Since I order through previews and am a cheapskate, I get all my comics at the end of the month. However, each week I'll post the comics I've ordered for that particular week. Here's my reading list for this week:
Action Comics #1
Animal Man #1
Batgirl #1
Detective Comics #1
Moon Knight #5
Stormwatch #1
Swamp Thing #1
The Punisher #3
Now, some brief thoughts on Justice League #1 and other stuff I'm reading. Like Noel, I enjoyed JL#1 overall. It definitely felt like the preface to a much larger work, but I'm glad Geoff Johns didn't feel the need to introduce us to each...
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I've never been a regular comics reader. Yes, at the urging of one of my students I read Alan Moore's Watchmen and Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man, but I've never really read weekly comics. In 2000, I dabbled with Marvel's launch of the Ultimate universe (specifically Ultimate X-Men) and Kevin Smith's run on Green Arrow. My regular readership fizzled out after about 6 months, mostly because I found the comics industry impenetrable. I was also in college at the time - I guess I still am, but being a graduate student is different - so I didn't have a ton of time to spend on comics. I actually...
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I've finally ditched my old sad janky website and created a self-hosted WordPress site. It's got all the bells and whistles of an academic's website: CV, courses, about me, etc. Exciting stuff . I know next to nothing about web design or coding, so this site is still very much a work in progress. I hope to update my blog more regularly with my idle thoughts (as if we don't have enough narcissists floating around the interwebs), but first I have to figure out something to say...
So, if you have a sec, check it out and let me know what you think!
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In an effort to make myself appear even more computer-savvy, I've attempted to link my website to twitter. Did it work?
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