* Due to a scheduling mishap I’m not sure if this showed up in everyone’s RSS readers today, so please note this morning’s Comics Time reviews of several noteworthy monthly comics that came out last week.
* Recently on Robot 6: How Siege and Blackest Night are really doing, Savage Dragon does the Strange Tales/Bizarro Comics thing, and Sara Ryan and friends have advice for comics writers.
* Phoebe Gloeckner says The Twilight Saga: New Moon was the Best Film of 2009. Somehow this does not surprise me at all. In other news, The Diary of a Teenage Girl debuts tonight off-off-Broadway.
* The Doug Wright Awards strike me as a serious consideration of comics whereas most of the other major North American awards programs really aren’t.
* I found Frank Miller’s tribute to Brittany Murphy (no permalink but it’s the only thing there at the moment) surprisingly moving. (Via Heidi MacDonald.)
* I skipped a few of these (plain old missed the 2001, skipped A Clockwork Orange when I saw it was a pan (!), and I still haven’t seen Barry Lyndon despite Kubrick being my all-time favorite director and owning the movie since the Kubrick box set came out a decade ago), but Not Coming to a Theater Near You has rounded out its series on Stanley Kubrick with fine pieces on his three final (and my three favorite of his) films: The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and the best of the bunch, Eyes Wide Shut. Provided you put any effort into it at all, it’s difficult to write badly about EWS.
* On the Lost front, Todd VanDerWerff’s weekly round-up post has a couple of nice catches, while I’m way behind on the comment thread on my own Lost post for last week.
* Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have split up. Perhaps she realized that she is Kate Winslet and he is Sam Mendes.