To All The Links I've Loved Before
Eve
Tushnet reads more manga. She enjoys
"so-good-you-won't-believe-it's-manga"
Planetes but is
less enthused about
Gyo.
Johanna
links to the
Grotesque
Rampage Forum's discussion of the "Avengers Disassembled" preview
at
Newsarama,
thereby saving me the trouble of reworking my snark into a blog entry.
ADLO!
is at it again, dissecting the hidden meaning behind two recent
covers. And they've even provided helpful English translations of
everything, including the annotated cover art! (Love the "
creative
origami" newspaper shield.)
Graeme (the best there is at what he does, but what he does isn't very
pretty) links to two especially
disturbing
threads.
Johanna
and
Laura
Gjovaag have gone crazy and are reviewing every single free comic
coming out for FCBD. Start at the linked threads and work your
way up.
Everyone
else has
already seen
Spider-Man 2, but I probably won't get to it til this
weekend.
H
at the Comic Treadmill has a looooooooong look at
The Golden
Age Spectre Archives. I thought the collection was
frightfully dull, but H gets a lot of mileage out of it. I
particularly liked his "Wrath Watch" feature, where H tracks whom the
Spectre killed and how. (And the crack about each 10-page tale in
the Archive being equivalent to a trade paperback collection today was
funny, but I'd still rather read most stretched-out modern storylines
than the tightly-packed but painfully written comics of yesteryear.)
David
Welsh's description of a single throwaway gag in
Sgt. Frog
Vol. 2 convinced me to break down and order the book online
since I couldn't find it anywhere locally. I can picture the
“Please… keep horseplay to a minimum” sign David describes and I'm
already laughing, which I think is a testament to creator Mine
Yoshizaki's strong, distinctive style.
J.W. Hastings
has a very nice discussion of the Intentional Fallacy Fallacy.
After reading this essay, I realized there's really no point in my ever
trying to write that follow-up piece on reviewing I once promised.
Barbar
compares
Dark Knight Strikes Again and
Planet of
the Capes. Personally, I think he's giving
DKSA too
much credit, but the two-in-one review is still an interesting read.
And in case I don't blog again before then, here's wishing everyone a
Happy Fourth of July and
Free
Comic Book Day!
