* WonderCon announcement #1: More All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder! Only now it will shrewdly be called Dark Knight: Boy Wonder. I hope it still sells great and baffles and enrages even more people.

* WonderCon announcement #2: Greg Rucka flounces from DC and Batwoman. Did he jump or was he pushed, or as he is insisting, did he simply choose to go where his muse was taking him? I’ve seen a lot of people saying “he just wanted to tell creator-owned stories again because that’s what was getting him fired up,” and that’s largely true, I assume. But at the same time, he’s saying he had a planned wrap-up to his Batwoman material that now he’s not sure when if ever it’ll get done. If it’s all about telling the stories he wants to tell, well, that’s a story he wants to tell, right? You’d think he could wait another six months. Anyway, I hope he does get to do that Batwoman story eventually, and I’ll check out whatever he does with J.H. Williams III on his own as well.

* WonderCon announcement #3: Tom Spurgeon’s epic con report does more con reporting by breakfast than most people’s con reports do all week.

* Big ups to Tom Spurgeon’s thoughtful Best Comics of 2009 list. He’s worth reading on The Photographer and Cockbone alone.

* Speaking of worth reading: David Bordwell on the recently unearthed cut of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

* Marc-Oliver Frisch interviews Robert Kirkman on The Walking Dead. That book’s trend-bucking sales success is one of the past decade’s great comics success stories; it warms my heart a bit every time I think of it, for real. Equally impressive to me (and Frisch brings this up) is the way Kirkman paid off that years-long prison interlude. He really went all out.

* I’m always glad to see new Dave Kiersh.

* Recently on Robot 6: Jim Lee fingerpaints on his iPad.

* I laughed pretty hard at this, but I was also a bit scared.

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