I Love Going To The Comic Book Store



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Time and Place: Comix Revolution in Downtown Evanston, Illinois
Time: 2 PM, June 13
Total Cost: $12.00
Additional Notes: Again, more superhero comics purchases at $1 each, but I also caught up with two issues of King-Cat that I'd missed and one that I'd lost. I like how prominently John P's comics are displayed in Chicago's best shops. The tribute issue to his late father is quite strong, although more in the written material than in any of the comics. Plus, Jeff Zenick update in one of the letters pages! We can re-publish Werewolf By Night and no one will put together a single volume of all Zenick's drawings and writing?

I don't really get the derision aimed at Joss Whedon's X-Men funnybooks. While it's true that a comic designed for serial publication that doesn't come out in serial fashion is a screwy thing, and fair game for any review, I would also think that the thing to do when this become clear is to simply no longer buy it like a serial comic book and at least avoid the disappointment of the exchange. You can buy them in trade or at a later, dollar-bin discount just like many of us figure out to wait to watch some kinds of serial television shows when they come out on DVD or start playing every day on Bravo or fX or when they're scheduled all at once in an HBO or Sci-Fi channel mini-marathon. The work itself seems to me a sweet enough homage to a bunch of comic books for lonely, smart kids from 1979, and worth a dollar here or there, and that's about it. A lot of it is awkward, it's crippled by the genre demands, and the big-adventure moments seem badly chosen and poorly developed; there are also a fair share of amusing scenes and several well-played grace notes in regards to nostalgia and revisiting teenage states of mind.

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