Blogaround Challenge

Because a couple of kind folks have stopped by looking at our site with critical eyes with this challenge in mind, I decided to take Tegan's Blogaround Challenge. Here are a couple of sites that caught my eye:

Four Realities
Nice extensive reviews and use of historical artificats. I learned quite a bit looking over the site.

Focused Totality
While the shopping lists weren't necessarily my taste, he posted a really interesting article on the "cold war" between mainstream, indie and manga fans. And I had to give some props since he listed Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life on his greatest hits banner.

Beaucoup Kevin
I absolutely loved this site. Every single item on his shopping list was justified, which is nice because it can be boring to just see a list without really knowing why someone is stoked to go spend their hard-earned cash that week. And although unrelated to comics I loved his "podcast" (although more like a downloaded mix tape) which was a fun listen.

Fanboy Rampage
Most of what I read was comic news, which I normally don't read comic blogs for. I usually go to Comicsreporter.com or Newsarama.com. But what made me list this was his reporting of Fox News analyzing the "manga invasion of America." Why did I not hear about this anywhere else? Perhaps I missed that tag elsewhere, but what an interesting story.

Zilla and the Comic Junkies
I found this site to be one of my favorite comic blogs for aesthetics alone. It is well designed and thought out, with scanned panels and a nice color scheme. With a lot of information coming from a couple different contributors, this is certainly one that will be added to my bookmarks.

Spoilt!
I really appreciate the whole "damn the man" esprit de corps found on this site. It's focus is exactly what the title suggests: spoilers galore. The reason listed on the site for this is they feel the corporate stronghold on fans to fork over money to DC and Marvel weekly to read up on their superheros is unfair. So a group of contributors (though it seems Chris and Johanna are the ones posting the most) spill the beans. Good for them.