* This was supposed to go up yesterday and didn’t for some reason. Beats me!
* SLG’s Dan Vado and (even more to the point) Street Angel‘s Jim Rugg both disagree with my insinuation the other day that SLG didn’t do right by Street Angel. Thanks for the clarifications, guys!
* I know I’ve disagreed with some of the Are You a Serious Comic Book Reader? gang’s positions on alternative comics, but while there’s some stuff I think they get wrong, I’m really enjoying what they get right: an attitude of wide-eyed discovery and awe when it comes to reading cool comics with little attention (digs on traditional altcomix aside) paid to tribal allegiances. Dig, if you will, Brandon’s post on Joe Casey and Nathan Fox’s sleeper sensation Dark Reign: Zodiac (man, Casey’s work really takes off when he’s paired with a good artist–seems like a truism I know, but for serious), or Sammy’s Baltimore Comic-Con haul report (Tatsumi belies the anti-literary comics stance somewhat, no?). I do think, from time to time, that my reliance on book-formatted comics–really my weapon of choice no matter what genre you’re talking about–causes me to miss out on some weird and wild finds out there. Maybe I do need to go longbox-diving at a show at some point–I hope I get half as much out of it as the Serious Comic Book Readers seem to.
* Continuing his recent hot streak, And Now the Screaming Starts’ CRwM applies game theory to the deathtraps in the Saw series. I haven’t seen a single Saw movie (which, as we know, makes me a terrible horrorblogger) and I still think this post is epically awesome.
* Bookmarked for later use: Eve Tushnet reviews Paranormal Activity.
* The best thing about my chum Ben Morse’s post on the titles he’d have revived for DC’s Blackest Night skip-month stunt is that several of them are actually more plausible candidates than the ones that are actually getting revived. JLI is practically a no-brainer.
* Robot 6 roundup: Michael Jackson wrote a graphic novel and Jon Favreau’s not directing The Avengers.