* As you no doubt heard, the Beatles are on iTunes now. Good! They should be everywhere.
* Anders Nilsen has finished Big Questions #15. Comic of the decade candidate.
* Whoa, look at the cover and title for Sammy Harkham’s long-awaited Crickets #3! “Sex Morons,” people.
* Today in superhero event comics I’m interested in reading: War of the Green Lanterns is on the way from Geoff Johns and company.
* Guillermo Del Toro and David Eick are the creative team for the new Incredible Hulk TV series? I’m listening. And I say that as a major Del Toro detractor–I just feel like the constraints of the format will reign him in.
* This may be the first time I’ve ever felt a tinge of guilt for trade-waiting: Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee’s Thor: The Mighty Avenger is cancelled with January’s issue #8.
* Very glad to see that Grant Morrison’s extremely toyetic Batman run is being properly exploited.
* Joe McCulloch on David B.’s The Littlest Pirate King and Jason’s What I Did.
* Very cool, innovatively laid-out horror comic from Conor Stechschulte called Two Broken Branches.
* Here’s a great bit from Adam Serwer’s review of The Walking Dead episode 3: “Robert Kirkman’s original source material reminds us of an essential truth about violence, which is that its effectiveness has less to do with physical strength than an ability to break through the psychological barriers to inflicting pain on another human being.” As Serwer’s overall review indicates, it really is weird the way gender has come to the forefront of the show in ways it never did in the comic, usually to the show’s detriment.
* This is the strangest comics interview I’ve ever seen. Charles Burns is a good sport! (Via Matt Maxwell.)
* This really is a magnificently sexy-sleazy drawing of Boom Boom from New Mutants. Do Los Bros Hernandez have an alibi?
* Here are a couple of reports from recent George R.R. Martin speaking events at which he talked about Game of Thrones. Interesting stuff, albeit EXTREMELY SPOILERY toward the end.
* The Martyrs remake: You’re doing it wrong.
* That story I linked to yesterday about the guy who refused an x-ray and pat-down at the airport and was threatened with a $10K fine if he simply declined to fly and left the airport–after they escorted him from the security area for that very purpose? Now the TSA is planning to prosecute him. In the immortal words of Brendan Filone, “It’s like not only does he shit on our heads, we’re supposed to say ‘Thanks for the hat.'”
* Oh, Richard. (Via Matt Maxwell.)
* Finally, if there were a comics version of the Netflix Watch Instantly queue, what would you put on it? Click the link for my queue. I feel so vulnerable.
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Yes, I will buy action figures of the Knight and Squire, why do you ask?
Martyrs was the worst marilyn manson music video i ever saw
10 bucks says that Martyrs remake is all monster movie, and no “where does this ladder go?”