Howling Curmudgeons

[womzilla]

I don't think I ever got around to posting about this. About a year ago, some friends of mine launched a group-authored blog about comics (and occasional other matters), the Howling Curmudgeons. Most of us spent far too much of the 1990s on comics newsgroups on Usenet, so it's got a somewhat confrontational style--one of the most active recent comment threads was about "comic book heresies", which mostly ended up being a list of "this sacred cow really isn't all that good". But it's fun; sometimes the discussion are in-depth and substantia; and and I post there occasionally, so check it out.

My most recent top-level post is just about a reado--a reading error--that I had in response to reading the Curmudgeons before coffee. I also have a comment about Peanuts, my own set of heresies, and a couple of comments in a discussion of Phil & Kaja Foglio.

Comments

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Boyoboy, I so disagree with you about Miracleman. I think it's badly flawed in execution, which I think is largely due to the gap in writing: between the original strip and the continuation he took the basic idea to a whole different place in Watchmen, and so the conclusion to his run on MM wound up being kind of anticlimactic ... well, no; that's not the word I want. Johnny's ravaging of London was not an anticlimax (it's one of the few moments I've ever been really gutsocked by a comic, the others being one in Watchmen and a couple in Cerebus). But it's, well, I guess the word is disappointing. But the first few issues... wow. Roughly up through the death of Evelyn Cream. Great stuff.

I guess I don't know whether I'm agreeing or disagreeing with you at this point... I'd say that MM was more impressive than Killing Joke or his Superman stories (especially the vastly overrated "What Can You Get For The Man Who Has Everything?", a/k/a "The Last Temptation of Kal-El").