* Is August 2010 shaping up to be the best month for action movies ever? Neil Marshall’s Centurion on August 6th, Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables on the 13th. Triple feature!

* Frazer Irving leads a Seven Soldiers class reunion on Batman and Robin and The Return of Bruce Wayne. Thus the artist hot streak of Frank Quitely, Cameron Stewart, and Andy Clarke remains unbroken. Wait, what?

* Recently at Robot 6: Wizard relaunches its website and spoils Battlestar Galactica in the process and Kate Beaton does a comic about Lost and does not spoil it in the process.

* An anthology featuring new Ron Rege Jr. and John Hankiewicz? Why did no one tell me of this? Publisher of Shitbeams on the Loose #2, my email’s in the left-hand sidebar.

* Wow, Dave Johnson’s really breaking the Mignolaverse mold for his upcoming Abe Sapien cover run. Also, upcoming Abe Sapien!

* I hope Hercules bedded dudes down all across the Marvel Universe.

* Uncle Steve got a bum steer.

* Real-Life Horror: The Roman Catholic Church is an international child-rape racket whose leaders from the Pope on down all belong on trial at The Hague, parts one and two. Just so you know!

* All mash-ups are equal, but some are more equal than others. This little Matthew Yglesias piece on Michiko Kakutani being hoist by her own anti-quotation-culture petard made me laugh, even though I am broadly sympathetic to some of what I’ve seen from Jaron Lanier (about whom she was talking) when flipping through You Are Not a Gadget, particularly a bit about how the Internet’s built-in anonymity gave rise to a happiness-depleting culture of bullies. I need to get that book.

* Honestly? Even as a kid, I wished the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would do exactly this. Li’l Sean was like “They have bladed weapons!” (Via Topless Robot–where else?)