* Founder of the mighty Fluxblog and friend of ADDTF Matthew Perpetua will be giving a lecture on Wolverine as part of NYC Nerd Nite at Galapagos in Brooklyn this Thursday evening at 8pm. I highly suggest you attend if you are a nerd. Here’s the scoop:

Learn how The X-Men’s Wolverine has evolved over the course of the past four decades and what each version of him says about both the people working with the character and the way audiences respond to variations of the same masculine fantasy. More so than most other superheroes, Wolverine has a particular appeal to insecure young men as demonstrated in overcompensation involved with the character, to subtle aspect such as how large people draw his claws…

If that doesn’t sound like a fine way to spend your Thursday evening then motherfucker I don’t know what to tell you. Buy tickets here.

* Is it just me or are a lot of altcomix heavy hitters doing webcomics lately? After yesterday’s powerhouse Huizenga/Rickheit/Nilsen trifecta, today you’ve got new comics at Vice from Sammy Harkham, Dash Shaw, and Johnny Ryan, plus my favorite installment so far in Nick Bertozzi’s long-running series of bizarre little captioned illustrations.

(Mostly via Spurge.)

* Frank Miller’s working on a graphic-novel prequel to 300 about the Battle of Marathon called Xerxes. Bring it on!

* Tom Neely’s selling those gawjuss horror covers he did. In the words of the Emperor, “You…want…this…don’t you?”

* Ben Jones profiled in The New York Times. That’s just wonderful. (Via everyone.)

* If I were President Lieberman I’d give Gilbert Hernandez a $50,000 grant every day!

* Five years and 2,000 pages of MOME! Congratulations to Eric Reynolds, Gary Groth, and the many contributors–that’s a real accomplishment, and MOME has provided me with a lot of enjoyment and food for thought over those years.

* Brandon at Are You a Serious Comic Book Reader? is right, and actually righter than he admits to being, in the aforelinked piece about how constant cliffhanger endings really fuck up the rhythm of 22-page serialized comics. They look lovely and read well but how I wish Sweet Tooth and Daytripper were graphic novels.

* Another piece of the Frank Santoro puzzle falls into place.

* Look at the bait-and-switch shit Marvel used to pull by hinting Wolverine would be in a comic in the ’90s. (Scroll down to the last cover.) Outrageous! Thank you, Cool Kids Table, the people need to KNOW.

* Meanwhile I screwed up my earlier link to the CKT’s Nova cover gallery so here it is again. And here’s the first installment in what augurs to be a lovely series of posts in which the CKT crew recalls comics that meant a lot to them for each year of the decade.

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