Blog news in brief: What was up in '08?

Greetings all, I am back from the holiday vacation and happy to be back with you and Modern Mythology in 2009. Let's see... did I miss much in the last weeks of 2008?

"The Spirit" didn't rock the box office and the highly-anticipated  "Watchmen" is in trouble.

The crew of bloggers some of you loved at Blog@Newsarama.com are now at Robot6.comicbookresources.com.

Comic book prices are slowly increasing, as the "event books" at DC Comics and Marvel are $3.99 and not $2.99. (Bottom line is that many more book prices will go up because our economic crisis has publishers needing to balance out what they're investing.)

On that line of thought...  event comics were not that great. If you loved Secret Invasion, that's OK. Some people loved Heroes -- I was one of them, then I saw the light. I'll keep my eye on Final Crisis but man....

Ed Brubaker was hot again. I am a devotee of "Daredevil" and "Criminal" -- but Man, Brubaker even got me buying "Captain America" on a regular basis. I'm not promising that's gonna continue, but for now I'm picking it up.

I blew the call on the next Dr. Who -- it won't be Paterson Joseph. (The Telegraph has the story today and it will be 26-year-old Matt Smith.) I blew that call like the Colts did by not running the ball on that critical 3rd down and 2 last Saturday.

You'll get a far better picture of the best lists from last year everywhere else on the internet but here's my little go at it.
 
The best Television for me included "Fringe," "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Lost" and "Battlestar Galactica."

I didn't read everything I wanted to read this year, but my absolute favorite comics were "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8," "All Star Superman," "The Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite," "Criminal" and "Fables."

There should be an honorable mention roll but I really need to read more stuff. The above list is fairly complete and I am pained that I cannot add any of the "X-Men" titles to my faves-list. How about one X-Man in particular? "Wolverine: Old Man Logan" is straddling '08 and '09 and I love it, but I want to see some story closure before I commit to best of. Is that comic one of the best so far...? Hecks yeah.

In all seriousness, thanks to contributor Ryan Riley, co-web dude Joe Dickson, designer Andres Cardenas, Geoffrey Patterson Jr. and the crew in the Comics Club at Geoffrey's Comics, Mike Lerner at Pulp Fiction comics here in L.B., my wife, the P-T and my editor Chris Berry.

'08 was a nice beginning for Modern Mythology and I expect '09 to kick some major tail. Check out my post tomorrow for a few details on that.