Unqualified Offerings

Unqualified Successes 2003 – It’s that time of year, as it has been twice before. Once again: new categories are asterisked; repeat categories will list previous winners in parentheses; the Unqualified Successes are not blog awards as such – while some awards go to blogs, others don’t, and you should assume I love you even [...]

Unqualified Fanboy Successes 2003 – This blog’s split personalities fought over who got to go first, and the comics geek won. Here are my entirely idiosyncratic awards for achievements, dubious and indubitable, from the year in comics (broadly considered).
Least Dispensible Comics Weblog – Journalista
Rant of the Year – Sean Collins on Batman: Hush
Iron Pyrite Award [...]

A Fanboy’s Imitation Tech Blog Item – Sony has Spider-man blog templates. That is way, way, way too cool.
The things you learn because Blogger.com is on the fritz.

Conan the Libertarian – No, not Ah-nold, silly – the real one!

“I found Aquilonia in the grip of a pig like you – one who traced his genealogy for a thousand years. The land was torn with the wars of the barons, and the people cried out under oppression and taxation. Today no Aquilonian noble [...]

back in the 1980s:

Cerebus . . . American Flagg!, Love & Rockets, Saga of the Swamp Thing, Scout, Those Annoying Post Brothers and Zot!

The Post Brothers books I’ve seen never did much for me, and I don’t think I’ve heard of Scout. But the others are on my all-time faves list. I’d add William Messner-Loebs’ [...]

Happy Happy – Amygdala is two years old today. Avedon Carol (not her blog) is older. (I am not sure what the conversion rate between “Delany years” and calendar years is.)