I dug up a lot of Comics blogs this weekend (and today), following a chance link from Matt Rossi. I think he originally linked to this one, but from there I wondered about and found The Forager, Peiratikos
Cognitive Dissonance, and Grotesque Anatomy. This in addition to Ninth Art (which the others make fun of), and LinkMachineGo and BugPowder. And all of these I added to my subscriptions in Bloglines, which is my latest news aggregator.
From Peiratikos, I got a link to a review of Ministry of Space that describes Warren Ellis as in many ways a deeply conservative person often mistaken, on the basis of subject matter that embraces the omnisexual, the ultraviolent and the futuristic, for an upholder of the avant-garde.
It’s clear that Ellis has a solid core of middle class decency behind the juvenile facade of hard bastard he reflexively adopts. Both of these make him well-suited for working in commercial comics and appealing to the kids. I also agree with the reviewer’s assesment of him as a good writer, but not a great one.
And also, Jonathan Lethem on Jack Kirby’s seventies Marvel comics. Link from Andrew Rilstone and LMG.