* My final Game of Thrones chat with Megan Morse is now up at The Cool Kids Table. I’d say this one’s most interesting for our talk of different approaches to season finales, and what was expected here versus what was delivered.
* Brian Chippendale is back writing about Marvel comics! Nobody does it better. He’s absolutely right that Uncanny X-Force is a really good book, by the way. Also, Brian Chippendale is on Twitter.
* Kim Thompson interviews himself about the new Jacques Tardi/Jean-Patrick Manchette book Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot. I really don’t like the sound of what he says about cat lovers beware.
* Over at Topless Robot, my pal Rob Bricken has some fun at Green Lantern‘s expense. As he and I have both said before, you can put up with almost any number of plot holes of whatever width provided the stuff those holes were poked in was worthwhile to begin with.
* John Porcellino’s King-Cat #69 is now up on What Things Do. I liked that issue.
* New Ben Katchor is always a delight.
* Uno Moralez is great update: Uno Moralez is great.
* I haven’t been following Hans Rickheit’s Ectopiary; this page tells me I ought to get on that toot sweet.
* And how about that Moebius?
* Finally, I will miss Clarence Clemons, who helped make this.
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Spotted that one this morning. Moebius’ pen, man. Those lines are ecstatic.
I love his pictures because they’re obviously alive in his mind. His skill-level with a pen makes me believe, that’s what he sees…
I would have to check to be sure, as I have not looked at my copy in a couple of years, but I am fairly certain that Moebius artwork is from Angel Claw. That book is crazy.
Re: the cat thing in the new Tardi book, it’s a key and very unexpected moment in establishing the reader’s (still complex and ambiguous) relationship with the protagonist. And what happens to the cat happens far off panel, though you certainly see the aftermath. I won’t say more — as a fellow cat lover it’s certainly horrible but it was far less off-putting than what I was expecting, and it’s definitely not gratuitous.