* Dan DiDio vs. Joe Quesada on “event fatigue.” This kind of thing is endlessly interesting to me.
* Tom Spurgeon reviews Al Columbia’s Pim and Francie: “this book outright indicts the act of creativity itself.” Shiver.
* Speaking of Spurge, make sure to check out his annual Black Friday Holiday Shopper’s Guide, a tradition I look forward to nearly as much as his San Diego guide. There’s a soul-crushing profusion of good comics to buy.
* Also speaking of Spurge, I appreciated this:
His primary argument as I understood it wasn’t that rankings always work and are always awesome and time well spent, but that he felt the AV Club’s failure to order their list was another choice among many that contributed to their list lacking specificity and weight.
Yep!
* Oh fuck Fantagraphics is a great publisher. More Jaime Hernandez digests! Nancy! Artichoke Tales! Wally Gropius! I could plotz.
* A thousand times yes to this amazing Spanish promo for Lost: Come for the deftly done chess visuals, stay for the deftly selected Radiohead soundtrack.
* A thousand times also yes to Dahmer and The Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, should this pan out.
* A thousand times also also yes to Hellen Jo drawing Lady Gaga and a bunch of other sessy ladies for Giant Robot’s Post-It Show. (Via Heidi Mac.)
* Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli realizes if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: His already-finished next film, Area 51, is another found-footage first-person shockumentary thing. The Blair Witch guys probably shoulda stuck with it too.
* Curt Purcell quite liked the latest round of the main Blackest Night books. So did I.
* Real-Life Horror: The Supreme Court sides with the cover-up of detainee-abuse photos.
* Finally, Big Lob, thou art avenged!
Holy Lord. When I was a kid, I wanted nothing more than to have the full line-up of the Rawhides in action figure form. I had Falcon, Law & Order, Jinx, Chuckles and even Beachhead for good measure. I never buy toys, but I NEED that Big Lob figure. I hope I don’t have to pay some ridiculous club subscription fee to get it.
Also: I wonder whatever happened to Grant Morrison’s “Area 51” screenplay based on that video game. Could this be the same thing? Probably not because it doesn’t mention the game in the story. God, when will they finally green light something he wrote for the screen?