* I haven’t talked about this yet I don’t think, but over the past little while a lot of my friends at Wizard lost their jobs. This includes the whole staff of Anime Insider, and over at the Wiz proper it includes David Paggi and Rachel Molino, the two remaining altcomix-interested staffers. This is all a bummer for various obvious reasons. My pal Rob Bricken has a nice eulogy for AI. On a similar note, I liked Douglas Wolk’s post on Blender, which was canceled the same day as Anime Insider.
* Tim O’Neil concludes his review-of-Kingdom-Come-by-way-of-a-bunch-of-different-posts by explaining “momentism” as a school of superhero writing. This is pretty goddamn dead on. During my years at Wizard, the search for iconic/badass/jaw-dropping moments in superhero comics, splash pages or action beats or lines of dialogue that functioned not just in getting across something necessary to the story but also in encapsulating just what makes Superhero So-and-So so cool/tragic/scary/inspiring/whatever, was absolutely paramount for writers and readers alike.
* Here are some more Caprica clips, replacing the set that was apparently yanked earlier last week. I’m still not watching them.
* Tom Kaczynski discusses Watchmen the comic and Watchmen the movie in terms of cool and hot media.
* Jog reviews a trio of recent comics of note: Jim and Jam, Sleazy Slice, and Rumbling.
* Renee French: still creepy.
* Jim Rugg has a blog! And he drew Klaus Nomi!
* I’ll never not be a sucker for nice compact drawings of Batman and his rogues gallery like this one from Doc Shaner (via Johnny Bacardi). Heck, that’s why I got Lego Batman last week.
* Torture is useless at producing actionable intelligence. One has to wonder what, then, the point of torture is.
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