The Honor Roll is a weekly column where I rundown five interesting posts, comments or developments that are buzzing about the comics blogosphere. This isn’t about events in the books themselves – we all know what happens there – merely a bit of navel gazing. Worse, it’s subject to my own myopic interpretation of what’s interesting or funny. Enjoy.
5) From Polite Dissent’s quite humerous Bat-Mite expose:
Mr. Mxyzptlk: That Bat-Mite sure knew how to have a good time. I would meet up with him after work and he always had at least 2 or 3 women draped all over him. He also had a fondness for those fruity foo-foo drinks. I think it was the paper umbrellas, really. He could always make me laugh though.
Read the whole thing.
4) Scipio discussing Batman's post-CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS transformation, “Clark and Diana shed lots of their excess backstory in a big hypertime yard sale (I was there, and let me tell you, Alex Ross and Phil Jimenez are vicious little shoppers ....!)”
3) Not specifically a blogger, but certain to spark yet another run of blogging commentary: Johanna Stokes latest column. After three columns do you think the folks at Comic Book Resources are wondering, “Didn't we hired that other Johanna?” (If I was them, I’d make that my story and stick to it.) The latest offering is yet another intellectually lazy effort, propped up by a few well turned phrases. And I say this as someone who’s gotten a lot of mileage out of intellectual cruise control. The good news is that she’s pretty well exhausted the no-look stereotypes and she might have to resort to some original material here real soon.
2) Hard to ignore this one. THE WATCHMEN make Time Magazine’s Top 100 Novels. Agree, disagree, whatever - there’s no ignoring the fact that a comic book crossing the blood stream like this is a major accomplishment. A quick look at the Readers Top Rated Books tells you everything you need to know about on-line polling.
1) The top spot this week goes to Zilla and the Comics Junkies for a general level of comics enthusiasm that is sometimes lacking from the rest of us. Whenever I find myself getting hypercritical of some comic or shaking my head at some numbnut thing I've read in the vast world of comic commentary, I pop on over to Zilla's for a simple reminder that comics should be, and usually are, fun.
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