season of the bitch

My LOCAL review at Bust.

Words cannot describe how much I love that comic.

thoughts on Hurricane Gustav up at GlobalComment. (thanks again, Natalia)

You should read the Palin article first, really.

But if you want something fluffier–Anna Mercury at BUST.

Up at GlobalComment, thanks to Natalia.

John McCain waited until after Barack Obama’s speech to make a superbly-timed announcement of his vice-presidential pick.

Unfortunately for him, he undermined what were his best arguments against Obama with that choice.

Sarah Palin is the first-term governor of Alaska, a large, oil-rich state with a small population, and she’s even younger than Obama. Her only political experience before beating the previous Republican governor, Frank Murkowski, in a primary in 2006 was being mayor of Walsilla.

Palin is a mother of five, including one son who’s off to Iraq and another, just born, with Down syndrome. She is staunchly pro-life and considered a Christian conservative, but, rather obviously, is a high-profile working mother.

She campaigned on ethics reform and is considered (much like McCain) a party maverick. She is also seen as a break from ethically-challenged Alaska Republicans like Senator Ted Stevens. However, Palin is under investigation herself for possibly having abused her office to get her former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, fired from his job as a state trooper, according to the Wall Street Journal. She supports drilling as energy policy, and her husband is a longtime BP employee, but he’s a blue-collar type. Palin has also threatened to evict ExxonMobil and its partners from their drilling rights to publicly held oilfields.

This woman is quite a contradiction, seen at once as a sop to the religious right who have not quite come around to McCain and as outreach to disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters who value biological sex over a record on the issues.  Read the rest

Since I’m all over that today.

More on Joe Biden as VP, at GlobalComment (thanks, Natalia).

This one to some reviews. Air and Scalped at Newsarama.

Yep, I wrote ‘em.

Got an essay up at Shotgun Reviews about Watchmen and aging. Check it out.

The Watchmen trailer is beautiful, a comic fan’s wet dream—it’s lush and dark and brooding and scary, and the world is perfect. It gives away a little too much, but that’s not my biggest complaint.

It rubbed me the wrong way only for one reason—the ages are all wrong.

Air, by G. Willow Wilson.

I’m quite happy with this interview that just went up today on Newsarama. G. Willow Wilson is a journalist turned comic book writer, and her excellent new book Air just hit stands yesterday. My local shop was already sold out, so you might have to ask your shop to re-order, but check it out. It’s quite good.

And check out my interview, please. There’s a link to click to recommend it, and I’d appreciate if you did that too, but enjoy the story.

me.

John McCain. (Thanks, Sondra! You rule. you have a blog you want me to link?)