* It was a big week for Grant Morrison comics, with the debut of Final Crisis and new issues of All Star Superman and Batman‘s “Batman: R.I.P.” storyline. Douglas Wolk annotates Final Crisis #1, while Jog reviews All Star Superman and touches on the other two books in passing. And I found myself agreeing with nearly everything Graeme McMillain said in his review of FC #1.

* And now for a pair of interesting reviews of films I liked: Ian Garrick Mason on No Country for Old Men and Rob Humanick on Rambo.

* CRwM at And Now the Screaming Starts finishes off his series of posts on torture porn by addressing the earnest tone and political content of the films.

* There’s a trailer out for the new Coen Brothers comedy, Burn After Reading. It looks funny. How had I never heard of this film before yesterday?

* How big of a T-shirt nerd am I? Big enough to seriously consider ponying up $200+ for a subscription to a series of 13 limited-edition Venture Bros. shirts–available for sale for one week only following the premiere of each new episode from the show’s third season–despite never having seen the show. (It’s next on my Netflix queue after I finish Deadwood.) (Via Topless Robot.)

* Matthew Perpetua, ahem, succinctly reviews Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1.

* Finally, “Dee-Moh-NAY, Dee-Moh-NAY!”

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