* Heading to the printers this month: Jordan Crane’s Uptight #3! YESSSSSSSSS
* Here’s quite an array of artcomix badassery: Frank Santoro, Lauren Weinstein, Dan Nadel, CF, Yuichi Yokoyama. (Via Comics Comics.)
* A leaked email from Magnolia Pictures reveals the studio’s sentiment regarding the blog-generated kerfuffle over the subtitles for Let the Right One In: STFU. Look, it’s entirely possible that this is much ado about nothing, all the from the side-by-sides I’ve seen the theatrical subtitles seem demonstrably superior. (The email claims the DVD subs are more literal translations; who knows?) But the blogs this email bashes are the same blogs that told all and sundry that Let the Right One In was the best horror movie of the year, if not the best movie period. (Via Jason Adams.)
* Speaking of Jason, he agreed with me about last night’s Lost episode in two particulars: It’s nice for Kate to have a raison d’etre beyond her feelings about someone else, and Kate looks hot in supermarkets. He adds an observation about Jack’s waxed chest, though, which difference is what makes him him and me me.
* And speaking of last night’s Lost, Todd Van Der Werff sums up how I felt about it:
All of this is a lot of rambling preamble to say that “Whatever Happened, Happened,” written by series masterminds Damon Lindelof and Carleton Cuse and directed by Bobby Roth, was another solid hour in what’s shaping up to be a very well-done middle run of episodes for this show’s fifth season. It’s rare to have a show have a creative renaissance this late in its life, but Lost, most likely reinvigorated by knowing where it’s ending and roughly where it’s going, is crackling along like it never has before. Here’s a measure of just how much fun I had with “Whatever Happened, Happened”: Basically nothing HAPPENED in the episode, but I still was completely engaged throughout. And, after all of my complaining about how boring and useless such episodes were earlier this season, this was a KATE (Evangeline Lilly) episode that not only managed to tell a compelling story but also utilized flashbacks to Kate’s off-Island life about as well as they can be used. I haven’t looked into it all that thoroughly, but I daresay this was the best Kate episode of them all. Granted, it’s kind of a low bar, but the show took an awfully big step over that bar.