* Today I made my debut as a permanent member of the Robot 6 blog’s roster. I kicked things off with an auspicious story: the 40th anniversary of Monty Python.

* Alan David Doane interviews two of the best/most important/my favoritest people in alternative comics, Tom Spurgeon and Eric Reynolds.

* Dash Shaw ponders the mainstream/alternative/genre/autobio/whatever divide which has been much discussed in these parts of late. I would say that a) I do indeed think genre work has more critical currency in alternative comics circles right now than it used to; b) there’s a difference between “indie” and “alternative” which plays into what I’m saying in (a); c) I don’t dig using altgenre/”new action” comics as a cudgel against autobiography or nongenre alternative comics any more than I enjoy using alternative or literary comics against genre or superheroes or whatever. If you must set up a conflict of that nature, use good comics against bad comics–there are plenty of both on every side of every divide.

* Oh wow, a Dragon Wars: D-War Rifftrax! This may give me the excuse I needed to get the D-War DVD…

* Where the Really Wild Things Are: Check out Josh Simmons’s too-hot-for-Vice WTWTA tribute comic.

* I love Dave Kiersh’s art.

* Seeing Nick Bertozzi draw naked ladies takes me back to my A&F Quarterly days.

* Dig the fancy new trade dress for Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca’s very good Invincible Iron Man, designed by Rian Hughes.

* Lego David Bowie, ladies and gentlemen. Let’s Dance era, by the looks of it.

* Looks like I’m gonna get to see Paranormal Activity in the theaters. Still torn about this whole pseudoviral thing, but kudos, it’s gotten the movie some attention, I suppose. The movie’s also playing along with a pretty awesomely diverse array of horror movies at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s third annual “Scary Movies” festival.

* By all means download Matthew Perpetua’s “Best of Ghostface Killah” mix. There’s just nothing else out there like Tony Starks.

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