It Came From the Back Room #48

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Phil

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 →

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Wedding Reception for Northstar and Kyle!

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Marsha

Join us for this historic event.  Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier and Kyle Jinadu will be married in Astonishing X-men #51!  All About Books and Comics is hosting a wedding reception in their honor on Wed. June 20th from 10 am to 8 pm. Pick up your copy of Astonishing X-men #51 and share the love. Get a second copy for 25% off to share with a friend!  Come by All About in wedding attire (or just wear a tie over your t-shirt) and get 20% off any back issue comics published by the wedding sponsor Marvel Comics. Be sure to stop … Continue reading →

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The Latest and (Mostly) Greatest #50 by Dan!

Posted on June 2, 2012 by admin

Did I actually take last week off? Yes, but it wasn’t much of a break while working the Phoenix Comics Con…but we’ve survived! So it’s on to reviews. Let’s do this! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #10 Writer: Tom Waltz Artist: Dan Duncan Good news everyone! This series, which basically rebooted itself around the same time as the New DC 52, has stayed consistently strong and fantastic for its almost full-year run of comics! I’ve been reading the Mirage Studios version of these comics and it’s essentially rehashing the same steps that these comics hit, but bringing them to a new … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #223

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Phil

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 →

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Phil’s Reviews Special: Back to the Klondike (for the first time)

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Phil

  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 →

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