* Hey, it’s a new comic I wrote! Well, it’s actually not new, but it may be new to you and it’s certainly new to the Top Shelf 2.0 site. It’s “Pornography,” a non-pornographic comic written by me and drawn by the great Matt Wiegle. I hope you enjoy it.

* The League of Tana Tea Drinkers horror-blog collective is tackling horror comics. Click the link for further linkage.

* Poe-etic creepiness from Mr. Noel Freibert.

* Solid observation by Tom Spurgeon regarding the December 2009 Direct Market sales charts:

I personally think it worrisome that there’s a drift downwards in books that sell over 50,000 copies, which would seem to support a theory — or late-night, drunken blurting-out, as you will — that a lot of effort is necessary to push certain comics into respectable sales territory and that maybe nothing is being done or can be done for the bulk of them. The comic book middle class is rotting away, in other words. One might suggest that the more poignant outcome of “event fatigue” isn’t that people are going to get tired of events eventually (even though they likely will), but that people are only excited by events now and fatigued by everything else as a result.

* Curt Purcell kicks off a series on Final Crisis by labeling its use of Modernist techniques self-defeating–an anti-story movement welded to a celebration of stories and storytelling. There’s a lot to disagree with here, from the characterization of Morrison to the characterization of Modernism, but I wanna see where we’re headed first.

* The latest What The–?! video is a parody of Dark Reign. The stuff I didn’t write made me laugh.

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