* Lots of Benjamin Marra news today: He’s officially launched his renamed Traditional Comics publishing outfit’s new website and blog, done a new Super Satan comic for Vice, and gotten hisself interviewed by Vice’s Nick Gazin. Said interview containes such awesome statements as the following:

I think that Space Beaver comic has served as a template as far as the kind of comics I’d like to create.

…

Muscles are cool. They represent power and strength, which are cool qualities.

…

I’d like to see superhero comics return to the male power fantasy. And that just makes me think of having muscles that would allow me to decimate any adversary.

Indeed. Indeed.

* Hey, check out this unofficial teaser image for Brendan McCarthy’s upcoming Spider-Man/Doctor Strange: Fever. (Via Robot 6.) I’ll be over here, patting myself on the back.

* Jon Hastings is helping me work through some lingering questions I had about the relationship dynamic in Paranormal Activity in the comments for my review of that film. I think he’s pretty much spot-on with everything he’s saying.

* I’m not going to spoil it by posting the image because you really need to see them side by side, but Ilkka Sarpola’s cover version of the cover for Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For at the Covered blog is my favorite Covered cover version yet. You instantly picture a vastly more believable and disturbing story in your head looking at this thing.

* Spurge is right: By all means, go, look at the comics of Marguax Motin.

* Dirk is right: By all means, go, look at the pin-ups of Fernando Vicente.

* This sort of forward-thinking initiative is why Bloomberg’s gonna win in a walk today.

* Tim Hodler takes slacker linkbloggers to school.

* Ezra Klein takes priggish luddite fuddy-duddy know-it-alls to school.

* Finally, Jesus.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 7:08 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.