* Today on Robot 6, three quotes on three different aspects of J. Michael Straczynski’s abrupt departure from his much ballyhooed Superman and Wonder Woman runs:
* Mark Waid compares him to Sarah Palin;
* Tom Brevoort notes that he’s still working on his similarly departed Marvel series The Twelve;
* and Tom Spurgeon wonders about the messaging inherent in a high-profile writer leaving monthly comics because that’s “where the business is headed.”
* Speaking of Spurge, he catches that the San Diego Convention Center expansion will be designed by Curt Fentress, who did Denver International Airport, by far the nicest airport I’ve ever been to.
* David Bowie has no plans at this time to make more music. 🙁 (Via Whitney Matheson.)
* A New Cult Canon column on Clue? Yes please! I have every word of that film memorized and I probably haven’t seen it in twenty years. It basically did for me as a kid what a different movie about Tim Curry running around a giant scary mansion on a stormy night did for me as a teenager.
* I thought it was a little weird that the next Gilbert Hernandez pulp graphic novel had a Beto cover rather than a painted one like the first two did. Turns out it’s got a painted cover after all! My goodness.
Dear sir: Given your oft stated interest in Messrs. Bowie and R.R. Martin, you may enjoy the second to last paragraph of this.