So say you’re linkblogging—what would be the best time of day to post? Eight a.m. eastern, to make sure your post is ready and waiting by the time your potential readers are getting in to work, and looking to the Internet to distract them from what they’re getting paid to do? Or at least by 9 a.m., definitely no later than 10 a.m.?
No way. Obviously after 12:30 is the ideal time, as it allows the linkblogger to sleep in, enjoy a leisurely cup of coffee and think to himself, “Oh yeah, wasn’t there something I was planning to do this morning?”
Well, it’s still morning on the West Coast…
If you didn’t pick up Secret Invasion: Dark Regin yesterday, don’t worry: Dorian Wright has the minutes from the villain meeting on his blog, Postmodernbarney.com.
Secret Invasion isn’t over until Abhay dismantles it: Savage Critic Abhay Khosla has his eighth and final essay about Secret Invasion up, and, like the previous seven, it’s a must-read. While he spends the bulk of it on the overall structure of the comic, the story, and what it means for the Marvel Universe and our universe, he also singles artists Leinil Francis Yu and Mark Morales out for some well-deserved praise, noting that they “delivered a quality product on a timely basis. It’d be a damn foolish thing not to have some appreciation for that, in this day and age. Marvel fans should be hoisting these guys on their shoulders anytime they leave their house.”
I’ll second that. I don’t think these guys got a fraction of the credit they deserve. Sure a lot of those fight scenes were jumbled and hard to read toward the end, but credit where credit is due: There was no apocalyptic deadline blowing, their character designs were distinct and impressive, and unlike far too many Marvel pencilers at the moment, Yu’s work looks more drawn on a page with a pencil than assembled on a computer.
Oh my God, I am, like, physically addicted to blogging about Secret Invasion! I literally cannot stop myself. Damn you, Marvel!
I’m just linking to this article because I love the second half of the headline: If that’s not the best idea for an Elseworlds Batman story, I don’t know what is.
Barbara Gordon to stand up for herself?!: Do you actually read the “DC Nation” pages DC wastes the last page of each of their books on, usually reporting “news” about their wares that anyone with an Internet connection has already heard? Well, I read ‘em, because I read every part of the comic book. Even the fine print. Looking for coded messages to me from Paul Levitz.
Did you catch this pair of sentences from Dan DiDio’s column last week, in which he teases the extremely vague future of the post-“R.I.P” Batman family of books:
If that weren’t enough, Barbara Gordon breaks free of her Birds of Prey to star in her own Oracle three-issue miniseries that not only has roots in Battle For The Cowl but Final Crisis as well. This one is really going to get the fans talking, so don’t say we didn’t warn you!
Does that sound like he’s kinda sorta maybe talking about Barbara Gordon getting the use of her legs back? I know, I know, that seems like an insane move on DC’s part, a line they’d never cross, because how many superheroes in wheelchairs are there to look up to in comic? (Creepy old guys in wheelchairs who lead teams of mutants and freaks the world hates and fears don’t count). I couldn’t imagine them ever fixing Barbara Gordon’s spine.
But then, a few years back, I couldn’t have imagined them ever un-beating Jason Todd to death or resurrecting Barry Allen either, and, well…
God, I hate this time of year, because it means having to remember everything I read in the past 12 months: Tucker Stone reflects on best-of the year list assemblage here, and singles out the worst superhero comic he read. Meanwhile, Steven Grant wrote a post about what a dreary year for comics it was, some people were all like “Dude, what?”, so then Grant was like, seriously: dreary, so then Tom Spurgeon wrote a “dreary” response. It’s like watching tennis, only without the short white skirts and screaming grunts. And instead of a little ball bouncing back and forth, it’s hundreds of words about comics. So I guess it isn’t much like watching tennis at all.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I love Tucker’s admission at the end of his article…I know I’ve felt guilty on feeling that way sometimes…a lot of the Secret Invasion mini issues were like that for me, Tucker’s Batman and the Outsiders 11.
But yeah, DC Nation should totally be a letters page, or better yet, writer’s notes on the issue, changing off with artist notes…I’d love if comics had those.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
*To clarify, enjoying how much you hate the issue, because you feel you know exactly whats wrong with it: also see: John watching the movie “Phantasm”.