Carnival of souls

* Wow, this is really something: Like half the cast and writing staff of Saturday Night Live is doing a fundraiser for the off-Broadway adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Money well spent for a variety of reasons.

* Powr Masters 3 and If ‘n Oof: on the way in May!

* Over at Robot 6 I rounded up some notable posts in the great “Did comics stink in 2009 or is it just me?” debate.

* Tom Spurgeon interviews Jog on Death Note, one of the great entertainments of the comics decade.