comes to mind, Matt. The only thing not perfect about it, at least my copy, is that it's not a hardcover.* Studygroup looks at Damage Control Vol. 3 #1 by Dwayne McDuffie and Kyle Baker. Interesting art there.
* Someone who doesn't understand apostrophes or know how to spell "Quatermain" interviews Alan Moore.
* Uncomics: It's funny how Aaron Cross in The Bourne Legacy is declared "not a superhero," by critic Roger Ebert, and yet his origin is pretty much the same as Captain America's. "Aaron Cross" seems like such a great action hero name that I'm surprised no one has used it before. Anyway, here's Ebert's review of The Bourne Legacy. I like Jeremy Renner, and I kind of liked the previous Bourne movies, but I'm pretty ambivalent about seeing this one. On the other hand, summer's almost over and I like going to the movies in the summer. So it could go either way.
* Does your favourite movie (or comic, or novel, or...) pass the Bechdel Test? Fiction writers would do well to apply this to their works in progress.
* Chris Sims writes about optimism and cynicism in two of the biggest superhero movies. Sims makes some good points about The Avengers that I hadn't thought of. I'm not sure Whedon intended the moral implications, but that's a better interpretation than my suspicion that a little more thought going into the script might have made the movie a genuine classic instead of just a really entertaining summer superhero movie.
* Mark Waid demonstrates what's wrong with a lot of superhero comics these days in four panels (via The Beat.)
* Thanks to Tony Collett for his kind words about this blog.
* Uncomics: Watch the 25 greatest improvised moments in movie history.
* Uncomics: An incorrect list of the 50 greatest science fiction TV characters. Uh, Mulder is not greater than Spock. In fact, Kirk is not greater than Spock. Related: Here's a pretty great interview with Jonathan Frakes, of Star Trek The Next Generation.
* Uncomics: Which number Doctor was Peter Cushing again?
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