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Dear Matt Fraction,

This right here:


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So despite getting almost no answers to my poll about comic book blogging earlier, I started the damn comm anyway.  Whatever, I love playing with pre-made layouts.  Go look!

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You should join!  And post about comic books!  Or you should watch! And read my posts about comic books!

...because otherwise I'm just talking to myself.

When the two stories are examined it becomes clear where the discontinuity with the Modern Age lies. Where previously the deconstructions and expansions of the superhero mythos were left for alternate realities and what-if scenarios, Infinite Crisisand Civil War brought these peripheral fringe elements into the very heart of their respective ( Read more... )

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace in BBC Presents: Techlab!  With historical footnotes!  I am so in love with Sydney Padua, it's not even funny!

So... that Panic thing happened.  I just feel kind of huh right now.  Well, that's not entirely true.  ( Cut for rambling and possibly unpopular though entirely personal and subjective fannish opinions )

This probably should be the post about how awful I am at math, and how I am going on internet hiatus until this godawful GRE nightmare is over. But instead, it's the post about what I've been reading in comics lately.

In short, awesome things.

( Detective Comics #854, or, Queer characters are awesome )

I'm attempting to wash the bad taste of the Marvel Divas preview and all its attendant STUPIDITY out of my mouth. [I was going to rant about it, but like, I'm so fucking tired of doing How Not to Be a Misogynist 101 for everybody (not you, Nate! I don't mean you) that I can't even handle typing my thoughts up.]

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You guys!  Gerard Way and Grant Morrison are saving lives:

From Newsarama:

Another fan asked Morrison if he’d ever consider an Invisibles movie.

“Of course,” he said, but he’d want to write it himself rather than letting some “Hollywood nutjob” do it. “If you have ideas, you want to get them to as many people as possible,” he said.

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I've found that I read comic books entirely too fast, and miss out on everything there is to see and learn.  To combat this, I'm trying my hand at page by page commentary and annotation.  That way, I have to slow down and pay attention.

( Commentary and annotations on Buffy Season 8, Issue 5: The Chain )