* Tim O’Neil, whose lengthy ruminations on the mainstreamiest of mainstream comics have become one of the crown jewels of the comics blogosphere, kicks of a series of posts addressing the State of the X-Men Union.
* Not Coming to a Theater Near You’s Katherine Follett reviews Paul Barthel’s sex-and-violence spectacular Death Race 2000. RIP, Frankenstein.
* B-Sol at the Vault of Horror praises Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel’s Deadgirl. Actually, he rhetorically asks “This Year’s Inside?”, which isn’t exactly the way to convince me I need to see the movie, but I get his point. It’s funny: The Missus saw the trailer for this thing ages ago and immediately wrote it off as yet another meditation on what violently sexualized misogyny does to the men who perpetrate it rather than to the women who suffer from it. I think she probably has a point, but it’s tough to say without seeing the film.