GRANTLAND
In Grant Morrison’s Batman: Incorporated, Morrison explores the idea that Batman is idea with franchise possibilities; that there needn’t be just one Batman. Perhaps each city, each country could have a Batman of its own. Perhaps a like-minded army of talented people could be a force for the kind of good one man could not possibly achieve by himself.
In (let’s face it, tenuously) the same way, the great sports writer Bill Simmons has attempted to replicate himself with the creation of his sports and pop-culture website Grantland. His columns for espn.com are incredibly popular, so it follows that people with similar writing talent (Chuck Kosterman, Andy Greenwald, Jay Caspian Kang and more) writing about the sorts of things he only occasionally wrote about would be a massive success. A brief Internet search or two reveals Grantland to be just as popular as one would expect, and for me personally, it’s become a go-to website. Although some of the articles dealing with detailed American sports go over the head of this casual fan, all of the pop-culture stuff is fantastic. Some websites are just in our wheelhouse, and Grantland is dead centre of mine.
Honourable Mention: The AV Club is an intellectual hipster’s pop-cultural paradise. If you just watched a TV show and now you want to see what someone else thought of it, this is the place. Fantastic movie features, detailed television analysis, great looks at comics, book reviews and music - it's just about the best entertainment website going around.
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