Mike’s sick day linking.
I’ve been under the weather for the last couple of days, and I’m still running a fever, so I’m going to continue my Low Content Mode for today, if you all don’t mind. Also, some advice: if you’re feeling sick on your day off from work, don’t decide that you’re going to rearrange the garage and build some shelving anyway. You’ll regret it.
So, here’s some linkage to material generated by other people:
- I haven’t singled out Not Blog X for attention in while. As you’ll recall, Not Blog X’s purpose is to review ‘n’ blog X-Men comics of the 1990s for your education and entertainment…and for the last few entries, the Age of Apocalypse event has been subject to scrutiny. It’s great reading, even if you’re not a huge X-fan.
- Kevin Church and Benjamin Birdie‘s webcomic The Rack just celebrated its 200th installment. I don’t read many webcomics, but The Rack is close to my heart, given its comic shop setting. They address industry ‘n’ hobby ‘n’ retailing issues in an off-kilter, non-obvious, non-fanboy fashion, while still giving their characters real dimension.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I like Kevin ‘n’ Birdie. And I’ve written two installments of the strip.
- The ANGST OF MRS. MITCHELL.
- Saw this via the great and powerful Tom Spurgeon: Mad Magazine runs parody of big chain electronics store, big chain electronics store pulls all copies of said Mad from shelves. Wow, I’m sure that won’t result in more people making fun of that store.
…And I just saw via Johanna that the store has backed down.
- David Fiore points out that the song from the Watchmen trailer has experienced a huge upswing in listeners over on Last.FM (which I should log into again at some point).
- Speaking of Watchmen, here are the movie posters based on the original funnybook posters. (I still have a couple of the originals…they’re beautiful images.)
- Internet Pal Ken is a movie-reviewin’ madman, and has recently reviewed that new Mummy movie and that Bat-movie, and says a few words in support of the much-maligned Speed Racer movie.
- Here, have a minute-long Wonder Woman cartoon trailer.
- Johnny Bacardi reviews Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, and provides some personal memories of his encounters with Ditko’s work. Good readin’, sez I.
- Rick Veitch teases us with an abandoned project from his files that I’d give just about anything to see on the stands today.
- Reminder: Larry Marder’s been blogging up a storm. MORE BEANWORLD IS IMMINENT.
Hmm. That was just as much work as a real post. Some “Low Content Mode.”
