Quick & Dirty Blogging (Plus The Obligatory Vacation Pic)
I was planning on doing more reviews today, but there's some other stuff I have to work on that's eating up my time.  Before I do that, though, here are some things I noticed online today:

• Fanboy Rampage has become so popular that it's ironically starting to resemble what Graeme covers:  An out-of-control message board.  As I write this, a couple of Graeme's recent entries have over thirty comments.  (The counters don't always seem to be accurate, but most of the threads have over a dozen comments apiece, even if it only shows numbers in the single digits).  Bizarre.  I'll really start to worry when Graeme starts to post blog entries mocking message threads on his own blog.  (Perhaps I could avert such a self-referential turn of events by starting a new blog -- call it Fanboy Rampage Rampage -- where I track the sillier comment threads on Graeme's blog.)

• Shawn Hoke sings the praises of The Comics Journal in his latest column [not a permalink; when, oh, when will Broken Frontier implement permalinks???].  I'm not as big a TCJ booster as Shawn is -- over the years I've been turned off by the various things he glosses over (the lack of timeliness in both news and reviews; the excessive fanboy baiting; the grating "I was a grad school candidate, dang it" writing style) -- but I do certainly prefer it to most of the other comic magazines out there.  And based on my cursory glance of it, TCJ #258 looks like a standout issue with its diverse coverage of mainstream comics, altcomix, manga, and more.

• Newsarama has an interview with the new writer & artist on Archie Comics' Sabrina, Tania del Rio, who will be giving the book an Amerimanga look   As she points out in the interview, giving Sabrina a manga makeover isn't that much of a stretch, since there's "no shortage of magical school-girl characters in Japan."

And here it is, your Vacation Photo of the Day:


  ¶ 9:46 PM | |