Unsinkable Marvel_b0y
UPDATE: You can read the first 12 pages of SECRET INVASION at EW's website. PLUS, Nisha Gopalaninterviews Brian Bendis:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How much input did you have in this event, and what kind of directives...
Foes find Marvel-b0y very stoppable
Over the weekend the Marvel-b0Y Live Journal was taken down, meaning you can't read the very mild spoilers he posted about Secret Invasion which we read and have already forgotten -- spoiler: a character...
Popularity is scary
The Wisdom of Steven Grant continued: This week he reveals the secret truth no one wants you to know about!
The American comics industry has lived for a long time on its own relatively isolated...
You spoke, we ate a gyro!
Thanks to every who voted in our little poll yesterday. The results were pretty much what we expected, although everyone who wants gossip, please be prepared to buy us lunch because if we did...
Jennifer de Guzman’s “Life in Comics”
Do you miss Jennifer de Guzman's always well-observed and trenchant column at now-definct Comics World News? SO DO WE! Luckily we were able to do something about it, and de Guzman's NEW column "Life...
Monks vs Moles
Dick Hyacinth is still mulling over his meta list compiling the comics best of lists from numerous sources but his latest -- and last -- post on the subject is, to us anyway, the...
Who reports on the reporters?
We ADORE Graeme but this is a bit puzzling. Apparently at WonderCon, Bill Willingham revealed some spoiler stuff on a panel but asked it not be quoted, and Graeme McMillan, who was covering the...
Rick Veitch’s art blog
Well we've run out of room and time yet again today, so we'll leave you with the link to the most excellent new art blog of Roarin' Rick Veitch which we're told has enough...
More on comics and literary quality
Jennifer de Guzman looks at the ongoing literary debate and calls for higher criticism.
We don't see more literary quality in comics being published today because too few critics treat comics as serious literature...
Dick Hyacinth: The preliminary meta-list
Dick Hyacinth has posted the top ten books in his admirable campaign to tote up many varied top ten comics lists from all over. It will surprise no one that EXIT WOUNDS is #1,...
Dumbest thing we’ve read all week
NYC blogging circles have been abuzz for months with all the upheavals and woes at Gawker, but honestly, this lame ass post called Jonatham Lethem's Comic-Book Woes is more pointless than poking a dead...
Noah Berlatsky’s GAY UTOPIA
Frequent comics critic Noah Berlatsky has launched a site called The Gay Utopia a symposium of writing and comics about a theoretical bias and inhibition-free world:
The term "the gay utopia" is at least slightly...