Is it me, or does every stinking TV channel seem to have the Olympics? Tell me this–in two weeks from now will anyone other than Momma Phelps have the new Mark Spitz on their mind? Not to be accused of being part of a group think mentality or anything … But the fleeting nature of celebrity makes me wonder–do some of the current big names in comics ever fear that their sometimes meteoric rise to the top must likely end with an equally fast trajectory into obscurity? My random contemplation has nothing to do with this week’s batch of quotes, however, so it may be best just to get on with them.
“So, remember…the only characters in comics who stay dead are the ones nobody wants to write about.”
- Todd Klein sharing his thoughts on Final Crisis 1 and the reason why some comic book characters stay dead (with thanks to fellow Blog@ co-hort Kevin Melrose for suggesting the quote)
“I think the subject has changed in my...
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Blog-@-versary: Looking back at our first yearFrom: blog.newsarama.com
Post Date: 2007-06-08 13:20:18
… or, to put it another way: Civil War creators download American Born Chinese while watching Heroes, New York Times reports
To wrap up anniversary week, I enlisted Chris Mautner to help me recap some of the bigger news topics we’ve covered here at Blog@Newsarama over the past year. So let’s take a look back at some of the stuff we covered in the past 52 weeks …
Red-headed stepchild no more
Comics finally come into their own
–Chris Mautner
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Post Date: 2007-06-08 13:07:24
Because I didn’t join the team until a while after they moved to this site, I don’t have any “Just Past the Horizon” from one year ago. However, last year about this time was a busy period for Melissa and I at When Fangirls Attack . I would say that last Spring was the time the “Feminist Comics Blogosphere” was fully realized as a community in its own right.
Its really all Mr. Larsen’s fault. Starting with his assertation that the appeal of P...
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Post Date: 2008-08-10 22:12:44
So this week, we found out that Lois Lane and abortion were once discussed in a very strange sense. And as much as I’d love to link to esoteric Grant Morrison hero worship (his writing just seems to attract this kind of praise), these are the quotes I chose to reflect the past week.
“You know, because you can compare a corporate franchise like Superman, a creator-owned property like Jesse Custer whose influence is limited to Preacher, and motherfucking ...
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