* Happy 20th Birthday, Twin Peaks.
* Best of luck to Malcolm McLaren as he joins the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle in the Sky.
* Congratulations to this year’s Eisner nominees, apparently selected by pulling names out of a hat. (No offense to the worthy ones–you know who they are.)
* Recently on Robot 6:
* Tom Neely’s Vegan Police t-shirt;
* Siobhan Magnus’s Edward Gorey tattoo;
* and Ty Mattson’s Lost posters.
* I always look forward to visiting the PictureBox table at MoCCA.
* Todd VanDerWerff’s weekly Lost follow-up keeps things relatively meaty this week, most notably with a fans-vs.-creators concept.
What are your major objections to this years Eisner selections? Seems like a pretty obvious smattering of the critical mainstream and semi-mainstream comics of the year. There’s some obvious WTF elements (Androids deam of electric sheep anyone?) and that maybe Batwoman or batman and Robin didn’t do better, but otherwise? Seems relatively par for the course rather than random.