* At our sister blog A Criminal Blog, Bubba discusses the details of the planned Scene of the Crime Deluxe Hardcover by Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark and Sean Phillips. Along with forthcoming hardcover releases of Criminal (a second deluxe HC) and Incognito, plus a rumoured Sleeper Deluxe HC, it's a good, if expensive time to be a fan of Brubaker/Phillips crime comics.
* At Trouble With Comics, Christopher Allen reviews Mike Dawson's Troop 142 graphic novel and mentions Gabagool, the grand and hilarious and much-missed comic book Dawson co-created.
* I forgot John Romita redrew one of his covers from the late-'60s Sensational Spider-Man Magazine for a comic-sized reprint in 1973. It's too bad the magazine was so short-lived; it was an interesting experiment, and might have taken the characters in a more mature direction had it continued. If nothing else, Gwen and MJ were hella sexy in this story.
* Tom Spurgeon compiles a few suggestions of what you could do with the $140.00 Before Watchmen will cost, if you'd rather read good comic books that aren't ethically tainted. Tom also points readers today to this extensive gallery of Frank Robbins-drawn pages, which makes me wonder whatever happened to the two pages of original Robbins Captain America art I bought for five dollars each from Jim Ivey's Cartoon Museum in Florida in the late 1970s. They were from the Nomad era, written by Steve Englehart and lettered by Tom Orzechowski. Honestly I was in my early teens and bought them because they were the first originals I had ever seen, and I stupidly later sold or traded them away, but now I wish I had them because every noun involved -- Captain America, Nomad, Englehart, Robbins, Orzechowski -- is awesome. Shit.
* More and more, DC reminds me of an angry guy who's gotten lost and instead of stopping and asking for directions, he drives more and more aggressively, upsetting his wife in the passenger seat and the kids in the back, and scaring off every other car on the road, all the while getting further and further from his intended destination. In related news, Geoff Johns will be writing a second Justice League title, with someone who draws kind of like Jim Lee, only worse.
* Uncomics: Star Trek's Chekov, Walter Koenig is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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