Anyone who follows comics in any way should be familiar with Tom Spurgeon and his excellent Comics Reporter blog. In fact, it should be one of three US based comic blogs you read right after you finish reading the fruits of our UK labours here at the FPI blog. (If you’re wondering what the three are: The Comics Reporter, Journalista & The Beat).
Anyway, Tom’s blog is a constant source of great comics stuff. Some of the best writing on Tom’s blog comes when he just thinks about stuff, something he does extremely well in this great post: “Ten Questions for which I have no answer. Or at least one I don’t like.”
Absolutely must read stuff. Take this quote for example:
“The discussion as to why DC Comics let their Final Crisis comic book event be executed as if it lurched out the door, clutched its chest, set itself on fire and then rolled around in broken glass seems to have devolved into bizarre Internet parodies of reasonable positions: angry jeremiads about the utter stupidity and ineptness of the current DC brain trust vs. self-styled realists lecturing in acidic tones to why none of this matters in the long run unless you’re a big nerd that cares about stupid things.”
See, that’s why Spurge is so good. The Comics Reporter is full of this sort of thing. And whilst we’re on the subject, the ever-dependable Daily Crosshatch has a two part review of the year with Tom Spurgeon on their site. Great reading. (Part 1, Part 2).
Sat, Dec 20, 2008
Comics and cartoons