Carnival of souls

* Chew on some good online comics criticism courtesy of a blue-ribbon panel hosted by Ng Suat Tong, and swing by panelist Frank Santoro’s place for further options.

* The latest stop in The Cool Kids Table’s journey through the decade in comics is 2006, aka The Year of 52.

* Buffygate has been pretty entertaining. I like to imagine Whedon wading in, tossing Bill Willingham’s ruined body onto the floor, and saying “What we have here is failure to communicate.”

* What if Clowes was one of us? He was young like one of us?

* Thank goodness for all those giant Stone Age bats, or else how the heck would Bruce Wayne maintain his signature look?