Seven Soldiers Resources

For those of you who, like me, picked up the 7Sv1 trade paperback this week, and are getting ready to dive headfirst into the highly-entertaining madness that is Grant Morrison's latest work of comic beauty, here are a couple of links that might be of interest:

Barbelith is home base for Grant Morrison enthusiasts (or Granties, as we are called. Fine, I made that up.) Although, It seems you now need an invitation to join. Details on how to get one here. Barbelith is definately the place to go for indepth discussion threads on the latest 7S releases. Plus, there are countless threads on other interesting topics to boot. It's the rare message board that is both enthusiastic and (predominantly) civil.

Barbelith is also responsible for my primary 7S annotations resource. It's set up like a Wiki, which makes navigation very simple, and it seems to be updated with remarkable speed and accuracy.

If Barbelith doesn't do it for you, you can always use this page of annotations, but it is a GeoCities site, so be prepared for banners and outages.

I've got my tpb ready to go, and a freshly printed out stack of the Barbelith annotations on the side table, and I'm looking forward to taking some time this weekend to read through the collected issues a couple of times. An initial run just to enjoy the series as fun comic book escapism, and a second, slower read to appreciate the convergences, connections and references (aided by those handy-dandy annotations).

I also finally picked up the DC Showcase Presents Superman phonebook. Wow, did somebody say this weekend was going to be "off the hook"?

Because it is.