Blogging in the round: The hot topic among the bloggerati is Tim O'Neil's review of The Filth in The Comics Journal #258, in which he asserts that superheroes are inherently stupid, and essentially undeserving of critical analysis. David Fiore fired off the first response, which Tim replied to at his blog (his permalinks don't seem to work, so you'll have to scroll down to the Feb. 22 entry). Jim Henley followed suit, as did J.W. Hastings and Sean Collins, who's far better than I am at following the back and forth of inter-blog discussion. And this morning, Rose at Peiratikos weighs in with her thoughts on superheroes as metaphor. I'm sure I'm missing someone. As I said, Sean is better than I am at keeping score in these things.