One of my favorite web cartoonists, August Pollak, hits a home run with his Some Guy with a Website strip called "Internet Argument." If you ever want to explain the world of blogs to anyone, you could do much worse than this strip.
We seem to have an unofficial theme of sorts today.
Fans of The X-Files remember the Lone Gunmen, the trio of brilliant but socially inept hackers and conspiracy experts that made comic book fans look socially un-inept. They were spun off into their own short-lived TV series, which recently became available on DVD.
But some wondered: How could a show featuring such popular characters get cancelled so quickly? Was it some sort of evil scheme? Who was to blame? Why was that guy in Fox’s programming division constantly smoking?
Finally, we have an answer – in comic book form, no less, which means that we can talk about it here and still remain within our theoretical charter.
Dean Haglund, better known as Richard "Ringo" Langly, has written and drawn an autobiographical story of what happened to the Lone Gunmen – how they found out about the series, how it lived, and how it died. The art is reminiscent of a cruder version of William Messner-Loebs, and the story reinforces every dumb story you’ve heard about Hollywood. He’s selling it on his web site for a pretty high price, but if you ask nicely, I’m sure he’ll autograph it directly to you.
John Scalzi has posted Michael Capobianco’s platform on his website, and there’s a lot of activity in comment threads. A quickie election blog has sprung up, and it’s turning into one of the most viewed blog contests on the web.
Which proves Scalzi’s point about operating in Internet time.
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