* Here’s a terrific rant about the terrifying absurdity of the Christopher Handey case, in which Handey was arrested for owning comics featuring characters who looked young have sex, which the authorities are erroneously labeling as child pornography. I mention this because the holidays are upon us and for me that means it’s charity donation time, and I want to encourage everyone to donate to The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. (Via Jim Henley.)
* Blog@Newsarama, a very good and wide-ranging group comics blog staffed by (among others) Chris Mautner, Kevin Melrose, and JK Parkin, is ending its life as we know it. The current staff are apparently sticking together and moving away from Newsarama, whose recent change of direction apparently caused them financial, logistical, and to a certain extent editorial headaches. I enjoy the blog and hope they land on their collective feet.
* B-Sol at Vault of Horror has posted a list of all the films that didn’t make the cut for the Top 50 Horror Films of All Time list he assembled from the collective wisdom of the horror blogosphere. It’s more wide-ranging, as you’d expect.
* Jog reviews Kevin Huizenga’s Flight or Run: Shadow of the Chopper. I liked it and he does too!
* Quote of the day:
If I was still doing Scott Pilgrim in ten years, I would be dead inside.
* Hubba hubba, Rachel Maddow!
(Via Andrew Sullivan.)
* Eve Tushnet likes me, she really likes me!