* I’m pretty happy with this interview I did with Brian Chippendale for Providence’s arts/tourism website. What a fascinating guy.
* My Strange Tales Spotlight interview with Stan Sakai was a lot of fun, too. Samurai Hulk!
* I’ve been keeping pretty busy at Robot 6 now that the post-Anaheim/C2E2 “phony war” phase of the Reed/Shamus conflict is over and the Blitz has begun. Here’s my latest Con War report, featuring reactions to the now-completed Big Apple Comic Con over the weekend. Earlier reports are here and here.
* Elsewhere at Robot 6, I wrote an obituary for the late George Tuska, gave shoutouts to Vice’s Where the Wild Things are comics gallery and Marc Silvestri & Whilce Portacio’s Filipino flood relief charity auction, and revealed what I’ve been reading.
* And I can’t find it on Marvel.com yet, but the latest episode of What The–?! is up. What do you mean, “to play us out”?
* Jeet Heer calls for the creation of a “proto-graphic novel” master list. Seriously, it really would be nice to gather all such titles all in one place. I’d love to see “graphic novel” be fairly generously defined in such a list, too, because the purpose should be comprehensiveness rather than orthodoxy. In other words, Milt Gross and “The Monster Society of Evil”–come one, come all!
* I love the idea that I am in some way responsible for making Kiel Phegley appreciate He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. I also love Poe Ghostal’s list of five incredibly obscure MotU characters he’d like to see made into toys for the first time, which I found courtesy of Kiel.
* Check out Rickey Purdin’s Big Apple haul. I really can’t get over getting Acme #19 for four measly American dollars.
* CRwM’s epic game-theory march through the Saw franchise continues. Brilliant.
* Ceri B. walks us through the lair of the silithids, a sentient insectoid race wreaking Lovecraftian havoc in World of Warcraft. The still-twitching limbs of a long-dead beast so big it could pass for a geographical feature are a marvelously disgusting touch.
* What have we here, Kevin Huizenga?
*Renee French. Jiminy Christmas.
