* In less than twelve hours, my post on the Lost finale became the most commented-on post in the history of this blog by a comfortable margin. There are over 50 posts in there, and I claim about one-fiftieth of the credit: The regular crew of Lost watchers who’ve been good enough to do their thing in those Lost thoughts threads week in and week out have created a conversation about the show a million times better than anything I’d ever hoped to find online. Thank you so much, all you participants–and if you haven’t joined in, what better time than now?

* I’ve linked to these posts in the aforementioned thread, but I was pretty taken by some of the thoughts on the episode and the series offered up by Todd VanDerWerff, Alan Sepinwall, and Rob Bricken.

* To that list I’d add Steve Murray/Chip Zdarsky’s magisterial interactive illustration of almost the entire cast of characters. I don’t think he gets any of the women right, but the men are pretty much wall-to-wall impeccable, especially the ones with the craziest or saddest eyes. (Via Kate Beaton.)

* In the sense that last night saw the conclusion of a serialized genre drama I’d been heavily emotionally invested in for almost six years, I couldn’t help but think of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the future installments of which I’ll be waiting for with the proverbial bated breath. Turns out I’m not alone: this is spoilery for the series so be warned, but the GRRM fan site The Tower of the Hand is asking its readers if they’d be okay with a certain loose end remaining forever untied.

* Tom Spurgeon on three comics arguments we could be having instead of all the old, tired, stupid ones. Much more on this anon.

* CRwM spots a passage from C.S. Lewis on fear vs. dread that reads like something H.P. Lovecraft could have written. Sharp stuff from the Don of Narnia.

* That’s some crazy Frank Quitely Green Lantern art. Who colored this thing?

* If Dave Kiersh keeps drawing ’em, I’ll keep linking to ’em.

* If Zak Smith keeps writing ’em, I’ll keep linking to ’em. This one’s on Weird vs. Noir storytelling. Think of the subway episode of Seinfeld when you read it.

* Recently on Robot 6: Tom Neely draws the bloody bejesus out of Conan;

* Jim Woodring draws the bloody bejesus out of whatever the hell the things he’s drawing are;

* and the comics argument I’m interested in having, spinning out of this provocative post by Tom Spurgeon.

Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin

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