Wintermen
Jan 12
There’s no real reason for this post other than the fact that Winter Men is awesome, and the finale is finally on stands after more than two years of waiting, and really no expectation that it would ever come out at all.
I bought issue 1 right when I was getting back into comics, thanks to a raving e-mail from Warren Ellis’ Bad Signal list. I faithfully bought the single issues, but somehow missed issue 4; just a month ago, I magically found it for 33 cents in a clearance bin. I dug them all out of the short boxes in my closet just this weekend. They sit pregnant with possibility, awaiting the arrival of my copy of the Wintermen Winter Special from my mail order service. I will read them all in one delirious sitting, a glutton for good comics.
A Question Mark Away
Jan 07Clearly, we need some new words.
Right now, the term “blogging” covers anyone who writes online on a regularly updated site. Whether you are doing robust traditional journalism for an online outlet or reporting on what you had for lunch today at LiveJournal, you are a blogger. This means the expectations of the reader have no context whatsoever, other than the other posts on each blog itself; the site you click on could offer any range of content, and there’s no standards or benchmarks with which to measure what you’re reading.
This occurred to me upon seeing the story at Blog@Newsarama about the sale of 1UP and Electronic Gaming Monthly to Hearst. This has led to speculation that EGM will shutter its doors with the next issue.
