Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Bought #150

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Phil

Jonah Hex #50 — Writers: Justin Grey and Jimmy Palmiotti;  Art: Darwyn Cooke An anniversary issue, featuring a 37-page story that acts as a coda to the last year or so of adventures, and wraps up the Tallulah/Jonah relationship in typically grim fashion. As always, when Palmiotti and Grey get a good artist (and Cooke, doing his deceptively-simple Toth impression, is one of the best), they turn their storytelling up a notch, and the result is an affecting, understated but blood-soaked tale of insanity, murder, passion, redemption and revenge — not necessarily in that order. Empowered Special — Writer/Artist: Adam … Continue reading →

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Phil's Reviews — Stuff I Read and Put Back #150

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Phil

X-Force Annual #1 — Writer: Robert Kirkman;  Art: Jason Pearson;  (Deadpool story/11 pgs.) — Writers: Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost;  Pencils: Carlos Barberi;  Inks: Sandu Florea Kirkman (Invincible)/Pearson (Body Bags) sounds like it would be a winner for this title; both are known for flashy, sometimes-violent action stories, and that’s what this current incarnation of X-Force is all about. The plot mostly involves Wolverine slicing through a number of Hydra goons to kidnap one of them. The “why” is mildly interesting, but it’s an 8-page idea expanded into a 22-page story, insubstantial as smoke, that takes about three minutes to … Continue reading →

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Help All About help our Adoptive Family

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Alan

All About Books & Comics is adopting a family of six in need of help this holiday season. We hope you can help us to help them. Bring a donation to the store and receive 20% off any one non-consignment item in the store.  Please bring new unwrapped items no later than Sunday, December 20th. AABC staff is providing all the non-clothing NEEDS items for this family but we hope you can help provide clothing and/or some of their special WANTS. Roselyn, age 36,  wears a size 7 1/2 woman’s shoe, XL shirt and size 16/18 pants. She wants dishes … Continue reading →

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Getting off My Duff #45 by Marsha

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Marsha

28 Years ago today, Alan and I walked into our attorney’s office at 9 AM and walked out the proud owners of what was then called “A Little Book Store”.  It was  a small used book store with a small selection of new comics and approximately 30,000 back issue comics. For those of you who have been with us all these years (and there are quite a few of you) you know that the store moved, grew, multiplied until at one point we had 6 stores.  Then a few years ago we decided to go full circle and get back … Continue reading →

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Ask the Professor #31 — Re-entry Storylines

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Phil

The Professor’s getting caught up on mail, so here’s a question from 11/16: hey phil, im new  or just getting back into comics after a long, long absence. can you tell me are there any comics about, Angels such as a fight between good and evil, maybe something dark.How about  elves, i used to read elfquest. Maybe as well paranormal comics. this might be a huge list but I feel I don’t even know where to start. HELP Well, if you’ve been gone for a long time, then Spawn might be a good place to start: angels, hell, and an … Continue reading →

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