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Mon, 30 Jun 2003
salestravaganzathon wrap-up
Many thanks to all who attended the Hijinx Comics 21st annual
Salestravaganzathon to soak up some culture and bargains.
Saturday was the busiest day of the year, over 50% above
Free Comic Book Day which was the previous record setter.
None of this would have worked without the help of a bunch of great people. Thanks go out to: My Mom and Dad, Steve, JK, Andy, Tim, Steven, Mike and anyone else who came out to say howdy. Special thanks to Kieron Dwyer and Larry Young for hanging out on Sunday signing books and doing sketches, as well as for saying such nice things about my store!
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Fri, 20 Jun 2003
Hi-Jinx Teenage Animal Funnies
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My old friend Kevin pointed this book out to my on Ebay and I swooped in and won the auction. I just might rip off the logo for some store signage. The book has a real dated hipster look that makes me smile! Click on the picture for a larger version. |
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Thu, 19 Jun 2003
Human Defense Corps #2
Another good issue from an underdog title. Most people haven't given
this book a fair shake, but I think it's pretty good. Ty Templeton
used to write for Batman Adventures, so he writes well for dummies
like me that like things laid out clearly and simply. The art by
penciler Clement Sauve Jr,and inker Juan Vlasco go beyond servicable
and they draw good gorillas too . Good stuff!
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Sat, 14 Jun 2003
the distinguished competition
Sometimes I worry that our website is just not cutting it, then I
look up the other guys. Funny stuff!
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corntainer
This link right here goes into the details of a new
type of bio-degradable plastic made from corn. Neat. Here's a
link that shows you how to make your own corn plastic in the microwave. Thanks /.
floppybot
I just saw this in
the boingboing feed and had to link it. If you like building robots
and have an extra 3 1/2 inch floppy disk drives laying around, you'll
be in geek heaven. I'm currently serving time in geek purgatory to
make up for all that software I copied in college!
miserable message from Matt Manselle
Matt Manselle called me today to tell me about the press screening
of the Hulk movie he saw last night. I declined to hear any details,
but he said it sucked. He said any time the hulk was on screen rocked,
but everything else was doo doo. The only thing he told me that chilled
me was that all the rumors about hulk dogs and the absorbing man were
dead on. Not good, but then again Matt really liked Daredevil
when we first saw it, but he denies it now!
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Sun, 08 Jun 2003
snake plissken chronicles review
I was combing through the logs and noticed that
the top search term this month was snake plissken chronicles review. I'm not sure why this particular search led to me, but never
let it be said that I don't respond to my audience. So here it is,
the Hijinx Comics Official Review of The Snake Plissken Chronicles:
The art was competent in that glossy Crossgen style, and Snake looked just like Kurt Russell, but I couldn't help but think of the artist cooped up with KR reference material, wishing he were dead. The scripting was beyond awful, it was gawdawful, and that's not even a real word!
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VHS blowout
Apparently my distributer wants to dump all their old VHS tapes at dirt cheap
prices. DVD is cool but the tapes on this list are damn good for $4 a piece!
Do yourself a favor and check it out.
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about as geeky as possible
Just in case you were looking for one, here's a
Klingon to Esperanto translator for you. Just try to find a dorkier link than that. I dare you.
telephone * codes
I knew about *69 and *70, but did you know there are a
ton of other telephone codes? Neither did I till I read a blog by John C Dvorak. You know,
the guy with the funny keyboard.
 The PH2000 mechanical chicken harvester can catch 150 birds a minute. |
I saw this on slashdot and thought it was way cool. This machine does the jobs of 8 fully qualified human chicken-catchers. That's some nice economy of scale. Now I'm just waiting for the version that sorts comic books. The Wall Street Journal has the full poop |
Frank Miller interview
I'm listening to a killer interview of Frank Miller by Gary Groth
of The Comics Journal. Check out their mp3 archives for a great listening experience.
Frank comes off as a real down to earth guy who loves comics.
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Script Preview: Red #1 by Warren Ellis
The always retail-friendly Warren Ellis was smart/cool enough to send me a copy of the script for the
first issue of his
upcoming series Red. More black ops with a superhuman twist,
and this one had me glued to my screen. It's in rtf format
to preserve all the formatting and stuff, and because I'm too lazy to
convert it to html. You should be able to open it with any decent
word processor. I used Abiword and it opened just fine.
Check it out and drop me a line if you want to add it to your subscription list. He also just sent me the script for Planetary #16 but I don't want to ruin any of the surprises...
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Sun, 01 Jun 2003
unh! oof! aaaaaaaaaarrgh!
More fun stuff on boingboing about
the Unh! Project: A collection of guttural moans from comics. As far as I know
none of these were taken from Eros Comics, so it's pretty tame stuff.
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