* WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA Jordan Crane, Sammy Harkham, and Ted May have a new webcomics site up in which pretty much every page of every Jordan Crane comic that isn’t The Clouds Above is available to read for free. HOLY SHIT. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)
* Tom Spurgeon’s interview with Chris Allen about Powers is my favorite installment in that books of the decade series so far. The way Chris unpacks what made that book such a stand-out, its place in Bendis’s oeuvre, the stuff he says about Bendis’s later Marvel work, the line about the three-man superhero-crime subgenre–really phenomenal. Meanwhile I’m saving Shaenon Garrity’s take on Achewood until I get around to a long-planned catch-up session with the strip.
* Jog’s Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival con report, part two of which is now up, is sort of like a holiday fruitcake in that there’s all sorts of shit jammed in there. Scans from various manga, an interview with Tucker Stone reviewing various comics, his own reviews of stuff he got at the show, actual con-report material here and there…
* Grant Morrison on Joe the Barbarian and Grant Morrison on Batman & Robin. Sounds like his 12-issue run has expanded to 16, not even counting the separate Return miniseries.
* Let Chris Mautner tell you which R. Crumb books to buy first. This is super-helpful.
* Kevin Huizenga’s “Postcards from Fielder” continues.
* I didn’t know Kate Beaton had this in her.
* When Old Gods create natural resources.
* Road House: the video game? Please tell me it had a “time to not be nice-o-meter.” (Image and link via Chris Ward.)
The shocking thing isn’t that there was an NES version of ROAD HOUSE, but that there was an *arcade* version.