* Hey look, it’s my little piece on Grant Morrison and Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne in Maxim this month! Fun fact: The editors of Maxim are wild about Grant Morrison, wild!
* Recently on Robot 6:
* Jon Hastings’s homemade street-level superhero RPG;
* Alison Bechdel meets Harvey Pekar;
* and Jeff Lemire’s con commissions.
* This long interview with Ross Campbell of Wet Moon fame is occasionally too chummy for its own good, but there’s much of interest in here, including Campbell’s uniformly harsh take on his own art, specifically its sexiness. Personally I think we could use more comic art that’s constantly sexy without trying to be.
* I’d forgotten this: Neil Marshall is doing a 3-D horror movie about people exploding called Burst. Oh, indeed.
* Allow me to be the 3,892nd person to direct you to Chris Ware’s awesomely angry, predictably shitcanned cover for the annual Fortune 500 issue, which it’s occurring to me now would have been like putting out a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue with a model who’d recently died from an eating disorder on the cover. Click the link to see it at full size and soak in all the details.
* I would be interested in seeing a Monster Squad remake that updated the roster of monsters they’re fighting. Like, maybe a slasher, an alien, a J-horror ghost of some kind…
* My main concern upon learning that Heroes may be renewed after all is that Rob Bricken from Topless Robot will probably die from alcohol poisoning and/or stress-induced heart failure should this occur.
* Speaking of: “For some reason, I can’t get over the eyemask — the torn fabric, the bandage-like quality of it — it looks like something a mutant turtle living in a sewer could conceivably make, which I hope to god is the most insane sentence I type all day.” —Rob Bricken on the turtle head design for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Sorry, Rob, you ended up having to write a whole post on Heroes getting renewed!
* Pretty stuff in Tom Spurgeon’s latest Five for Friday, about covers with pretty colors.
* Noel Freibert’s Mr. Cellar’s Attic really could have made the cut in that list, by the way.
* “Most monsters you can only kill their bodies, but a clever enough PC can actually do worse to the unicorn: it can rob it of meaning.”–Zak Smith on unicorns. That’s the Chicago way!
* Mahnola Dargis on the career and influence of David Bordwell. God, this article is almost like pornography to me. Christ Jesus, when he went to the University of Wisconsin at Madison there were twenty-two film societies?
That almost looks like one of the Michael Zulli-drawn Turtles from his and Sean Murphy’s short run on the book in the early 90s. Wonder if I still have those around. Pretty great reading as I recall.