Gone Fishin'
Jesus Christ! I knew there were a lot of new comic-related blogs
popping up lately, but
the Comic
Weblog Updates page now lists over
130 of
them! Granted, a good number of them at the very bottom are now
inactive, and many of them aren't exclusively (or even primarily)
comic-related, but that still leaves a lot of comic blogs out
there. Plus, I'm sure there are a lot of them that aren't showing
up on the site for whatever reason, such as Matt Maxwell's new comics
blog,
Highway 62.
(Wow, two plugs in as many days. Those bribes really
do
work.)
Anyway, this is all a long, rambling lead-in to my announcement that
I'll be out of town this weekend starting early (oh god, so
early)
tomorrow, so no blogging until sometime next week. So why not try
out a new blog if you're missing the Grotesque experience? Here's
a sample from a new blog I've been enjoying (and just added to the
blogroll) this week,
Jog
The Blog:
What else came out today… a “Venom v. Carnage”
mini (why don‘t they just start putting random years from the 1990s in
the copyrights too while they‘re at it?), a new “Rogue”
ongoing (I’ll just have to catch up around the anniversary issue #50
that it will no doubt reach) and some huge “Avengers”
thing. They are now Disassembled, which is a bad sign because they will
need organization to compete in today’s fast-paced superhero world, and
messiness is a killer. Captain America should make a flowchart or
something. Maybe they’re saving that for the climax of the story: a
lacerating Powerpoint presentation. That would be really cool, and it
would beat the pants off of whatever is planned for the end of "Identity
Crisis" like putting Ace the Bathound to sleep or Dr. Light
reuniting with Dr. Wiley and getting Gutsman to bugger The Flash.
Given Marvel's
Disassembled
Deathwatch Chart, the idea of an
Avengers PowerPoint
tie-in doesn't seem too far-fetched. Hmm. Just
imagine...Marvel and Microsoft, two of the world's most
market-share-obsessed companies, coming together on a joint project of
unspeakable evil that just had to be called...
Excel-sior! (And
with that horrible pun, I am outta here. Have a great weekend,
everyone!)
