Unqualified Offerings

Steven at Peiratikos has a terrific consideration of how the panel layouts in Grant Morrison’s recently concluded We3 miniseries (”Disney with claws,” as writer Grant Morrison puts it) contribute to the story. I’m a sucker for good writing on how the art in a comic book works. Excerpt:
When I try to read the overlay panels [...]

I should formally welcome the latest New Crew links, since they’ve been up for a week now. We wish the previous New Crew members much enjoyment of their new permanent homes somewhere on the blogroll. We pat ourselves on the back for actually rotating our links in not too much more than the month we [...]

Kicking Michael Totten while he’s down (your lips can’t reach Christopher Hitchens’ ass when you’re up), Josh Buermann and Kieran Healy have a go. Buermann picks up Totten’s remark that “we differ from the colonialists and imperialists of the past” and suggests that that “is why they put that ‘neo’ in front of it:”
Meanwhile Kieran [...]

“Any truthful way you cut it — pun intended — the FY2006 budget proposal is bigger than the FY2005 budget. So, when a Republican begins to brag, or a Democrat starts to whine, about the ‘budget cuts,’ don’t believe’em.” Thomas Knapp casts a skeptical eye on the FY2006 budget. Upshot:
When it’s all said and done, [...]