* Said it once before but it bears repeating: Matt Wiegle and I have a new comic that’s part of Top Shelf’s new webcomics launch Top Shelf 2.0. It’s called “The Real Killers Are Still Out There.”
* While we’re on that subject, I suppose I should say that I’m looking for artists with whom to collaborate on some additional strips. My email’s to the left if you’re interested.
* A woman in Croatia sat dead in front of the TV in her unopened apartment for 42 years after she was reported missing. In thinking about this story and the Stitzl incest case in Austria, it strikes me that the notion that people can go “missing” for decades while being right there among us is particularly horrifying, perhaps because of the way it implicates the rest of us for our failure to find the disappeared. (Via Jim Treacher.)
* Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been cast as Ramona Flowers in Edgar Wright’s upcoming adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series. Her saying “he likes to watch me pee” in the second half of Death Proof was easily my favorite thing from that segment of that film.
* Young John Stanley turns out to have been a bit of a hot piece of ass.
* I had forgotten all about the Nintendo game Super Dodgeball until Topless Robot pointed me in the direction of this free downloadable album of remixes and reinterpretations of the game’s multi-ethnic music. You could throw the dodgeball so hard it killed people, man!
* Finally, your video of the day is “Doot Doot” by Freur. Even back then, the future Underworld had something, and I don’t just mean “Brian Eno’s wardrobe.” Listen to how effortlessly it glides into “epic.”