Comments on: one review of rex libris http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/ Agent Of L.I.B.R.A.R.Y. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:11:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tanuki http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4953 Tanuki Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:36:13 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4953 [Sigh] So when did drug stores, mom-n-pop groceries, and five-n-dimes stop selling comic books? Because that's where I started looking when <i>Rex Libris</i> was due out ... Gad, I suddenly feel so <b>old</b>. I stopped buying comics in protest when they went up in price to 75 cents ... Bad enough when they started charging four bits for a dime comic book (not to mention two bits and up for a nickle candy bar), but six bits?? With that awful, coarse printing on cheap paper?! Forget it! Still, bad as the comic might be as a <i>librarian</i> comic, it's nice to see librarians as heroic figures. Good trend. <b>We</b> know librarians rock, it's high time the rest of the world learned it. Comic book stores. What a concept ... Tanuki the Superannuated [Sigh] So when did drug stores, mom-n-pop groceries, and five-n-dimes stop selling comic books? Because that’s where I started looking when Rex Libris was due out … Gad, I suddenly feel so old. I stopped buying comics in protest when they went up in price to 75 cents … Bad enough when they started charging four bits for a dime comic book (not to mention two bits and up for a nickle candy bar), but six bits?? With that awful, coarse printing on cheap paper?! Forget it!

Still, bad as the comic might be as a librarian comic, it’s nice to see librarians as heroic figures. Good trend. We know librarians rock, it’s high time the rest of the world learned it.

Comic book stores. What a concept …

Tanuki the Superannuated

]]> By: tangognat http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4951 tangognat Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:53:25 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4951 Nat, if it is at my comic book store next week, do you want me to pick up an extra copy for you? It would be no problem. Nat, if it is at my comic book store next week, do you want me to pick up an extra copy for you? It would be no problem.

]]> By: nat http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4950 nat Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:49:33 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4950 I couldn't find one at my local comic book store, or at any of the large booksellers. I can't even manage to find a copy online. I couldn’t find one at my local comic book store, or at any of the large booksellers. I can’t even manage to find a copy online.

]]> By: tangognat http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4949 tangognat Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:33:06 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4949 Yeah, I might buy the first issue just to have as a cultural artifact, but that might be it. Yeah, I might buy the first issue just to have as a cultural artifact, but that might be it.

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4948 Dorothea Salo Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:46:07 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2005/08/21/one-review-of-rex-libris/#comment-4948 There were some sample pages up on the creator's website, and I'm afraid I looked at a few and wasn't impressed. For all the research this guy did, his sense of librarianship is very shallow ("Overdue fines? MAKE MY DAY" shallow) and the action is standard shoot-'em-up. Thumbs-down, with much disappointment. Coulda been seriously cool. There were some sample pages up on the creator’s website, and I’m afraid I looked at a few and wasn’t impressed. For all the research this guy did, his sense of librarianship is very shallow (”Overdue fines? MAKE MY DAY” shallow) and the action is standard shoot-’em-up.

Thumbs-down, with much disappointment. Coulda been seriously cool.

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