* I’d like to thank once again the men and women of Closed Caption Comics for their guestblogging efforts here at Attentiondeficitdisorderly over the past week or so. A new CCC comic on their table at a small-press show is an inevitable (if occasionally wallet-busting) highlight of my comics year, and I was truly honored that they swung by. In case you missed it, here are their contributions:

* Chris Day got crafty and built a box for his guitar pedals.

* Noel Freibert both demonstrated and questioned the appeal of Baltimore’s Otakon anime convention cosplayers and plugged a cool-looking print sale.

* Ryan Cecil Smith showed off a bunch of bizarre shit you can buy in Japan and reviewed Shkariki! by Masahito Soda and Kamui Den by Sanpei Shirato.

* Molly Colleen O’Connell showed off some new work (and some cool world-music and No Wave videos).

* Conor Stechschulte unveiled a none-more-black animated skull.

* Zach Hazard Vaupen posted a page of comics all over the goddamn internet, and posted some more comics besides.

* Next time I need guestbloggers I’m gunning for either all the surviving members of the mid-’60s Marvel bullpen or a full Fort Thunder reunion, including the guy who built bicycles. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

* Tom Spurgeon and an all-star array of commenters and commentators select the 25 Emblematic Comics of the ’70s. It’s the sort of act of reconsideration and reclamation that really has been the work of critics and anthology editors over the past few years. It’s just occurring to me now, but the manga and reprint explosion of the ’00s was to comics what the birth of digital downloads and the iPod were to music–a massive expansion of what art is available and acceptable to consume.

* Today on Robot 6: Cameron Stewart is as cartoony as he wants to be.

* Pitchfork selects the Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s. Gun to my head? “Coffee and TV,” “Everlong,” “Closer,” “November Rain,” “No Surprises,” “Freedom ’90,” “In Bloom,” “Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe,” “Been Caught Stealing,” and the Beavis and Butt-Head version of “Liar.” Man did I ever cry when I first saw “Coffee and TV.”

* Can you even imagine a Hellraiser movie bad enough to persuade Doug Bradley not to play Pinhead in it?

* Real Life Horror: So maybe that cryptozoology TV show that Flash artist Francis Manapul participated in captured footage of an entire school of Pacific Ocean sea monsters (cadborosaurus for the initiates among us) off the coast of Alaska?

* Rich Juzwiak liked Piranha 3D an awful lot. Oh, great, there’s another movie to add to my to-watch list, which still includes Inception, Scott Pilgrim, and The Expendables, and will soon add Centurion, and would include Salt most likely if it weren’t already five films long.

* Matthew Perpetua on three–count ’em, three!–Steely Dan songs. Did I win the lotto today or something?

* I’m very excited to be able to get a new album by A Sunny Day in Glasgow for absolutely free, but given how things are going in the arts I can’t help but be bummed out by thinking that they probably stand to make the same amount of money off this one that they likely made off the two albums they sold for money.

* Jeeziz, look at this Matt Furie cover for The Lifted Brow #7.

* The jokes write themselves.

* Michael Moyer on apocalypse as ego:

The desire to treat terrible events as the harbinger of the end of civilization itself has roots in another human trait: vanity.

We all believe we live in an exceptional time, perhaps even a critical moment in the history of the species. Technology appears to have given us power over the atom, our genomes, the planet–with potentially dire consequences. This attitude may stem from nothing more than our desire to place ourselves at the center of the universe. “It’s part of the fundamental limited perspective of our species to believe that this moment is the critical one and critical in every way–for good, for bad, for the final end of humanity,” says Nicholas Christenfeld, a psychologist at the University of California, San Diego. Imagining the end of the world is nigh makes us feel special.

I’ve been saying that for as long as I can remember. (Via Zoe Pollok.)

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