* Say, this is neat: Tales from the Perilous Realm, a collection of all of J.R.R. Tolkien’s non-Middle-earth fantasy fiction, plus the poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
* David Heatley responds to the recent Comics Comics Cage Match about his collection My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down and…it’s really not pretty. A lot of strawmen, back-patting, and ad hominem, all of which get called out pretty sharply in the comments by Tom Spurgeon and, when he’s not really living up to the Cage Match moniker, Frank Santoro. Eventually Tim Hodler and Lauren Weinstein plead for restraint, Noah Berlatsky makes conciliatory gestures (!), and Dan Nadel shuts the thing down. A smart con organizer would want to make a panel out of this.
* A slideshow of stuff from Johnny Ryan’s Blecky Yuckerella: Comics Are for Idiots! Alright!
* My pal Ben Morse takes a look at two high-quality Ed Brubaker series, Captain America and Daredevil.
* Anders Nilsen drawing Lucio Fulci’s Zombi? Yes, please.
* Matt Zoller Seitz pens a heartfelt tribute to the life and career of the late film and television critic Andrew Johnston. Seitz notes Johnston’s role in carving out critical space for such films as Donnie Darko, The Return of the King, and (one of my least favorite movies ever but I’m listing it just to break the nerdcurve) The Thin Red Line.
* I don’t know what it is about this image from some horror-comedy I’m never going to see that delights me so, but delight me it does. The world is a better place with images like this in it.
