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.

Shane Bailey is still out makin' like Banner in the wilderness, so I, Brian Warmoth, am back once again -- the Azrael to your Dark Knight of comics blogonautery -- with the latest, greatest, and tasteless from the week in comics on the Web. Incidentally, each of these categories seems to be filled with entries relating to Supergirl this week.

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Extreme Blogging

Thanks first and foremost this week to Chris's Invincible Super-Blog for braving the pages of the now un-classic Extreme Justice series and capturing maybe the single worst proportioned Captom Atom ever drawn. I will probably be laughing all the way through Good Friday on the momentum of the belly laugh begat by that panel.

Skirting the Laws of Physics

Dance of the Puppets asks whether it be censorship, artistic statement, or voyeuristic desire that keeps Kara's superskirt so short and stapled.

The Further Adventures of Superfashion

The Fortress of Fortitude took a slightly longer walk down memory lane to look at Mike Sekowsky's costume constructions for Kara during his tenure at Adventure Comics in the 70s.

Metadimensional Philosophy

The Absorbascon observes a another history of Supergirl, chronicling her struggles to justify her existence.

Killing the Cult of Collectible Commodity

Scott Saavedra takes a look back at his reference library and sparks a thread on the Web's impact on the collectibility of comics.

The Liberating Powers of Hot Pants

Photon Torpedoes dares re-imagine what was really on Carol Danvers' mind -- to hilarious ends I might ad.

No More Moore

Peter David is not a big fan of Alan Moore's the Gatling fire of media attention focusing on his disagreements with DS. Am I the only one who would like to see David "go on a vendetta of [his] own"?

Fantagraphictastic or Unfulfilled Fantasy

The Cassman Cometh caught wind of a rumored product placement in this last week's episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Anyone catch this or know what it was?

X-Ray Spex

Will Pfeiffer over at X-Ray Spex continues his misadventures through 500 pages of Jimmy Olsen comics, happening upon Jimmy's fear of Superman's forgotten power as well as the cub reporter's ineptitude in the cockpit.

Illustration Blog

New Bodega's got a healthy buffet of the zany, trippy, and seemingly Defoe-esque neo-Kochalkan. (Sorry, I've been looking for a way to turn James Kochalka's name into an adjective for several weeks. Allow me this indulgence.)