Pipeline #467 - 24 May 2006

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

This week's column is a bit of an odd duck. What started out as an introduction to two reviews I wanted to write has turned into an update on my attempts to shorten my pull list by moving to more trades. Then, it morphed into a look at the Marvel collections for August 2006, done up ahead of this week's PREVIEWS release. Plus, some thoughts on why the column has been so Marvel-centric recently.

And I might just still get those two reviews in. Doubtful, but maybe. I'm such a tease. . .

-Augie

[Deathstroke]

This week's column is a bit of an odd duck. What started out as an introduction to two reviews I wanted to write has turned into an update on my attempts to shorten my pull list by moving to more trades. Then, it morphed into a look at the Marvel collections for August 2006, done up ahead of this week's PREVIEWS release. Plus, some thoughts on why the column has been so Marvel-centric recently.

And I might just still get those two reviews in. Doubtful, but maybe. I'm such a tease. . .

-Augie

Yeah you big tease do we need to put dollar bills in your g-string or something?

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

If you put enough dollar bills in there, I'd quit my day job and write a lot more reviews. Here's what I just finished writing for this week's column:

This all leads to another problem facing Ye Veteran Comics Columnist: What happens when you don't have time to review everything you read? If you think I've reviewed a lot of Marvel titles in the past month or two, you should see the list of unreviewed titles I've read in the same time span. It's neck and neck.

As soon as I win the lottery and quit my day job, I'll tell you all about them.


I just looked at the columns I've written in the past three months. I need to do more reviews, and less looks at PREVIEWS. I'm aware of the problem now. Let's see if I can fix it.

-Augie

[idkidd]

Hi Augie,

Long time reader, first time poster here. I could relate to your column this week so I wanted to share with you a really exciting discovery I made for myself almost a year ago now. My local library is part of a feature called The Interlibrary Loan System. Basically, how it works is that you can request any book, dvd, audio tape etc. from your local library and they search the collections of some 30,000 libraries accross the country and in 2-4 weeks they get a copy in for you to borrow for 2-4 weeks with optional renewals. There are ocassionally items they can't get in (an obscure book here and there or really popular new items that are checked out at the other libraries) but 95+ % of the time they can get me whatever I ask for. I'm addicted.

Luke
Canton, OH

[nweathington]

Augie, the Deadgirl mini is very, very good — and I only read X-Statix sporadically.