* The unearthed/uncut version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is playing in New York City!

* Rickey Purdin reveals the comics he’s gotten over the past few weeks. I think a purchase pattern that involves Wilson, G.I. Joe, Girl Fuck, Hellboy, Mome, Orc Stain, Invincible, FCHS, and Grickle is a pretty delightful one. Comics, Rickey is your audience.

* A He-Man & the Masters of the Universe art show featuring Matt Furie, Nick Gazin, Brandon Graham, Corey Lewis, Angie Wang, and that Adrian Riemann guy who did those awesome Hipsters of the Universe fashion illos a while back? Floating World, you have made me burn with desire.

* Mike Mignola talks to Kiel Phegley about Abe Sapien: The Abyssal Plain and the Mignola/Arcudi Hellboy/BPRD folklore/pulp divide. A regular interview series about the Mignolaverse is a real mitzvah.

* Jesse Moynihan’s GWC has wrapped up at Arthur magazine’s comics site. Cosmic absurdism. Read the whole thing.

* I think you will nevertheless enjoy Douglas Wolk’s interview with Grant Morrison about Batman if you enjoy Grant Morrison interviews about Batman.

* Speaking of Douglas and Techland, it was quite fortuitous that his piece on how the common-sense-defying policies of the Big Two comics publishers regarding same-day digital delivery of their products came out on the exact same day as Tom Spurgeon’s lengthy, meaty interview with retailer Brian Hibbs, in which Hibbs expresses as his overriding, number-one wish regarding digital comics that the Big Two publishers avoid same-day digital delivery. Simply put, I think that if Marvel and DC ever really get involved in digital comics, Brian doesn’t have a prayer of his wish coming true. In the wake of the iPad I wouldn’t be surprised at all if you see moves in that direction this year, in fact. And not a moment too soon. You just can’t expect publishers to throw money away forever, not when there’s a demonstrated demand for doing things a certain way that’s already being met by pirates. And I agree with Douglas that, contra Brian, it’s very much the “gotta read it by Wednesday afternoon!” crowd that will fire digital sales, not civilians looking for perennials. They’ll be part of it, but once they’re provided with an easy way to follow things as they come out, that’s what they’ll do, same as they do with TV shows and movies and music and whatever else.

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