* Life magazine has posted a slideshow of the photos its photographers took at home and in court with cannibal murderer Ed Gein in 1957. If you’re one of this blog’s presumably rather few readers who is unfamiliar with Gein, this slideshow is a fine, eerie way to get acquainted. Without him it’s safe to say we wouldn’t have the horror genre as we know it today. (Via CRwM.)
* Quote of the day: “I adore Superman, and I hope I get the chance to use him”–Action Comics writer Paul Cornell. Wait, what? Aww, who am I kidding, I just enjoyed a year of “Superman” comics starring fucking Mon-El, the Guardian, and Flamebird. Lex Luthor’s a great character and Cornell’s a good writer. It’s just a spit-take-inducing turn of phrase is all, particularly given the reception of that year of “Superman” comics by everyone who isn’t me. (Via Marc-Oliver Frisch, who notes that this probably explains why Marc Guggenheim isn’t writing Action Comics anymore.)
* I wish this Jim Rugg Rambo 3.5 minicomic was gonna play the “Rambo vs. al-Qaeda” storyline straight (note: that doesn’t mean it couldn’t also be satirical), instead of turning it into a big silly goof as is apparently the case. But I’ll still read it regardless.
* Ta-Nehisi Coates has been really magnificent on the topic of Confederate History Month.
Unrelated to this post: did you see that Matt Fraction and Brendan Mccarthy have a strip in the “Captain America: Who Won’t Wield the Shield” book that’s touted as a “Marvel Glo-fi production?” The book is mostly predictably unfunny self-referential gags, but those six pages alone are worth the 3.99.
I did! I gotta check that out.