* Today on Robot 6 I called out McSweeney’s awesome-looking San Francisco Panorama and Dylan Pommer’s awesome-looking Immortal Weapons custom action figures.

* Mystery Science Theater 3000 is on Hulu! (Via Mark Coale.)

* Grant Morrison Batman news galore today: He’s doing a miniseries called The Return of Bruce Wayne that chronicles the character’s battle through the timestream to return to the present day. He’ll be a caveman and a pirate and a cowboy and a Victorian-era guy and a noir private dick, apparently. No complaints. Each issue will be drawn by a different artist–let’s just hope Philip Tan’s off the table. Here’s a USA Today interview with Morrison featuring all of the usual Morrison-interview antics.

* Also, Andy Clarke has been announced as the next Batman & Robin artist after Cameron Stewart. The sample art looks lovely, certainly a better fit than you know who as far as dudes drafted to work on the book with no history of collaboration with Morrison go. There are actually quite a few very impressive artists at DC right now, but they tend to be squirreled away in unlikely places: Clarke had been toiling on the little-read series R.E.B.E.L.S., while today I was once again knocked out by the art of Cafu…who’s doing the Captain Atom back-up stories in the apparently not very popular Superman-less Action Comics (which like the whole Superman line is actually quite enjoyable!).

* More BCGF con reports, from Frank Santoro and Jessica Campbell. This thing was a hit. And the lack of junk stood out even among the likes of SPX and MoCCA.

* I really love Fantagraphics’ trade dress for its Jacques Tardi releases.

* Matt Maxwell continues his look back at World of Warcraft with a you-are-there reminiscence about the very, very, very earliest days of the game, back when there was exactly one city to explore. If you were a fan of Bruce Baugh’s writings on the game, you wanna be reading this.

* Speaking of WoW, via Ceri B. comes another WoW trailer, this one for Fall of the Lich King Patch 3.3, that will, provided you have fantasy-geek buttons, hit them like fucking Mjolnir.

* The 100 Other Greatest Quotes from The Wire, spoilery as, well, fuck.

* Lady GaGa in an Elizabethan red vinyl costume playing on a Cloverfield monster piano? Sure, I’ll eat it.

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