* Never a dull moment: Jack Kirby’s heirs are pursuing legal action to reclaim copyrights on his co-creations. You’ve got to wonder how much of the $4 billion Disney’s spending on Marvel would be in play without him. (Via Robot 6.)

* Manga and Muhammad, Iron Man and the Internet: Tom Spurgeon on five fundamental ways the comics industry has changed over the past five years.

* Brian Hibbs presents the case for Paul Levitz.

* Anders Nilsen previews Big Questions #13–coming soon! And as always, Nilsen says two issues remain after this one.

* Speaking of great stuff on the way from Drawn & Quarterly, Tom Devlin says John Porcellin’s Map of My Heart (a) will be out at SPX, and (b) contains Porcellino’s real star-making material from King-Cat. Heck yeah.

* Happy belated birthday to the best comics (co)publisher, Gary Groth!

* Tim Hensley reveals that the secret inspiration for Wally Gropius is…Phil Donahue? For real, what a fascinating idea for the post: the unlikely reference source for the Gropius strips’ near-Ditkoesque proficiency with interestingly posed hands.

* Frank Santoro sure can draw!

* Remember when superhero events flowed from series to series rather than relying on a central tentpole with tangential tie-ins? Curt Purcell does, and in his latest Blackest Night post he discusses the pros and cons.

* My Strange Tales Spotlight interview series at Marvel.com is about to kick into high gear again in anticipation of issue #2. First up: Jonathan Hickman.

* The secret origin of Miss Martian: She’s my friend Ben Morse’s fiancee! Seriously.

* WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? made the Guardian, in an article that also discusses the Downfall/Hitler Reacts and Kanye Interruption memes. It refers to WRT? as “crowdsourced bullying” of poor Brickhousebunny21, the incestuous pedophilic bestiality enthusiast who coined the ungrammatical cri de coeur in the first place. I can promise that as the person who first pointed out the comedy/meme goldmine that that phrase is, it had nothing to do with trying to pick on BHB21 and everything to do with celebrating ridiculousness. Meanwhile, Rob Bricken collects another Best of the Best post for Topless Robot. For his part, Brickhousebunny21 showed up in my comments again to call me “a homo.” Gotta lvoe it!

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