Brubaker and Fraction get right to it when asked about what it was that made Danny Rand’s adventures such a big hit and [...]
“Ugly Boys Store”
March 28, 2008 – 4:33 pm
The above phrase should have been taken down in a statement to the police on why I had to strange a woman who came into the store with her young daughter and son. You think this kind of thing wouldn’t happen; I’m fairly obviously a female behind the counter of a comic shop and so [...]
Blood Colossus
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 [...]