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The Marvel Hype Machine is Starting to Concern Me
Now, don’t get me wrong here. I love when a company gets behind a project to promote it. Too much stuff just kind of comes out with very little fanfare and doesn’t do well. And I want Marvel NOW! to sell like gangbusters. But some things I see from Marvel concern me. A little history. […]
Arriving Wednesday 8/15/12
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Pittsburgh Comics Podcast Episode #61
We talk about Marvel NOW! announcements and some recent things we’ve liked.
Quick Review: Uncanny X-Force 26-28
If you jumped off X-Force during the Otherworld storyline, come back! It’s back on track. I don’t know if I ever said in print, but I think the Otherworld storyline was a bit of a misstep of X-Force. A new artist that didn’t jell with the previous ones. A story dependent on your knowledge of […]
More Reviews!!!
Harvest #1: Say you’re a down on your luck surgeon. A patient died on the table and it was your fault. You lose your license. What are you going to do? How about deal with a shady operation harvesting organs from unwilling donors? Nice and creepy and dark. Good stuff. Infected #1: Part horror, part […]
A Whole Bunch of Reviews
My family is out of town on vacation, so I am home alone with a very large stack of comics to get caught up on. So, I decided to share my thoughts with you. Punk Rock Jesus #1 I was going to do a long in depth review on this, but I have too much […]
Some Publisher Percentages Just For Fun
This is for Joe F. On my retailer message board, a store asked what our (all of the stores on the board) sales percentages were. He was just curious. So I worked up the numbers, year to date. Comics: 48% Graphic Novels: 25% DC: 39.11% Marvel: 29.68% Image: 6.75% IDW: 5.8% Dynamite: 4.1% Dark Horse: […]
Belated Thanks to Rich
After writing my little farewell to Jeremy, I realized that I never said anything nice publicly about Rich, who also left for bigger and better. Rich had been a customer for a good long while when one day he asked me why I wasn’t open on Monday. I told him that was my day to […]