RANDOM SHOUT OUTS

I got into blogging a very long time ago. My original site was berkeleyplace.blogspot.com, created in 2002, which I deleted after getting an early DMCA notice. Several sites and several notices later, and two kids later, I started a comics-only blog. (The DMCA notices were all bullshit, by the way, from record labels for posts of music actually sent to me by the artists themselves and/or their PR team. There was an LA Weekly article about me, but I’ve lost track of the link.  Here’s a creative commons article about it, and here’s one I wrote about my own history with DMCA.)

Anyway, back then we were a community. We’d all send posts to each other. We’d all read each others sites. Then it became a competition, corporations started buying, creating, and shutting down music blogs, eventually Google bought Blogger….

But I’m still a community kind of guy. So every so often I’m going to be doing shout outs to cool sites and/or posts I find. Of course, the goal is not just to share–I’m hoping for some reciprocation.  If you’re a comic-book site interested in being on my blogroll, I ask only that you put me on yours.  Let me know…

We’ll see how this goes. This idea is in its infancy.

Hence, the X-Baby Doop.

And now,

THE SHOUT OUTS

• Here’s some instructions on how to make a Captain Marvel Hoodie.  Kelley Sue DeConnick’s take on the character, and the only current Marvel title focusing and named after a female, is absolutely terrific and is getting lots of Girl Nerd attention.  If you’re looking to meet comic book chicks, make one a hoodie.
• This is the most fun comics-related tumblr I know of.  I steal tons of shit from it.
• What’s On The Pile writes about how many pouches there are in X-Men.
• Jack writes about the three commandments of zombie fiction.
• Comicbookmen may not be the best show on TV, but it’s entertaining.  In the last ep they sold a comic book (gee, I wonder how they did that!) and here’s a post about it.

• This has nothing to do with comics, but it’s cool.  A mug that transforms its message.  I’d rather have one that went from “It’s Clobberin’ Time” when full to “Wot a revoltin’ development!” when empty, but the idea is cool.
• Ken makes cool art.
• More on DC Comics’ self destruction.  There’s no room for mediocrity when so many indie books are so damn good.

• I’m getting close to the end of Avengers Volume 1. I figure I’ll kill it off in a month or two.  Should I go on to New Avengers Volume 1, or start back up with an old title like Amazing Spider-Man or Batman?
• An examination of how graphic novels were influenced by classic movies…Interesting thesis.
• And let’s close this out with an awesome drawing of a boy and his sentinel by Marc Silvestri…