I wish I'd chosen a better name for this feature. I was at the point where I'd put it off nearly a full week after
promising it.
Anyway I've procrastinated on this one long enough. I've had a little notepad full of links for the past day and a half, but I kept putting off the write-up. I was too busy rereading
Wonder Woman #1 and digging out my
Brave and the Bold backissues (Did you know Batman teamed up with Lois Lane in that?)
Anyway, as promised, short and sweet, here are your five links:
I should have linked
Comics Worth Reading when i first found it, it's a wonderful site. But I'm mainly a superhero reader and Johanna likes everything else, so there was rarely any shared ground between our blogs, and most everyone else had a link to it anyway. Well, I'm rectifying that now, even as I await her promised Castle Waiting review, since that may be the only comic that we've both read.
I also should have linked
I Read Comics when I first found it. This is what I get for procrastinating. This is a podcast site, so it's a bit of a change of pace, she reviews comics and discusses the things she's read on blogs every week (She's a regular WFA reader and linker). I really have no excuse for not linking this earlier, as the first psot I saw when I learned of the site was
this one.
Also on the list of "Sites I should of linked immediately" is also the
Feminist Sci-Fi Blog! "A coterie of feminists blogging about sci-fi." It was new and I wanted to wait and see if it caught on. It has, so far it has a few
book analyses up, and some
pictures of the Barnes and Noble Octavia Butler Memorial. There will be more written here about this site later.
Now,
this lady I just now found at
Comic-Bloc. I would have definitely linked her sooner. Yes, it's a MySpace blog, more of a socializing group than a comic book site, but this is the woman who started the
Save Manhunter MySpace Group -- a public service for all superhero comics readers. (Speaking of which, Manhunter is
still in need of saving despite the reprieve) Let's all give a hand and some recognition to le Krystal Method.
Finally, here's one that I purposefully put off until the end of the week:
Blog@Newsarama (Which, by now you all know used to be the Great Curve). Wait, that's a bunch of guys, right? Nope,
the team includes web designer Stephanie Chan. She's responsible for the look of the site, occasionally contribues, and can be seen blogging solo at
Comic Book Girl and
Pulp Arcade.
All of these ladies will be added to various places on the Blogroll, until the site of a woman in comics is a normal everyday thing that won't take everyone by surprise.
Last week's list can be found
here, and it links to the list before that and so on until you see me explain my reasoning for this feature.
If anyone here knows of a female-run geek site that would like to draw attention to it (and don't be shy about pointing yourself out), please
email me or comment on this post.