Way back in January of 2011, I started trying to catalog updates and old op/ed pieces that have been featured on the blog's now 6½ years of service. That lasted about a year, and ended up mostly devoted to filling out what became
The Martian Manhunter Encyclopedia. Since I was misguided in my devotion to a one-image-per-post rule in our early years, and Comic Vine got stingy with their remote embeds after I exploited them extensively for a couple more years, I have a lot of old posts with far too much text in need of scans. I figured I'd clean some of that stuff up, and repackage it into link posts. Also I'm feeling lazy and behind schedule, so let's pretend we're working an Easter resurrection theme or something. This list covers us throughout 2008:
Trying to get past stories a fan hates about characters they love to appreciate the whole picture.
From a time when Arthur Curry was already "dead" and
Final Crisis was still offering rumors.
That time a former artist on Manhunter from Mars angled for new work on the character in lieu of offing him entirely.
While "John Jones" was "dead," a criminal leaves behind the second most famous Martian Manhunter moniker...
J'Onn J'Onzz's relationship with the Tiny Titan and mine with a late blog devoted to Ray Palmer.
Facing Martian mortality with fellow bloggers.
Really boring sausage factory business that never panned out anyway.
Interviews discussing
Final Crisis and Scipio Garling's extended Manhunter/Human Flame coverage.
My first pass at applying Scipio's theory of super-hero family brand building to the Alien Atlas.
Evidence mounts on Martian murder.
Scipio asked if John Jones' beat had a name, and I couldn't remember...
...so Scipio unilaterally dubbed it himself, and I initially went along
Where I griped about how Super Buddies was not the sum total of valid membership.
Valerie D'Orazio thinks J'Onn is dull and
Final Crisis writer talks Human Flame, plus Perez draws Coneheadhunter.
Final Crisis links.
Scipio's hilarious exegesis.
A compare & contrast of themed super-hero blogs. No actual bloodshed.
Where I take Scipio and fandom in general to task for using J'Onn as a vehicle for other characters instead of looking deeper into his own mythology/merits.
A literary existential crisis for the Sleuth from Outer Space.
Dead aliens aren't much fun.
Let's think about livin', let's think about lovin'.
Considering the definitive Martian Marvel masters.
Links to my coverage of best loved tales.
Plugging villains of the Martian Manhunter into Scipio's rogues gallery formula.
He's less about superdickery, more of a super-dick.
My early days collecting comics and first brushes with the Alien Ace.
Green Lanterns do not have our best interests at heart.
Lengthy commentary on the issue.
After some research, I realized "Apex City" was actually Middletown, and started triangulating where it would be located.
Do you know what they call a Master Earthbound Detective in France?
Microsoft Paint shenanigans from before I had color
Detective Comics reference.
Welcoming Hawkman to specialty blogging.
How meat was processed in 2008.
Couture evolution.
I finally finished a first pass of covering all the Vulture stories after nearly a decade of intention.
Still dead. Much missed.
Commander Blanx screwed with my head.
Frank, thanks for all the hard work on the blog. I am going to go over these entries later.
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