* Today on Robot 6: What’s up with Marvel’s digital-royalties plan? For more, see Heidi MacDonald.

* Matt Maxwell waxes ecstatic about Escape from New York. It’s like one of his con reports, but from deep inside the prison colony of a dystopian future.

* Rough chuckles ahead for the I Hit It with My Axe gang. I really wonder what the heck could make something like that seem like a good idea to the participants.

* Kayfabe is dead.

* VICTORY! WE HAVE VICTORY!

😉 In all seriousness, now that day-and-date digital is happening with both big companies to one degree or another, I’d like to hear what Dirk makes of it. Do you think it’s just a frogmarch to the death of the DM at this point?

* Always up for new Noel Freibert comics.

* Your quote of the day comes from Tom Spurgeon on the presence of non-genre mass media stuff at Comic-Con:

For me, a movie like Avatar and a television show like Glee have the same amount of crossover interest with comics: none. Your comics may have vampires and werewolves in them but my comics have aging local talk show hosts and southern California post-punk culture in them. I don’t understand why your interests are more legitimate in terms of seeing them represented by offerings in other art forms than mine are.

* More music should sound like Goldfrapp. Actually it’s quite easy to construct a mindset wherein Goldfrapp is the logical conclusion/fulfilled promise of the Glitter Band, electroclash, and Doctor and the Medics doing “Spirit in the Sky,” and I would encourage you to do so.

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