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.

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The Best Superman Elseworlds Book?

Johanna of Comics Worth Reading reviews Superman: Secret Identity. I think it's one of the most entertaining Superman stories ever made and is the main reason I was looking forward to Kurt Busiek on the new OYL Superman books.

"For years people have been arguing over whether there can be superhero comics for adults. We now have our answer: this is a superhero comic that deals intimately and wonderfully with adult concerns. Busiek and Immonen have broken new ground with a flagship character, reinventing what can be done with Superman’s lengthy history."

Claremont's Heart Problems

Polite Scott examines the recent press release about Chris Claremont's heart problems and has some concerns.

"based on what’s revealed — and not revealed — in the Marvel press release, I am very suspicious that Chris Claremont has suffered an ischemic heart injury of some variety."

You Will Believe...

...a life-sized Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite statue can talk over at Progressive Ruin. I can't explain, just go look.

Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed

#45 in the series from Comics Should Be Good was released this week this time covering such urban legends as "She-Hulk was created based upon a rumor", "Mad became a magazine because of the Comics Code", and "Alan Scott intentionally created a garish costume".

Anniversaries and Goodbyes

The Comic Treadmill hits it's 1000 post. Congrats to H and Mag for an excellent blog.

The Spatula Forum is two years old!

Love Manga, one of the best Manga blogs in the blogosphere, calls it quits. It will be mourned by many.


Riveting Reviews

Jog reviews Eddie Campbell's The Fate of the Artist in the process trying to evaluate his career path.

"The Fate of the Artist is by far the most formally ambitious of Campbell’s books, darting from style to style every few pages and concocting all manner of self-referential puzzles to solve. It’s also the most nakedly fictional of Campbell’s nonfiction oeuvre, its narrative conceits soaked in snickering obfuscation to strike at a greater, ecstatic truth."

Ken Lowery reviews the V For Vendetta movie at the new Dark, But Shining.

Most people, fed simple stories with simple moral grounds all their lives, believe that if someone opposes an evil force, that someone must necessarily be good.

These people are wrong."

The Way It Was

Two different blogs decided to get nostalgic and look back at the way things used to be this week.

The Collector's Mentality discovers that collecting just isn't what it used to be, things that used to have a value, both monetary and personally no longer have any value at all as it hits e-bay.

Meanwhile for a slightly more cheerful look back at a time when you had to buy comics from a spinner rack and annuals held great adventure within their pages take a look at Innocent Bystander.

The Olsen Ratings

How many people live in Metropolis? The Absorbascon determines the answer to that perplexing question with the help of Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen.

The Champions Project

Inspired by Grant Morrison and his Seven Soldiers project at DC, The Filing Cabinet of The Damned decides to recreate the same type of project for The Champions.

"Thus, in homage to Morrison and the comics we love, over the next two months I will present to you the extended pitch for my knockoff SSoV, using characters from Marvel Comics.** Obscure characters will re-emerge, different than before. The minis will be in different styles from one another. And they have unifying themes, symbols, and ideas, though less in emulation of Morrison than because they read better with such elements in 'em."

Pretty, Fizzy Thrizzles

I haven't seen Pretty, Fizzy Paradise around before, but it looks like it's been around for a while and I've been missing out. Two posts in particular caught my eye. One examines virginity in comics and is titled Men *Never* Sacrifice the Sluts: The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy in Comics and the other examines gender roles in comics and how the reversal of those roles might play out in A Sex-Skewed Look at JSA #26 and #27.

Zero Hour Predictions

Tom Foss has been experiencing Deja Vu. Take a gander at his recent post concerning the similarities between the Zero Hour issue of Superboy and Infinite Crisis #5 and you may experience it as well.

The "What The!" Moment of The Week

This is a new topic for Meanwhile looking at the weirdest thing I've seen on a blog this week. Well, nothing was weirder than Dance of The Puppets examination of Power Girl's Phantom Pregnancy. I'm so thankful that I've never subjected myself to reading those comics, the post explaining them was enough for me.

Illustration Blog

Illustration Friday is a fun project where each week illustrators recieve a topicon Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.

Enjoy!