Even More Random Sunburned Thoughts

The sunburn is killing me. I'm in so much pain I can barely sleep. And now it's raining, which seems to be some sort of unfair cosmic irony in my limited, sunburned perceptions. Anyway, here's a round-up:

Aquaman's new artist, Patrick Gleason, has already drawn Aquaman in JLA: Welcome to the Working Week. I liked the artwork in that book quite a bit.

Sequential Tart has a Tart's favorite fourteen Elseworlds, a list which I naturally quite appreciate. In fact, Rebecca Salek's articles at ST tend to be well worth reading in general. And I may have to do a follow-up to this article, as I have a complete collection of DC's Elseworlds.

The Tarts also tackle the Harry Potter Phenomenon.

WizardWorld Chicago has started, and there's a bit of coverage here and there. As usual, Comic Book Resources has a photo parade for those brave enough to check it out. CrossGen has announced a universe-changing mini-series entitled The War.

So, Smallville's Allison Mack has a little blog going. Interesting.

There's a thread at Comicon about how to get sketches. I passed on some advice I gave to one blog reader through e-mail, and have also discussed some other aspects of sketches.

Atrios claimed that Dean's campaign is already being affected by another scandal, this one of foreign contributions. Ug.

Ishtar Talking has updated her blog with two new entries, translations are provided by Salam Pax. Her most recent entry talks about the ongoing destruction of Basra by looters.

Hossein Derakhshan of Hoder.com has an idea on how to get around the censorship of the Iranian government. Looks like it'll work, too.

I'm finally listed on Blogshares. How amusing. I own a handful of shares in my own blog, but somebody else beat me to the buying and I think I don't have official control over my blog on the game itself.

And, lastly, I already posted about this once, but it's worth a second look.

These political cartoons by Dr Seuss reveal a lot about how people were thinking in the early days of WWII. He skewers isolationists, urges people to work harder, and rips apart racism. And that's just his attacks on Americans. Go, look. I suggest reading them in chronological order, keeping in mind the events that happened around the dates. Some of them are truly disturbing, including one that seems to support the Japanese internment, but they are worth looking at for their historical perspective.