Shades To Come I don't want to be a Flying Dutchman. While out on my travels the Saturday before Christmas, looking (mostly in vain) for a few specific items to round out the gift list, and not yet realizing that I was as sick as I was, I found myself stopping in various stores in the area I'd never been in. Among the places was one I'd only first noticed perhaps a month earlier. It's a Comics & Collectibles spot... and for this entry I'm not going to name it because I will have less than glowing things to say about its prospects. I'll note that it takes its name from a '60s tv series that I enjoyed enough as a child for it to retain a nostalgic boost. As best I can tell he doesn't have a website for the store - the two links I found were a comment left on some obnoxiously goth myspace page seemingly by a well-meaning friend back in August, and a less than informative link concerning it being the site for a Magic: The Gathering event which eith...
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A new (if small) assortment of comics will be arriving tomorrow from Westfield , so it's time to take a few minutes and take a look. I haven't done this in a while so I'll start with some of the ones I already have on-hand from roughly the past month or so and see if the momentum carries me into those just-arrived later this weekend. FYI -- either to see if there's anything covered here you're interested in, or if there's something here you haven't read as yet and don't want to spoil -- this entry covers: Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis (trade), All-New Atom #7, Justice Society of America #2. and B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine trade edition. On a whim I ordered the trade edition of Kurt Busiek's new take on an Aquaman series: Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis. Kurt was just coming off a successful run writing Dark Horse's Conan character, and Aquaman was once more on the chopping block due to low sales... so Kurt pitched a new concept hook and DC to...
Comics Blogging As I've noted from time to time, I don't get my comics weekly, but instead see them every two to three weeks because I order them via Westfield Comics . So while all the hardcore comics bloggers are weighing in on the week's comics Wednesday or Thursday (and many, I suspect, are writing some of the pieces earlier given all the advance material the better comics shops receive) the best I could do would be sometime late the following Saturday every two or three weeks, depending upon how the month splits. Consequently, I've tended to avoid most comics bloggers who break down the week's comics. Similarly, as I've also noted, I tend to avoid even the comics news sites because I'm spending enough on the comics as it is without having advance info spoil something for me. Discussion threads on sites can be even worse, because details about recent comics can be as bad as advance info to me since, well, if I haven't seen the most recent comics then...