We’re going to take a week off here at HU. Thanks all for reading along with us through our change of address, and we’ll be back bright-tailed and bushy-eyed (or something like that) for the start of the new year. Hope to see you then!

I have one reader who said he was having some problems with the RSS feed. Is anyone else experiencing troubles? Please let us know if so, or if there are any other technical problems you’re encountering. We’ve managed to get some things straightened out and are still struggling a little with others, but any feedback would be helpful.

All right, the spam in comments is getting out of hand. I’m trying to take steps, but it may take a day or two. In the meanwhile, I’m going to have to start approving comments. Once one of your comments is approved, you should be able to post from then on without any delay, but your first comment after this may take a little bit to appear until I give it the go ahead.

Sorry about this. If people think this is more burdensome than being inundated with spam let me know and I’ll maybe go back. As I said, we should have some sort of spam filter in place sometime soon, so hopefully this will just be a stopgap measure.

Thanks for your patience all.

Hey all. We’re officially moving in today. Some of the boxes are still packed and they’ll probably be at least a few stubbed toes and muttered imprecations as we stumble around the new space…but hopefully the learning curve won’t be too steep.

For those who are familiar with us already, our content is going to be much as it always was. Currently, and hopefully for a while, our bloggers are me (Noah Berlatsky), Ng Suat Tong, Kinukitty, Vom Marlowe, and Richard Cook. We write, variously, long meandering essays on Wonder Woman and gender; enthusiastic manporn reviews; chronicles of a quest for mainstream titles that do not suck; musings on the original art market in comics.; your irritatingly named roundtables,; music downloads no one listens to, occasional Thai pop videos, and goodness knows what else. This week in particular, I’m going to try and get myself fired, and then, if that doesn’t work, we’re going to have a knock-down, drag-out roundtable on Dan Clowes’ Ghost World. So…click back often! Or even better, add us to your RSS Feed by clicking that little icon thingee in the corner up there.

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The old blogspot address will stay in place as an archive. I thought, to get things started I’d put up some links to my favorite posts from our archives. So…..

The first post I did to the Hooded Utilitarian was my long, complete interview with Johnny Ryan, an expurgated version of which ran in TCJ a ways back.

Also going back a bit is this gallery of cartoons by the amazing editorial cartoonist Art Young. From that page you can click around to some other images and my essay on the cartoonist, if you’re so inclined.

One of my favorite roundtables on the site (featuring Bill Randall, Tom Crippen, and Miriam Libicki) was our discussion of the feminist Japanese manga Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki. That discussion also links up at the end to the Mary Sue roundtable, which is also one of my favorites, so you can click over there if you’re just not getting enough roundtableism.

Tucker Stone and I did a back and forth discussion of Bob Haney’s Brave and Bold.

Tom Crippen’s epic discussion of Marvel Comics and Civil War is the piece that really won me over to his writing when I saw it in the Comics Journal. It’s great.

Miriam Libicki’s post on Rogue of the X-Men is shorter, but also a favorite of mine.

I also love Bill Randall’s vision of manga as apocalyptic coccoon.

And Kinukitty’s even more obsessive than usual discussion of “In the End.”

And for more recent highlights check out: our Sandman roundtable; and Steven Grant’s great guest post on race and comics; and Richard’s very funny review of Image United.

So thanks for joining us. More soon!
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As we’ve mentioned a time or two, HU is moving bit, byte, and barrel over to the new! improved! Comics Journal website!

Though we’ll be at a different location, our content will not change; you’ll still have your long meandering posts about Wonder Woman and gender, your enthusiastic manporn reviews; your quest for mainstream titles that do not suck; your erudite explorations of comics classics.; your irritatingly named roundtables,; your music downloads no one listens to, your occasional Thai pop videos, and all the other fun features which you’ve come to expect when you click over here.

Also, coming up later this week at the new space, I’m going to try to get myself fired, and then (presuming that doesn’t work) we’re going to have a knock-down drag-out roundtable on Dan Clowes’ Ghost World.

All of which is to say, I hope you’ll follow us to our new location. And if you have a link to us on your site (and thank you!) I hope you’ll redirect it to where the new content is.

This address will stay in place as an archive. I thought, as long as we’re going, I would post some links to a few of my favorite posts from the past years. Feel free to just skip ahead to the new site if the maudlin nostalgia seems too intense.

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The first post I did to this site was my long, complete interview with Johnny Ryan, an expurgated version of which ran in TCJ a ways back.

Also going back a bit is this gallery of cartoons by the amazing editorial cartoonist Art Young. From that page you can click around to some other images and my essay on the cartoonist, if you’re so inclined.

One of my favorite roundtables on the site (featuring Bill Randall, Tom Crippen, and Miriam Libicki) was our discussion of the feminist Japanese manga Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki. That discussion also links up at the end to the Mary Sue roundtable, which is also one of my favorites, so you can click over there if you’re just not getting enough roundtableism.

Tucker Stone and I did a back and forth discussion of Bob Haney’s Brave and Bold.

Tom Crippen’s epic discussion of Marvel Comics and Civil War is the piece that really won me over to his writing when I saw it in the Comics Journal. It’s great.

Miriam Libicki’s post on Rogue of the X-Men is shorter, but also a favorite of mine.

I also love Bill Randall’s apocalyptic vision of manga as apocalyptic coccoon.

And Kinukitty’s even more obsessive than you’ve grown to expect discussion of “In the End.”

And for more recent highlights: our Sandman roundtable and Steven Grant’s great guest post on race and comics, and Richard’s review of Image United.

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And…I think that’s it. I’m kind of reluctant to go; it’s a little sad to say goodbye to the place, even if we’re not really leaving the internets. Thanks to all the bloggers who have been kind enough to lend their talents here, to the folks who have linked to us, to our commenters, and to our readers. Hope to see you all soon on the flip side.