July 2011
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Wednesday Haul: 7/27/11
New books I bought this week:
Amazing Spiderman #666
Amazing Spiderman #666 (Beyond Comics Variant) - We were one of the 150-ish comic shops who ordered a store-specific variant cover of this issue. It’s a pretty neat, if excessive/unnecessary promotion.
Astonishing X-Men #40 - While I’m not crazy about the alternating storylines in every other issue, I did enjoy the previous...
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 171 - Voodoo With... →
Episode 171 Topics Include: - Ruminations on Cowboys & Aliens - Captain America > Green Lantern - This week in trailers: Red State, Dexter, Battleship - What we’ve been reading - Featured Review: American: The Bill Hicks Story
We apologize for the sound quality of this episode. We’re not sure what happened, and it couldn’t be remedied.
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Wednesday Haul: 7/20/11
(This post is a bit late because of my recent trip to the beach.)
New comics I bought this week:
The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker #1
Daredevil #1 - At first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to pick up the single issues of this new series because up until now I’d been buying Daredevil in trade, but the art by Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martin is just too gorgeous to pass up!
DMZ...
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Wednesday Haul: 7/13/11
(This post is coming a few weeks late because of my recent trip to the beach.)
New comics I bought this week:
50 Girls 50 #2
Amazing Spiderman #665
American Vampire: Survival Of The Fittest #2
Captain America #1
Cowboys HC - I’ve picked up all (10 or 12?) of these one-off Vertigo Crime graphic novels thus far. I’ve enjoyed most of them, but even if Cowboys turns out to be one...
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 170 - Dumblechrist →
Episode 170 Topics Include: - Son of the beach - This week in trailers: In Time, Haywire, The Killer Elite, The Knights Of Badassdom - San Diego Comic Con news - Featured Review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Featured Review: Captain America: The First Avenger
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What I'm Watching: Harry Potter And The Deathly...
What I Liked:
- The main characters. I’m far from a Harry Potter fanatic, but the one thing that I really do genuinely enjoy about these films is getting to constantly revisit the characters of Harry, Hermione, and Ron. I like all three of the actors/actresses who play these parts and have grown fond of them over the course of viewing the franchise. I think it’s really neat that...
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What I'm Watching: Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
What I Liked:
- Shia LaBeouf. I’ve been an unabashed fan of Shia’s since Disturbia, and I still think that he has charisma to spare, even when he’s given as little to work with as he is in the Transformers films. He’s always been my favorite part of this franchise.
- The style of action. My biggest complaint about the previous two Transformers films was the action. When...
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 169 - Lose Your... →
Episode 169 Topics Include: - The art of movie posters - Impending blockbusters of 2012 - This week in trailers: Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Stitched - Re-tales (get it?) - Featured Review: Smokey And The Bandit
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“If you fall in love with a jerkoff, you’re a dumbass.”
– wisdom from a Southern teenage whore on some reality show
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WatchThe Thing (2011) Trailer
Okay, so the tone, sets, costumes, and general visual style of this movie look to be pretty much spot on, but the things that I’m still hesitant about are the creature effects and the ending. There’s pretty much only one ending that this movie could possibly have to succeed in not pissing me off, and that ending is everyone dying except for 2 Norwegians...
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“Did I Just Burp My Baby’s Fart?: What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You...”
– a chapter title from Alison Rosen’s hypothetical pre-pregnancy pregnancy book, “What I’d Expect If I Were Expecting”
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 168 - Man On Robot... →
Episode 168 Topics Include: - Fringe gaming - Putting the comics back in Comic Con - What Rian’s been watching - Featured Review: Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
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“She was easy on the lepers, but tough on the eyes.”
– Adam Carolla on Mother Teresa
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Joelle Jones' Retro Ads
I stumbled upon these faux-retro advertisement paintings on Joelle Jones’ TwitPic account and fell in love with them. The humor of American Psycho mixed with the style of Mad Men? Yes, please.
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Wednesday Haul: 7/6/11
New comics I bought this week:
The Boys #56 - Russ Braun’s art is awesome, but it’d be nice if Darick Robertson would draw this book a bit more regularly.
Fear Itself #4 - Good, compelling superhero comics.
Flashpoint - Batman: Knight Of Vengeance #2 - I’m still not really clear on what this story has to do with anything, but there was a scene that made me think, “That...
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Buy war bonds! Collect old newspapers!
I support this message.
And not just because that’s my character on the poster.
stockpilecomics:
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 167 - Hairy Potty →
Episode 167 Topics Include: - Why we’re fat - This week in trailers: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Brave, Captain America, & The Immortals - What we’ve been watching - What we’ve been reading - Featured Review: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
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“Getting Bendis in an intro for The Incal is like having Mayor Mc Cheese...”
– Brandon Graham
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Tales From The Comic Store #4: Job Description
As his father is paying for a Godzilla card game, a kid looks at the polybagged Death Of Ultimate Spiderman comic.
Kid: Spiderman died?!
Me: That's Ultimate Spiderman, so it's a different version of him, but yeah, he died.
Kid: How'd he die?
Me: Honestly, I haven't read that issue, so I'm not really sure.
Kid (in sarcastic disbelief): You haven't read it?!
Me: Believe me, I'd like to read every comic in the store, but I don't really have the time.
Kid: But you WORK here.
Kid's Dad: Yeah, he "works" here. That's not the same as "reading".
Kid: There's barely ever anyone in here. When there's no one around you can just sit down and read whatever you want.
Me: Can you come back when my boss is here and tell him that?
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Wednesday Haul: 6/29/11
New comics I bought this week:
Amazing Spiderman #664
Butcher Baker Righteous Maker #4 - I’ve been curious about this series. I forgot to pick up the first 3 issues from my pull file at the store before I left on Wednesday, so I can’t read it yet, but soon…
Creepy #6 - When the hell is Dark Horse going to get Richard Corben in on this action? He basically got his start doing...
