* Last week’s “Confessional” installment of Tom Spurgeon’s regular reader-participation feature Five for Friday, featuring twenty-five questions total from five different categories about nearly every comics-related topic under the sun (and some non-comics stuff too), was a real doozy to answer. Or so I thought, because I am an ignoramus and didn’t read the part that said you were only supposed to answer one question from each of the five five-question categories. Oh well, you can read all my answers here. And I don’t even feel so bad, because in misreading the topic I’m in the company of such comics luminaries as Paul Pope, Brandon Graham, and Richard Starkings.
* Douglas Wolk annotates Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins’s Final Crisis: Rogues’ Revenge #2. Kolins is easily the comics pro with whose name mine most often gets mixed up–our first names are monosyllabic and begin with an S, our last names sound exactly alike, and in many company email systems my address starts with “sco,” adding to the confusion. However, only one of us drew Weather Wizard blowing up someone’s torso with a miniature tornado.
* Ian Garrick Mason at Sans Everything notes the similarity between the United States’ current justifications for torture and those of the original Man of Steel, Josef Stalin.
* Finally (and with a little help from yours truly), Aeron Alfrey at Monster Brains reveals the origin of this evocative image…
