Blogging explosion: At Movie Poop Shoot, Chris Allen has some interesting thoughts on the place and purpose of "The Comics Blogosphere" in the greater scheme of things:

"You can't improve your tennis game unless you play someone better than you, so bless all these folks for putting such sustained effort into expressing their comics-related thoughts, as I feel it can only improve my own stuff. There's an old dodge a lot of creative people use to deflect criticism that one does not have the right to criticize if one hasn't created anything of his own, but the truth is that insightful criticism is really necessary for an artform to grow and mature, and to be taken seriously."

He also (finally) finishes his Publishers Report Cards for 2003 roundup, his assessments of ibooks, PennyFarthing Press, Pantheon, AiT/Planet Lar and VIZ.