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Author Archives: Phil
It Came From the Back Room #48
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items (these are featured at the discount racks at the west end of the store for a couple of weeks after each post, and then go to the discount racks on the east end of the store for a few weeks, and then disappear into our warehouses, so get them while you can). I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school semester in full gear), this amounts to … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged Barry Smith, Conan, John Buscema, Roy Thomas
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #223
Batman Incorporated #1 — Writer: Grant Morrison; Art: Chris Burnham After almost a year, it’s nice to have this back, and Morrison offers many of his old tricks: the first-page flash-forward, showing Bruce Wayne in a bad place; the vast conspiracies; the perspective switch to humanize one of the faceless minions; the shock ending; Batman and Damian and Talia and all the moves and counter-moves between Wayne’s forces and Leviathan’s: then, add the art, which is quite good at communicating the action, and looks Quitely-like in some of the expressions and poses (Morrison’s scripts have similar effects on his artists). … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Aquaman, Batman Incorporated, Dark Horse Presents, Jonah Hex, Journey into Mystery, Mind Mgmt, Prophet, Ragemoor, Thor
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Phil’s Reviews Special: Back to the Klondike (for the first time)
It Came From the Back Room will return with new installments in a week or two (Conan back issues!), but there’s nothing new to put out right now, because I’ve been on vacation: Diana and I took a one-week cruise to Alaska. Now, normally that wouldn’t matter to this blog, but it so happens that Alaska is the scene of one of the greatest comic stories involving one of comics’ greatest creations, by one of comics’ greatest creators: in order, that would be the story “Back to the Klondike,” appearing in 1953 in Four-Color Comics #456, the second comic starring … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, News and Events
Tagged Alaska, Carl Barks, Phil's stupid vacation pics, Uncle Scrooge
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Phil’s Reviews Special: FCBD, Plus the Avengers Movie
Avengers Movie Review first: go see it. A small series of misadventures left us walking into the theater halfway into the previews (so I missed the Dark Knight trailer), and meant we had to sit in the second row — but it was a 3D movie, and it turns out that’s the perfect spot for me; I’m nearsighted in one eye, and farsighted in the other, so 3D effects don’t work well, but when it’s that close they work fine. Even better, Harkins is wise enough to invest in good theater seats with comfortable headrests that lean back easily, so … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Avengers, Barnaby, DC Nation, Dinosaurs vs. Aliens, FCBD, My Favorite Martian, New 52, Serenity, Spider-man, Star Wars, Yo Gabba Gabba
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #222
Earth 2 #1 — Writer: James Robinson; Pencils: Nicola Scott; Inks: Trevor Scott Worlds’ Finest #1 — Writer: Paul Levitz; Pencils: George Perez; Inks: Scott Koblish These books are inter-related, with Earth 2 best read first; as its name implies, it’s setting up the alternate DC Earth that contains a modern-day version of the Justice Society. The first issue, though, focuses on death instead of birth: it shows a world where the only super-heroes who exist are Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman — plus a Supergirl, and a Robin who’s Batman’s daughter. That turns out not to be enough to … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Action Comics, Avengers, Daredevil, Earth 2, Garfield, Nick Fury, Skeleton Key, World's Finest, X-men
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