* Over at the Cool Kids Table, Ben Morse has posted a series of “collect this heretofore uncollected run of comics puh-leeze!” wishlists from himself, Kiel Phegley, Rickey Purdin, TJ Dietsch, David Paggi, and one Sean T. Collins. Check it out and bug the relevant publishers.
* Get those shopping lists fired up: Douglas Wolk has put together a pretty great list of the major alt/lit/art comics releases coming out in 2009.
* Chris Mautner continues his own series of such roundups, this one focusing on my webcomics publisher, Top Shelf.
* Mautner also weighs in on the big discussion we had here the other week about how to read and review event comics.
* Tom Spurgeon lists 25 great things about being a comics reader.
* Josiah Leighton reprints and examines Katsuhiro Otomo’s pre-Akira short story “Nothing Will Be as It Was.”
* Tim O’Shea talks to Josh Cotter about Skyscrapers of the Midwest, one of my favorite comics of the year.
* Okay, fine, everyone’s got me intrigued about The Winter Men now.
* Stacie Ponder reviews Planet Terror and Death Proof, or as they were once collectively known, Grindhouse.
* B-Sol at the Vault of Horror lists the top 10 scariest paintings of all time.
* Dave Kiersh has posted a preview of his upcoming teen-drama comic, Dirtbags, Mallchicks and Motorbikes. (Via Heidi MacDonald.)
* Finally, remember when I said that I thought Watchmen was going to be a real eye-opener for mainstream audiences in terms of a type of superhero imagery they’d be seeing for the first time ever? Apparently Warner Bros. agrees, because they’re using that as the selling point for the commercial they’ve been running during NFL games and 24. (Via Topless Robot.)
i remember thinking the winter men was pretty cool, but i haven’t read an issue since it came out, which i think is a few years
WINTER MEN is well worth your time, Sean. Shouldn’t be too hard to track issues down, either. But you may have to work for it…
“11. From now on, every garage sale, flea market and library sale is hope.”
I love it.