comics212 has had a snappy new facelift and lets lose with a new salvo:
Every once in a while I’ll come across an essay, blog post, or even snarky comment from someone who’s been through a fandom and come out the other side, and when they have grievances I tend to give them a bit more weight… as in any weight… and really listen to what they have to say. I stumbled over a discussion about “Moe” a few months back that was like that, and it was really interesting because of it… I learned something, it was great. But coming across a series of columns like Bob Holt’s ‘I Love Comics’ at comicsnob.com? Not so much. I can’t even pull out a quote to illustrate why I think the column is weak, so much as the columns just belie a shallowness of experience and thought on the subject.
§ Living Between Wednesdays relives Superman and Big Barda making a porn film, courtesy of John Byrne:
[Link via Eric of all people.]
§ Over at Comic Coverage, Mark Engblom has a very funny, PSA-type take on the lateness epidemic. [Link via Tim Rakarich]
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[...] Because I am trapped by deadlines and not able to spend a lot of time websurfing for new nifty stories for you all, I found this one at that old stalwart The Beat, and if this Superman tale about getting some pictoral nooky isn’t the worst, so full of wrong, so completely dripping with…I dunno, more wrongness than you can possibly imagine… then, well! [...]