* 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.
I knew Frazer Irving drawing anything was too good to be true.
Sean, I would like to see a post from you (perhaps when it is all over) in defense of the “New Krypton” mega-saga. I definitely think it has it’s flaws (Robinson had a rough start with “The Coming of Atlas” and Rucka seems out of his comfort zone with Nightwing and Flamebird) but overall I’ve found it to be pretty engaging, and am slightly dispirited by all the virulent condemnation I’ve seen of it on the comics blogosphere. Personally, the most puzzling aspect to me is the obvious complain about “Superman without Superman,” as if these people would automatically enjoy those books otherwise. Just a suggestion, of course.
Carl, I did something like that here:
http://savagecritic.com/2009/09/superhero-comics-worth-your-time-today.html