* I wrote to Tom Spurgeon about the difference between Secret Invasion tie-ins and Final Crisis tie-ins and how that might affect their sales.

* Frank Quitely talks to CBR about All Star Superman now that the series’ 12th and final issue is on the stands.

* Your NERDS ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS update for the day comes from Chris Cummins of Topless Robot:

…The Dark Knight made people forget all about Nicholson’s hammy Joker.

Certainly the last thing we’d want is for a killer clown to be over-the-top!

* Jon Hastings talks about the difference between criticism and “giving notes.”

* Like Chris Butcher I’m often baffled as to why it’s so hard to convince comics people to do the right thing, but here’s as good a reason as any: people often do the wrong thing simply because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing! In my experience in comics, the worst conduct is usually perpetrated by people in the process of running their businesses (and sometimes the businesses of others) into the ground. That’s not a coincidence! Can we at least agree that people who are serial ruiners-of-companies–these nightmarish Bizarro Mariano Rivieras who never fail to close down their own ventures, in the process lying and robbing and sucking up as much cash for themselves and their cronies as they can and leaving others holding the bag–are to be shunned, if not on moral grounds then just from the self-interested perspective of not wanting to do business with proven losers?

* Here’s Sir Ben Kingsley pretending to be Ian MacKaye performing the song “Minor Threat.” (Via Pitchfork.) You’re going to have to turn this opportunity yes.

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