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) Uncensored over at Zilla and the Comic Junkies has posted the first (that I’ve come across) of what is sure to be many year-in-review posts we’ll see in the next few weeks. I’m a sucker for these. Uncensored is a big Daredevil fan, in case you were wondering.
4) Batman didn’t used to be so bound up by this whole “sanctity of human life thing.” Check out Sleestak’s comparison of the original BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN and Matt Wagner’s version.
3) My sons have been running around the house singing this, so it seems appropriate to link to H and Mag’s (at The Comic Treadmill) Holiday offering.
2) Scott at Polite Dissent and Dave at Yet Another Comics Blog have both kicked off Comic Book Cover Christmas themes. Who knew there were so many Christmas themed covers? Fun stuff. And don’t forget Dave’s CBLDF Fund Drive. I’m going to do this, I promise.
1) Speaking of violence, Marionette has a thought provoking post up regarding violence towards women in comics, as filtered through the latest issue of Supergirl. I didn’t read this one, and probably won’t, but I’m unsure if this by itself is an example of the writer or artist’s subconscious anger towards women. I'm sure the fallback position for any particualr instance is that the author/artist is doing what they do in service to a specific story. I think the problem is not with any one event or depiction but the sum of it all. This Supergirl/Lex Luthor confrontation probably wouldn’t have registered with me but for one little comment Luthor makes -- you can go read that for yourself if you don’t already know -- which sends the whole scene in a very creepy and unnecessary direction.
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