* Robot 6-in’: Brian Michael Bendis is teaching at Portland State University.

* Hey, Deadwood fans: Did you know that the great Todd VanDerWerff of The House Next Door’s Lost recaps spent all summer re-watching and reviewing Deadwood for the AV Club? Well break out the fuckin’ canned peaches and kiss your evening goodbye, because that’s what he did. For all eternity: Deadwood makes The Wire look like Hawaii 5-0.

* Tom Spurgeon loved Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza. He also loved Johnny Ryan’s Prison Pit Vol. 1. Make sure to take advantage of Tom’s return to reviewing, y’all.

* Jon “The Forager” Hastings has a new criticism blog and this post I’m linking to from it is very flattering.

* I haven’t been following the weekly-ish Amazing Spider-Man comic, although I gave it a shot circa the John Romita Jr.-illustrated New Ways to Die arc and will do so again next week as the umbrella-event-whatever onslaught of classic Spidey villains The Gauntlet begins. Therefore I enjoyed Matt Wilson’s lists of the 5 Best and 5 Worst Post-Brand New Day Spider-Man Villains at Topless Robot. The concepts are breezily hokey in the fashion of most of Spidey’s rogues gallery, and though they’re not all winners, they’ve at least showcased some gutsy design choices and lovely art by the likes of JRJR and Marcos Martin.

* Speaking of Topless Robot: You know, the end result of all the Watchmen DVD shenanigans is that I have yet to purchase Watchmen, a film I greatly enjoyed, on DVD, and don’t really have any plans to do so. Last time this happened was with Let the Right One In and its shoddy subtitles. Did the version with proper theatrical subs ever come out, by the way?

* He hasn’t posted one in a bit, but I just discovered Corey Blake’s weekly round-up of new-reader-friendly comics. Very nice idea.

* And speaking of weekly comics round-ups, I enjoyed Jog’s this week just as I tend do. As usual he sneaks a juicy digression or two in there, this time around a post-mortem on Grant Morrison and Gene Ha’s abortive Authority revival.

* Jason Adams presents five frames from Tim Burton’s Batman. I liked The Dark Knight but there’s still hardly anything in it that holds a candle to something like this:

* I love the metal-up-your-ass imagery of the tumblelog Obsidian Obelisk, but like many Tumblrs (including my own!) it frequently doesn’t credit the images it reposts. (I always used mine as basically a file folder you could display online.) So therefore I have no idea who created this wonderful image. Any help?

* As someone who’s long felt hugely popular pop music should look and sound more like Mechanical Animals-era Marilyn Manson, I fully support Lady GaGa’s “Bad Romance.” This may be the moment where I became a GaGa Believer.

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