Meanwhile...

The comic blogosphere seems to grow larger every day and just like comics, sometimes it's pretty easy to get a little lost. "Meanwhile..." will act as your map pointing out what interesting discussions are happening out there while you're reading the Great Curve.


I'll be MIA for the next two weeks as I enter the wild and escape this rampant technology that permeates our existence (God, I'll miss it!). I'll be heading through Georgia, Tenessee, and Kentucky and will be away from the computer, but don't worry the fine folks here at the Curve won't let you down. They'll be making the rounds of the blogosphere for me so you won't miss a thing. Now on with the links...

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Quiet Continuity

AiT/Planetlar seems to have been quiet as of late with a lot of former creators heading to Image. Then this week along comes The Isotope with a 24 page preview of their new book Continuity.

"Publisher AIT/PlanetLar serves up one hundred and ten pages of pill-addled mystery and a girl whose dreams have the power to warp, rewrite, and destroy reality. Trapped in a gritty nightmare world of her own making, suburban misfit Alicia must find someway to escape the pharmaceutical police state that her dreams have transformed the world around her into.

Where do you run, who do you turn to, and what do you do when catching a good night's sleep might mean the destruction of all reality"

Norman Rapmund R.I.P.

After hearing of Norm Rapmund's passing Ethan Van Sciver reposts an interview he did with Rapmund back in 2002.

Via Bloggity Blog Blog Blog

Is There a Doctor in The House?

We have our own medical expert here in the blogoverse and he runs the blog known as Polite Dissent. Check out his regular Comic Book Diagnoses for a taste. Here's one on Brains! and one on being Frozen Solid.

Keep Your Friends Far Away and Your Enemies Even Farther?

Guy, pronounced like guillotine, has a few thoughts about friends and enemies in the digital age. He speaks openly about how well he knows people on the net and how it's sometimes easy to label people you never met as friends or enemies.

"Out here on the still-wild frontier of the world wide web, the definition of a "friend" is often different from its definition in the realphysical world. More appropriately, I'd say Josh and Jason are professional acquaintances with whom I've developed the beginnings of a friendship, largely based upon some common interests and similar ideas about the comics industry. By that definition, though, I have many "friends" in the industry, aka horse-like critters in the race, the vast majority of whom wouldn't recognize me if I kicked them in the nuts at a convention."

SiTCtSM:StTRS-80WK

Yeah, I don't expect you to understand that heading. That gibberish stands for Superman in The Computers that Saved Metropolis: Starring the TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids and Ye Old Comic Book Blogge has the run down.

Marvel Solicits Remix

What happens when the folks from 2 Guys Buying Comics'and Ye Olde Comick Booke Blogge get together and remix Marvel's solicits? You'll have to click over and see Marvel's new Aunt May #1.

Who Critiques the Critics?

Aspiring bloggers and critics take note, Websnark has some good advice.

"One sign of growing, in any critical field, is when the field begins to turn on each other and devour each other's sweet, sweet flesh. And we've kind of moved into that realm. There is rending and gnashing and pain. We have reached the point where Webcomics Criticism has Drama of its own. Drama between critics. Drama and hatred and bile."

Via Comics Worth Reading

Post-Present

Dana Lucas Timmerman offers up "My Vision of the Future: Comics & Graphic Novels".

"...comics need to find their own voice. They are not movies. They are not books. They are graphic novels. They are poetry-the words and visuals playing off one another forming the perfect rhyme. Comic creators need to have that freedom to let their imaginations run wild. Loose the chains. Set the prisoner free. And maybe, someday, people will read more graphic novels than books, and talk about comic stories more than they discuss movies. Someday."

Via When Fangirls Attack

Orbiting Intellectual

A Trout In The Milk posts in praise of Warren Ellis' series Planetary looking at some of the theories behind the book.

"Who or what is the Genius of Planetary? This is a post in praise of Warren Ellis, absolutely, but not necessarily the way you think: as I've alluded to here, Ellis does much more in Planetary than just shoehorn "cool science bits" into it, instead couching in the "cool science" something I very much admire...because beyond Planetary's typical Ellisian brassiness there is a wonderfully subtle ambition, that I believe is the special province of truly enlightened literary efforts."

Returning to The Movies

Kurt, of Return to Comics, returns to the subject of comics and the movies they spawn.

"How can Marvel possibly think any of these will have success at the box office? The answer is simple: they don't. These movies will likely be regarded as box office failures when viewed through the narrow lens of movie production finance and it seems quite likely Marvel knows this going in, as does financier Merrill Lynch."

Inching Up The Hill

Mike Sterling turns 37, go wish him your best.

Fool it now!

Dave coins the next internet catch phrase (with a little help from Byrne) in a comic that features a fight in a snowstorm with two white costumed characters. Yes, really...in a snowstorm...it's exactly what you think.

""Fool it now!"

What? What the hell does that mean? Somebody travel back in time and fire that letterer!"

Illustration Blog

I'm going to actually list two this week.

Project Rooftop and Blockade Boy. Both blogs are intended to promote positive costume design.

That's it for this week. Come back next week and see what my fellow Curvers have in store for you.